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Movistar Plus Stakes Future on Big-Budget ‘La Fortuna’

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Movistar Plus.When it world-premiered at the San Sebastian festival in 2017, “The Plague,” a re-creation of 1580 Seville in its dazzling glory and poverty, was most probably the biggest-budget Spanish series ever made.Yet, even by such measures, Alejandro Amenábar’s “La Fortuna,” which world-premieres at September’s San Sebastian Film Festival, sets a new bar for Movistar Plus’ ambitions.The six-part series also says much about how Movistar Plus, the pay TV-SVOD unit of giant European telecom Telefonica, is setting out to consolidate audiences in Spain and secure even more of a global viewership. “La Fortuna” weighs in as the single biggest single U.S.-Spain co-production in history, teaming AMC Studios, Movistar Plus and Spain’s Mod.

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