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The upcoming episode of “Law & Order,” titled “Publish and Perish,” promises to be a gripping installment as the series approaches its Season 15 finale. Airing on Monday, March 3, 2025, at 9:00 Pm on BBC America, this episode features detectives Fontana and Falco, portrayed by Michael Imperioli, diving deep into a complex case that intertwines the lives of a powerful police commissioner and the shocking murders of a well-known porn actress and a bold publisher.

As the investigation unfolds, Fontana and Falco must navigate the dangerous waters of politics and power. The connection between the police commissioner and the victims raises questions about corruption and influence, making their job even more challenging. Fans can expect tense moments as the detectives piece together clues while trying to avoid stepping on any toes in the process.

With the stakes higher than ever, viewers will be on the edge of their seats as Fontana and...

Deadline reports that Mayor of Kingstown season 4 has added several cast members, including Edie Falco (The Sopranos), Lennie James (Fear the Walking Dead), and Laura Benanti (The Gilded Age).

Falco will be a series regular for the fourth season, playing Nina Hobbs, the new warden of Anchor Bay. As I happen to be going through my annual rewatch of Oz, it will be fun to see Falco back in prison. James will play Frank Moses, a respected legendary gangster, and Benanti will play Cindy Stephens, a new correctional officer. Created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillion, Major of Kingstown follows the powerful McLusky family, power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry.

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Attack on Titan, based on the bestselling manga of Hajime Isayama, has been a worldwide phenomenon since it was first released. Still, this latest announcement of Attack on Titan: The Last Attack movie raised questions regarding whether it would be able to give the fandom a theatre-worthy movie experience without feeling sluggish.

A still from the Attack on Titan series | Credits: Studio Mappa

It’s a risky attempt that can disappoint many loyal viewers who would feel they are being strung along by repititive content with minimal new substance. It is now somewhat fair to say that Attack on Titan has become all for its popularity, and not necessarily for its stories anymore.

They Are Just Milking Attack on Titan at This Point Eren from the Attack on Titan series | Credits: Wit Studio

Attack on Titan is truly an unparalleled storytelling class from beginning to end, even though it clearly...

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Michael Beach is a hopeless romantic wanting a chance with his long-time crush in I'll Be Right There. Beach has enjoyed a steady and diverse career going back to one of his first breakout roles in the Morgan Freeman-led Lean on Me, having since starred in everything from the Mark Wahlberg-led Patriots Day to the Oscar-nominated If Beale Street Could Talk, Jason Momoa's Aquaman and ABC's The Rookie. More recently, Beach has held a recurring role in the first three seasons of Mayor of Kingstown, playing prison inmate-captain-turned-warden Kareem Moore, Netflix's Dead Boy Detectives and Tulsa King.

Beach stars in I'll Be Right There as Albert, a former high school friend of Edie Falco's Wanda who has moved back to town after leaving, getting married, having a kid, and subsequently getting a divorce. Albert reconnects with Wanda...

Edie Falco recently said she has no idea what's going on with the Nurse Jackie revival in development, because "they give me a script and I do my job. What goes on before then, I completely don’t understand, and that’s what’s going on right now.” (Falco is...

Brendan Walsh is reuniting with Edie Falco for the moving family dramedy I'll Be Right There. Across his 12 years of experience in the director's chair, Walsh has worked with Falco on both her award-winning Showtime dramedy Nurse Jackie and her short-lived CBS crime drama, Tommy. He's also brought his directing skills to a variety of other movies and TV shows, including USA Network's Royal Pains and both Power Book II: Ghost and Book III: Raising Kanan.

For I'll Be Right There, Falco and Walsh not only team up as director and star, but also on the producing side of things, with the former acting as an executive producer alongside Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg, with the latter being a producer. Falco leads the ensemble cast of the dramedy as Wanda, a woman who has dedicated her life to taking care of her family, though becomes increasingly stressed out as her...

Edie Falco is a woman trying to build her own life while caring for her family in I'll Be Right There. Having first broken out with a recurring role in HBO's Oz and her Emmy and Golden Globe-winning work on The Sopranos, Falco has explored a large variety of genres throughout her career. More recently, Falco earned her fourth Emmy win for her role on Showtime's Nurse Jackie, while also having a main role in Pete Davidson's Bupkis and supporting turns in Charlie Day's Fool's Paradise and James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water.

