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Filmmaker and VFX artist Gonzalo Gutierrez “G.G.” is taking on practical effects with creature feature Pacifico, and first look images give a glimpse of the monster.

Pacifico follows “a group of young travelers are stranded on an island in the Pacific where they struggle to escape an evil alien presence that has been hidden from mankind for centuries.”

The first look images introduce a rather unique monster so far.

Manolo Cardona (Death’s Roulette), María Gabriela de Faría, Ricardo Abarca (Miss Bala), Christopher Von Uckermann (“Demon”), Claudio Cataño (“One Hundred Years of Solitude”) and Maria Nela Sinisterra (Penumbra) star.

Pacifico is produced by Mauricio Brunetti of Patagonia Films and Guido Rud of FilmSharks. Florencia Lemoine executive produces. The film was shot in Bogota and is now in post-production.

“What I love so much about science fiction when bundled with genre,” says FilmSharks CEO/Founder Guido Rud, “when you can create...

We’ve got your exclusive first look at the monstrous, practical effects-driven terror at the heart of Pacifico, the highly anticipated elevated creature feature from visionary Latin filmmaker Gonzalo “Gg” Gutiérrez (Giants). The film, which was revealed at the Cannes Film Market, is reported to be the largest science-fiction production in Latin American history, and features a notable cast of Latin stars.

The horrifying images, shown below, depict a moment of pure survival horror—a confrontation with the ancient evil at the heart of the story. We’re told the project was shot with visceral realism, and the creature’s practical design does indeed promise a return to tactile monstrosities.

Directed by Gutiérrez, Pacifico hails from Buenos Aires-based outfit FilmSharks, produced by Mauricio Brunetti (Corazon de Leon) and Guido Rud (Lobo Feroz; No Dormiras), and executive produced by Florencia Lemoine (Giants). Gutiérrez is known for his bold visual style and roots in high-end visual effects.

When Mexican pop group Rbd wrapped its historic reunion tour last year, Dulce María had two priorities: recovering her “mental stability” after 54 back-to-back stadium shows and writing and recording solo music again. On Thursday, the pop star announced that she’s finally back, releasing “Ojalá,” a collaboration with Spanish singer Beret, next week.

“It has been such a light to return to my solo career,” she tells Rolling Stone. “So many of my fans thought I wasn’t going to come back, but sharing this music news makes me so excited.

Exclusive: Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks locked deals on its AFM titles Electrophilia and Pacifico.

The company has sold Pacifico to Splendid Films for German-speaking Europe and Nashe Kino for Russia, Cis, and the Baltics. The film is set for a 2025 release in all the territories. Directed by Gonzalo Gutierrez, Pacifico is currently in post-production and is set to launch the pic with a market premiere next year. The company has said it’s currently in negotiations with U.S., Spanish, UK, and Latin American distributors.

Described as an adventure-Sci-Fi film, Pacifico follows a group of young travelers that are stranded on an island in the Pacific where they struggle to escape an evil presence that has been kept hidden from mankind for centuries.

The film stars an expansive Latin American ensemble, including Gabi de Faria (James Gunn’s DC Comic’s Superman 2025), Manolo Cardona (Undertow), Ricardo Abarca (Que Culpa Tiene...

Rbd has finally settled a lawsuit with their ex-manager Guillermo Rosas. On Friday, the Mexican pop group’s Maite Perroni, Christopher von Uckermann, and Christian Chávez issued a statement revealing the band has agreed to pay the former manager less than half of the amount Rosas claimed he was entitled to for their Soy Rebelde Tour.

“Today being World Rbd Day, there is no better way to celebrate it than by doing justice,” the group wrote. “Finally, after a year, this matter has concluded. The truth is on our side.

Alfonso Herrera will always be a rebelde. On Thursday night, the Mexican pop group — currently comprising Anahí, Dulce María, Maite Perroni, Christian Chavez, and Christopher von Uckermann — performed for the last time on their 54-stop Soy Rebelde Tour, and Herrera, who chose not to join Rbd for the reunion, celebrated his former bandmates’ end of their successful run.

“What a joy to see y’all bringing so much joy to so many people,” Herrera wrote Friday morning. “Congratulations on the end of the tour!”

Herrera previously addressed his decision to...

After 15 long years, Rbd are officially back! The beloved Mexican pop group - which was born out of the 2005 telenovela "Rebelde" and includes Anahí, Christian Chávez, Dulce María, Maite Perroni, and Christopher von Uckermann - reunited earlier this year for one final tour, the Soy Rebelde Tour. On Sunday, they descended upon San Francisco's Chase Center, where they were met by thousands of fans dressed in miniskirts, white button-ups, red blazers, and knee-high boots.

Although it's been years since Rbd's last performance (and Alfonso Herrera is notably sitting out the tour), it was almost like no time had passed as the band transported the crowd back to Elite Way School with an emotional two-hour set of their greatest hits. "Thank you for not forgetting us. Thank you for making dreams come true tonight," Anahí passionately shouted to the audience in Spanish. "Thank you for keeping us in your hearts all these years,...

