EXCLUSIVE: Stuck in the Middle star Jenna Ortega has been cast in a lead role opposite Alyson Hannigan and Leslie Bibb in Man of the House, ABC’s multi-camera hybrid family comedy pilot from Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group, ABC Studios and Scandal star Kerry Washington’s studio-based Simpson Street.
Aida Rodriguez is raw and unapologetic and that’s why audiences can’t get enough of her. The Puerto Rican stunner returns tonight for the third installment of the popular HBO Latino comedy special “Entre Nos” at 9:30 p.m. alongside fellow comedians Orlando Leyba and Eric Blake for a night of English-language hilarity.
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Fabula’s Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín, producers of Academy Award winner “A Fantastic Woman,” have appointed seasoned former Paramount exec Geoff Stier as CEO of Fabula in North America.
Paramount Pictures EVP of production from 2009, where he developed and managed feature projects such as “True Grit” and “World War Z,” Stier will begin to head up Fabula in North America from the second week of April, still based out of Los Angeles where Chile’s Larraín brothers established a production company last year.
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Callie Hernandez has been cast as the female lead in the Fox drama pilot “Mixtape,” Variety has learned.
The project is described as a romantic musical drama that looks at a disparate group of interconnected people in contemporary Los Angeles through the lens of the music that defines who they are. Hernandez will play Nellie, whose job in admissions at an arts college and relationship with an up-and-coming musician have derailed her own dreams of becoming an artist.
The LA PHIL would like to invite NALIP to attend a special performance on April 28, 2018 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall!
The "Jane The Virgin" and "Annihilation" actress previously committed to voicing said bandit in a 2019 Netflix animated series.
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Gina Rodriguez now has multiple “Carmen Sandiego” projects in the pipeline for Netflix. Deadline first reported that the Golden Globe winner will star and co-produce a forthcoming, live-action feature on the scarlet-clad thief, news she shared on Twitter. In April, Rodriguez confirmed plans to voice the character in the streaming service’s upcoming animated series.
The renewal came after critics, fans, and several Latino groups lobbied Netflix hard to bring it back.
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Up on your feet, somewhere there’s music playing: Netflix has renewed “One Day at a Time” for Season 3. The renewal wasn’t a slam dunk, as the show is believed to just have middle-of-the-road viewership — hence the time Netflix took to crunch the numbers and make it work. But the show has garnered loads of critical acclaim — and has been lauded in particular for its depiction of a Latino family, and embrace of important issues through the lens of comedy, giving Netflix plenty of reasons to find a way to bring the show back.
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Raúl Castillo has been cast as the male lead in the Fox drama pilot “Mixtape.”
The project is described as a romantic musical drama that looks at a disparate group of interconnected people in contemporary Los Angeles through the lens of the music that defines who they are. Castillo will play Sam, who is described as an aspiring songwriter, secret romantic and young widower who will do anything for his son.
NALIP members Miguel J. Soliman and Alejandro Sugich will be screening their projects at the 25th annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF). The festival is produced by the Media Arts Center San Diego, who started SDLFF 25 years ago initially as a student film festival (Cine Estudantil) focusing on works by Latinos and/or about the Latino Experience. Since that time, the San Diego Latino Film Festival has developed into one of the larger and well-respected Latino film festivals in the world. Over 325,000 people have attended during the past 25 years and over 3,880 films/videos from across Latin America and the United States have been screened.