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Menem: The President Show is a fictionalized chronicle of Carlos Menem, the flamboyant and divisive figure who dominated Argentine politics. The series recounts his improbable ascent from provincial governor to the nation’s highest office during the turbulent late 1980s.

This is not a staid political history. It is a high-energy dramedy that views a nation’s fate through a pop-culture lens, approaching its subject with a cocktail of humor, absurdity, and kinetic force. The narrative drops viewers into a period of national desperation, with hyperinflation gutting the economy and the public hungry for a savior.

Menem emerges as that unconventional figure, a populist who understood that raw charisma could be a potent political tool. The show immediately frames its central subject as a master seducer, a man who courted the masses with the same flair he applied to his personal life, blurring the line between political leadership and pure spectacle.

Menem: The President Show is a political drama on Prime Video that fictionalizes Argentina’s tumultuous 1990s under Carlos Saúl Menem. Starring Leonardo Sbaraglia and Juan Minujín, the series is set in Buenos Aires and La Rioja. In this article, we’ll break down the plot, cast, locations, streaming details and why this history-packed drama matters.

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The six-episode series tracks the fictional journey of a La Rioja family entwined with Menem’s rise and fall. As Argentina shifts to a dollar-pegged economy and privatizes state assets, the family benefits—but also faces growing tensions. The show explores the emotional fallout of economic reforms, the terrorist bombing in Buenos Aires, and the tragic death of Menem’s son, all set against one of Argentina’s most dramatic political eras. It balances personal stories with sweeping national events, showing how power and policy reshape lives at every level.

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Menem Series On Prime Video Explores Power, Politics & Personal Price(Photo Credit –Prime Video)

After months of anticipation from fans of serious political storytelling, Menem is finally ready to reach viewers. The series, which has drawn attention for its bold take on power, politics, and personal tragedy, will soon begin streaming on Prime Video. The launch date carries symbolic weight, as it coincides with Argentina’s Independence Day.

While inspired by real events, Menem is not a straight biography. It blends historical facts with fiction to explore the impact of one of Argentina’s most controversial leaders, Carlos Saúl Menem, whose rule during the 1990s brought dramatic change to the country. The story is told through the lens of a family from La Rioja, Menem’s birthplace, whose lives become entangled with his presidency.

Streaming Details

The streaming platform, Prime Video took to its Instagram handle to announce the Menem’s Ott release date.

Exclusive: Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas has been picked up by Curzon for UK-Ireland release, as principal photography gets underway in Spain.

The deal was negotiated by Bárbara Peiró at El Deseo and Curzon Film managing directorLouisa Dent.

The film follows an advertising director whose mother dies during a long weekend in December. She throws herself into her work, until a panic attack forces her to take a break and a trip to Lanzarote.

Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Victoria Luengo, Patrick Criado, Milena Smit and Quim Gutiérrez star.

The Spanish-language feature is produced by Almodóvar and his brother...

Less than a year since his first English-language feature premiered, Pedro Almodóvar has already embarked on his next project. Bitter Christmas (translated from Amarga Navidad) is now shooting in Madrid and Lanzarote throughout the summer, with a cast including Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Victoria Luengo, Patrick Criado, Milena Smit, and Quim Gutiérrez.

Variety reports the film will premiere in 2026 in Spain, courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Spain, followed by a streaming release on Movistar Plus+. We imagine it’s no time at all before Sony Pictures Classics announces its U.S. acquisition. With Almodóvar usually having a speedy post-production, one wonders if we could see a release around the holidays early next year or if he’ll hold out for a major festival debut.

Here’s the synopsis, translated from Spanish: “Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday weekend. She throws herself...

Pedro Almodóvar has found his next project. The auteur is now at work on “Bitter Christmas” for Spanish streaming platform Movistar Plus+. Almodóvar also collaborated with the platform on his English-language feature debut, “The Room Next Door.”

“Bitter Christmas,” or “Amarga Navidad,” stars a slew of Almodóvar newcomers and staples, including Bárbara Lennie (“Petra”), Leonardo Sbaraglia (“Pain and Glory”), Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (“Parallel Mothers”), Victoria Luengo (“The Room Next Door”), Patrick Criado (“Riot Police”), Milena Smit (“Parallel Mothers”), and Quim Gutiérrez (“Darkbluealmostblack”). The film will be released in Spanish theaters in 2026, with Warner Bros. Pictures Spain distributing. It will then debut exclusively on the Movistar Plus+ platform.

IndieWire has reached out to Almodóvar’s representatives for details about a possible U.S. release, though it can be assumed Sony Pictures Classics will release the film in North America, as it has all of Almodóvar’s recent outings. We’re told that festival play and a U.