Falco leads I'll Be Right There as Wanda, a woman with her hands endlessly full, in large part due to her family, which includes her eight-month pregnant daughter preparing for a wedding, her aimless son struggling to figure out the right path for his future, and her elderly mother who always thinks she is dying.

Cyberpunk 2077 game developer and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime series producer CD Projekt has confirmed plans for more animated projects set within the Cyberpunk universe.

Via IGN, CD Projekt Red (Cdpr) held an earnings call on Aug. 28, when it was asked about building portfolios within pop culture and a possible sequel to the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime, which it co-produced with Studio Trigger. "Yes, we are planning, of course, to have more in the flywheel of pop culture. This is very much in our interests," CEO Micha Nowakowski said. "When it comes specifically to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners having a continuation, I'd rather bring back the words I said before, which is, 'We are definitely planning to do more in terms of animation with Cyberpunk, so I hope that's enough as an answer. So, expect to see more for sure, but that's as far as I can go right now."

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Matt Mercer is one of the best and most prolific voice actors in recent decades. Though he has mainly provided voices for video game characters, his anime roles are some of his most iconic. No matter what the part calls for, Mercer has the timing and timbre to produce some of the best anime characters.

From Yusuke Kitagawa in Persona 5: The Animation to Levi Ackerman in Attack on Titan, Mercer has voiced many of the fans' most beloved characters. Viewers can only hope that Matt Mercer continues to voice many more anime characters in the future.

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Exclusive: Pantaya has set September 15 as the premiere date for Toda La Sangre, the crime-thriller starring Aarón Díaz and Ana Brenda Contreras.

Based on the best-selling novel by Mexican author Bernardo Esquinca, Toda La Sangre follows Casasola (Díaz), a tabloid reporter who joins forces with police lieutenant Edith Mondragón (Contreras) and Elisa (Yoshira Escárrega), a local anthropologist, who aim to decipher a series of murders that have shocked the country. Together they travel through Mexico City chasing a ritual murderer whose peculiarity is to recreate ancient Aztec sacrifices.

Yoshira Escárrega, Antonio Trejo Sánchez, Clementina Guadarrama, Cinthia Vázquez, Odiseo Bichir, and Julio Casado also star.

Produced by Fremantle Mexico, the 10-episode series is developed and produced by showrunner and executive producer Zasha Robles from Spiral International, the creator of the Emmy-winning series Falco. The series is directed by Luis Prieto and Hari Sama; and written by Rodrigo Ordónez, Santiago Rocagliolo, Natalia Mejia,...

Berlin film sales agent M-Appeal has struck deals with leading German distributors for rock music drama “The Night of the Beast” and family adventure film “Sisters: The Summer We Found Our Superpowers.”

Alamode, the distributor of specialty titles such as “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” and “Les Misérables,” has acquired “The Night of the Beast,” which centers on two fans of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Alamode is planning to release the title in June, when Iron Maiden plan to start their next European tour.

The Colombian-Mexican film’s title refers to the band’s 1982 album, “The Number of the Beast,” which has sold more than 14 million copies, and its subsequent tour, “The Beast on the Road.” The film, directed by Mauricio Leiva Cock, revolves around the band’s first concert in Colombia, and includes some of Iron Maiden’s tracks, such as “Aces High” and “The Trooper.

Bursting onto the Latin American film-tv scene in the second half of last decade, Colombia’s Fidelio Films has struck a development and co-production deal with Stories, the burgeoning film-tv arm of Spain-based publishing giant Editorial Planeta.

The news comes as Fidelio prepares to present at Spain’s Conecta Fiction, a Europe-Latin America TV production forum, the supernatural drama series “Tenebris,” which won an Our Local is Global grant from the Tribeca Film Institute.

First title up in Fidelio-Editorial Planeta deal is Fidelio partner Mauricio Leiva Cock’s movie adaptation of cult Colombian writer Andrés Caicedo’s unfinished novel “Noche sin Fortuna.” Also in the mix is a small screen makeover of “Persona Normal,” a Mexican and Latin American bestseller written by Mexico’s Benito Taibo.

Fidelio’s deal sees it parlaying the extraordinary recent writing and directing record of partners Leiva Cock and David Figueroa García into strategic alliances...

