In a year where most consultants felt there was little competition for the 15 film shortlist, well, there wasn’t. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the remaining International Film contenders and it was somewhat predictable.
Muck Media Launches ‘El Fixer’ Film Project, About Fixers Who Escort Foreign Journos Into “Darkest Corners” Of Mexico’s Drug Trade
05.12.2022 - 23:59 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Muck Media announced today it is adapting bestselling Mexican memoir El Fixer for the big screen, the company’s first foray into narrative-scripted content.
Journalist Miguel Ángel Vega’s book chronicles “his journey from aspiring filmmaker to guiding foreign journalists working for some of the world’s most recognizable media brands into the darkest corners of the drug war over the last decade.” It’s an inherently risky business, because outsiders in need of a fixer want to “go where the action is,” not necessarily understanding the mortal danger they face.
As a description of the book put it, “Many North American, German, English, and French journalists are interested in covering the ups and downs of organized crime in Mexico, but the first problem is how to establish contact with drug bosses, huachicoleros, kidnappers, with some leader or another of organized crime. There’s no easy way to do this, so in Mexico, and all over the world, there are a select group of people who move on the razor’s edge in criminal networks without being criminals themselves: they are journalists, photographers, reporters known as a Fixer.”
Mariana van Zeller, Muck Media partner and host of National Geographic’s Emmy-nominated series Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller, will serve as executive producer on the film, along with Ángel Vega and Muck Media partner and Emmy Award-winning director Darren Foster.
“Fixers are the unsung heroes of the news gathering and documentary business. Most reporters know they’d be lost, or even dead, when operating abroad without the local producers they hire,” van Zeller said in a statement. “Miguel’s beautiful memoir is part thriller, part dark comedy and pulls back the curtain to reveal in
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21.12.2022 / 23:09
‘Bardo,’ ‘Close,’ ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Make Oscars’ Entirely Predictable International Shortlist
Austria, “Corsage”Belgium, “Close”Cambodia, “Return to Seoul”Denmark, “Holy Spider”France, “Saint Omer”Germany, “All Quiet on the Western Front”India, “Last Film Show”Ireland, “The Quiet Girl”Mexico, “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”Morocco, “The Blue Caftan”Pakistan, “Joyland”Poland, “EO”South Korea, “Decision to Leave”Sweden, “Cairo Conspiracy”
dailyrecord.co.uk
14.12.2022 / 02:23
Lottery winner jailed after using prize money to fund crystal meth drug empire
A lottery winner has been jailed after he used his prize money to fund a crystal meth drug empire. Ronnie Music Jr scooped $3 million from a scratch card which he used to set up a Breaking-Bad style enterprise, reports the Daily Star.
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12.12.2022 / 22:39
‘Drag Race’; New Editions Planned For Brazil, Germany And Mexico
Drag Race is expanding again. Three new editions are planned for Brazil, Germany and Mexico that will air on MTV/Paramount+ in their respective territories. As part of the expansion, RuPaul’s Drag Race heads to MTV for its 15th season in January, while RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race will return for season 3 in 2023 on VH1.
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09.12.2022 / 18:33
Trendsetters NYE Edition: The Best Dresses & Suits That Will Make You Look as Fierce as a Firework
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08.12.2022 / 00:07
Craig Ferguson Signs With CAA
EXCLUSIVE: Peabody and Emmy-winning actor, writer, producer, director and comedian Craig Ferguson has signed with CAA for representation in Comedy Touring.
deadline.com
05.12.2022 / 03:33
‘Black Panther’ Rises To $733M Global, ’Violent Night’ Launches With $20M WW & ‘Matilda’ Nears $10M In UK – International Box Office
Akin to domestic, it was a rather sleepy weekend at the international box office. Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever again won the frame, with $20.2M from 50 overseas markets for an offshore total of $339.3M and a global tally of $733M through Sunday.
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04.12.2022 / 21:45
Argentina-Mexico is Most-Watched World Cup Group Stage Match in Spanish-Language TV History
Across 13 days and 48 Group Stage matches, Spanish-language coverage of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 has averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 2.07 million viewers across Telemundo, Universo, Peacock, and Telemundo streaming platforms, up 5% vs. the 2018 tournament (1.97 million).
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02.12.2022 / 20:49
BiP’s Johnny DePhillipo Says ‘The Math Isn’t Adding Up’ After Ex Victoria Fuller’s ‘Viall Files’ Interview With Greg Grippo
Checking the facts? Johnny DePhillipo weighed in after ex-fiancée Victoria Fuller and her new beau, Greg Grippo, detailed their relationship timeline on the “Viall Files” podcast.
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01.12.2022 / 23:55
Susie Evans Says ‘No’ to ‘BiP,’ Reveals Whether She’d Date Within Bachelor Nation After Clayton Echard Split
Susie Evans is moving on from Clayton Echard — but don’t expect to see her looking for love on the beaches of Mexico.
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30.11.2022 / 23:05
‘Cocaine Bear’ Trailer: Elizabeth Banks’ New Film Gets A Wild Promo Befitting Its Title
Earlier this week, social media lit up as users excitedly uploaded the poster for the Elizabeth Banks-directed Cocaine Bear, imagining what a movie with that title might be like. They got some idea today when Universal dropped the bonkers first trailer for the film “inspired by the true story of a drug runner’s 1985 plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it.” The movie, billed as a character-driven thriller, seems to have a good bit of fun with the premise.
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30.11.2022 / 21:15
Mickey Sumner To Star Opposite Elizabeth Banks In Medical Drama ‘A Mistake’ From ‘Sunshine Cleaning’ Director Christine Jeffs
EXCLUSIVE: Mickey Sumner will star opposite Elizabeth Banks in A Mistake — the medical drama from writer-director Christine Jeffs (Sunshine Cleaning) that was first announced during the 2022 Cannes Market.
dailyrecord.co.uk
27.11.2022 / 19:09
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