Spanish streaming and production giant Movistar Plus+ has announced the next film from iconic director Pedro Almodóvar. “Bitter Christmas” (“Amarga Navidad”) will premiere in Spanish theaters in 2026, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Spain, before being made available exclusively on Movistar Plus+’s platform.

The acclaimed Spanish director’s new project, currently filming between Madrid and Lanzarote, is a production of Pedro and his brother Agustín Almodóvar’s El Deseo with the collaboration of Movistar Plus+.

“Bitter Christmas” boasts a stellar and predictably women-driven cast including European Film Award nominee Bárbara Lennie (“Petra”), Leonardo Sbaraglia (“Pain and Glory”), Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (“Parallel Mothers”), Victoria Luengo (“The Room Next Door”), Patrick Criado (“Riot Police”), Milena Smit (“Parallel Mothers”) and Quim Gutiérrez (“Darkbluealmostblack”).

An official synopsis for the film, translated from Spanish, reads: “Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday weekend. She throws herself into work as a form of escape,...

Bárbara Lennie regresa al universo almodovariano más de una década después de ‘La Piel que Habito’. © Warner Bros

Tras el estreno de La habitación de al lado, su primer largometraje rodado íntegramente en inglés –que le valió el codiciado León de Oro en Venecia–, Pedro Almodóvar regresa a casa con Amarga Navidad, su nueva película en castellano, anunciada el pasado mes de octubre y que comenzó su rodaje ayer entre Madrid y Lanzarote. Ahora, ya conocemos su reparto completo y sinopsis oficial.

Elsa es una directora de publicidad cuya madre muere durante un largo puente del mes de diciembre. Encuentra refugio en el trabajo, aunque es más bien una huida hacia adelante. Trabaja sin parar y, sin darse cuenta, no se da tiempo suficiente para guardar el duelo por la ausencia materna. Hasta que una crisis de pánico la obliga a parar y tomarse un descanso. Su pareja, Bonifacio, es...

Fresh from the Croisette as producers on the Jury Prize winner Oliver Laxe’s Sirât, Pedro Almodóvar is getting into the Yuletide spirit this June. WorldofReel did some digging and it looks like we are getting set for production this month with Spanish-speaking thesps Victoria Luengo and Patrick Criado. Bitter Christmas (fka Amarga Navidad) is a tragic comedy about a woman being abandoned by her partner during Christmas time. Filming is set for a Canary Islands backdrop.

Update: Variety reports that Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Milena Smit and Quim Gutiérrez are also cast. And here is the official synopsis below:

Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday weekend.…...

Though it’s hard to believe, given his looks, Cillian Murphy has been in the show business for almost three decades. While his professional acting debut happened with a stage play named Disco Pigs in 1996, he wasn’t a household name until the 2002 film 28 Days Later.

However, in between starring in Danny Boyle’s science fiction horror and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Murphy starred in several projects. While some of his projects, like Batman Begins, Inception, and Peaky Blinders, cemented his position as a versatile actor, there were a few underwhelming appearances as well.

The 48-year-old Irish actor’s 2012 outing with Elizabeth Olsen and Robert De Niro, Red Lights, can be categorized as such. The movie, which has a meager score of only 30% on Rotten Tomatoes, has recently been added to Amazon Prime Video. But the question remains: should you watch it or pass?

Cillian Murphy’s Red Lights – watch or pass?...

Top Spanish film talent including Pedro Almodóvar, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz have signed a public letter of support for Domingo Corral, following his surprise departure as head of content at Movistar Plus+ last week.

Corral’s departure shortly before Cannes has baffled the Spanish industry. A total of 144 Spanish professionals have signed the letter of support.

They all thank Corral for his work at Movistar Plus+, the pay-tv and SVoD service of Spanish telco giant Telefonica Group, a key player in the Spanish industry.

Corral led the streamer’s move into original productions, first in series and more recently in features,...

Shows like Silo and Fallout have become international sensations for Apple TV+ and Prime Video in the last few years, and now Netflix has finally responded with a post-apocalyptic series of its own. Netflix’s newest series comes in the form of The Eternaut, which follows a group of survivors as they fend off an alien threat after a horrific snowfall took the lives of millions of people. The Eternaut premiered all seven episodes on April 30, and the show has become a hit for Netflix, landing at #4 on the streamer’s charts at the time of writing. The Eternaut stars Ricardo Darín and Carla Peterson, and it earned scores of 94% from critics and 95% from audiences on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. The series has already been renewed for Season 2.

It’s unclear at this time when The Eternaut Season 2 will be released, but it will certainly not be any earlier than 2026. The series,...

