Telecinco Cinema [SEP] parent company
Telecinco Cinema
Telecinco Cinema, S.A.U. is a Spanish film production company owned by Mediaset España Comunicación. It produces both feature films and television films.
History.
Telecinco Cinema, the subsidiary film company of Mediaset España – the leading Spanish private broadcast group – has produced successful and worldwide renowned films, becoming a reference in the Spanish movie industry.
While the company continues in the middle of postproduction of "The Impossible", the new film by director J. A. Bayona starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, one of
Telecinco-Cuatro merger.
On December 18, 2009, Mediaset, the controlling shareholder of Gestevisión Telecinco, and PRISA, parent company of Sogecable, presented an agreement to merge their television operations (Telecinco and Cuatro). Following this merger, Cuatro would be purchased in full by Telecinco. As part of the deal, PRISA would buy newly issued shares of Gestevisión Telecinco, giving it an 18% stake in the company.
This agreement made Gestevisión Telecinco the largest television network in Spain by audience share. In total