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Why Companies Shoot in Spain, From Locations to Facilities, Muscular Incentives, Shows’ Concepts, Local Talent Pools and Because the Country Features in the Screenplay
As a cost crunch plays out in film and TV sectors, Spanish shoots can also offer one kind of solution, fitting into new business models.
This is helped, too, by Spanish series and films now reaching global audiences,” says Erik Barmack, VP of international originals at Netflix when it launched its European Production hub and now heading up L.A.-based Wild Sheep Content which makes shows around the world from India to France and Chile to Mexico. Billed as an “epic new drama” by the BBC, and looking like one of its heavyweight offerings for 2025, the eight-part series stars Sean Bean as Liverpool gang leader Ronnie Whelan who owns a villa in Spain’s Marbella, Southern Europe’s entry point for cocaine. Locations determined the Spanish shoot of “Zorro,” starring Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin (“The Artist”) as the comically schizophrenic technocratic Don Diego de la Vega – who becomes Mayor of 1821 Los Angeles, bedevilled by the mayhem caused by his alter-ego masked avenger.
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