Sono-Mex Doblajes, S.A. de C.V. or simply Sonomex was a Mexican Spanish dubbing, post-production, dialogue translation and audio recording company. It was originally founded by Julio Macias in partnership with Enrique Rodriguez Ruelas and Enrique Rodriguez Lopez-Montoya.
History[]
Sono-Mex was founded in 1968 by Julio Macías in partnership with Enrique Rodríguez Ruelas and Enrique Rodríguez López-Montoya, and occupied the facilities of the now defunct company Estudios Sonoros Mexicanos, located at Av. División del Norte № 2817, Mexico City.
Between 1976 and 1977, the partners also opened a branch in Los Angeles, California (United States), which operated under the name Sono-Mex Hollywood. At the beginning of 1982, Macias ended his partnership with the Rodriguez family, keeping the Sono-Mex name. Shortly thereafter, Macias assigned this name to his new dubbing facility, located at 224 América Street № 224 in the Parque San Andrés neighborhood of Coyoacán, south of Mexico City, where they continued dubbing different productions.
Sono-Mex Hollywood was also moved to another Los Angeles location where they did dubbing for a couple more years. Years later, Julio Macías' son, Arturo Macías, took over the company and expanded the capacity of the work in what would be commercially called The Macías Group, or Grupo Macías in Spanish, and created two other dubbing companies in Mexico City, The Art of Sound and Macías TV. Although Sono-Mex no longer dubbed in Los Angeles, they founded Roman Sound International in that country, which would function as the headquarters of the conglomerate. Since 1996, Sonomex would also venture into Portuguese dubbing, creating Le Sound-Sonomex in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
In 2004, Sonomex ceased its voice dubbing activities due to internal changes occurring in the Macías group at that time, in addition to disagreements with the ANDA union, moving the projects they were doing at that time to other companies in the group as Art Sound and the newly created Sebastians.
However, Sono's facilities remained open to exclusively perform post-production work on projects carried out by the other companies of the group, such as mixing, quality control or QC and foley. In 2016, the new company IDF began to perform the tasks carried out by Sonomex, so the company would go on to decrease its work over time. In 2019, the company was definitively closed and the property was sold, putting an end to the company that started Macías Group.
Dubs[]
See also: Category:Sono-Mex Doblajes
Films[]
- 50 First Dates
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- The Amityville Horror (1979)
- The Big Lebowski (first dub)
- The Birds
- Cabaret
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Follow that Bird
- Godzilla (1998)
- Gremlins (first dub)
- Hook (first dub)
- Jumani (first dub)
- Matilda (first dub)
- Pet Sematary (1989)
- Sister Act
Series[]
- Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (first dub)
- Anatole
- Bananas in Pyjamas
- Dexter's Laboratory
- Donkey Kong
- Doraemon (1979)
- Elliot Moose
- Fantastic Max
- Friends
- Little Bear
- The Magic School Bus
- Stickin' Around
- The Twins at St. Clare's (second dub)
- Wishbone
Specials[]
Clients[]
- 20th Century Fox
- Amblin Entertainment
- APA International
- Buena Vista International, Inc.
- Cintelba, S.A.
- Discovery Channel
- CINAR
- Columbia Pictures
- Columbia TriStar
- DiC Entertainment
- Hanna-Barbera
- HIT Entertainment
- Lorimar
- Lyrick Studios / Lyons Group
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Microsoft
- MVS Multivisión
- NBC
- Nelvana
- Nickelodeon
- Paramount
- PolyGram
- Rede Globo
- Orion Pictures Corporation
- The Family Channel
- The Samuel Goldwyn Company
- TMS Entertainment
- Universal
- Warner Bros.
- Worldvision Enterprises