According to media reports, there were also many companies that expressed interest in buing the Pay-TV platform, as Al Jazeera, Vivendi, which owned Canal+ France, and Liberty Global mogul Rupert Murdoch.
This was critical for PRISA, owners of Canal+ Spain, as they had been looking for ways to resolve the debt the company had been accumulating since 2008, as a result of the 2007–2008 financial crisis,[3] with rumors of an acquisition by Telefónica beginning to take place as early as this year.
Over the course of 2023, Movistar Plus+ renew its deals with all major Hollywood Studios to continue offer their content on the Spanish TV platform.
All television channels in Spain from Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros.
[7][8][9][10] In January 2024, after earlier exceptional involvements in film production with While at War (2019) and Prison 77 (2022), Movistar Plus+ announced a strategy to develop as a co-producer of films on a sustained basis, presenting a slate of 5 initial titles set to begin production in 2024 and to be directed by Icíar Bollaín (I'm Nevenka), Rodrigo Sorogoyen (El ser querido), Alberto Rodríguez, Oliver Laxe, and Ana Rujas (El desencanto).