Variety’s Guadalajara Digital Spotlight: Jalisco’s Capital Welcomes Mexican Film and TV Industries

Joselyn Cano, known to some media outlets as “The Mexican Kim Kardashian” has reportedly passed away due to complications with plastic surgery. The influencer and swimwear designer was 30 years old and had nearly 13 million followers on Instagram.

U.S. immigration authorities removed an illegally present Mexican national who had been convicted in Washington state of luring a disabled child.

A Detroit-area man upset that his parents asked him to turn off his video game while in their bedroom last week so they could go to sleep flew into a rage and stabbed them, with his stepdad succumbing to his injuries days later, authorities said.  Christopher McKinney, 29, of Madison Heights, faces several charges related to the Dec.

“No Man’s Land” invites the audience into dangerous territory. The new film is inspired by the real-life area along the Texas-Mexico border known as No Man’s Land.

Kristin Cavallari has yet to comment on her fling with comedian Jeff Dye, but the pair couldn’t keep their hands to themselves during a PDA-filled trip to Mexico.Cavallari, 33, and Dye 37, were first linked in October after they were spotted getting cozy in Chicago and have since kept up a flirty back-and-forth on social media.

Another month, another Liam Neeson film where he’s a man with a particular set of skills and up against seemingly unfavorable odds. This time, no one in his family was, uh, taken.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentBerlin-based Picture Tree International has picked up global sales rights to Mexican director Raúl López Echeverría’s feature debut, the socially conscious soccer comedy “Domingo,” and will introduce the film, in final postproduction, to buyers at Latin American film market Ventana Sur this week.The film tells the story of Domingo, a man of 55 living in a poor suburb of Guadalajara.

The makers of a new documentary about Shane McGowan have decided to add subtitles after complaints The Pogues singer was impossible to understand.

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.

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.

Anna Marie de la Fuente In a nod to the exponentially growing interest in premium TV content and the swelling number of content-ravenous platforms, the Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG)’s industry section has launched a competitive television section dubbed Episode 0: Series in Development.Its participants will be given the opportunity to network and vie for prizes that consist of post-production services worth a combined total of some $35,000 (700,000 pesos) from Cinecolor Mexico and Shalala

Anna Marie de la Fuente Like many of its counterparts worldwide, the Guadalajara Int’l Film Festival (FICG), Mexico’s largest film festival, faced the quandary of whether to go online, reschedule or cancel altogether because of the pandemic.It opted for a rescheduled hybrid 35th edition which would serve those either unable or afraid to travel and those without an internet connection in Mexico.“We struck a deal with Canal 44 to have them air some of our films,” said festival director Estrella