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Stephanie Beatriz and Melissa Fumero reunited on the red carpet at the 2025 Imagen Awards held at The Beverly Hilton on Friday (August 22) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The two actresses are past winners at the awards show, having both won Best Supporting Actress – Comedy (Television) for their work on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Stephanie was nominated once again this year for the same award, but this time for her work in A Man on the Inside.

Other stars in attendance were nominees Danny Ramirez, Jharrel Jerome, Annie Gonzalez, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Jaylen Barron, Mayan Lopez, Rafael Cebrián, Fabrizio Guido, Brice Gonzalez and Taylor Cora.

Cristo Fernandez, David Fumero, Jesse Garcia, Alex Meneses, Danny Trejo...

On Monday, February 24, co-founder of Cure Addiction Now (Can), a nonprofit dedicated to funding innovative research for substance use disorder (Sud), Nancy Davis welcomed guests to The Beverly Hills Hotel for its Inaugural Fundraising Evening, which raised $800,000.

The inaugural event featured a cocktail reception, seated dinner, live auction and special performances by Rufus Wainwright, Siedah Garrett, David Foster, Madison Love, Colin Love, Scout Willis, and Luke K.

For the first time ever, the event united supporters, advocates and experts to raise critical funds for Can’s groundbreaking initiatives. By fostering collaboration among leading scientists and addressing both addiction and mental health, Can is advancing toward its goal of eliminating the stigma and delivering life-saving solutions. In addition to funding scientific research, a donation will be made from the event to a local center supporting patients who suffer from substance use disorder that have been affected by the fires in Los Angeles.

The 17th Annual Women in Film (Wif) Oscar nominees party took place at Catch Steak LA on March 8, 2024. The event celebrating women, nonbinary and trans people nominated at this year’s Academy Awards coincided with International Women’s Day. Gold Derby associate editor Latasha Ford was on the red carpet to interview some of the 2024 Oscar nominees, celebrities and special guests.

Watch each short video below from the 2024 Women in Film Oscar nominees party by clicking that person’s name:

Erika Alexander (“American Fiction”)

Diane Warren (“The Fire Inside” songwriter from “Flamin’ Hot”), *2024 Oscar nominee

Sherry Cola (“Joy Ride”)

Jane Seymour (Actress/Producer)

Cara Jade Myers (“Killers of the Flower Moon”)

Garcelle Beauvais (Actress/Producer/Writer)

Abigail Spencer (“Extended Family”)

Alex Meneses (Actress/Producer)

Laura Karpman (“American Fiction” composer), *2024 Oscar nominee

Lori McCoy-Bell (“Maestro” makeup and hairstyling), *2024 Oscar nominee

Janty Yates (“Napoleon” costume designer), *2024 Oscar nominee

Raney Aronson and Michelle Mizner...

Kyle Richards recently refuted claims that she was using Ozempic, the diabetes medication that has gained notoriety for aiding Hollywood stars in losing weight. Now the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star has shared the mantra behind her stunning physique and weight loss.

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Richards revealed that it was diet and exercise.

“After gaining weight during the summer — on July 15 — after getting off the boat I said ‘That is it. I’m not having any sugar, any carbs, any alcohol,’” the actress told fellow “Housewives” Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge on Monday’s episode of “Two Ts In A Pod.”

“A lot of people think I’ve been taking Ozempic. To clarify I’ve never taken Ozempic,” she clarified.

Richards also put up a post in bikini flaunting her toned body.

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Prominent Hollywood leaders, philanthropists, local dignitaries and supporters united for the Children's Hospital Los Angeles (Chla) 2022 Gala on Saturday, October 8 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA.

Justin Timberlake performs during the 2022 Children's Hospital Los Angeles Gala at the Barker Hangar

Credit/Copyright: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Hosted by actors Chris Pine and Robert Pine, the evening recognized longtime Chla corporate partner Panda Express and philanthropists Kristin and Jeff Worthe with the Courage to Care Award and raised over 5.5 million to support the patient care and medical research that children who visit the hospital need.