Christian Chavez is fully embracing his queer identity onstage — and using his platform to slam Texas’ anti-lgbtq laws. On Friday, during Mexican pop group Rbd’s reunion tour opener in El Paso, Texas, Chavez — who is openly gay and from the state — slammed Gov. Greg Abbott and the recent anti-lgbtq policies he has signed into law during an emotional segment of the show.

“We’re in a really difficult moment in the U.S., especially in Texas,” he told the El Paso crowd in Spanish as large screens displayed an...

Rbd’s nostalgic pop is getting a reggaeton makeover. Ahead of a highly anticipated reunion tour, the Mexican group just dropped a new single called “Cerquita De Ti.” On the track, Rbd serenades the fans who have been with them for the long run.

“Cerquita De Ti” is Rbd’s first taste of new music since the telenovela superstars announced the Soy Rebelde Tour. The song was produced by Tainy protégé Manuel Lara, who laces a bit of dembow into the band’s signature sound. Rbd’s own Christopher von Uckermann co-wrote the soaring track.

Christian Chávez has always been one of the most colorful members of Rbd. Throughout his original tenure in the Mexican pop group in the early 2000s, he sported practically all the colors of the rainbow in his hair, and he later came out as gay shortly before the group split in 2009. Now, Chávez is excited to be reuniting with his bandmates for an Rbd world tour, which kicks off in the US this summer.

"It's super special for me to have the opportunity to be with Rbd again with this freedom now," he tells Popsugar. "Now I have the opportunity to be myself. Now I have the opportunity to be on stage and I can be my queer self."

"It's super special for me to have the opportunity to be with Rbd again with this freedom now."

Chávez is one of the six members of Rbd, a group that was...

“Because a love so big never left.” On Thursday night, Mexican pop group Rbd re-released “Siempre He Estado Aquí,” the one-off single they dropped in 2020, when four of the members reunited for the first time. The new track features vocals from Dulce María, who joined the group’s official reunion this year.

“I’ve always been here/I never forgot you/Because a love so big never left/I’ve always been here,” the group sings in the track’s chorus.

The lyrics to “Siempre He Estado Aquí” feature references...

Almost 20 years ago, the members of Rbd came together for the first time on the Mexican telenovela Rebelde. Quickly, the series — which followed teens who formed a band at a fictional private school — became a household staple, propelling the group’s members to make the show’s band a real thing. Rbd eventually became a sensation and a pop culture staple for many Latinos.

On Thursday, 15 years after Rbd went on hiatus, the beloved Mexican pop group announced that they’re officially heading on a stadium and arena tour this fall,...

Rbd, the beloved pop group formed on the Mexican telenovela Rebelde in the early 2000s, is back and teasing a potential reunion tour in 2023. It’s been almost 14 years since the group disbanded, but a recent Instagram video on the official Rbd account has fans excited about a potential comeback. The nostalgic video includes clips from the original Televisa telenovela alongside more recent black-and-white shots of band members Dulce María, Christian Chávez, Anahí, Christopher von Uckermann, and Maite Perroni. The video starts with Anahí’s character Mia Colucci saying (in Spanish), “You know what I dream about? I dream of being able to go back in time and that one day everything will be as before.” This is followed later in the video by Von Uckermann’s Diego Bustamante, saying, “Maybe we can’t go back, but we can still hold on to it for a while.” View this post...

Rbd is back! On Monday, the beloved Mexican pop group announced that they will be officially reuniting in the new year, and fans think that a 2023 tour might be on the way.

After each of the original band members — Alfonso Herrera, Anahí, Dulce María, Christian Chávez, Christopher von Uckermann, and Maite Perroni — made their profile pictures blank Instagram, fans began to speculate that something might be in the works.

“Get your ties ready,” read a teaser on the band’s website alongside a countdown to January 19, 2023, and Rbd’s signature red tie.

Netflix revealed a first look at the “Rebelde” 2022 reboot today at its aptly-named global fan event Tudum, taking fans of the nostalgic telenovela back to the halls of Elite Way School.

The reboot of the wildly popular Mexican teen musical dramedy of the early-aughts, directed by Santiago Limón, seems to have taken a page from “Elite,” opting to put the students in preppy uniforms, rather than the iconic scanty skirts and cropped blouses of its predecessor. But, like the “Rebelde” we all know and love, the clip Netflix shared shows that there’ll be no shortage of musical acts.

The new generation of students are as follows: Azul Guaita as Jana Cohen, Sergio Mayer Mori as Estebán, Andrea Chaparro as M.J., Jeronimo Cantillo as Dixon, Franco Masini as Luka Colucci, Lizeth Selene as Andi, Alejandro Puente as Sebastián Langarica-Funtanet and Giovanna Grigio as Emilia. Estefanía Villarreal will reprise her role as Celina Ferrer,...

On Thursday evening nearly 1,000 animal advocates watched actors and activists Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara present the Hope Award to Dr. Jane Goodall, Dbe, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and U.N. messenger of peace, at the Mercy For Animals virtual Hope Gala hosted by NAACP Image Award winner, actress, and vegan foodie Tabitha Brown (Showtime’s The Chi).

