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America Ferrera Joins Voice Cast of English-Language Version of French Animated Film “Arco”

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America Ferrera is getting animated…

The Honduran American Emmy-, Golden Globe– and SAG Award-winning actress has joined the voice cast of NEON’s English-language version of Arco, a French animated feature they’ll submit for Oscar consideration, which had its world premiere as a Special Screening at the Cannes Film Festival.

America FerreraIn addition to Ferrera, who rose to acclaim on ABC’s Ugly Betty, the voice list includes Will Ferrell, Flea, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, and Andy Samberg.

The English-language version will world premiere in the Centerpiece section of the Toronto Film Festival on September 7, ahead of its release in U.S. theaters on November 14th.

Winning both the Cristal Award for Best Feature Film and the Soundtrack Award at Annecy, Arco follows a 10-year-old boy from a peaceful, distant future who accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril. As Arco develops a charming and touching friendship with a young girl named Iris, they band together and along with her trusted robot caretaker Mikki, set out on a quest to get Arco home, while the two children may also be the only ones who can save our planet.

Marking the feature debut of Ugo Bienvenu, the film is produced by Remembers’ Bienvenu and Felix de Givry, as well as mountainA’s Portman and Sophie Mas.

Neon acquired rights to Arco out of Cannes, where they earned their sixth consecutive Palme d’Or for Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident.

Rhenzy Feliz Starring in Doug Liman‘s XR Thriller “Asteroid”

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Rhenzy Feliz has landed an out-of-this-world role…

The 27-year-old Dominican-American actor is starring in Doug Liman‘s XR thriller Asteroid, which premieres in the Venice Film Festival’s immersive showcase next week.

Rhenzy FelizIn addition Feliz, who stars in The Penguin, the cast includes Hailee Steinfeld, Ron Perlman, Leon Mandel, Freida Pinto and DK Metcalf, the star wide receiver of American football team the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The immersive thriller follows a group of strangers who take the risk of a lifetime to travel to a nearby asteroid for the opportunity to mine for wealth beyond their wildest dreams.

It ‘s produced by Liman’s 30 Ninjas in association with Google’s 100 Zeros.

The thriller is among 30 works competing in the Venice Film Festival’s Immersive Competition, which is part of the wider Venice Immersive showcase running from August 27 to September 6 in a dedicated space on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, just a three-minute vaporetto ride from festival’s main Lido di Venezia hub.

Following its Venice premiere, Asteroid will launch later this year on Google’s Android XR platform.

Creators alongside Liman are Julina Tatlock and Jed Weintrob, who also take producer credits with Marty Schulman, Neil Parris and Jon Zepp.

Founded by Liman, Tatlock and Weintrob more than a decade ago, 30 Ninjas is an immersive story studio focused on pushed the boundaries of technology and the imagination to create groundbreaking immersive experiences.

Since its launch, it has spearheaded the creation of pioneering narratives for AR, VR, and MR devices.

Selena Gomez’s Collaboration with Benny Blanco & The Marias Reaches No. 1 on Billboard’s Latin Pop Airplay Chart

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Selena Gomez has nothing to be triste about…

Four months after its No. 1 debut on Billboard’s inaugural Hot Latin Pop Songs chart, the 33-year-old Mexican American actress and singer’s track “Ojos Tristes,” featuring benny blanco and The Marias, tops an airplay chart for the first time, as the song jumps 2-1 on the Latin Pop Airplay chart.

Selena Gomez“Ojos Tristes” claims the No. 1 spot with 8.3 million audience impressions earned in the United States during the August 8-14 tracking week, according to Luminate; that’s a 21% growth from the prior week.

“Ojos Tristes” first bowed at No. 1 on the introductory Hot Latin Pop Songs chart dated April 12, largely fueled by 8.7 million official on-demand U.S. streams. The chart employs the same methodology as the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart, where streaming data, airplay audience and digitals sales are included into its formula.

During that chart-topping week, the three-way collab also generated 1,000 downloads and retained its spot at the summit on Latin Digital Songs Sales, despite a substantial 40% decline in sales.

Now, four months later, “Ojos Tristes” has become the biggest song on Latin pop stations across the U.S. after a 17-week journey to the top.

The achievement matches with Farruko’s “Cables Cruzados” (February 22), marking it the longest trek to the top on Latin Pop Airplay in 2025 and the slowest ascent since Carlos Vives and Juanes’ “Las Mujeres” also took 17 weeks to claim the top slot in December 2023.

Gomez finds her third leader on the chart, following her featured turn on DJ Snake’s “Taki Taki,” which also features Ozuna and Cardi B (2018) and “Baila Conmigo,” with Rauw Alejandro (2021).

As for benny blanco and The Marias, they each claim their first No. 1 on Latin Pop Airplay through “Ojos Tristes,” the fourth single from Gomez’s and blanco’s collaborative project, I Said I Love You First. The set took the pair to a No. 2 debut on the overall Billboard 200 (April 5 list).