The biennial gala returned for the first time since 2018 and kicked-off with a heart-warming moment of appreciation for Chla healthcare workers. As Robert Pine shared in his opening remarks, “As you may know, this event was supposed to take place originally in 2020, but global events had other plans… And...

Walker is coming up on an unfortunate milestone: This Thursday’s episode (The CW, 8/7c) marks the one-year anniversary of Emily Walker’s death.

The Texas Ranger hasn’t been dealing with his wife’s passing very well, and the anniversary will, naturally, bring up even more emotions for the widowed father. “He definitely goes on a journey of grief within this episode, and a lot of it is about exploring those stages as the episode unfolds,” showrunner Anna Fricke previews. “I feel like even though he’s been home for these first five episodes, he hasn’t really been present,...

Exclusive: Alex Meneses, who has appeared in Jane The Virgin and Why Women Kill, is joining The CW drama Walker in a recurring role.

Meneses will play Adriana, a successful psychiatrist and published author and mother of Micki Ramirez, Cordell Walker’s new partner in the Texas Rangers. She is a strong personality who’s manipulative and very invasive when it comes to her daughter Micki’s life.

Meneses, who is repped by Pakula/King and Evan Hainey at Untitled Entertainment, is coming off feature film The Wall of Mexico and has also appeared in Everybody Loves Raymond, The Goldbergs, CSI and Prison Break.

Walker, which launched in January, has become The CW’s most-watched series premiere in five years and has been renewed for a second season. It stars Jared Padalecki as Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, as he returns home to...

While the beloved sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond may, by its title, seem to be about the life of sportswriter Ray Barone, it's also clear that the series only works because of the strength of the supporting characters and family members who surround him. In particular, Brad Garrett's hapless and hopeless Robert Barone is a real standout, as he navigates his way through life as the essential human equivalent of Eeyore.

Related: Everybody Loves Raymond: 10 Best Robert Quotes, Ranked

Over the course of the series, Robert finds himself in two signifcant romantic relationships: one with Monica Horan's quaint sweetheart Amy MacDougall, and another with Alex Meneses's fiery Italian Stefania Fogagnolo. Though Robert and Amy eventually get married on the series, we can't help but wonder: was Amy the right choice, or should it have been Stefania all along?...

On Thursday, October 17, the International Myeloma Foundation (Imf), the first and largest myeloma-specific foundation in the world, presented its 13th Annual Comedy Celebration benefiting the Peter Boyle Research Fund and supporting the Black Swan Research Initiative (Bsri) at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA.

Kevin Nealon, Patton Oswalt and Ray Romano attend the International Myeloma Foundation 13th Annual Comedy Celebration

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Actor and comedian Ray Romano returned to host an unforgettable evening of laughs featuring some of the biggest names in comedy to raise money for research to find a cure for multiple myeloma, cancer of the bone marrow plasma cells, and one of the fastest growing blood cancers in the world. Joining Romano on-stage was an all-star lineup of comics including Adam Carolla, Demetri Martin, Kevin Nealon, Patton Oswalt, Caroline Rhea and Amanda Seales (Insecure).

Additional attendees included Lesley Nicol (Downton Abbey), Alex Meneses,...

Ryan Kampe to show teaser footage fromupcoming adventure doc The Sanctity Of Space, punk rock doc White Riot.

Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films heads to the Croisette with a bumper sales slate led by Tribeca Film Festival Nora Ephron Award winner Initials S.G.

The roster includes Tribeca selection Crshd, SXSW winners Alice, Saint Frances and Tito, SXSW selection The Wall Of Mexico, and Sundance selection Adam.

Visit will screen Lucía Garibaldi’s Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Competition best award-winner The Sharks, about a girl’s sexual awakening in a small beach town. Kampe will also present teaser footage from...

Carmela Zumbado, Marisol Sacramento and Alex Meneses all star in the new comedy-drama film The Wall of Mexico, and the three actresses discussed the topically relevant film exclusively with uInterview at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas. The film centers around a wealthy Mexican-American family named the Aristas, who attempt to build a wall along their house […]...

On Saturday, November 3, the International Myeloma Foundation (Imf), the first and largest myeloma-specific foundation in the world, presented its 12th Annual Comedy Celebration benefiting the Peter Boyle Research Fund and supporting the Black Swan Research Initiative (Bsri) at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.