Mercy For Animals is the world’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing cruelty to farmed animals and promoting compassionate food choices.

Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara presented Dr. Goodall with the Hope Award from their home in California.

“For many reasons, it’s important that more and more people move towards a plant-based diet,” said Goodall in her acceptance speech. “It’s good for the environment, for our health, and of course especially for animals. So let me close by applauding the wonderful work performed by Mercy For Animals.

On June 10 actors and activists Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara will present the Hope Award to Dr. Jane Goodall, Dbe, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and U.N. messenger of peace, at the Mercy For Animals Hope Gala hosted by NAACP Image Award winner, actress, and vegan foodie Tabitha Brown (Showtime’s The Chi).

Mercy For Animals is the world’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing cruelty to farmed animals and promoting compassionate food choices.

During the program, Mercy For Animals will also give awards to Miyoko Schinner, founder and owner of dairy-free cheese brand Miyoko’s Creamery; Pinky Cole, vegan restaurateur and owner of Slutty Vegan; and Erik Hastings, former undercover investigator and current Mercy For Animals senior investigations specialist.

Award presenters also include Grammy-winning singer Mýa; Grammy nominee Durrell “Tank” Babbs (Hit the Floor); actors Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale), Javicia Leslie (Batwoman), Alexandra Paul (Baywatch), María Gabriela De Faría...

Exclusive: Paul Auster novel In The Country Of Last Things is getting a Spanish-language movie adaptation from Argentine filmmaker Alejandro Chomski (Asleep In The Sun).

Shoot is underway at Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios on the feature starring Argentine newcomer Jazmín Diz, Mexican actor-singer Christopher Von Uckermann and Maria De Medeiros (Pulp Fiction). Funding comes from Caribbean outfit Lantica. Above is a first look at Diz in the film.

Set in a devastated city that was once a thriving metropolis, the dystopian story follows Anna (Diz) who is searching for her brother, a journalist who is missing. In her quest to find him, she meets and falls in love with Sam (Von Uckermann), another journalist. Chomski adapted Auster’s novel, which has been translated into more than forty languages.

Producers on the long-gestating project, which was originally developed as an English-language film, are Alexandra Stone of UK-based Streetcar Productions, Capa Pictures...

With a soundtrack recorded by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Wellington and sound engineer John Neill of Peter Jackson’s Park Road Studio serving as recording producer and score mixer, Latin America’s first multi-million dollar science fiction horror movie “Pacific,” is set to make a splash when it bows next year.

Producer Mauricio Brunetti estimates the final production cost for “Pacific,” now in post for its multiple visual effects, will reach up to $10 million and if all goes well, it may even have its world premiere in New Zealand.

The Colombian-Argentine co-production is the directorial debut of visual effects supervisor Gonzalo Gutierrez who has worked on such films as “Xyz” and on the original Argentine and Colombian versions of hit romantic comedy “Lion’s Heart” (“Corazon de Leon”).

“Pacific” is a reunion of sorts for Gutierrez, Brunetti and the leads of the Colombian “Lion’s Heart,” Manolo Cardona and Maria Nela Sinisterra.

Mariana Treviño plays Amanda, a love expert specializing in getting rid of douchebags in the Spanish comedy Como Cortar A Tu Patan (How To Get Rid Of Your Douchebag), and Mexican actor Christopher Von Uckermann plays the catch who would be the perfect match for Amanda's sister who's dating a douchebag. (Sebastian Zurita). The comedy which was filmed in Mexico addresses and pokes fun at love and relationships. CineMovie sat down with Trevino and Von Uckermann to talk about all things love and they have some great advice.

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The telenovela Rebelde aired almost 10 years ago, but its fans are not forgiving Christopher Von Uckermann's character's bad-boy behavior on the show. The mean tweets have gotten so bad that the 29-year-old singer is reaching out to former co-star Dulce María, who played his love interest. "@DulceMaria let's stop feeding the root of this issue of vondys. Just the way I do with those that follow me. I do not support bullying. Thank you," tweeted Von Uckermann. "Vondys" are the fans of Christopher and Dulce María as a couple in the novela.  Dulce María replied to the tweet, "Honestly it's sad and disappointing that you all use...

MundoFox, the new Spanish-language broadcast network from Fox International Channels and Rcn Television Group of Colombia, is the newest player in the underserved Hispanic media marketplace, and it's just launched a horror-themed series entitled "Kdabra."

There's also "Tiempo Final," which may not be strictly a genre show, but it sure sounds interesting!

From the Press Release:

MundoFox is proud to have a diverse roster of quality programming that echoes the interests of the 'New Latino' viewer. The MundoFox lineup includes:

Kdabra - mystery, magic, and intrigue that gathers elements from the real and the supernatural worlds; where the enthralling mystery surrounding its main character, a 17-year-old teenager who has escaped from a dark community, triggers a series of unexpected events. The series stars Christopher Von Uckermann. Tiempo Final - each week the characters face a dead end or an inevitable fate that will change their lives forever -- from lovers...