Well-known Colombian drama series “El Capo 2” is back for a second season on MundoFox.
The second season, called “El Capo 2”, is the first program on MundoFox to be accessible to English-speaking viewers, as the episodes now feature English subtitles. It is also the most expensive series produced in Colombia at 18 billion Colombian pesos (the equivalent of 10 million U.S. dollars).
Fox Telecolombia, the company who produces “El Capo”, moved the series’ action to Miami for the show’s second season as part of the story elements. Fox Telecolombia utilized M3 Studios Miami production expertise and knowledge of the Miami market while shooting “El Capo 2”.
Production in Miami took place during a two-week time frame. Where crews shot scenes in Biscayne, Downtown Miami, & South Beach.
M3 handled the co-production in Miami, including everything from stunt & rescue coordination to security and police logistics to location scouting and even casting for extras and crew personnel.
Stay tuned to see some exclusive never before seen pictures from the production, we will be posting behind the scenes of the making of “El Capo 2” through our Website,Facebook and Twitter pages.
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Political commissions should come with their own laugh tracks, because it’s always hilarious when elected officials attempt to make “business” decisions. Burn Notice, The USA network’s ratings darling about Michael Westen, a former CIA operative who’s been ‘burned’ and left to rot in a South Florida purgatory, is on the verge of losing the old Coconut Grove Convention Center that it’s called home since 2006. The producers are now scrambling to find a new set for the show’s seventh season, which might lead them to abandon the city altogether. Miami Commission Chairman, Marc Sarnoff, is spearheading the eviction campaign to make room for a new waterfront park.
As Michael Bay demonstrated, the entertainment industry can do wonders for our city. Burn Notice has generated over a hundred million dollars for our local economy during its six year run, in addition to the 240 thousand it pays annually to rent the convention center. The production’s energy needs are met locally; they hire local crews and extras, and the supplies needed to construct, blow-up and rebuild their sets are purchased from local retailers. Think about that intricate chain of commerce. It affects a lot of folks in this town. Disrupting it would cause a deficit that won’t be refilled by building another park in Coconut Grove.
Additionally, the financial numbers don’t account for the fact that Michael Westen’s weekly exploits bring our city to the national stage every week. Unlike CSI: Miami – which was mostly shot in LA- and Showtime’s, Dexter, – which left for LA after one season because of the outrageous cost of hurricane insurance – Burn Notice is actually filmed on location. Many of Miami’s scenic views, local treasures, and cultural landmarks make it into the production, bringing an authenticity to the character of our city that hasn’t been seen on screen since the days of Miami Vice.
Miami is a powerhouse of productions, but its potential is still incubating; we don’t have the clout to defiantly piss off Hollywood. Remember: there’s nothing on film that can’t be built in a sound stage in New Mexico.
Mr. Sarnoff produced his own line of theater – but didn’t exactly inspire hope for a compromise – by telling producer Terry Miller to not “get up at the mic because I’m not going to entertain a discussion. You simply need to see me,” during a meeting at city hall.
We have to ask: What would Michael Westen say?
When attempting to present your city as a promiscuous Mecca for the entertainment industry, it’s imperative that you not evict a nationally syndicated, critically revered show that flushes your economy with money, especially if said show pays rent to broadcast a forty-five minute weekly advertisement featuring your city. You also don’t want to demolish the very building that makes the stream of income possible. It’s imperative that you not replace that building with a park that won’t generate an ounce of revenue and become nothing more than a parade ground dog poop. Igniting these lapses of judgment into action can result in volatile fallout between you and the very hands you’re trying to eat from.
Television is fickle and transient. Shows die all the time for a variety of reasons: the public loses interest, ratings drop, and we all move on. Burn Notice will not run like The Simpsons, unless we’re willing to watch Michael Weston cash his social security checks and shoot from a Hoveround. The show has a limited number of seasons left int the tank . It is asinine to boot the production while its still fertile with great PR and economic subsidies.
Coconut Grove is already drowning in parks; Peacock and Kennedy Park are both within a mile of the convention center. Can’t the residents survive another year or two without another one?
Miami is sexy. It’s an international Dreamweaver that penetrates global imaginations with its free flowing auras of vice, beauty, and sunshine. But this incident could leave a dark bruise that could deter future productions from casting us.
You don’t mess with the film industry. They’ll flip you the bird, pack up and leave for a brothel of suitors begging for their presence with incentives and tax breaks. And if they need Miami for a scene or two, they’ll just build it on a sound stage in New Mexico. We can’t risk being black-balled by Hollywood.
