The company, led by Executive Chairman Sergio Oslé and CEO Carlos Núñez, expects EBITDA to grow between 50% and 60% versus 2025, alongside positive cash flow generation
Sergio Oslé, Executive Chairman of GRUP MEDIAPRO, and Carlos Núñez, CEO, announced today at an internal meeting with the company's entire workforce that, following several months of reorganization, the group has returned to a path of growth. The next step is to drive new projects that deliver unique experiences to audiences around the world, funding this growth with more than €100 million the company itself will generate over the next three years. The transformation process will culminate symbolically on January 1, 2027, when GRUP MEDIAPRO becomes Imagina.
Over the first few months under new leadership this year, the company reviewed each of its business areas and carried out a restructuring plan that has secured its footing for the future. With that process complete, the company has brought its resources in line with today's market realities, positioning it to compete and grow again starting this year. The reorganization has freed up enough capital to fund investment in new projects using the company's own resources.
GRUP MEDIAPRO expects to close out 2026 with EBITDA growth of between 50% and 60% versus 2025, having generated positive cash flow, meaning the company will have already returned to growth this year.
A proven growth engine
The group's core business areas, which have driven its rise as an international benchmark in the audiovisual sector over three decades, will remain the engine behind the company: audiovisual production services, content creation, sports rights management and Brands&Xperiences. As Oslé and Núñez explained, all four areas will share one goal: delivering standout experiences worldwide, both audiovisual and physical. Leadership has set a clear mandate for each business area: grow its project count and expand into new countries.
With extensive expertise producing high-quality audiovisual content, GRUP MEDIAPRO ranks among the top five broadcast services companies in the world. For more than 30 years, it has provided production services to leading international sports organizations, including FIFA, UEFA, Concacaf, CONMEBOL, FIBA and the NBA, operates more than a dozen national leagues and major sporting events such as the European Games and the Pan American Games, and delivers more than 4,000 events a year, averaging 11 events a day worldwide.
The group also boasts a wealth of experience managing sports rights, leading the international commercialization of LALIGA's broadcast rights (excluding North America, MENA and India) and the top Concacaf competitions through 2030, along with other competitions such as World Skate and the EuroHockey League. In this area, the group is already working to secure new agreements with emerging sports that will open the door to new countries.
The content division leads Spain in hours produced and ranks among the five largest audiovisual producers in Europe. This division is set to remain another key growth engine for the group, built on a track record that combines production capacity, international talent and a growing global footprint with clients including Netflix, Disney, Movistar Plus, RTVE, Prime Video and HBO Max. Growth here means strengthening its position in the Spanish market while ramping up its presence in Spanish-speaking Latin America, where the group already has a strong foothold. It currently generates more than 120 annual projects across film, scripted series and entertainment, and has established itself among the world's leading Spanish-language content producers.
Mediapro Brands&Xperiences is GRUP MEDIAPRO's unit focused on creating and developing exhibition and museum projects. It also manages the largest advertising inventory in Spanish football and includes a market research department. Mediapro Brands&Xperiences has worked on more than 45 exhibition projects worldwide (the Rafa Nadal Museum, the Barça Immersive Tour, the Torre Latino in Mexico City, the Olympiacos FC Museum in Piraeus, Greece, Unidad: The World's Game for FIFA at Miami's Freedom Tower, and more), has organized more than 300 events (the Latin GRAMMY Awards, the opening ceremony of the 2025 Copa del Rey Final, Ithra Cultural Days, and more), and draws more than 5 million visitors a year to its offerings.
Espai Imagina opens September 21
The group's push into creating, producing and managing next-generation, technology-driven experiential content and formats will find one of its first showcases in Espai Imagina. This new immersive experience center, which GRUP MEDIAPRO will unveil on September 21 in Barcelona, is designed to host some of the most innovative cultural and technological projects around. Its inaugural exhibition, 'Codi Gaudí, the Never-Before-Seen Experience', will let visitors discover, for the first time, buildings Antoni Gaudí envisioned but that were never built and the exhibition is scheduled to become a touring experience to travel the world in the coming years.
