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Santa Claus won’t be the only mythical figure sliding down chimneys this holiday season! John Woo is getting in on the home invasion action now that Lionsgate is bringing Silent Night to PVOD on December 19. Please buy extra milk and cookies this year. I hear Woo likes Macaroons and Snickerdoodles. While that’s probably inaccurate, he strikes me as a man of taste. It’s been 20 years since Woo’s last American movie, so this is a big deal.

“From legendary director John Woo and the producer of John Wick comes the gritty revenge tale of a tormented father (Joel Kinnaman) who witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang’s crossfire on Christmas Eve,” reads the official synopsis. “While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, Kinnaman makes vengeance his life’s mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge his son’s death.

Mexico’s Mónica Lozano, producer of Alejandro González Iñarritu’s “Amores Perros” and Eugenio Derbéz’s “Instructions Not Included,” has boarded “Cepeda,” an envelope-pushing Mexico-set procedural, turning on a Mexican cop who’s an Indigenous woman and great at her job.

Development over the last two years has been financed by Acuña’s Chile-based Promocine. Put back, however, by the pandemic, the project is now set up at Lozano’s Mexico City production house Alebrije Producciones, one of Mexico’s most active forces in international production, behind Carlos Carrera’s Quirino Award winner “Ana y Bruno” and Fox’s “Run Coyote Run.”

“Cepeda” is written by Chile’s Julio Rojas, who has shot to global fame as creator of Podcast phenom “Caso 63.” Rojas also served as story editor on Lucía Puenzo’s “La Jauría,” and writer on Pablo Fendrik’s “El Refugio” and Matías Bize’s “The Life of Fish,...

Action legend John Woo's new film, Silent Night, is a dialogue-free action movie that follows a grieving father seeking revenge for his son's death in the underworld. The lack of dialogue in Silent Night allows the visuals, music, and action to convey the story and emotions of the characters. Lead star Joel Kinnaman sees the absence of dialogue as a challenge that requires him to rely on his acting skills and portray emotions solely through his eyes and actions.

Seminal movie director John Woo is back in the first trailer for his dialogue-free action outing, Silent Night. Coming courtesy of Lionsgate, Silent Night is all set to be led by The Suicide Squad star Joel Kinnaman, with the movie all about action as it takes a dialogue-free approach to the story of a grieving father who goes into the underworld to avenge his young son's death. Check out the...

The full cast of the Netflix series The Five Juanas features a plethora of telenovela veterans as well as some actors who've appeared in popular English-language movies. The series follows five women, all named Juana, who meet by chance at a Cancun resort and discover they're connected by an identical fish-shaped birthmark. The twisted tale that follows sees the Juanas uniting to uncover the truth about their parentage and take revenge on the man who fathered them all: politician Simón Marroquín. The scandalous secrets lurking within the dark pasts of the Juanas carry the momentum of this dramatic narrative, but its most powerful tool is its engaging cast of characters.

The Five Juanas is a re-imagining of Las Juanas, a 1997 Colombian miniseries by Bernardo Romero Pereiro, which he remade for Mexican television in 2004. It’s common for such series to be retold, and several telenovelas have been remade for American audiences.

Exclusive: Anders Holm, Whitney Cummings, Catherine Cohen, Casey Thomas Brown, Maya Zapata (Selena’s Secret), Fernando Carsa (Acapulco) and Ricardo Esquerra (Narcos: Mexico) have joined Diego Boneta and Monica Barbaro in the cast of At Midnight, a Paramount+ original film from director Jonah Feingold, which has entered production in Mexico.

At Midnight is a romantic comedy about two people who do their best not to fall in love. It’s centered on Alejandro (Boneta), who lives a predictable life according to plan, and Sophie (Barbaro), a beautiful rising movie star with an unreliable celebrity boyfriend. During a visit to Mexico’s beach to shoot scenes for her new movie, Super Society, Sophie falls in love with the hotel manager. Neither...

Exclusive: Latin Grammy winner and actress Alejandra Guzman (Una familia con suerte), Laura Leon (Dos mujeres un camino) and Cristián de la Fuente (Amor bravio) have joined the season 2 cast of Pantaya’s hit Spanish-language scripted series El Juego de Las Llaves (The Game of Keys). Also joining the ensemble cast are Barbara Lopez Michelle Rodriguez and Gustavo Egelhaaf. El Juego de las Llaves streams on Pantaya, a Lionsgate and Hemisphere Media Group joint venture, in the U.S. and Puerto Rico and internationally via Amazon Prime Video.

El Juego de las Llaves is a provocative half-hour Spanish-language scripted series that follows four long-lasting couples and friends who decide to swing, and are left to face the impact of their decisions in the comedic aftermath. The all-star cast includes Maite Perroni, Sebastián Zurita, Marimar Vega, Horacio Pancheri,...

Spanish language premium streaming service, Pantaya, has released the official trailer for their upcoming comedy series De Brutas, Nada.

Based in contemporary Mexico City, this crossover series focuses on a group of six sophisticated close friends that navigate through every life experience imaginable together: love, lies, heartbreak, marriage, divorce, kids, career, job loss, fights, break-ups, and unbreakable friendships.

The series stars Tessa Ía (Narcos), Christian Vázquez (Drunk History Mexico), Marimar Vega (El Juego De Las Llaves), Diana Bovio (Cindy LA Regia), Carolina Ramírez (The Queen Of Flow), Oswaldo Zárate (Run Coyote Run), José Pablo Minor (Los Espookys), and Julián Román (El SEÑOR De Los Cielos).

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The nine-episode series premieres on Pantaya on September 24, 2020 and will be available to binge in full on October 8, 2020. You can stream Pantaya exclusively in the U.S. and Puerto Rico by downloading the app on your mobile phone or at http://www.

Miami — Three of Latin America’s best known TV execs – José ‘Pepe’ Bastón, Jeff Symon, Carlos Martínez – have unveiled Elefantec Global, a content production-distribution house which adds a new and significant player to Latin America’s – and Turkey’s – content creation scene.

Based out of Los Angeles, Miami and Mexico City, Elefantec Global has also revealed its first talent relationships and a clutch of its first titles, as it made its official market bow at Natpe, hitting the ground running with over 50 original media properties in development, including dramas, biopics, comedies, thrillers and scripted reality.

Unveiled to Variety Wednesday at the Natpe conference in Miami – where the executives took discreet one-to-one meetings with targeted potential clients – Elefantec sees Bastón, a former president of Mexican TV giant Televisa, join forces with Symon, who previously headed up the Global Content, Distribution & Licensing & Merchandising Business for Grupo Televisa, and Martínez, ex-president of Fox Networks Group Latin America,...

Mexican actress Cristina Rodlo is set as a series regular in Season 2 of AMC’s anthology series The Terror.

Season 2 is co-created by Alexander Woo (True Blood) and Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island) with Woo, who is currently under an overall deal at AMC Studios, set as showrunner. The next iteration will be set during World War II and center on an uncanny specter that menaces a Japanese-American community from its home in Southern California to the internment camps to the war in the Pacific. The 10-episode Season 2 is expected to air on AMC in 2019.

Rodlo will play Luz, a nursing student who must make some tough decisions between her personal and professional life.

The Terror season two is executive produced by Ridley Scott and is an AMC Studios production, produced by Scott Free, Emjag Productions and Entertainment 360.

Rodlo will next be seen in Miss Bala, the Catherine Hardwicke...