Gabriel Iglesias, Sasheer Zamata, Jim Jefferies, Kevin Nealon, Natasha Leggero, Cristela Alonzo and Chaunté Wayans

Credit/Copyright: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for International Myeloma Foundation

Actor and comedian Kevin Nealon hosted an unforgettable evening of laughs featuring some of the biggest names in comedy to raise money for research to find a cure for multiple myeloma, cancer of the bone marrow plasma cells, and one of the fastest growing blood cancers in the world. Nealon took over the hosting duties from Ray Romano, and shared it was an important cause for him to support as his mother has multiple myeloma. At the event he said,...

On Friday, June 1, Step Up hosted its annual Inspiration Awards, presented by The Coach Foundation.

They welcomed 800 guests to a luncheon and reception benefitting Step Up’s confidence building programs for girls, and honored Regina Hall and Step Up teen Vivi for their commitment to this cause. Step Up believes all girls should have the opportunity to fulfill their potential, and the Inspiration Awards raise 45% of the funds Step Up needs to reach girls in the Los Angeles community for one year. This year’s celebration raised nearly $500,000.

Among those who attended were speaker Amy Wakeland (First Lady of Los Angeles), presenters and additional special guests including Channing Dungey, Julie Bowen, January Jones, Sanaa Lathan, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Amy Brenneman, Lacey Chabert, Garcelle Beauvais, Kaley Cuoco, Rebecca Gayheart Dane, Amy Davidson, Torrey DeVitto, Jennie Garth, Meagan Holder, Ashley Jones, Christine Lakin, Lisa Ling, Charlotte McKinney, Alex Meneses, Beverley Mitchell, Ciera Payton,...

Eva Longoria's baby shower was the place to be Saturday afternoon! The pajama-themed party brought out Desiree Ansari, Robin Antin, Elizabeth Banks, Sophia Bush, Gloria Calderon Kellett, Marcia Cross, Melissa Fumero, Melanie Griffith, Carla Jimenez, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Justina Machado, Alex Meneses, Andrea Navedo, Ken Paves, Ellen Rakieten, Diana Maria Riva, Charlene Roxborough, Roselyn Sanchez, Marisa Tomei, Denyse Tontz, Denise Vasi, Lisa Vidal, Anne Winters and more. Many hopped in a photo booth to celebrate "Baby Baston." The brunch was held at Lombardi House in Hollywood. "Guests had fun in the photo booth with props, and they printed out their photos that said 'Baby Baston.' There was a Blood...

Mariel Hemingway is set to star alongside Jackson Rathbone and Alex Meneses in The Wall of Mexico, a dark comedy from co-directors Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak.

Hemingway will play Mayor Mason in the indie pic about a wealthy Mexican family in California forced to take extreme action when they discover townspeople are stealing their well water. The ensemble cast includes Esai Morales, Moises Arias, Marisol Sacramento and Rosanna Arquette.

Production on Wall of Mexico is set to start production in Mexico later this month. Cotler wrote the screenplay for the film, with Adrian Durazo, Marla Arreola and Sarahi Castro...

Mariel Hemingway is set to star alongside Jackson Rathbone and Alex Meneses in <em>The Wall of Mexico</em>, a dark comedy from co-directors Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak.

Hemingway will play Mayor Mason in the indie pic about a wealthy Mexican family in California forced to take extreme action when they discover townspeople are stealing their well water. The ensemble cast includes Esai Morales, Moises Arias, Marisol Sacramento and Rosanna Arquette.

Production on<em> Wall of Mexico </em>is set to start production in Mexico later this month. Cotler wrote the screenplay for the film, with Adrian Durazo, Marla Arreola and Sarahi Castro producing and ...

Exclusive: Twilight alum Jackson Rathbone, Esai Morales (How To Get Away With Murder), and Alex Meneses (Everybody Loves Raymond) have been cast in the indie film, The Wall Of Mexico, along with Marisol Sacramento, Moises Arias, and Rosanna Arquette. The political comedic drama is being co-directed by Magdalena Zyzak and Zachary Cotler, who also wrote the script. It centers on a small American town in which the only Mexican family (also the wealthiest family in town)…...