Imagina: a name from the past, built for the future
Imagina is the new name GRUP MEDIAPRO will carry starting January 1, 2027, marking the start of a new chapter for the company. The change revives a name the group has used before across its more than 30-year history, reflecting its intent to look ahead while staying grounded in its past.
The film hits theaters January 22, 2027, distributed by Filmax
'5 minutos más', the Movistar Plus Original film co-produced by El Terrat, will screen at the 59th Sitges - Catalonia International Fantastic Film Festival, running October 8 to 18.
'5 minutos más' is produced by El Terrat and Ikiru Films, written by Berto Romero and starring Javier Cámara, Romero himself and Belén Cuesta, and directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera. The film will join the Sitges Collection section after stops at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and Austin's Fantastic Fest.
The producers behind '5 minutos más' are Berto Romero, Bernat Elías, Javier Méndez, Edmon Roch and Movistar Plus.
The film also marks Berto Romero's debut as a feature screenwriter and reunites him creatively with Ruiz Caldera, following their work together on 'Mira lo que has hecho' (Ondas Award winner for Best Comedy Series) and 'El otro lado', both also Movistar Plus Originals produced by El Terrat.
Javier Ruiz Caldera has built one of the most versatile careers in Spanish film and television, known for how freely he blends genres and for the distinctly personal humor running through his work. With '5 minutos más', he teams up once again with Berto Romero, his frequent creative partner, having directed him in 'El otro lado', 'Mira lo que has hecho', 'Spy Time', 'Tres bodas de más' and 'Wolfgang'.
'5 minutos más' tells the story of a married couple in crisis who decide to spend a weekend at a secluded countryside retreat. There, they meet with an agency representative who shows them around and hands over the keys. But before he leaves them alone, something extraordinary happens: time rewinds five minutes.
"I always want my next film to be different from the last one, to be a new challenge that pushes me to approach it from an unfamiliar perspective as a director. The moment I read Berto Romero's first feature script, I knew I'd found the project of my dreams. The challenge with '5 minutos más' was making an idea this original feel completely believable," says director Ruiz Caldera.
Rounding out the cast are Carlos Bernardino ('Iron Reign'), Marc Soler ('UPA Next'), Clàudia Melo ('En los márgenes'), Puchi Lagarde ('Galgos'), Tian Tosas ('The Last Night at Tremore Beach') and Nia Tosas ('El mal invisible').
'5 minutos más' hits theaters on January 22, 2027. Filmax handles domestic distribution and international sales.
Also revealed by the festival back in late July, 'The End of It', co-produced by THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO, will compete in the Official Fantàstic Competition section at this year's 59th Sitges Film Festival. The feature debut of Maria Martínez Bayona, starring Rebecca Hall, Gael García Bernal, Noomi Rapace and Beanie Feldstein, previously premiered at Cannes in the Cannes Première section.
The deal to commercialise all of its competitions begins this season and runs through 2030
GRUP MEDIAPRO has reached an agreement with EuroHockey to serve as its global exclusive agency, selling the broadcast rights to all of its competitions from this season through 2030.
EuroHockey organizes the Euro Hockey League (EHL), the annual European club competition; the EuroHockey Championships, the European national-team championship set to take place in 2027 and 2029; and the EuroHockey Indoor Championships, the European indoor national-team championship, scheduled for 2028 and 2030.
Medialuso, GRUP MEDIAPRO's Portugal-based company, has produced the EHL for the past two seasons and will continue doing so this year. The new EHL season kicks off the weekend of October 11th with the first round taking place in Eindhoven, Netherlands. GRUP MEDIAPRO's relationship with EuroHockey dates back to 2015 when the group became a shareholder in the EHL and also started holding the competition's broadcast rights.
