‘Little Miss Sunshine’ Directors Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris Remaking Spanish Comedy ‘The People Upstairs’

Camila Cabello keeps her culture and background alive in her latest Elle Mexico cover. The star, which is promoting her upcoming album Familia, revealed how her first language connects her to her childhood.“When I speak in Spanish, the young parts of me come out, the ones that have been in my subconscious since I was born [when] I lived in Cuba and Mexico,” she told the publication in Spanish.The 25-year-old Cuban native said that Spanish-language is her safe space.

It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday — especially when it’s New Music Friday! We’re breaking down this week’s best new tracks to keep on your radar.

Spotify has revealed that it paid $7billion (£5.3billion) to artists last year.The news was published via its Loud And Clear website, which aims to “increase transparency” around payments.The streaming giant said that 56,200 musicians received more than $10,000 (£7,500) from Spotify last year and 130 of these were paid more than $5m (£3.8m).However, the figures shared don’t include the final figure the artist receives once labels and publishers have taken their share, which means the money they receive is often much lower. Songwriters and session musicians receive even less.The service has come under fire previously for its low artist payments, with the likes of David Byrne, producer Tony Visconti and David Crosby all criticising the platform recently.Visconti described the streaming service as “disgusting” over its low payments to artists.

Ed Meza @edmezavarFilmax has acquired the international rights to Spanish helmer Hector Claramunt’s escape room comedy, “You Lie You Die.”The pic is based on Claramunt and Joel Joan’s hit stage play “Escape Room,” which has been seen by more than 200,000 people over the course of four seasons. Joen and Claramunt also penned the film’s script.Described as a “madcap” laffer, “You Lie You Die” follows two couples whose plans to have a fun night out at an escape room go south.

Ed Meza @edmezavarSpanish distributors, who have enjoyed a strong track record selling remake rights to local pics, have received a major boost this year with the Malaga Festival Industry Zone’s (MAFIZ) inaugural Remake Day event on Thursday.Leading film sales companies, among them Cinema Republic, Latido Films, Filmax and Feel Content, presented showcases of films considered particularly adaptable to foreign markets. Not surprisingly, comedies and genre pics made up most of the selections.David Castellanos’ Cinema Republic offered one strong example with Borja Cobeaga’s  hit 2009 romantic comedy “Pagafantas,” which has over the years sold to Germany, Italy and Mexico.Cinema Republic also touted Icíar Bollaín’s “Rosa’s Wedding” (“La Boda de Rosa”), about a woman in her mid-40s who decides to finally take charge of her life and fulfill her dream of starting a business.

Tarek El Moussa and Christina Haack are saying goodbye to . After 10 seasons, the former couple's hit HGTV show aired its series finale on Thursday, and it was Haack who made the decision to stop working with her ex.The episode showed the pair flipping a Spanish style home, but Haack was in Tennessee with her fiancé, Joshua Hall, and unable to attend their typical end of project walkthrough in person. The pair figured out the listing price via FaceTime, but the situation got Haack thinking.

Tarek El Moussa and Christina Haack have their reasons for ending .«Christina is looking forward to working on new projects, and their own solo projects. It was time to be done,» a source close to Haack tells ET. «The series is ending with great ratings.

Tarek El Moussa, 40, and Christina Haack, 38, appeared to have a bit of on-camera friction during the series finale of Flip or Flop. The exes, who were married from 2009 until 2018, were giving an interview about some design ideas for a Spanish-style house they were looking at in a clip of the last episode of the HGTV show, which airs on March 17 at 8PM, and couldn’t agree on what to do about the massive pool in the backyard.

Tarek El Moussa and Christina Haack are going out with a bang. The final project they embark on for the  series finale includes a «monster» pool that's better described as «a sink hole.»El Moussa, Haack and their trusted contractor, Jeff Lawrence, are all taken aback by the massive work in the backyard that features a gargantuan pool that clearly needs a ton of work and will prove to be expensive.

The final episode of "Flip or Flop" shows Tarek El Moussa and ex-wife Christina Haack having one last disagreement.   During the HGTV finale, which airs Thursday night, El Moussa was seen walking out of an on-camera interview with Haack.  In this episode, the real estate professionals take on a massive project to renovate a Spanish-style house.This particular "Flip or Flop" proves to be difficult and costly because of a massive pool in the backyard. The final episode of "Flip or Flop" shows Tarek El Moussa and his ex-wife, Christina Haack, having one last disagreement.

Tarek El Moussa and Christina Haack are having a rocky experience while wrapping up Flip or Flop.

Spotify‘s huge new sponsorship deal with FC Barcelona, saying the cash could have helped hundreds of struggling music venues instead.After significant rumours, today (March 16) it was confirmed that the streaming service have confirmed a groundbreaking sponsorship deal with the world famous Spanish club, which will see Spotify’s logo appear on match and training kits, and the club’s stadium renamed the Spotify Nou Camp.A statement described the deal as a “first-of-its-kind partnership for the club in bringing the worlds of music and football together” and is set to “see the pair working together to create opportunities for the iconic shirt to become a space that can celebrate artists from across the world”.In a series of tweets responding to the news, the MVT said: “For the amount of money Spotify have agreed to spend on TEMPORARILY branding FC Barcelona they could, instead, have secured a PERMANENT future for circa 700 UK Grassroots Music Venues.For the amount of money Spotify have agreed to spend on TEMPORARILY branding FC Barcelona they could, instead, have secured a PERMANENT future for circa 700 UK Grassroots Music Venues.— Music Venue Trust (@musicvenuetrust) March 16, 2022“Such an investment could have unleashed £40 million per annum into grassroots artist talent development, from which Spotify, [Universal, Sony, Warner] and others are the ultimate financial beneficiaries.”They added: “Not only that, but an investment of money in this way would generate a reasonable financial return, being invested into bricks and mortar and therefore remaining an asset.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has ordered a Spanish-language series inspired by the documentary “Midnight Family” (“Familia de Medianoche”).The series will be Apple’s first series produced entirely in Spanish. “Midnight Family” follows Marigaby Tamayo (Renata Vaca), an ambitious and gifted medical student by day, who spends her nights saving lives throughout a sprawling, contrasted and fascinating Mexico City aboard her family’s privately owned ambulance. Along with her father Ramón (Joaquín Cosío) and her siblings Marcus (Diego Calva) and Julito (Sergio Bautista), Marigaby serves a population of millions by tackling extreme medical emergencies to make a living.“Midnight Family” also stars Yalitza Aparicio, Itzan Escamilla, José María de Tavira, Óscar Jaenada, Dolores Heredia, and Mariana Gómez.