Exclusive: Pathé International will be launching sales at Cannes on Guillaume Canet’s new psychological thriller Karma, starring Oscar winner Marion Cotillard, three-time César nominee Denis Ménochet (Inglorious Basterds) and Goya winner Leonardo Sbaraglia (Pain and Glory).

Canet, who won a César for his Harlan Coben adaptation Tell No One in 2006, has written the script with Simon Jacquet and is directing the project, which is currently in production in Europe. Plot details remain under wraps but we understand Canet devised the main role for his wife and longtime screen collaborator Cotillard.

Luis Zahera (As Bestas) also joins but contrary to some online speculation Mark Ruffalo is not in the cast. Director of photography is Benoît Debie (Spring Breakers) while Laure Gardette serves as editor (Polisse).

The French-language film heralds from ascending French production company Iconoclast, which is also behind Romain Gavras’ starry action-comedy Sacrifice, and Canet’s label Caneo.

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The Man Who Loved UFOs tells the adventurous story of José de Zer, an Argentine TV journalist in the 1980s driven by obsession to uncover the truth about extraterrestrials. Directed by Diego Lerman, the film centers around a notorious episode from de Zer’s career where he stirred up nationwide interest after investigating alleged UFO sightings in rural Cordoba.

Played captivatingly by Leonardo Sbaraglia, de Zer approaches any strange phenomenon with zealous enthusiasm. When locals pitch him reports of weird activity in the mountains, he eagerly sets off with cameraman Chango to find answers. But de Zer’s methods become increasingly questionable as he begins fabricating evidence to sensationalize the story.

The film explores de Zer’s fixation and whether his experience was real or merely the effects of stress. It also examines how far he went spreading tales for fame and ratings. Was he seeking truth or simply caught...

Biography is undoubtedly one of the most popular genres in existence, because people just love to watch a Wikipedia page come to life in live-action format. But as someone who has flunked his history exams quite a few times, I don’t like a by-the-numbers chronicling of the past. I love biographies that tend to have pizazz, if they have the audacity to be experimental with their storytelling, or if they are centered around a not-so-popular subject matter. Off the top of my head, I can name Schindler’s List, Ford v Ferrari, Elvis (the 2022 one), Rocketman, Jarhead, The Aviator, First Man, Spotlight, Serpico, Spencer, American Animals, Dog Day Afternoon, Tetris, Judas and the Black Messiah, Dolemite Is My Name, and Chopper as some of my favorite biopics. Now, it seemed like The Man Who Loved UFOs was tailor-made for me. It had a peculiar subject matter. The filmmaking looked good.

“The Man Who Loved UFOs” is an Argentine film starring Leonardo Sbaraglia. It is directed by Diego Lerman.

“The Man Who Loved UFOs” is an unconventional and distinctive film that navigates the realms of drama and comedy while humorously posing fundamental questions: Does reality truly exist, or is it merely a construct of language and media fiction?

This film is entertaining, intelligent, and ironic, going far beyond the surface of its narrative. Leonardo Sbaraglia delivers a remarkable performance, embodying a complex and ambivalent character filled with doubts and excesses, yet grounded in reality.

“The Man Who Loved UFOs” is a unique and unusual movie that conveys more through irony than with grandiose effects.

A film that skillfully engages the audience, inviting them to ponder through humor.

The Man Who Loved UFOs – Netflix

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A television presenter who has just experienced an attack is tasked with investigating the remnants of a...

Netflix’s The Man Who Loved UFOs (El Hombre Que Amaba Los Platos Voladores) tells the story of Argentinian TV journalist José de Zer and his cameraman Chango. It is 1986, and they travel to La Candelaria in Córdoba upon receiving “an unusual proposal from two shady characters,” explains a plot synopsis on the website of the San Sebastian Film Festival where the film celebrated its world premiere on Tuesday. “Arriving in the village, there’s nothing much to see, only a scorched field surrounded by hills. What happened next was the work of a genius in the art of exaggeration with a hidden talent: the ability to create the best-known audiovisual recording on the existence of alien presence in the history of Argentinian television.”

Or, as Netflix says in its summary: “What follows is the invention of the most famous alien sightings in the history of Argentine television.”

Yes, the...

Netflix Argentina executives have been promoting the upcoming slate featuring new work from Ricardo Darin, Santiago Mitre, and Juan José Campanella including series adaptations of two of the most iconic graphic novels and comic strips in Latin America.

Leading the new productions at the Made In Argentina showcase unveiled to industry members in Buenos Aires on Monday night was 27 Nights (27 Noches), Daniel Hendler’s adaptation of the family drama novel by Natalia Zito inspired by actual events.

Mitre, who wrote and directed the 2023 Oscar-nominated Argentina, 1985, will serve as producer on 27 Nights.

Campanella, the writer-director of The Secret In Their Eyes...

