Star Kevin Hart and producer Will Packer, who partnered for the hit Ride Along and Think Like a Man series, bring their signature style to Night School. The comedy from director Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip) follows a group of misfits who are forced to attend adult classes in the longshot chance they’ll pass the GED exam.
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Marking the second feature collaboration between director Alonso Ruizpalacios and Gael García Bernal—and the first in which Bernal stars—Museo is based on one of the strangest, most high-profile crimes in the history of Mexican art.
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Comedians Gabriel Iglesias and Wanda Sykes are boarding the voiceover cast of STX’s UglyDolls, joining Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas and Pitbull who were previously announced. The pic opens on May 10, 2019 and will officially launch the studio’s UglyDolls franchise with an animated TV series already underway on Hulu.
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CBS has put in development Just Like Us, a multi-camera family comedy from One Day at a Time writer Debby Wolfe and co-creator/executive producer/co-showrunner Gloria Calderon Kellett.
Men of a Certain Age alum Richard Gant is set as a series regular and A.P. Bio‘s Tucker Albrizzi will recur opposite Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias in Mr. Iglesias, Netflix’s upcoming multi-cam comedy series from the comedian and Cristela co-creator/executive producer Kevin Hench.
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AT&T’s newly branded WarnerMedia, which encompasses Warner Bros, Turner and HBO, has taken the wraps off a a companywide policy outlining its commitment to diversity and inclusion both in front and behind the camera on its film, TV and digital output.
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About Marvin Lemus:
Marvin Lemus is a Mexican-Guatemalan-American writer and director born and raised in California, who drove his struggle of not belonging to a specific culture into creating digital content. He wrote Gente-Fied: The Digital Series, where he represented his neighborhood and his story of growing up not enough Mexican, not enough Guatemalan, not enough American. Also, he directed the short-film Vamonos that took him to the Sundance Film Festival.
NALIP’S 2018 LATINO MEDIA FEST is the unique presenter of the best U.S. based Latinx content across media platforms: narrative shorts, TV/Streaming pilots, digital web series, virtual reality, and documentary shorts.