Michel Franco’s ‘New Order’ Boosts Mexican Box Office, Challenges for Oscar Contention (EXCLUSIVE)

Anna Marie de la Fuente Gerardo Naranjo’s “Kokoloko” took home the Premio Mezcal for best Mexican film at the hybrid 35th Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG), which wrapped Friday, Nov.

Flor Silvestre, one of Mexico’s most popular singers who also starred in scores of films, died today at 90. Televisa’s Espectáculos said she died surrounded by her family — including her son, singer and actor Pepe Aguilar — at Rancho el Soyate, the Zacatecas ranch she once shared with her late husband, the singer and actor Antonio Aguilar.

Three Mexican nationals with suspected ties to the violent Sinaloa cartel were charged in federal court Tuesday after U.S. agents discovered a massive stockpile of cash, drugs and ammunition at a San Diego truck yard just north of the Mexico border.

Neil Patrick Harris will be helping to poke fun at Nicolas Cage’s career after signing on to play his talent agent in upcoming action-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.The Ghost Rider star is set to portray a fictionalized version of himself as a debt-ridden Cage, desperate to land a part in Quentin Tarantino’s next movie, only to find himself taking on a vastly different role as a real-life informant for the C.I.A.

Rose McGowan walks along the beach after taking a dip in the ocean on Monday (November 23) in Tulum, Mexico.

Jamie Lang Heading into this year’s Guadalajara’s Co-Production Meetings, the team behind Michelle Garza’s maternal horror flick “Huesera” has shared with Variety news of a new minority co-producer, choreographer and key casting details.“Huesera” is produced by Paulina Villaviencio from Mexico’s Disruptiva Films and Edher Campos of Machete Producciones.

NEW YORK -- A year after Rosalía made history by becoming the first solo female performer in 13 years to win the top prize at the Latin Grammys, Natalia Lafourcade followed in her footsteps with a big win at the 2020 show.The Mexican singer won album of the year — a category dominated by male acts — on Thursday night with “Un Canto Por México, Vol.

It looks like Adam Lambert has a new special someone in his life!

TikTok took the world by storm. But it wasn’t Addison Rae or Kylie Jenner, it was a 37-year-old Native-Mexican man riding down the street on a skateboard, drinking Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice while singing happily along to Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 song “Dreams.” That man was Nathan Apodaca.

The true story of Mexican American astronaut is getting the feature treatment from Netflix and filmmaker Alejandra Márquez Abella. Abella is in final negotiations to direct A Million Miles Away, based on the autobiography Reaching for the Stars by space shuttle astronaut Jose M.

NEW YORK -- A year after Rosalía made history by becoming the first solo female performer in 13 years to win the top prize at the Latin Grammys, Natalia Lafourcade followed in her footsteps with a big win at the 2020 show.The Mexican singer won album of the year — a category dominated by male acts — on Thursday night with “Un Canto Por México, Vol.

2020 has brought us many changes: a new way of life, a new president, and now a new Drake Bell… or should we say Drake Campana?

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences have chosen Fernando Frías de la Parra’s I’m No Longer Here as Mexico’s official entry for the International Feature Film Oscar race.The pic centers on the young leader (Juan Daniel Garcia Trevino) of a small Monterrey street gang from the Cholombiano subculture who longs for home after being forced to move to Jackson Heights, Queens, after an altercation with a local cartel.

Mexico to find her teenage son who went missing while trying to reach the United States, won the top prize at Greece’s Thessaloniki Film Festival on Monday.Organizers said the feature film by Mexican debut director Fernanda Valadez had been awarded the Golden Alexander prize.“In a cruel world of heartbreaks, tragedy, and survival, a story of an unexpected bond is born,” the organizers said in a statement.