Women in Blue is a Spanish crime drama series created by Pablo Aramendi and Fernando Rovzar. Inspired by true events, the Apple TV+ series is a riveting experience with great characters and a thrilling story, that keeps you engaged throughout all of its episodes. Women in Blue stars an entirely Hispanic cast led by Ariel Award nominee Bárbara Mori.

The Apple TV+ crime drama series is set in 1971 and it follows the story of four women who become Mexico’s first female friends while a dangerous serial killer racks up his body count. Soon, they find out that their recruitment is nothing more than a PR stunt by the officials to distract the public from the serial killer case and they decide to catch the killer themselves.

Women in Blue – Episode Guide (When Will the New Episodes Come Out?) Credit – Apple TV+

Women in Blue consists of ten episodes in total.

Argentina’s Diego Lerman heads back for at least the third time to the San Sebastian Film Festival with his seventh and most ambitious film, “The Man Who Loved UFOs,” which competes in the festival’s official selection.

Loosely inspired by real events and people, the dramedy is set in the summer of 1986, where José de Zer, an entertainment journalist, is covering the theater season in Buenos Aires. He’s approached one day by two individuals who invite him to their pueblo with an odd proposal.

Intrigued, José and his trusted cameraman, Chango, travel to La Candelaria in Córdoba. Upon arriving at the scene – a perfectly round burnt patch in the hills – they find little that makes sense.

What follows is what is deemed the most memorable depiction of alien presence in Argentine TV history. Chango, a Sancho Panza to de Zer’s Don Quixote, follows him faithfully as they...

¿Podrán cuatro mujeres detener a un brutal asesino en serie? © Apple TV+

Apple TV+ ha publicado el tráiler de su nueva serie criminal “Las Azules”, inspirada en la historia real de la primera fuerza policial femenina de México.

La serie, rodada en español y compuesta por diez episodios, está ambientada en 1971 y cuenta la historia de cuatro mujeres que desafían las normas ultraconservadoras de la época y se unen al primer cuerpo policial femenino de México, solo para descubrir que su escuadrón es un truco publicitario para distraer a los medios de comunicación de un brutal asesino en serie. A medida que aumenta el número de muertes, María (Bárbara Mori), cuyo afán por atrapar al asesino se convierte en una obsesión, Gabina (Amorita Rasgado), cuyo padre es un reputado agente de policía, Ángeles (Ximena Sariñana), una brillante analista de huellas dactilares, y Valentina (Natalia Téllez), una joven rebelde, inician una...

"I tried to warn you. He'll kill again." Apple TV has revealed an official trailer for a streaming series titled Women in Blue about a true story from Mexico. Set for a streaming debut at the end of July this summer. "Sometimes the best man for the job is a woman." The series follows four women who become Mexico's first female police force. They will defy the ultra-conservative norms of the time only to discover that their squad is a publicity stunt to distract the media from a brutal serial killer. As the body count grows, María, Gabina, Ángeles, and Valentina, set up a secret investigation to achieve what no male officer has been able to do – find and stop the serial killer. Starring Bárbara Mori as María, Ximena Sariñana as Ángeles, Natalia Téllez as Valentina, and Amorita Rasgado as Gabina. Along with Miguel Rodarte, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Christian Tappan, and Horacio García Rojas.

Today, Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for Women in Blue (“Las Azules”), an upcoming 10-part Spanish-language crime drama featuring an entirely Hispanic cast and crew led by Ariel Award nominee Bárbara Mori.

Created by International Emmy Award-winning showrunner and director Fernando Rovzar and Pablo Aramendi, the series will premiere globally with the first two episodes on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, on Apple TV+. It will then air one episode weekly through September 25.

Set in 1971 and inspired by true events, Women in Blue tells the story of four women who defy the ultraconservative norms of the time and join Mexico’s first female police force, only to discover that their squad is a publicity stunt to distract the media from a brutal serial killer.

As the body count grows, María (Mori), whose determination to catch the killer becomes an obsession; Gabina (Amorita Rasgado), whose father is a renowned cop; Ángeles (Ximena Sariñana), a...

Today, Apple TV+ revealed the premiere date and a first look at Women in Blue (“Las Azules”), its upcoming ten-episode Spanish-language crime drama featuring an entirely Hispanic cast and crew led by Ariel Award nominee Bárbara Mori.

Created by International Emmy Award-winning showrunner and director Fernando Rovzar and Pablo Aramendi, Women in Blue will make its global debut with the first two episodes on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, on Apple TV+, followed by one episode weekly through September 25.

Set in 1970 and inspired by true events, Women in Blue tells the story of four women who defy the ultra-conservative norms of the time and join Mexico’s first female police force, only to discover that their squad is a publicity stunt to distract the media from a brutal serial killer.