Did Rafael (Justin Baldoni) just hit rock bottom? We sure hope so.

After he finally decided to do the right thing and tell Katherine (Alex Meneses) the truth, last week's Jane the Virgin ended with Katherine running Rafael over with her car. It was truly a low point for the former hotelier, but it

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Jane the Virgin has added an actress to the series from Telenovela. Alex Meneses will recur on the fourth season of the series.Read More…...

Former Telenovela star Alex Meneses is set for a recurring role on the upcoming fourth season of the CW’s hit dramedy Jane the Virgin. Meneses will play Katherine, owner of the Cortes Hotel Conglomerate, who is a possible investor of Rafael (Justin Baldoni) and Petra’s (Yael Grobglas) hotel. There aren’t many details about the Season 4 storyline, but Jane the Virgin creator/executive producer Jennie Snyder Urman told Deadline after the Season 3 finale that the fourth…...

From RedBand.Ca, Sneak Peek restricted 'red band' footage from director Brad Epstein's comedy feature "Ripped", starring Faizon Love and Alex Meneses:

"...two free spirited 'stoners' who, after smoking some top secret pot created by the CIA in 1986, find themselves catapulted into 2016.

"With 30 years of their lives lost, our now balding and overweight friends use their uncomplicated enthusiasm to get their lives back on track and figuring out the modern world..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Ripped"...

Veteran PR exec David Lust is launching his own agency. David Lust Public Relations is described as a boutique full-service public relations agency. Current clients include Alex Meneses, Nicholas Gonzalez, Jason Silva, Julie Anne Robinson, swimwear designer Timothy Snell, Miriam Morales and rock band Neptune Blue. Lust, a 25-year vet of the talent representation business, started his career with Dale Olsen and worked at Wolf-Kasteler and ID PR before teaming with Susan…...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– Focus Features has acquired the North American and select international rights to Jason Reitman’s “Tully.” Written by Diablo Cody, the comedy stars Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Duplass and Ron Livingston.

“Tully” tells the story of Marlo (Theron), a mother of three who is gifted a night nanny by her brother (Duplass). Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully (Davis). The film will premiere in U.S. theaters on April 20, 2018.

Read More: Film Acquisition Rundown: Oscilloscope Picks Up ‘November,’ The Orchard Buys ‘Flower’ and More

– Electric Entertainment has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to Rob Reiner’s “Lbj,...

Exclusive: Ddi has acquired worldwide sales rights to comedy feature Ripped. The directorial debut of Brad Epstein, producer of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Dan in Real Life and About a Boy, the film stars Russell Peters (The Jungle Book, Chef), Faizon Love (Couples Retreat), Kyle Massey (That's So Raven) and Alex Meneses (Telenovela). It’s based on an original screenplay by Epstein and Billiam Coronel about two free-spirited stoners in 1986 who, after smoking some…...

Amazon Studios will co-finance the dramatic comedy with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (Ske) and distribute in North America.

Sierra/Affinity will introduce to international buyers at the Afm this week.

Michael Sheen, Luke Wilson and Jenna Fischer have joined Ben Stiller and Austin Abrams on Brad’s Status, which Mike White is currently shooting about a father who still harbours feelings of jealousy towards his old school friends.Ske, Plan B and Dave Bernad are producing.

Saban Films has picked up North American rights from Wme Global to Roland Joffé’s drama The Forgiven starring Forest Whitaker and Eric Bana. 13 Films represents international rights at the Afm. Joffé and Michael Ashton adapted The Forgiven from Ashton’s play The Archbishop And The Antichrist, about Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s work as president of the Truth And Reconciliation Commission in post-Apartheid South Africa. The film is currently in production and Joffé produces alongside Link Entertainment’s Craig Baumgarten and Zaheer Goodman-Bhyat...

The distributor has picked up North American rights from Wme Global to Roland Joffé’s drama starring Forest Whitaker and Eric Bana. 13 Films represents international rights at the Afm.

