Liz W. Garcia Inks Overall Deal With Entertainment One

International and indie film distributor Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Korean film Escape From Mogadishu. It will open in theaters in the U.S. and Canada August 6 following a July 28 release in Korea.

Antonio Ferme editorEdgewood founder Dale A. Mott and NEWorks Productions announced that two industry readings of the upcoming musical “Grace” will be held on Aug.

EXCLUSIVE: Motion Picture Exchange (MPX) has sold North American distribution and NFT (non-fungible token) rights of Brian Baumgartner (The Office) music-comedy Electric Jesus to 1091 Pictures.

Rebecca Davis editorThe U.S. film industry is heaving a sigh of relief that “Black Widow” is poised to become the highest grossing domestic debut of the post-pandemic era, marking America’s return to moviegoing in force.The Scarlett Johansson-starrer is projected to earn around $80 million in its North American opening weekend, beating out “F9” last month.

EXCLUSIVE: Redbox Entertainment has acquired the North American distribution rights to She Ball, a new film written, produced, and directed by Nick Cannon. The film will be simultaneously in theaters (20 total) and widely available On Demand including Redbox on August 6, 2021.

EXCLUSIVE:  Blue Fox Entertainment has taken the US rights to Paul A. Kaufman’s YA dramedy Butter. An autumn theatrical release is currently planned.

EXCLUSIVE: levelFILM and Cranked Up, the genre-leaning arm of Good Deed Entertainment, have acquired North American rights to writer-director Jefferson Moneo’s sophomore feature Cosmic Dawn, starring Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage) and Camille Rowe (The Deep House).

Delia Fiallo was a Cuban-American romance novelist and screenwriter who wrote dozens of popular telenovelas for Latin American television.Born in Cuba, Fiallo began writing radionovelas for Cuban radio in the 1940s. As television became more widely available in the 1950s, she made the switch to writing telenovelas, finding a large audience with her melodramas.

Ellise Shafer administratorDelia Fiallo, an author and screenwriter known as the “mother of the Latin American telenovela,” has died, according to the Associated Press. She was 96.Fiallo’s caregiver told the AP that she died Tuesday at her home in Coral Gables, Fla., just five days before her 97th birthday.

Delia Fiallo, the beloved Cuban writer known as the “mother of the Latin American soap opera,” died on Tuesday, a source close to the scribe tells CNN. She was 96.

EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live alums Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer have teamed to write, executive produce and star in A Clüsterfünke Christmas, described as “a celebratory parody of the corny and ubiquitous traditional TV movie holiday romance genre.” Vella Lovell (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Cheyenne Jackson (American Horror Story) and Ryan McPartlin (L.A.’s Finest) also star in the MTV Entertainment Studios movie, which has started production in Vancouver with Anna Dokoza directing.

Jonas, who is currently in the US, is making sure to stay connected with her millions and millions of fans from across the globe by staying active on social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter.

Locarno Sets ‘Beckett’ As Opening Film Ferdinando Cito Filomarino’s Beckett, starring John David Washington, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Krieps and Alicia Vikander, will open the 74th edition of Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival on August 4. Produced by Luca Guadagnino, the film follows an American tourist vacationing in Greece who becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating accident.

EXCLUSIVE: Aimee Garcia (Lucifer, Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.) has joined the cast of Woke.

EXCLUSIVE: Redbox Entertainment has acquired North American rights to The Last Son, the Western action pic starring Sam Worthington and Colson Baker, aka Machine Gun Kelly. The pic, directed by Tim Sutton (Donnybrook) from the Black List script by Greg Johnson, will get a release later this year day-and-date in theaters and on-demand.