GRUP MEDIAPRO brings extensive experience managing sports rights, leading the international commercialisation of LALIGA's broadcast rights (excluding North America, MENA and India), the top Concacaf competitions through 2030 and Copa do Brasil, as well as rights for other sports beyond football including World Skate.
An original production directed by journalist Mònica Terribas, continuing the project that began with ‘How I left the Opus Dei’, winner of the 2025 Ondas Award for Best Documentary
HBO Max premieres the three episodes of its new original documentary series ‘The good spirit: behind the door of the Opus Dei’ this Friday, September 25. The series is produced by THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO for HBO Max in Spain and created and directed by Mònica Terribas.
Following the media and social impact of the documentary series ‘How I lef the Opus Dei’, winner of the 2025 Ondas Award, many men who had left Opus Dei also felt the need to explain the role they had played within the Work. The series had addressed the workplace, spiritual and psychological abuse that thirteen women say they endured within the institution.
According to their own accounts, they were recruited and destined from childhood to become numeraries or priests of Opus Dei. The series examines their descriptions of psychological control, recruitment practices and oppression, as well as their accounts of the alleged underlying dynamics of power, money, influence and control.
‘The good spirit: behind the door of the Opus Dei’ features testimony from fourteen men of all ages, who recount their personal experiences within Opus Dei across eleven countries: Spain, Italy, France, Poland, Germany and England in Europe, and Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, the United States and Argentina across the Atlantic. Many of them held governing roles as directors, secretaries and members of the Local Councils within their centers, and served as officials on the Regional Commissions. Others were called on to support the institution from the height of their professional careers to help expand Opus Dei. Some, as numeraries, associates or priests, were sent abroad as teenagers to countries they never returned from.
Their overlapping experiences shed light on how the Work operates: its economic influence through the Regional Commissions, Local Councils, and educational, university and research centers, and its practices of spiritual direction and mentorship over adolescents and young university students.
To provide context for the protagonists' testimonies, the documentary features expert voices, including Santiago Bueno Salinas, professor of canon law, judicial vicar and president of the Barcelona Ecclesiastical Tribunal; María Esther Fernández Mostaza, sociology professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and author of the book 'Els fills de l'Opus'; Dr. Vega González, clinical psychologist and managing director of the Institute for Socioaddiction Care and Research (AIS), which specializes in psychological dependency on cults and coercive groups; Gareth Gore, investigative journalist and author of 'Opus'; and Rebecca Griffin, director of The Deep Dive Project.
The series includes dramatized reconstructions of the protagonists' accounts, performed by actors Joel Bosqued, Guillem Balart and Marc Baltà, and directed by Pere Sala.
‘The good spirit: behind the door of the Opus Dei’ is an original documentary series from HBO Max in Spain, produced by THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO. Mònica Terribas, Bernat Elias and Amparo Castellano serve as executive producers for THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO. Bibiana González is Head of Non-Fiction Content at HBO Max. María Rubio and Zaida Serrano-Piedecasas serve as executive producers for Warner Bros. Discovery.
The documentary tells the story of one of the most surreal legal battles in Spain's recent history, alongside an analysis of the Chiquito de la Calzada phenomenon and the impact he had on a country that, in the midst of a crisis, found refuge in his world
'El otro Chiquito', the Movistar Plus Original documentary produced in collaboration with Globomedia about the trial pitting Chiquito de la Calzada against his television alter ego, Lucas Grijander, brought to life by Florentino Fernández on one of Spanish TV's most-watched shows, premieres on the platform October 1.
Before that, on September 21, it screens at the San Sebastián International Film Festival as part of the 'Made in Spain' section.
