HBO Max, Salma Hayek's Production Company Ventanarosa Enter Into First-Look Deal
Salma Hayek (photo by John Russo)
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HBO Max, the new direct to consumer offering from WarnerMedia, has agreed to a two year first-look deal with actress, executive producer, and Academy Award® nominee Salma Hayek, founder and CEO of Ventanarosa.
 
As part of the collaboration, Hayek will first bring projects to HBO Max for potential development. Jose Tamez, president of Ventanarosa, serves as her producing partner and Siobhan Flynn is its head of production & development.

Nominated for an Academy Award®, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and a BAFTA Award for her leading role in Julie Taymor’s Frida, she has also appeared in the award-nominated Beatriz at Dinner, As Luck Would Have It, Americano and Lonely Hearts. Behind the camera, she has won an Emmy® for Best Direction of a Family Movie for the TV film The Maldonado Miracle and a Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy TV Series for her work as a producer of Ugly Betty. Other producing credits include the recently announced Santa Evita at Fox Latin America, Annie Award nominated film The Prophet, Netflix’s Monarca, This Is Cristina, Septembers of Shiraz, and In the Time of the Butterflies. Other past acting credits include The Roads Not Taken, Like A Boss, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, How to Be a Latin Lover, Tale of Tales, Emmy winning 30 Rock, Americano, Academy® Award nominated Across the Universe, Academy Award® winning Traffic, and Desperado. Hayek will next appear in Marvel’s The Eternals, Lionsgate’s The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard and Amazon’s Bliss.
 
Over the last 20 years, Tamez and Hayek have worked together on films such as Frida (six Academy Awards® nominations), Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (Annie Awards nomination for Best Animated Film), and Beatriz at Dinner. Together, they produced the Emmy®, Golden Globe and Peabody Award winning TV show Ugly Betty, as well as the TV movie In The Time Of The Butterflies.

Hayek is represented by CAA, Management 360, and Edelstein, Laird & Sobel.

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