Vicente Canales’ Movie Manufacturing unit Leisure has boarded worldwide gross sales on Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s “Caza mayor,” a Movistar Plus+ Authentic function that has simply begun taking pictures in Spain’s Extremadura area.
A theatrical launch is about for 2027 by way of Warner Bros. Photos Spain.
Led by Antonio de la Torre (“The Limitless Trench,” “The Realm”) and co-starring Mariló Márquez Villa and Julián Villagrán (“Grupo 7,” “The Division of Time”), “Caza mayor” is positioned as a rural thriller with flashes of black comedy.
Penned by María Ballesteros and José Antonio de Pascual, the script kicks off with a jolt: In the midst of the evening, José Luis, an Extremadura pig herder performed by De la Torre, comes dwelling lined in blood, insisting he has seen a tiger.
Is he telling the reality – or improvising an outlandish alibi to cover that he was stealing three Iberian pigs?
From there, the story builds on the uncertainty, rocking the somnolence of a small city within the province of Badajoz, and forcing a neighborhood to decide on between disbelief and the necessity to show what can’t be seen.
The movie is produced by Spain’s main paybox Movistar Plus+, tax automobile La película del Tigre A.I.E., Félix Tusell’s Estela Movies, Carmela Martínez Oliart’s Tenampa Movies; Minimize One, a part of Mediawan’s Boomerang TV, a just lately launched outfit headed by Rafa Taboada; Arturo Valls’ Pólvora Movies and Sánchez Arévalo’s firm Tinnitus, with the participation of Atresmedia and the collaboration of Atresmedia Cine.
Sánchez Arévalo has framed the movie as a deliberate style mix — thriller, drama, black comedy and Western — emphasizing that its resistance to simple labelling was central to the enchantment.
Elsewhere, he signalled in a press release that the challenge’s resistance to pigeon-holing with regard to its tone is a part of its design: “It’s tough for me to seek out references. And I suppose that lack of ability to categorize it’s what attracted me most to the thought and what I pursue most,” he mentioned.
Rooted in modern rural Spain, to guard that grounding, Sánchez Arévalo is surrounding de la Torre with non-professional actors drawn from the Extremadura city of Fregenal de la Sierra after an in depth native casting course of.
The intention is a naturalistic really feel and immersion in a particular Extremaduran accent, a register the filmmaker notes has been little exploited on display screen.
The challenge provides a market-facing layer to Movistar Plus+’s movie slate at a time when the platform continues to function as a key driving power behind Spain’s movie and TV manufacturing, utilizing originals to scale native ambition and feed a manufacturing panorama that more and more thinks in theatrical-plus-platform phrases.
“From the second we learn the primary variations of the script for ‘Caza mayor,’ we have been hooked by the challenge’s energy — a really private mix of thriller and darkish comedy, with emotional beats and a carousel of memorable characters,” mentioned Guillermo Farré, Movistar Plus+ head of unique movies and Spanish cinema.
“It’s a take a look at right now’s rural world that we consider will actually draw consideration, and it matches completely with Movistar Plus+’s dedication to backing tasks with a novel viewpoint — tasks that shock audiences and have the ambition to succeed in a large public,” he added.
“Caza mayor” adapts the fiction podcast “El Tigre,” written by Ballesteros and De Pascual, that received the 2025 Ondas Award for finest fiction podcast.
The movie’s begin of manufacturing coincides with Sánchez Arévalo seeing field workplace traction from his newest launch: the Bambú and StudioCanal-produced “Rondallas,” opened by Beta Fiction, has scored by Feb. 1 €1.77 million ($2.11 million) after 5 weeks on the Spanish field workplace, a efficiency that underlines Sánchez Arévalo’s standing as one among Spain’s foremost crossover filmmakers.
“Caza mayor” is financed with assist from Spain’s ICAA movie institute and regional backing from the Junta de Extremadura and the Comunidad de Madrid.
