URUGUAY ONZA DISTRIBUTION LICENSES ORO VERDE TO CANAL 4

ONZA DISTRIBUTION has announced new sales, including the telenovela ‘Oro verde’, to Canal 4 in Uruguay. The Uruguayan channel has already premiered this TVI production with excellent ratings. The drama, winner of the International Emmy for Best Telenovela, premiered on December 26, reaching an average of 41% share during its first month of broadcast. ‘Oro verde’ (‘Payback’) follows Ze, played by the renowned actor Diogo Morgado, who returns home after missing for years, with a false identity and a single objective: to avenge the death of his family. However, his plans go awry when he meets Beatriz (Joana de Verona), his first love and the daughter of his family’s murderer.

THE NEW ORIGINAL SERIES from the TelevisaUnivision SVOD service, ‘El gallo de oro’, an adaptation of the short novel by Juan Rulfo, began filming in Hidalgo and San Luis Potosí, in Mexico. The 10-episode fiction produced by W Studios, is an adaptation written by Lina Uribe (‘Hasta que la plata nos parte’, ‘La reina del sur’) and Darío Vanegas (‘El Mariachi’, ‘La reina del sur’). It is directed by Chava Cartas (‘La rebelión’, ‘Mexzombies’, ‘Mirreyes contra Godinez 2’, ‘El retiro’) and by Beto Casillas (‘Mexzombies’, ‘Mirreyes contra Godinez 2’, ‘El retiro’, ‘Hernán’) in the direction of photography. Patricio Wills and Carlos Bardasano are the executive producers.