'El otro Chiquito' is based on an original idea by Diego San José ('Celeste', 'Yakarta'). Javier Morales and Juan Zavala ('El crítico') wrote and directed.'El otro Chiquito' paints a portrait of Gregorio Sánchez, an unlikely comic who defined 1990s Spain, forging a language and a style of humor that was entirely his own and utterly unrepeatable, one that ultimately came to belong to everyone. Or did it?
Combining archival footage, testimony from those close to the legendary Málaga-born comedian, and commentary from journalists and experts, the documentary also offers an analysis of the era and the social shift sparked by the launch of Spain's first private television channels.
The documentary features an array of firsthand accounts, including from Pepe Navarro, Florentino Fernández, Mario Conde, Manolo Sarria, Celia Villalobos, José Mercé, Manuel Campo Vidal, Nieves Herrero, Paz Padilla, Juan y Medio and Ramón García, along with journalists Manuel Jabois, Luz Sánchez-Mellado and Mariola Cubells.
Synopsis
In 1995, Spain had an undisputed idol: Chiquito de la Calzada. His catchphrases spread through the streets, TV sets and even official speeches. The country fell for the comedian who took a generation by storm. But one night, Spain's top-rated private TV show pulled off a masterstroke: introducing Lucas Grijander, a character eerily similar to Chiquito, so similar that he soon began taking his place. For Gregorio Sánchez, the man behind the legend, it was a nightmare. After years spent fighting for fame, he watched his identity get stripped away in front of millions of viewers. So began one of the strangest legal battles in Spanish history: Chiquito versus Lucas Grijander, a courtroom fight over something that already seemed to belong to everyone. A war over who owned a cultural phenomenon… and over one man's survival.
Season three began Monday, September 7, with David Broncano, Ricardo Castella, Jorge Ponce, Grison and Sergio Bezos
'La Revuelta', TVE's most-watched entertainment show over its first two seasons, kicked off its third season on Monday, September 7, with David Broncano, Ricardo Castella, Jorge Ponce, Grison and the full team. Produced by RTVE in collaboration with El Terrat and Encofrados Encofrasa, the show enters this new chapter with one major change: a new home.
After two seasons at Teatro Príncipe Gran Vía, the stage behind some of Spanish TV's most memorable moments, 'La Revuelta' moves this season to the UMusic Hotel Teatro Albéniz in Madrid, a bigger venue with more room for the live audience that plays such a central role in the show every night.
The theater changes, but the show's spirit doesn't. David Broncano and his regular collaborators, Lalachus, Candela Peña, Yunez Chaib and Pablo Ibarburu, are back on the couch to keep the stories coming.
Sergio Bezos also returns, and he's the one facing the biggest adjustment: with a much larger seating area to work with, he'll have to talk to far more people to pick who lands the new 'VIP seat' in the audience.
La 1's strongest access-primetime slot in 14 years
Since its September 2024 premiere, 'La Revuelta' has picked up an Ondas Award, four Iris Awards and a FesTVal award, among other honors, recognized for connecting with young audiences and for its fresh approach. These wins reflect the shake-up the show brought to mainstream television, reshaping audience habits in the process.
Across its first two seasons, 'La Revuelta' averaged a 12.6% audience share, 1,519,000 followers and 4,106,000 unique viewers per night, making it La 1's strongest access-primetime performer in 14 years and lifting the network's ratings in that slot by nearly five points.
It's the undisputed leader in the commercial target demographic (ages 16 to 59), holding an 18.2% share since launch, 5.4 points ahead of its closest competitor, and has won every single month in its slot across its first two seasons. It's also become a go-to show for younger and mid-range audiences, posting a 17.1% share among 13-to-24-year-olds and 21.2% among 25-to-44-year-olds.
'La Revuelta' is RTVE's biggest hit on social media, accounting for nearly 40% of all RTVE video views. Across its two seasons, the show has racked up 10.47 billion views and close to 368 million interactions. In season two alone, it hit 5.15 billion views and gained 2.1 million new followers, growing its loyal fan base to more than 6.48 million and driving over 173 million interactions.