As the body count grows, María (Mori), whose determination to catch the killer becomes an obsession; Gabina (Amorita Rasgado), whose father is a...

Class will soon be permanently dismissed on Elite.

Netflix on Wednesday announced via its myriad socials that the Spanish teen drama’s upcoming eighth season will be its last. The somewhat offhanded declaration comes just two days before Elite Season 7 drops.

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“We ended on a high note,” series creator Carlos Montero shared Wednesday at a Season 7 press event in Spain. “Jaime [Vaca, co-showrunner...

Argentinian actor Marcelo Subiotto has spent much of his life in supporting roles but has been gradually making his presence felt more on the international stage with the likes of 2021’s Dusk Stone, which played at both Venice and San Sebastian Film Festivals. Droll comedy Puan - about hapless philosophy professor Marcelo (played by Subiotto) who finds himself vying for a top job against a former classmate Rafael (Leonardo Sbaraglia) after the unexpected death of his mentor - is likely to further cement that.

The film, which was written by María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat specifically to give Subiotto the lead, saw the actor take home the Silver Shell for performance at this year’s San Sebastian, as well as winning the Silver Shell for best script.

Leonardo Sbaraglia, Marcelo Subiotto and their co-star Mara Bestelli in San Sebastian Photo: Jorge Fuembuena/Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival The star describes his character as.

Benjamín Naishtat: 'We were always talking about Marcelo saying he never gets the main role and he's the best actor of his generation. We said, "Okay, let's write something for him".' Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival

Argentinian comedy Puan follows the life of a college philosophy professor in the wake of the sudden death of his mentor. Marcelo Pena finds himself suddenly vying for the position of department head with an ex-classmate, Rafael Sujarchuk (Leonardo Sbaraglia) fresh back from Germany with show-off streak - not to mention a film star girlfriend - at the same time as trying to navigate life in general. The film employs both physical and philosophical comedy to good effect, including iris shots, which close in on Marcello's face at the end of several scenes. Puan took both the Silver Shell for script and for Acting at San Sebastian and we...

Anyone familiar with the often disquieting solo work of directors María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat may be put on high uneasiness-alert by the opening scene of “Puan,” their first co-directed feature. Despite the jaunty pop song playing, an older man going for a morning jog in a scrubby Buenos Aires park, suddenly keels over dead of a heart attack. Given the surreal griefscape of Alché’s “A Family Submerged” or the sinister tides of Naishtat’s superb “Rojo”, there’s every possibility that the music is a red herring, and the death portends what is to come. But perhaps that is “Puan”‘s first joke.

In fact, Alché and Naishtat seem to have found the experience of writing together in the captivity of lockdown a liberation of a looser, funnier storytelling mode. What transpires is a fleet-footed if sharply pointed existential-crisis comedy, shot with unobstrusive, naturalistic dynamism by Hélène Louvart,...

Argentine director Paula Hernández’s “The Ravaging Wind,” toplined by Latin American star Alfredo Castro, will be the opening night film of Horizontes Latinos sidebar at the 71st edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival, which runs Sept. 22-30.

Carolina Markowicz’s “Toll,” whose producers include Brazilian giant Globo Filmes, will close the section, one of the biggest examples of San Sebastian’s long-term commitment to Latin American cinema.

In total, Horizontes will present this year 12 stories, set in Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Brazil.

Traditionally, the sidebar showcases feature films not yet released in Spain, either totally or partially produced in Latin America directed by Latino filmmakers or which are set against the backdrop or subject of Latino communities in the rest of the world.

The contenders list of the 2023 edition takes in two films who walked off with prizes at San Sebastian’s Latin American Work In Progress initiative...

Twelve stories set in Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Brazil make up Horizontes Latinos, a selection of the year’s feature films, not yet released in Spain, from among all those totally or partially produced in Latin America, directed by moviemakers of Latino origin, or which are set against the backdrop or subject of Latino communities in the rest of the world. In the selection of titles competing for the Horizontes Award at San Sebastian’s 71st edition are two films to have carried off awards at the last Wip Latam –El castillo / The Castle and Estranho caminho / A Strange Path– and at the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum –Alemania–.

Having shown one of her previous movies in Horizontes Latinos, Los sonámbulos / The Sleepwalkers (2019), Paula Hernández returns to the section she will open with El viento que arrasa / A Ravaging Wind, a cinematic adaptation of Selva Almada’s homonymous novel. Alfredo Castro,...