Building on its success atop the Latin Pop Airplay chart, “Ojos Tristes” makes progress on the overall Latin Airplay chart, where it climbs from No. 6 to No. 3, a new peak. This is Gomez’s highest position on the chart since her No. 1-peaking “Baila Conmigo” in 2021.

Returning to where “Ojos Tristes” first began its reign, the song secures a 13th week at No. 1 on Hot Latin Pop Songs.

Adrienne Bailon-Houghton to Compete on Season 5 of “Celebrity Name That Tune”

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Adrienne Bailon-Houghton is ready to test her music skills.

Fox has unveiled the complete list of stars taking part in Celebrity Name That Tune Season 5, with the 41-year-old Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian American actress, singer and television personality among the competitors.

Adrienne HoughtonThe competition show premieres on Monday, September 15, at 8 p.m. ET and is available to stream the next day on Hulu.

The hour-long game show tests contestants’ music knowledge as they battle it out in an assortment of challenging musical games for a chance to win over $100,000.

Jane Krakowski hosts the game show with former American Idol judge Randy Jackson serving as band leader. Each episode of Celebrity Name That Tune is comprised of two stand-alone half-hour contests, each pitting two players—either celebrity or civilian pairings—against each other as they test their knowledge of songs, performed by the live band.

Each contest features a rotating variety of games from the original format, before the iconic Bid-a-Note round. The player with the most money at the end of Bid-a-Note wins the game and takes his or her bank into the Golden Medley bonus round, for a chance to win additional cash and potentially the life-changing $100,000 grand prize. The celebrity contestants compete for their chosen charities in each episode.

In addition to Bailon-Hougho, who will be playing for Birthfund, the other stars of Season 5 include Modern Family alums Jesse Tyler Ferguson (“Pronoun” Nick Leung) and Ariel Winter (SOSA).

Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna (St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital) and Comedian Matteo Lane (Doctors Without Borders) will be featured in the same episode.

Other celebrities that will take part in Season 5 include Actress Aisha Tyler (Planned Parenthood), Actress Mira Sorvino (UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons), Lil Jon (Pencils for Promise), Chord Overstreet (A Sense of Home), Omar Epps (The Creative Coalition), Kal Penn (World Central Kitchen), Chris Harrison (Experience Camps), Emily Osment (Project Angel Food), Nia Vardalos (Hope 4 Kids), Jillian Michaels (ASPCA), Ron Funches (Next For Autism).

Former Real Housewives of New York City alum Sonja Morgan (The Trevor Project) and Project Runway mentor Christian Siriano (GLAAD) will also be part of the new season.

Other stars in the game show include Debi Mazar (World Central Kitchen), Reggie Watts (Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund), Rob Riggle (Riggle Foundation), Finesse Mitchell (Ora Lee Smith Cancer Research Foundation), Torrey Devitto (SafeBae) and Craig Robinson (Saint Leonard’s Ministries).

Celebrity Name That Tune is produced by Fox Entertainment Studios, Prestige Entertainment and BiggerStage.

Cristela Alonzo to Release New Netflix Comedy Special “Upper Classy” in Late September

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Cristela Alonzo is upp(er)ing her comedy game…

The 46-year-old Mexican American comedian, writer, actress and producer is set to globally release her new Netflix special, Upper Classy, on September 23rd.

Cristela AlonzoThe special, filmed at The Majestic theater in Dallas, finds Alonzo in pursuit of happiness.

Whether finding out she’s doing better than her high school bully, visiting a spa and getting too much self-care or taking her family on their first vacation ever, Alonzo teaches her family (and herself) how to enjoy life, whether they like it or not.

The special is Alonzo’s third original for Netflix, following Cristela Alonzo: Middle Classy in 2022, and Cristela Alonzo: Lower Classy six years before that.

In addition to writing and performing, she executive produced the special alongside Page Hurwitz and Wanda Sykes for Push It Productions, with Hurwitz also serving as director of the special.

Alonzo made history in 2014 as the first Latina to create, produce, write and star in her own network sitcom with Cristela on ABC, a semi-autobiographical series that drew on her working-class upbringing in Texas.

Starting to experiment with stand-up back when she was working as an office manager at the Addison Improv in Dallas, TX in the early 2000s, she was a semi-finalist on Last Comic Standing in 2010 and has also been seen on the likes of Conan, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand Up Revolution, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Live at Gotham.

Alonzo has also voiced roles in projects like His Dark Materials and Cars 3 and released her memoir, Music to My Years: A Mixtape-Memoir of Growing Up and Standing Up, in 2019.

Mel Rodriguez Starring in the Indie Revenge Thriller “Busted”

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Mel Rodriguez is busting things up…

The 52-year-old Cuban American actor has joined the cast of Busted, an indie revenge thriller from director Maria Bissell.