Joffé and Michael Ashton adapted The Forgiven from Ashton’s play The Archbishop And The Antichrist, about Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s work as president of the Truth And Reconciliation Commission in post-Apartheid South Africa.

The story charts Tutu’s struggle with brutal murderer Piet Blomfeld, played by Bana, over issues of redemption. The film is currently in production.

Joffé produced the film alongside Link Entertainment’s Craig Baumgarten and Zaheer Goodman-Bhyat of Light & Dark Films. The Fyzz Facility provides financing.

Ddi has acquired worldwide sales rights to the comedy Ripped starring stand-up comic Russell Peters, Faizon Love, Kyle Massey and Alex Meneses. Brad Epstein’s feature directorial debut centres on two stoners who fast forward 30 years to 2016 after smoking top-secret CIA pot. Epstein produced...

Deadline reports Chazz Palminteri and Kenny D’Aquila are shopping the Unorganized Crime TV show pilot to prospective buyers. The news outlet describes the half-hour project as a "mafia-themed comedic drama series."Written by Palminteri and D'Aquila, the pilot is based on the latter's play of the same name. The cast includes Palminteri, D’Aquila, Lainie Kazan, Alex Meneses, John Pankow, and, Carmine Caridi. Director Nick Vallelonga produced the pilot through Vallelonga Productions, with Ton of Hats' Mike Hatton and Mark Sherman.Read More…...

Chazz Palminteri and Kenny D'Aquila are shopping Unorganized Crime, a 30-minute presentation for a mafia-themed comedic drama series based on D’Aquila’s play. Palminteri and D'Aquila secured the financing for the presentation, which stars Palminteri as well as D'Aquila, Lainie Kazan (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Telenovela alumna Alex Meneses, John Pankow (Mad About You) and The Godfather actor Carmine Caridi. The play, a quirky mob-family comedy-drama, was staged in 2014…...

Chicago – The 2016 Imagen Awards will take place this Friday, Sept. 9. Founded by television legend Norman Lear, the Imagen Awards (“Eee-mah-hen”) encourage the entertainment industry to portray the Latino community in a positive light. One nominee, Best Supporting Actress for NBC’s “Telenovela,” is Alex Meneses.

Alexandra “Alex” Meneses is a Chicago native, from a Southside neighborhood – graduating from Mother McAuley High School – and has been a working actress since the mid-1990s. Her first major role was as Teresa Morales in “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” and she had a recurring role as Brad Garrett’s girlfriend in “Everybody Loves Raymond.” She had film roles in “Selena,” “The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas” and “Auto Focus.” In 2016, she joined the cast of “Telenovela” – as Isabela Santamaria – and is nominated at the Imagen Awards for Best Supporting Actress in her role for that show.

Actor and Chicago native Alex Meneses, on the...

Alex Meneses has signed with Untitled Entertainment for representation in all areas. She plays Isabela Santamaria on NBC’s Telenovela, earning an Imagen Award nom this year for Best Actress in a Comedy. She recurred on Everybody Loves Raymond as the Italian girlfriend of Brad Garrett’s character and most recently guested on such shows as The Goldbergs, Growing Up Fisher and Austin & Ally. Meneses also has served on the board of trustees at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles…...

It's adiós for another NBC comedy. The network has cancelled Telenovela after one season, The Wrap reports.

The sitcom starred Eva Longoria as Ana Sofia Calderon, the star of a Spanish-language soap opera who does not actually speak Spanish. Jencarlos Canela, Diana Maria Riva, Jose Moreno Brooks, Alex Meneses, Amaury Nolasco, Jadyn Douglas, Izzy Diaz, and Juan Carlos Cantu also starred.

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Tonight marks the final episode of the first season of Telenovela on NBC. Eva Longoria as said that she'd like the series to return for a second season but how has it been doing in the ratings? Should it be cancelled?

Telenovela revolves around the backstage world of a Spanish-language television drama. Despite not speaking the language, Ana Sofia Calderon (Longoria) is the star of the show. She's worried that her days at the top of a youth-centric industry are numbered. The rest of the cast includes Jencarlos Canela, Diana Maria Riva, Jose Moreno Brooks, Alex Meneses, Amaury Nolasco, Jadyn Douglas, Izzy Diaz, and Juan Carlos Cantu.

