‘The Beasts’ Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Movistar+, Caballo Films Shoot ‘The New Year’s Eves’
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Rodrigo Sorogoyen, director of ‘The Beasts,’ the Best Foreign Film winner at France’s 2023 Cesar Awards, has gone into production on a new series, “The New Year’s Eves.” Following on Sorogoyen’s acclaimed “Riot Police,” and his episode in “Offworld,” chosen by Variety as one the best international series of 2022, “The Beasts” is produced by Movistar Plus+, the biggest Spanish pay TV/OTT operator, in collaboration with Madrid-based independent production house Caballo Films (“Riot Police,” “The Route”), co-founded by Sorogoyen.
Movistar Plus+ International will handle distribution outside Spain. Going into production on Oct. 2, the series will shoot in over the next few weeks in Madrid, Lyon (France) and Berlin (Germany). “The New Year’s Eves” is created by Sara Cano (“Debts”), Paula Fabra, a writer on hit Prime Video series “A Private Affair,” the most-watched non-English-language series on Prime Video between July 2022 and June 2023 and Sorogoyen himself.
Sorogoyen will executive produce, and direct four of the series’ 10 episodes. Further episodes are helmed by Sandra Romero and David Martín de los Santos, who broke out with the 2021 Goya-nominated movie, “Life Was That.” Sorogoyen has tackled love before, most notably in his second feature, 2013’s “Stockholm,” in which a guy picks up a emotionally fragile girl at a nightclub, selling her a lot of romantic schtick, only the morning after to reject her coldly.
The consequences are devastating. In “The New Year’s Eves,” the couple is dufferent, supposedly maturer and the time period longer but their romantic notions chafe against reality.
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