Chris Albrecht & Jorge Granier Form Firm To Adapt Latin American & Spanish Content Globally, Enter Partnership With Secuoya Studios
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Former Legendary Television President and Starz CEO Chris Albrecht, and Jane the Virgin executive producer Jorge Granier have formed Rubicon Global Media, a firm designed to aggregate leading intellectual property from Latin America and Spain, transforming it into content with worldwide appeal.
The company will also produce story-driven content for Latin American audiences. In addition, Rubicon Global Media has entered a strategic partnership with Spanish-language production and distribution outfit Secuoya Studios, a division of Madrid-based Secuoya Content Group, which will provide development funding and deficit financing for select Rubicon Global Media projects.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Secuoya Studios, led by former HBO executive James Costos (who was also U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Andorra from 2013-2017), creates fiction series, docuseries, unscripted television and feature films focused on the Latin American, Spanish and Spanish-speaking U.S.
markets. The studio, with offices in Latin America, Miami, Los Angeles and Spain, together with its commercial and distribution arm led by industry veteran Sergio Pizzolante, is expected to invest over $200M in content this year and has projects in development with global platforms and distributors such as Amazon, TelevisaUnivision, and NBCUniversal. “This is a first of its kind deal for Secuoya Studios, and I am thrilled to partner with Chris and Jorge as we expand our leadership position beyond the development and production of Spanish language content,” said Costos. “It has always been my passion to bridge Spain and the U.S.
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