“Bird Box Barcelona", a spinoff of the post-apocalyptic feature "Bird Box" (2018), is directed by Álex Pastor and David Pastor, starring Mario Casas, Georgina Campbell, Diego Calva, Alejandra Howard, Naila Schuberth, Patrick Criado, Lola Dueñas, Gonzalo de Castro, Michelle Jenner and Leonardo Sbaraglia, now streaming on Netflix:

"...after a mysterious force wipes out the world's population, 'Sebastian' must navigate his own survival journey through the desolate streets of Barcelona.

"As he forms uneasy alliances with other survivors and they try to escape the city, an unexpected and even more sinister threat grows..."

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A fan favorite from Elite’s early years is headed back to the Netflix teen drama.

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Mina el Hammani, who played Nadia during the show’s first three seasons, will reprise her role in Season 8, which was officially confirmed by the streamer on Wednesday. Production is slated to begin this August, and no details are currently available about how many episodes the actress will appear in.

This post contains spoilers for Bird Box: Barcelona.

The Bird Box franchise is all about what you don’t see. That’s true for the characters in the movie, who wear blindfolds to avoid seeing monsters that will otherwise cause you to commit suicide on sight. Yet it’s also true for the viewers, who also never see the monsters. At their best, Bird Box and the sequel Bird Box: Barcelona follow the principles of Jaws and Alien: They keep the creepy thing out of sight to let the viewer’s imagination do the work.

However, Bird Box: Barcelona does break from its predecessor with a radically different type of protagonist, Sebastián (Mario Casas) and his young daughter Anna (Alejandra Howard). Despite presenting themselves as a desperate father and child, we soon learn that Sebastián has seen the monsters and instead of committing suicide, he’s obsessed with forcing...

“Bird Box Barcelona", a spinoff of the post-apocalyptic feature "Bird Box" (2018), is directed by Álex Pastor and David Pastor, starring Mario Casas, Georgina Campbell, Diego Calva, Alejandra Howard, Naila Schuberth, Patrick Criado, Lola Dueñas, Gonzalo de Castro, Michelle Jenner and Leonardo Sbaraglia, streams July 14, 2023 on Netflix:

"...after a mysterious force wipes out the world's population, 'Sebastian' must navigate his own survival journey through the desolate streets of Barcelona.

"As he forms uneasy alliances with other survivors and they try to escape the city, an unexpected and even more sinister threat grows..."

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Warning: Major spoilers below for Bird Box Barcelona!Bird Box Barcelona is the terrifying next chapter in Netflix's horror franchise, and the ending teases there's more to come in the near future. Bird Box Barcelona wrongfoots viewers within the first 20 minutes with its protagonist Sebastián, who is trying to survive in post-apocalyptic Barcelona with daughter Anna (Alejandra Howard). He soon meets up with a group of survivors - only to lead them all to their deaths by exposing them to the Bird Box franchise's monsters, who induce suicide when observed. It turns out that Sebastián sees the creatures as "angels," and he believes he's "saving" people by forcing them to look.

His daughter Anna is also a hallucination, as she died months earlier when other humans forced her to look at the creatures. Sebastián then encounters another group, but while initially working to subvert their goal of reaching safety at Montjuïc Castle,...

Five years ago seems aeons in an era so disrupted by Covid. So it comes as a surprise to realize that the original screen “Bird Box” arrived a full 14 months or so in advance of pandemic restrictions — becoming an early Netflix pop-culture phenomenon before lockdown made that sort of thing a regular occurrence. Susanne Bier’s film of Josh Malerman’s sci-fi horror novel was intriguing and suspenseful enough, even if its emphasis on psychological drama over thrills made for a somewhat unlikely breakout hit.

Inevitably, if belatedly, there’s now a follow-up — but not an adaptation of Malerman’s own print sequel, which continued the travails of the character played by Sandra Bullock. Instead, “Bird Box Barcelona” is a “parallel story” set on another continent entirely. Written and directed by Alex and David Pastor, whose prior genre efforts “The Last Days” (2013) and “Carriers” (2009) both had similar basic premises, it...

Bird Box Barcelona, Netflix’s follow-up to the 2018 hit Bird Box, operates under the assumption that viewers are caught up to speed on the monstrous, unseen entities that rendered the world into a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Writer/Directors Álex Pastor and David Pastor bypass retreading the familiar invasion story beats to instead jump straight into character introductions against a backdrop already torn asunder. While 2018’s feature grapples with motherhood, Bird Box Barcelona explores grief, religion, and salvation. Its ambition in themes fascinates even when its execution struggles.

An opening scene introduces dad Sebastián (Mario Casas) having a touching moment with daughter Anna (Alejandra Howard) as they roller skate in an empty gym. It’s short-lived as the pair gear up with goggles and prepare for a blind trek to safety. The hostile strangers encountered shortly after signal a city deeply entrenched in and familiar with the creatures that have decimated the world.

