‘Sky High,’ Currently Topping Spain’s Domestic Box Office, Acquired by Netflix for Series Adaptation – Global Bulletin Variety 12/30/2020
In today’s Global Bulletin, Netflix picks up the rights to Spanish feature “Sky High” for a series adaptation, French crime series “Balthazar” posts record audience numbers for TF1, Mexican filmmaker Juan Ernesto Regalado Morales receives this year’s Guillermo del Toro-backed Jenkins-Del Toro Scholarship, and French journalist Augustin Trapenard announces he’s leaving Canal Plus.
ADAPTATION
Netflix has acquired global rights to the feature film “
Sky High,” the leading Spanish film at the domestic box office over the holiday period, trailing only “The Croods: A New Age” and “Wonder Woman 1984” from abroad, and will develop the IP into a new original series.
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Luis Tosar in a minor role.
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