Former Globo executive Luiz Filipe Figueira and Globo and NBCUniversal alumnus Ivan Lee have launched The Chain, an agency aiming to connect Brazil and Latin America with the international market.

El Trece in Argentina has become the first Latin American network to adapt Sony Pictures Television's format Chain Reaction.

Former Apple TV+ exec Angélica Guerra has joined Colombia-based production company Dynamo (Narcos) as partner and chief strategy officer.

Francisco Ramos, Netflix’s VP of content for Latin America, identifies “enormous potential” in the region’s evolving fiction production sector, with blockbuster successes like El Eternauta, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Senna, paving the way for its next slate of potential hits.

LA SCREENINGS: Francisco Morales, Amazon Prime Video’s head of content strategy and acquisitions for Latin America, discusses the streamer’s windowing strategy and also highlights true crime and content targeting young adults and female demos as acquisition priorities.

LA SCREENINGS: As part of a broader IP retention strategy, Paramount’s Latin American outfit TIS Studios returned to distribution this year. What are the objectives of this new unit and why does it claim the move is being vindicated?

Mexican drama series Las Azules has been renewed by Apple TV+ for a second season of eight episodes.

LA SCREENINGS: Netflix has acquired science fiction series Futuro Desierto for Latin America, distributed internationally by TIS Studios.

Globo and Telemundo Studios, a division of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop and coproduce premium scripted content.

Eduardo Lebrija, Paramount's executive VP and chief commercial officer for Latin America, will leave the company at the end of this month.