If Burn Notice can’t stay in Coconut Grove, then it is imperative that the show be allowed to finish its run within the community that nurtured its success. At M3 studios, we’re waiting with open arms and a production house that’s camera ready.
M3 STUDIOS, MULTI-MEDIA STUDIOS, PROPOSES A SOLUTION TO BURN NOTICE’S 7TH AND FINAL SEASON’S DILEMMA, IN THE HOPES OF MAINTAINING THE SHOW’S PRODUCTION IN SOUTH FLORIDA
M3 Studio’s filming infrastructure is a viable alternative to TVM’s current difficulties of shooting in South Florida
You’ve all seen it. Roommate relationships ending the aggressive way: clothes and expensive equipment flying out the window, pulverized soon after on the pavement below. I’m sure Burn Notice, the veteran USA jam-packed action thriller, might wish there was a better solution to its similar living arrangement conflict with Coconut Grove, than experiencing this scene for the neighborhood to see. Unfortunately for Burn Notice though, it doesn’t have the option of couple’s therapy like in USA’s freshman drama Common Law when dealing with the commissioners. Lucky for TVM productions, M3 Studio’s has a solution. We’re looking for a roommate and we see some good chemistry between us. And trust us, we know how to treat our fellow cohabiters; M3 never opens a door with a sock on the doorknob, never leaves dirty dishes, always calls before having company, and never makes you build your own offices overnight (like some people have had to do.) Interested in us, Burn Notice? Cause we sure are in you.
So what makes M3 your best relocation option? While Marc Sarnoff, Coconut Grove Commissioner, suggested the drama be relocated to the upcoming Miami Entertainment Complex, is just a warehouse with the bare essentials, Fox Entertainment Studio’s Head of Production Robert Lemchen disagrees. Lemchen said in response: “The cost of moving the show to another facility would be around $1 million,” so high because of moving costs associated with electrical wiring installation and a significant amount of necessary upgrades. Though there will still be a cost to rebuild some of its sets, M3 Studios is a professional film facility already electrically wired, air-conditioned and ready to house television and film productions of Burn Notice’s stature.
M3 studios is a one-stop-shop, located 15 minutes from anywhere in Miami, a 122,000 sq. ft. facility that includes seven fully-equipped sound stages and studios, 60,000 square feet of flex-type space, easily transformable into production offices, standing sets, rehearsal space. There are also four on-site parking lots that can be used as backlots for Burn Notice’s production. M3 Studio’s is a fully air-conditioned, soundproofed, sound- conditioned 7-soundstage facility with lightning grids throughout, built in jails, interrogation rooms, un-used raw spaces, elephant doors to all stages, dressing rooms, make-up rooms, green rooms, full support areas, & plenty of backlots. We also have below-the-line capabilities, a convenient on-site transportation/limousine service and an in-house photographic studio with a large CYC wall, passenger elevators with freight elevator. Plus, all amenities are strategically placed to provide one place to shoot, produce, edit, and master the production.
Don’t believe that a fully functioning studio infrastructure already exists in Miami? Just talk to some of our current roommates: Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Productions, Univision’s Al File de La Ley, Telemundo’s Relaciones Peligrosas & MTV’s newest series.
Oh, and Burn Notice, feel free to come tour the house anytime you’d like; M3 is located at 4000 NW 36th Ave Miami Fl, 33142 and we can’t wait to meet you. A beautiful friendship awaits.
Sorry, guys I couldn't resist. But it's in your best interest to forgive me.
Showtime’s dearly demented ratings darling, Dexter has released a viral locust plague throughout the social media universe. The upcoming seventh season about a Miami PD forensics expert who moonlights as a serial killer of those who’ve escaped justice is due to premier September, 30, and Showtime just played a cruel joke on its fans in the form of a “Sneak Peak” trailer released on Youtube and Facebook.
Who among us could resist the temptation to play it! At long last, we’d finally get a glimpse of life after Deb’s gruesome discovery.
Except what followed was a six second cluster of random yet tempting frames with no discernible content. Check it out below!
http://youtu.be/aq8PI_rw7u0
Talk about releasing the trolls. It garnered nine thousand “Likes” and three thousand comments within thirty five minutes! Tell me this doesn’t just beckon you to peruse through it frame by frame, dissect every image, and talk about it with friends and fans alike. The buzz is already flammable. While we hate being teased, we’ve got to tip our hats to Showtime for a brilliant marketing strategy that doesn’t rely on the archaic method of just slapping a trailer on Youtube. They have their fans doing their bidding at hardly any cost. Bravo.