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She's currently known for playing Eva Longoria's rival on NBC's Telenovela, but Alex Meneses has a long - and varied - history in the entertainment industry. "When I was 12, I started working at the dance studio I'd been taking classes at since I was 3," the actress, 50, tells People of growing up in Chicago "always" having a job.After graduating high school, Meneses says she made use of her lifelong love of makeup by becoming a makeup artist to pay for her classes at Chicago's comedy and improv studio The Second City. "I was actually starting to work with a...

She's currently known for playing Eva Longoria's rival on NBC's Telenovela, but Alex Meneses has a long – and varied – history in the entertainment industry.

"When I was 12, I started working at the dance studio I'd been taking classes at since I was 3," the actress, 50, tells People of growing up in Chicago "always" having a job.

After graduating high school, Meneses says she made use of her lifelong love of makeup by becoming a makeup artist to pay for her classes at Chicago's comedy and improv studio The Second City.

"I was actually starting to work with a lot of...

The official premiere of Eva Longoria's TV comeback, Telenovela, isn't scheduled until January 4th. However, last night NBC previewed the first two episodes of the series, and now they've released the third episode online a month early.

In the dramedy, Longoria stars as Ana Sofia Calderon, star of a Spanish-language soap opera who doesn't actually speak Spanish. The series also stars Jencarlos Canela, Diana Maria Riva, Jose Moreno Brooks, Alex Meneses, Amaury Nolasco, Jadyn Douglas, Izzy Diaz, and Juan Carlos Cantu.

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Eva Langoria's last TV series, Desperate Housewives, helped to turn around ABC's ratings and ran for many years. Will Telenovela be a hit for NBC or will it be another ratings disappointment? Cancelled or renewed for a second season? Stay tuned.

Telenovela revolves around the backstage world of a Spanish-language television drama. Despite not speaking the language, Ana Sofia Calderon (Longoria) is the star of the show. She's worried that her days at the top of a youth-centric industry are numbered. The rest of the cast includes Jencarlos Canela, Diana Maria Riva, Jose Moreno Brooks, Alex Meneses, Amaury Nolasco, Jadyn Douglas, Izzy Diaz, and Juan Carlos Cantu.

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Network: NBC

Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour)

Seasons: Ongoing

TV show dates: December 7, 2015 — present

Series status: Has not been cancelled

Performers include: Eva Longoria, Jencarlos Canela, Diana Maria Riva, Jose Moreno Brooks, Alex Meneses, Amaury Nolasco, Jadyn Douglas, Izzy Diaz, and Juan Carlos Cantu.

TV show description:

This workplace sitcom takes place on and off the set of a hit Spanish-language soap opera. On-screen melodrama is often eclipsed by what happens off-screen, between this dysfunctional work "family."

Despite not speaking the language, Ana Sofia Calderon (Eva Longoria) is the star of the Spanish-language drama, Las Leyes de Pasión (The Laws of Passion). In this youth-oriented business, Ana worries her days as star are numbered.

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Four episodes were provided prior to broadcast.

NBC is giving fans another preview of an upcoming mid-season sitcom this Monday, December 7, with the Eva Longoria-starring Telenovela previewing back-to-back with Superstore (both returning in January). The new series follows the cast behind the scenes of a zany and crazily popular telenovela, where every staple of the genre – from ghosts to evil twins – happens just as often off screen as they do on. As led by the always-eager Longoria, NBC’s new effort is glitzy and goofy, full of over-reactions to over-reactions and delivered by a game cast that liven up an otherwise staid concept.

And, of course, it all begins when the status quo gets shaken up. In Telenovela, that means Ana Sofia Calderon (Longoria) is going to have to deal with the ratings-minded casting of her ex-husband Xavier (Jencarlos Canela) as the new co-star for her uber-popular daytime soap,...

Brad Epstein will direct the stand-up comics in the stoner buddy comedy.

The Pelican Point Media production will also star Alex Meneses from the upcoming NBC show Hot & Bothered.