An army of the undead along the U.S.-Mexico border will collide with drug lords and the American military in “Narcos vs Zombies,” a Mexican TV production coming to Amazon Prime Video in 2020.

Amazon announced “Narcos vs Zombies,” an eight-episode series that blends sci-fi, horror and action genres, will be available exclusively next year on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, including Mexico and the rest of Latin America. The series is produced by Dynamo and Red Creek Productions.

The action-drama series is a Mexican production created and written by Nicolas Entel (“Pecados De Mi Padre”) and Miguel Tejada Flores and directed by Rigoberto Castañeda. Entel serves as showrunner.

“Narcos vs Zombies” stars Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Fátima Molina, Horacio García Rojas, Nery Arredondo (“Vuelven”) and Adria Morales (“La Reina Soy Yo”).

In “Narcos vs Zombies,” legendary narco kingpin Alonso Marroquín (Peris-Mencheta) escapes from a high-security Mexican prison...

Snd, the commercial arm of French TV network M6, has acquired international sales rights to “Doubt” and “A Perfect Man,” a pair of four-part French thriller series, in the run-up to Mipcom.

“Doubt” was created by Sophie Lebarbier and Fanny Robert, the duo behind the hit French procedural series “Profiling.” Directed by Laure de Butler, “Doubt” revolves around a man who was just sentenced to 15 years in prison for a murder. The series follows one of the former jury members who starts having doubts about the man’s guilt after the verdict is given and hires a private detective.

Currently in post-production, “Doubt” stars Ophélia Kolb (“Call my agent”) and Stanley Weber (“Borgia”). It’s produced by Beaubourg Fiction, whose credits include “Profilage,” “Falco” and “Balthazar.”

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Cannes — Next stop Latin America. Having powered up high-end drama series production in Spain to 14-15 series this year via pay TV unit Movistar +, Telefonica has unveiled its first premium original series projects in Latin America.

Both set to shoot in a couple of months, they open up a further theater of production operations after Movistar + drives into originals production in Spain as Telefonica, Europe’s second-biggest telecom with €48.7 billion ($54.5 billion) revenues in 2018, bids to become the No.1 content player in the Spanish-speaking world.

The announcement has been made on the same day as Spain’s Movistar + world premieres Leticia Dolera’s “Perfect Life” in Official Competition at Canneseries, the second year in a row that a Telefonica-Movistar + high-end drama makes the cut.

Production on Movistar’s Latin American series slate will be lead by Paula Figueroa (pictured), as head of Telefonica Video Unit for Latin America, with oversight...

Guadalajara, Mexico — Colombia’s Fidelio Films has had a week to remember at this year’s Guadalajara Intl. Film Festival (Ficg) as its full slate of TV and film projects has impressed in a number of sections.

The company’s feature film “The Life and Death of Espíritu Perdomo” won the “El Taller” post-production prize and the Cinema226 development, co-production, production and promotion prizes at the Co-production Meeting for feature films, its series “Tenebris” is pitching at the first-ever Ficg TV Pitchbox, and its shopping the first season of another series, “Tiburon Island,” which won the Mexican Film Institute (Imcine) development grant for television series last year and received a TV Pitchbox special mention.

“Tenebris” was created by David Figueroa García and Mauricio Leiva Cock, and is produced by Mauro Mueller and Juan Diego Villegas from Fidelio Films. The show’s eight hour-long episodes will be directed by Ed Sánchez.

Guadalajara, Mexico — Mexico’s Ernesto Contreras, best known for his lauded Sundance Audience Award winner “I Dream in Another Language” is preparing his next feature film, “Cosas Imposibles” (“Impossible Things”).

“I Dream…” producers Monica Lozano and Eamon O’Farrill of Alebrije Prods. and Luis Albores and Érika Ávila of Contreras’ Agencia Sha, are re-teaming to make the dramedy.

Set in a Mexico City housing complex, “Impossible Things” turns on a woman in her 60s whose dead abusive husband continues to torment her, but only in her head. She strikes an unlikely friendship with a troubled 19-year-old neighbor. Together they help each other to shake off their inner demons.

Story is by novice writer Fanie Soto, a Guadalajara native, whose first script won the Matilde Landeta top award given to female scriptwriters. “I was intrigued by what the juror said about it and asked to read it,” said Contreras, adding: “I...