Plot: After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, Sebastian must navigate his own survival journey through the desolate streets of Barcelona. As he forms uneasy alliances with other survivors and they try to escape the city, an unexpected and even more sinister threat grows.

Review: Released eight months after John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place, Bird Box became a hit for Netflix. In the five years since Susanne Bier’s film debuted, author Josh Malerman has penned a sequel novel while a film follow-up has been in development. The first of multiple global spin-offs, Bird Box Barcelona continues the tale of supernatural entities that force people to commit grisly suicide. Existing in the same post-apocalyptic universe as the Sandra Bullock-led hit film, Bird Box Barcelona manages to weave a distinct story while unveiling new details about the monstrous beings by taking the story in an unexpected direction.

The 71st San Sebastian Film Festival runs September 22-30.

Robin Campillo’s Red Island and Cristi Puiu’s Mmxx are among the first titles to be selected in competition for this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival (September 22-30).

Campillo makes his first appearance competing at the festival with French-Belgium co-production Red Island about the French colonisation of Madagascar. The French director’s previous film Bpm (Beats Per Minute) screened in the festival’s Pearl strand in 2017 after winning the jury prize at Cannes earlier that year.

Also competing in competition for the first time is Argentinian director Martín Rejtman...

The San Sebastián Film Festival has revealed the Official Selection for its latest edition, which is due to unfold from September 22 — 30.

The festival, which is celebrating its 71st edition, will screen Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu’s latest film Mmxx in competition. The festival describes the pic as a story that captures the “wanderings of a bunch of errant souls stuck at the crossroads of history.”

Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse returns to San Sebastian this year with his tenth full-length film, A Silence, a drama starring Emmanuelle Devos and Daniel Auteuil. In 2015, he won the fest’s Silver Shell for Best Director for The White Knights, and two of his films have screened in the Perlak sidebar: After Love (2016) and The Restless (2021).

American filmmaker Raven Jackson will enter Competition with her debut film, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. The festival described the pic as “a lyrical exploration of the life of a woman in Mississippi.

A new city gets to experience the horrors of Bird Box in the first official trailer for Bird Box Barcelona, a spin-off sequel to the 2018 post-apocalyptic thriller film. While bodies are falling from the sky and people are flooding public transportation trying to escape to safety, that familiar sense of unease that defined the original, which starred Sandra Bullock, begins to creep back in.

Bird Box Barcelona follows the survival plan of a new figure in this universe being upended by a mysterious force that uses sight as the ultimate...

A new, much longer trailer for the upcoming Netflix post-apocalyptic spinoff, Bird Box Barcelona, offers further insight into what audiences can expect when we are once again dropped into a world where blindfolds are the only protection from a mysterious force. “Fear the ones who see” warns the latest footage from Bird Box Barcelona, which will act as a companion piece to the streaming platform’s hugely successful first outing starring Sandra Bullock. Check out the newly released trailer for Bird Box Barcelona below.

From the producers of the global phenomenon, Bird Box, comes Bird Box Barcelona, an expansion of the film that riveted audiences in 2018. After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, Sebastian must navigate his own survival journey through the desolate streets of Barcelona. As he forms uneasy alliances with other survivors, and they try to escape the city, an unexpected and even more sinister threat grows.

"There are worse things than the creatures." Netflix has revealed the main official trailer for the Bird Box Barcelona movie (also known as Blindly in Spanish). It will be available to watch in just a few more weeks. The Netflix Spain production tells another story within the same post-apocalyptic people-go-kill-themselves universe as the first Bird Box in 2018. After a mysterious force decimates the world's population by causing all who "see" it to suddenly take their lives, Sebastian and his daughter Anna must navigate their journey of survival through the desolate streets of Barcelona. As they form an uneasy alliance with other survivors and make their way toward a safe haven, a threat more sinister than unseen creatures grows. This stars Mario Casas, Georgina Campbell, Alejandra Howard, Naila Schuberth, Patrick Criado, Diego Calva Hernández, Lola Dueñas, Gonzalo de Castro, Michelle Jenner, and Leonardo Sbaraglia. Really looks like this'll be much better than the original film.

Three weeks after we saw a teaser trailer for the film and two and half weeks before it will be released through the Netflix streaming service, a full trailer for Bird Box Barcelona – which is set in the world of the apocalyptic horror thriller Bird Box – had arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above. Bird Box Barcelona is scheduled to begin streaming on Netflix on July 14th.

Georgina Campbell of Barbarian stars in Bird Box Barcelona alongside Mario Casas, Alejandra Howard, Naila Schuberth, Diego Calva, Patrick Criado, Lola Dueñas, Gonzalo De Castro, Michelle Jenner, and Leonardo Sbaraglia.