Peters comes from NBC’s show Last Comic Standing and appeared in Chef, while Love has starred in Couple’s Retreat, Zookeeper and Elf.

Epstein, a former president of production at Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Productions, wrote the Ripped screenplay with Billiam Coronel.

Worldwide rights holder Pelican Point Media, the media arm of investment bank Pelican Point Capital, will finance, produce and distribute Ripped.

Pelican Point Media co-founder and co-ceo Ike Suri, Epstein and Javier Chapa will serve as producers.

As it closes in on its second consecutive season-long victory in the key adult 18-49 demographic, NBC unveils a new 2015-16 primetime schedule that combines popular returning series, edge-of-your-seat new dramas, inventive new comedies and season nine of the Emmy Award-winning musical competition series The Voice. NBC is on track to win the traditional September-to-May primetime season in adults 18-49 for the second year in a row after having gone the prior 10 years without an 18-49 win. Through 32 completed weeks of the season, NBC also ranks #1 or tied for #1 among the Big 4 networks in adults and men 18-34 and men and women 18-49.

In total viewers, NBC is running #2 for the season and within 7% of its year-ago Olympics-boosted average (8.8 million vs. 9.5 million), making this season and last NBC's two top-scoring seasons in total viewers since 2006-07. NBC has won the last three November sweeps in adults 18-49, as well as...

We have added a set pictures from the event 2014 Inner-City Imagine Awards Honoring The Walt Disney Company. Guests included Monica Rosenthal, Lily Rosenthal and Ella Angel, Jay Rasulo and Robert Smiland, Frank Mottek, Hannah Maltzan and Michael Maltzan, Alex Meneses, Jonathan Schreter and Jennifer Schreter, Robert Smiland, Nigel Lythgoe, Monica Rosenthal and Bob Bates, Melanie Lundquist and Richard Lundquist, Julia Alexander, Michael Strautmanis, Nia Strautmanis and Bob Bates, Robert Smiland and Frank Mottek, Robert Smiland and Ray Reisler. Photos are copyright by Billy Bennight / PR Photos. Monica Rosenthal, Lily Rosenthal and Ella Angel during the 2014 Inner-City Imagine Awards […]...

Edward James Olmos discusses Warner Bros.' Hispanic Heritage Month celebrationEdward James Olmos joins Warner Bros Digital Distribution in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with a month-long presentation via cable's On Demand of Academy Award Winning and blockbuster hit films made by and starring Hispanic artists including Selena (Edward James Olmos, Jennifer Lopez), El Cantante (Marc Anthony), Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro) and more. Also continue the celebration with Stand And Deliver, featuring Edward James Olmos' Academy Award Nominated Performance for Best Actor, now available for Download on iTunes.

Edward James Olmos recently took part in a conference call where he had plenty to say about Hispanic Heritage Month, which starts September 15, Hispanics in the film industry, the new movie Machete and much more. Take a look at what he had to say below.

I'm glad to see Selena is part of this celebration. How do you think the film...

Check out new clips from Paramount Home Entertainmen's "Wrong Turn At Tahoe," starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Harvey Keitel, Miguel Ferrer, Leonor Varela, Mike Starr, Johnny Messner, Louis Mandylor, Alex Meneses and Noel Gugliemi. The crime thriller debuts on DVD on November 17th and is rated R for strong bloody violence, pervasive language, some drug use and sexual content. Franck Khalfoun directs from the writing by Eddie Nickerson. Freddy Braidy, Robert L. Levy, Rich Cowan, Johnny Martin and Richard Salvatore produce. Love. Honor. Power. Fear of death... People live for all kinds of reasons. Life becomes the ultimate battle when all you're living for is revenge. Joshua (Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr.), a hard-nosed collector for a ruthless mob boss (Miguel Ferrer), lives in a world filled with brutal violence and beautiful women. But when he finds himself in the middle of a power struggle..

Tom Amandes, Missi Pyle and Alex Meneses have been tapped for ABC's comedy This Might Hurt, and Susanna Thompson has come on board NBC's drama Kings.