Mel Rodriguez,Rodriguez, who starred in The Last Man on Earth, appears on a roster of new cast additions that includes Elsie Fisher, Ty Simpkins and Julie Ann Emery.

The fiilm was penned by Bissell and DP Stephen Tringali.

Currently in production, the film sees naive college freshman Wendy (Fisher) get trapped in a vicious blackmail scheme by her own roommate, being forced into a seedy strip club to pay off the debt. But when she uncovers the sick truth behind the setup, the tables turn — hard. Joining forces with the club’s outrageous misfit crew, Wendy launches a daring reverse con to take her tormentor down.

Others in the cast include Michael Rose, Kathleen Wilhoite, Maria Zhang and Ava Allan.

Bissell is producing alongside Stephen Tringali and Pamela Price. Co-producers include Simone Tringali, Dario Saliani, and Eric Bochner. Emmy winner Charlene Lee and Nina Henninger handled casting.

In addition to The Last Man on Earth, Rodriguez also starred in Netflix’s The Residence and Carol & The End of the World.

Amazon MGM Studios & Kilter Films Release First Look Photos of Season Two of Moises Arias’ “Fallout”

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Moisés Arias is preparing for more fallout…

First look images of Season 2 of Fallout, starring the 31-year-old Colombian-American actor, have been released by Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films ahead of its debut in December 2025.

Moises AriasBased on the video game from Bethesda Game Studios, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.

Season 2 of Fallout will pick up in the aftermath of Season 1’s epic finale, taking viewers on a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas.

Ella Purnell stars alongside Arias, with Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan and Frances Turner rounding out the cast.

Fallout is produced by Kilter Films, with executive producers Nolan, Joy and Athena Wickham. Robertson-Dworet and Wagner also serve as executive producers, creators, and showrunners. Todd Howard, Bethesda Game Studios, executive produces along with James Altman for Bethesda Softworks.

Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films produce in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.

Paramount+ to Begin Streaming Jenna Ortega’s “Winter Spring Summer or Fall” on September 1

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Jenna Ortega is a girl for all seasons.

The 22-year-old Mexican and Puerto Rican actress’ coming-of-age romance Winter Spring Summer or Fall will begin streaming exclusively on Paramount+ beginning on Sunday, September 1.

Jenna Ortega, Winter Spring Summer or Fall,It follows the film’s release in select theaters via Paramount’s Republic Pictures this past April, which came after its premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival.

Directed by Tiffany Paulsen and c0-starring Percy Hynes White, Winter Spring Summer or Fall follows Remi (Ortega) and Barnes (White), two very different teens who meet by chance in the winter of their senior year and spend four transformative days together across the seasons.

Dan Schoffer penned the script. Josh Shader, Brad Krevoy and David M. Wulf produced the project — Motion Picture Corporate of America and Wall Fly being the production companies.

The film’s cast also includes Marisol Nichols, Elias Kacavas, Adam Rodriguez and Jacqueline Emerson.

“Kenia OS: La OG” Documentary Film Headed to U.S. Movie Theaters

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Kenia OS is headed to the big screen in in the United States.

Following the debut of her new film in Mexico, the 25-year Mexican singer’s Kenia OS: La OG will hit U.S. movie theaters.

Kenia OSThe film follows the Latin pop star before, during and after her sold-out shows at the coveted Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City.

Beyond the concert experience, the documentary shows Kenia OS’ tireless and intense preparation, as well as her connection with fans.

Co-directed by Ana Nube, Gastón Etchechoury, and Kenia (real name: Kenia Osuna), the film is produced by Sony Music Vision Mexico and distributed by Spanglish Movies

Kenia OS: La OG premieres on August 29 in Los Angeles, followed by screenings in Miami, New York and Chicago.

For more information, visit here.

Ryan Castro Teams Up with Grupo Frontera to Release New Single “APODO”

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Ryan Castro is embracing a new nickname…

The 31-year-old Colombian rapper, singer and songwriter has joined voices for the first time with Grupo Frontera to release the new single “APODO” via AWOO Corp. and Sony Music Latin.

Ryan Castro & Grupo FronteraProduced by Latin hitmaker Edgar Barrera and co-written by Barrera, Castro, and Andrés Jael Correa Rios, the song laces Grupo Frontera’s modern-day norteño melodies around Castro’s breezy Caribbean reggae beats.

Sonically, the tune is laid-back and fun, but lyrically, it’s heart-wrenching, referring to a person who was not loved nor respected in a relationship.

“It doesn’t hurt to see you with another man/ it hurts that you gave this love another name/ almost something/ a madness/ a hook-up/ an adventure/ the mistake of your life,” says the catchy but heartbreaking chorus.

The music video—showcasing both act’s fun vibes and chemistry—was filmed in the Rio Grande Valley, where Grupo Frontera and Barrera are from.