Written and directed by Alex and David Pastor, the film has the following synopsis: From the producers of the global phenomenon, Bird Box, comes Bird Box Barcelona, an expansion of the film that riveted audiences in 2018. After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, Sebastian must navigate...

A brand new international spinoff movie set in the world of 2018 hit Bird Box, Bird Box Barcelona will premiere on July 14, and Netflix has debuted the official trailer today.

This first spinoff movie will be a Spanish-language thriller set in Barcelona. The Occupant and The Head filmmakers Alex and David Pastor wrote and directed the film.

In the spinoff, “After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population by causing all who see it to take their lives, Sebastian and his young daughter Anna must navigate their own journey of survival through the desolate streets of Barcelona. But as they form an uneasy alliance with other survivors and make their way toward a safe haven, a threat more sinister than the unseen creatures grows.”

Mario Casas, Georgina Campbell, Diego Calva, Alejandra Howard, Naila Schuberth, Patrick Criado, Celia Freijeiro with Lola Dueñas, Gonzalo de Castro, Michelle Jenner and Leonardo Sbaraglia star in Bird Box Barcelona.

“Bird Box Barcelona", a spinoff of the post-apocalyptic feature "Bird Box" (2018), is directed by Álex Pastor and David Pastor, starring Mario Casas, Georgina Campbell, Diego Calva, Alejandra Howard, Naila Schuberth, Patrick Criado, Lola Dueñas, Gonzalo de Castro, Michelle Jenner and Leonardo Sbaraglia, streams July 14, 2023 on Netflix:

"...after a mysterious force wipes out the world's population, 'Sebastian' must navigate his own survival journey through the desolate streets of Barcelona.

"As he forms uneasy alliances with other survivors and they try to escape the city, an unexpected and even more sinister threat grows..."

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The latest poster for the upcoming horror spinoff, Bird Box Barcelona, warns audiences to “fear the ones who see.” All set to land on Netflix next month, Bird Box Barcelona threatens to transport audiences back to the terrifying world of the 2018 post-apocalyptic horror outing, Bird Box, dropping us in Spain and into the midst of the chaos that ensues after mysterious entities have invaded earth. Entities that you cannot look at. You can check out the new poster for Bird Box Barcelona below.

Detailing a whole new set of horrors that run parallel to those experienced by Sandra Bullock in the first Bird Box, Bird Box Barcelona will center on a father and daughter as they join up with other survivors in order to try and survive this dystopian future in which no-one survives looking at entities that now roam the planet. Bird Box Barcelona will debut in July, with...

Three weeks ago, Netflix released a teaser trailer for Bird Box Barcelona – which is set in the world of their apocalyptic horror thriller Bird Box. A full trailer is expected to arrive online tomorrow, but in the build-up to that Netflix has also unveiled a new poster for the film, and you can check that out at the bottom of this article. It comes with the warning to “Fear the Ones Who See”.

Bird Box Barcelona is scheduled to be released through the Netflix streaming service on July 14th.

Georgina Campbell of Barbarian stars in Bird Box Barcelona alongside Mario Casas, Alejandra Howard, Naila Schuberth, Diego Calva, Patrick Criado, Lola Dueñas, Gonzalo De Castro, Michelle Jenner, and Leonardo Sbaraglia.

Written and directed by Alex and David Pastor, the film has the following synopsis: From the producers of the global phenomenon, Bird Box, comes Bird Box Barcelona, an expansion of the...

A brand new international spinoff movie set in the world of 2018 hit Bird Box, Bird Box Barcelona will premiere on July 14, and Netflix has debuted the official poster today.

This first spinoff movie will be a Spanish-language thriller set in Barcelona. The Occupant and The Head filmmakers Alex and David Pastor wrote and directed the film.

Mario Casas, Georgina Campbell, Diego Calva, Alejandra Howard, Naila Schuberth, Patrick Criado, Celia Freijeiro with Lola Dueñas, Gonzalo de Castro, Michelle Jenner and Leonardo Sbaraglia star in Bird Box Barcelona.

“After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population by causing all who see it to take their lives, Sebastian and his young daughter Anna must navigate their own journey of survival through the desolate streets of Barcelona. But as they form an uneasy alliance with other survivors and make their way toward a safe haven, a threat more sinister than the unseen creatures grows.

Class will be back in session this fall for the students of Elite: Season 7 of the Netflix teen drama will premiere Friday, Oct. 20, it was announced Saturday at the streamer’s annual Tudum fan event.

Additionally, Netflix released a moody teaser video, featuring the cast freefalling from the sky to the ground below, where they, naturally, all start making out with each other. Then in what looks like a scene from the upcoming season, Isadora grazes hands with Dídac and asks, “Do you feel we’re actually living or just existing?”

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