Hurt, from 20th TV, is set at a private medical practice owned by a fiftysomething old-school pediatrician (Amandes), his brainy internist son (Josh Dean) with whom he's in constant conflict, and an ob-gyn (Pyle) who has an inherent distrust of all men.

Meneses plays the practice's office manager, a former telenovela star.

Kings, from UMS, centers on David (Christopher Egan), a pure-hearted young warrior who joins the court of the charismatic and authoritative King Silas (Ian McShane). Thompson will play Silas' wife, Queen Rose.

Chevy Chase returns to center screen and Bucharest backlots play Hoboken, N.J., in "Funny Money". The laugher about a meek middle manager who finds a life-changing fortune takes a while to hit its stride, but in its best stretches, it offers deliriously spirited farce. The cast, along with the promotional efforts of timeshare operator Consolidated Resorts, could entice older audiences to theaters, but the film, which never quite shakes off a flat, low-budget look, will find its true payday in video.

The animated credits that open "Money" set the tone of retro silliness for this comedy without an agenda. Chase still is game, and a perfect fit, as milquetoast Henry Perkins, a longtime employee of the Feldman Wax Fruit Co. Henry's not bitter that Feldman himself (Robert Loggia) shot down his visionary bruised-banana concept a decade earlier. He's not angry that his wife, Carol Penelope Ann Miller), mocks him in couples therapy for being a creature of habit. A sharper shrink might note a bit of projecting on her part: Repressed and proper, Carol's the sculptor of voluptuous, oversize nudes that she's afraid to submit to galleries. But however uncomplaining Henry may be, after a subway jostle with a Romanian thug makes him the possessor of a briefcase containing $5 million in cash, he doesn't hesitate for a second to plan his and Carol's getaway to distant shores.

Besides Carol's reluctance to break the rules, Henry's imminent birthday celebration complicates their would-be escape. The couple and their best friends, Vic and Gina (the well-cast Christopher McDonald, Alex Meneses), attempt to pass themselves off in fictional configurations to a couple of comical cops nipping at their heels. The ultra-slow-dawning Slater (a very funny Kevin Sussman) arrives on behalf of the NYPD to tell the inebriated Carol that her dead husband and his briefcase have been found in the East River. Armand Assante, who should do more comedy, all but steals the show as the toothpick-chewing Genero, a crooked Hoboken detective who thinks the cash-rich Henry is a male prostitute.

The comedy of errors grows more tangled as dozens of party guests pour into the Perkins townhouse, a palatial pad whose size is more a function of genre requirements than a reflection of real estate reality. There's plenty of fine comic timing and deliciously deadpan delivery on display, but not all the supporting performances are up to par. Among the central roles, Miller's drunk ditz would have been far funnier if she had started off on a quieter note. But helmer Leslie Greif lets her mug it up well before her character starts boozing it up.

Adapting Ray Cooney's London stage hit, Greif ("Keys to Tulsa") and his co-scripter, Harry Basil, keep the action light and swift-moving. But the most inspired notion here -- the idea of covering up the convoluted charade as a murder-mystery party game -- could have been mined for more laughs.

FUNNY MONEY

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An FWE Picture Co. production in association with Tobebo Film Produktion GmbH & Co. KG

Credits:

Director: Leslie Greif

Screenwriters: Harry Basil, Leslie Greif

Based on the play by: Ray Cooney

Producers: Herb Nanas, Brad Siegel, Leslie Greif

Executive producers: Jeff Franklin, Philip von Alvensleben, Harry Basil, Ray Cooney

Director of photography: Bill Butler

Production designer: Stephen J. Lineweaver

Music: Andrea Morricone

Co-producers: Pat McCorkle, Peter Perotta

Costume designer: Donna Zakowska

Editors: Stephen Adrianson, Terry Kelley, Stephen Lovejoy

Cast:

Henry Perkins: Chevy Chase

Carol Perkins: Penelope Ann Miller

Genero: Armand Assante

Sol Feldman: Robert Loggia

Vic: Christopher McDonald

Gina: Alex Meneses

Detective Slater: Kevin Sussman

Angel: Guy Torry

MM Virginia: Rebecca Wisocky.

Running time -- 95 minutes

No MPAA rating...