You have two billion followers? That’s cute. I’ve grossed two trillion dollars. Talk to the hand.
Forgive us for being late to the party. Like many we were mesmerized by the transcendent display of athleticism of this year’s NBA finals.
Lebron James got a parade for bringing a championship to South Beach, but the king of the hardwood still trails the king of the box office.
It seems we can never run out of faces to stamp on our months. October is for Columbus, February for St. Valentine, December for a guy named Christ, and now June is for Bay. That’s right: The Miami – Dade County Commission has officially declared June, 5 Michael Bay Day in recognition of his financial and cultural contributions to the Magic City. They even gave him a fancy plaque.
Bay, one of the highest grossing directors in history, and the master of random explosions, drop-dead heroines, and gaping plot holes, shot his first feature film here back in 1994. You may know it as Bad Boys, starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. It grossed over 140 million dollars while its sequel, Bad Boys II (also shot in the 305), generated over 270. Both films pumped more than 60 million dollars into the local economy.
The South Florida resident is currently shooting a third film, Pain and Gain, in the city. It stars Mark Wahlberg and Ed Harris and is expected to pour an extra 25 million into Miami’s economy.
Talk about gratitude! It would be really cool if we were treated to an annual holographic South Beach showdown (Tupac style) between Optimus Prime and Megatron, with state-sized asteroids crashing into Biscayne Bay as a backdrop. But we will settle for continued exposure and recognition as a premier destination for the film industry.
Aaron Sorkin has made a career writing on behalf of idealism. His films and shows – including “A Few Good Men,” “The West Wing,” “Moneyball,” and “The Social Network” – often feature heroes or anti-heroes on quixotic journeys to dismantle and remake the status quo. At the tenth annual Wall Street Journal: All Things Digital Conference, he discussed his own quixotic battle with a modern audience of distracted multitaskers who want their news in 140 characters or less while engaging with multiple screens (Laptops, tablets, televisions smartphones) at the same time. He also offered insights into his writing process while discussing two upcoming projects: “Newsroom,” a new HBO drama chronicling the behind the scenes conflicts of a cable news channel, and a Steve Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson’s biography on the late cultural icon.
For a plethora of reasons, television is replacing Hollywood for a lot of the quality cinema being released these days. This change can be viewed through the migration to smaller screens by Hollywood regulars like Dustin Hoffman and Michael Mann (Luck), William H Macy (Shameless), Thomas Jane (Hung), Claire Danes (Homeland), and Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire).
Our appetite for condensed media and instant results has shrunk has evaporated our attention spans from a whopping twelve minutes, to a paltry five, according to this study http://socialtimes.com/attention-spans-have-dropped-from-12-minutes-to-5-seconds-how-social-media-is-ruining-our-minds-infographic_b86479. At one point, it was a whole twenty minutes. This gaping hole in our intellect has created a wide chasm that comprehensive writers like Sorkin must learn to cross. The way his audience watches his work has undergone a facelift. He’d be the first to admit that his material doesn’t make for good “background” music. It requires active participation and concentration, but the medium of television gives home court advantage to other distractions. The living room has become the wild west of digital ADD.
We don’t just watch TV, the way we do when we go to the movies, where we’ve invested (by purchasing a ticket) in the content and where social rules (for the time being) still frown upon using a cell phone in the theater. At home, we sit in front of the screen, check email, order stuff from Amazon, talk on the phone, get NBA, NHL, and MLB updates, while delegating our remaining brain capacity to absorb whatever content is playing on TV.
With millions of potential distractions competing for our attention, how does an old school craftsman like Sorkin change his approach? He doesn’t. He writes the “same way as the guys who wrote I Love Lucy” because “Storytelling is a very old art form, and the important parts of it don’t change at all…I still worship at the altar of intention and obstacle.”
The conversation also covers the accessibility that the digital age offers to aspiring filmmakers, where Sorkin comments on the fact major studios are no longer needed to finance start ups. Anybody can make a movie. But at the end of the day, you still have to “distinguish between what’s good and what’s bad. He also marvels at the intuitive trend of modern technology and cites how many toddlers can pick up a tablet and instinctively know what to do with it. If he could ask Steve Jobs a question, it would be “What’s that magic trick?”
Check out the full interview below for more insights into the mind of one of Hollywood’s smartest screenwriters.