Mexican exhibition juggernaut Cinepolis has picked up all Latin American rights to the Mexican version of the 2011 Colombian suspense thriller, “The Hidden Face” (“La Cara Oculta”).

This is the first Mexican feature of Colombian shingle Dynamo, which made the original with co-producers Fox Int’l Productions, Cactus Flower and Avalon. Dynamo’s Andi Baiz directed.

Argentina’s Fb Group and Mexico’s Urujuru are co-producers of the Mexican remake.

“Dynamo is a company that we deeply admire,” said Leonardo Cordero, head of Cinepolis Distribution. “To be able to distribute its “La Cara Oculta” remake is a major opportunity to develop a long-term relationship with one of Latin America’s top content providers,” he said.

Plans are to release the thriller by the first semester of next year. Its definitive title is yet to be determined.

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The new “Smash Bros.” game will include every single character to ever appear in the fighting series during its nearly two-decade run, Nintendo announced Tuesday during its E3 Direct. Dubbed “Smash Bros. Ultimate,” it comes to Nintendo Switch December 7.

In addition to old favorites, Nintendo is adding some new fighters to the roster, including Ridley from the “Metroid” franchise and “Splatoon’s” Inkling. The game will support a variety of controller options, Nintendo said, including Gamecube controllers (original or newly designed), Joy-Cons, or the Switch Pro controller. All current “Smash Bros.” amiibo figures are compatible with “Ultimate,” and fighter amiibos from other series will also be supported.

“At E3, we’re showing how Nintendo Switch continues to redefine play, with the broadest range of games people can enjoy together anytime, anywhere,” said Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America’s President and COO, in a press release. “Fans who’ve debated which ‘Super Smash Bros.

In dueling pre-upfront press conferences Thursday, Spanish-language media rivals Univision and Telemundo revealed a similar objective: to explore a more diversified, multi-generational, multi-platform programming aimed at a fast-evolving U.S. Hispanic market.

The stakes for both networks are high. The U.S. Hispanic population represents $1.3 trillion in spending power, which is projected to grow to $1.9 trillion by 2022.

Univision, long dependent on Mexican media giant Televisa to provide its programming, has been playing catch up with NBCUniversal-owned Telemundo, which has been producing its own shows for years. To streamline the production of content across Televisa and Univision, Isaac Lee was named chief content officer of both companies in January 2017.

Among Univision-Televisa’s joint initiatives to ramp up and diversify programming on both networks is what is billed as the first global Spanish-language TV pilot season, which resulted in more than 100 submissions from all over the world.

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In a bid to keep up with the fast-evolving TV viewing habits of its audience, Telemundo has launched a new Sunday night drama franchise billed as “Series Premium.”

The new weekly program aims to bring a host of high-concept series that run 10 to 15 episodes per season, a big shift from the traditional telenovela focus of Spanish-language TV. The initial roster of shows for the Sunday night showcase include “El Recluso,” bio-series “Nicky Jam: El Ganador,” crime drama “Falco,” and “El Secreto de Selena,” among others.

“Our objective is to carve a space on Sunday nights with shorter, high-value, high-ip stories, featuring world- class talent,” said Luis Silberwasser, president of Telemundo Networks. Telemundo recently tapped former Univision programming exec Ronald Day to serve as exec VP of Programming for Telemundo Networks.

Telemundo’s push into recurring series that mirror the offerings of English-language networks reflect the NBCUniversal network’s push to draw a younger audience.

Underscoring the growing interest in Latinx fare among pay TV and Svod companies, premium pay TV outlet Starz has snapped up Hilda Hidalgo’s “Violeta at Last,” which now screens at the Iff Panama.

Starz will start airing “Violeta” in August, according to its sales agent Alfredo Calviño of Habanero Film Sales. Inspired by Hidalgo’s mother, “Violeta at Last” turns on a woman in her seventies who finds new freedom in her winter years. “Violeta” is co-produced by Mexico’s Laura Imperiale of Cacerola Films who also co-produced Hidalgo’s first film, “Of Love and Other Demons,” and is a juror at Iff Panama’s Works in progress section, Primera Mirada.

“Violeta” is slated to premiere in Mexico on May 11 at the Cineteca Nacional of México City and in five other cities, said Hidalgo. “Laura, myself and my lead Eugenia Chaverri will be there to present it,” said Hidalgo,...