Bobby Soto to Star in Black Label’s Feature Thriller “Copperhead”

Posted on September 14, 2026 by Tom Castaneda

Bobby Soto is slithering his way to a new role.

The 40-year-old Puerto Rican and Mexican American actor and producer has joined the cast of the Black Label feature thriller Copperhead.

Production on the film kicked off today in Oklahoma City.

Soto, who starred in Flamin’ Hot, appears among a roster of new cast additions that includes Shea Whigham, Jamie Chung, Alejandro Speitzer, Michael Raymond-James and Thad Luckinbill.

The previously announced cast includes Miles Teller, Leila George, Jason Momoa, Tenoch Huerta, Adria Arjona and Kiefer Sutherland.

From director John Swab and screenwriters Chad Feehan and J. Todd Scott, Copperhead is catapulted forward when an undercover drug deal explodes into violence; a veteran detective is forced to team with a young federal agent to unravel the conspiracy within their elite task force.

Copperhead is financed by Black Label Media, which is producing alongside Teller’s Lime Tree Productions and Swab’s Milk Boy.

Soto’s previous credits include A Million Miles Away, The Tax Collector, Dutton Ranch, Law & Order and FBI: International.

Monica Barbaro to Star Opposite Callum Turner in Will Gluck’s “One Night Only”

Posted on August 9, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Monica Barbaro is preparing for a big night…

The 35-year-old part-Mexican American Oscar-nominated actress will star opposite Callum Turner in Will Gluck’s One Night Only for Universal Pictures.

The film will reportedly be released on August 7, 2026, with Gluck directing the project based on his rewrite of Travis Braun’s Black List script.

The script topped the 2024 Blacklist, and while it’s unknown if Gluck’s version will stray from the original story, the draft follows two strangers who scramble to find someone to sleep with on the one night of the year when premarital sex is legal.

Gluck will produce through Olive Bridge Entertainment. Jacqueline Monetta, VP of Olive Bridge Entertainment, will oversee and produce with Gluck. Senior EVP Production Development Erik Baiers and Director of Production Development Jacqueline Garell will oversee the project for the studio.

Gluck had been weighing a handful of options following the success of his previous rom-com Anyone but You and finally landed on this project on his next film.

Given his track record of taking rising stars including Emma Stone, Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell and turning them into A-listers, the project attracted a ton of talent; Barbaro and Turner were top choices from the start.

Barbaro has had a slew of offers to choose from following her first Academy Award nomination earlier this year for her star-making performance as the iconic folk singer and activist Joan Baez in James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. She is in production on Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial opposite Yura Borisov and Andrew Garfield for Amazon MGM.

Next up, Barbaro will make her stage debut at London’s National Theatre in a revival of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ Les Liasons Dangereuses opposite Lesley Manville and directed by Tony and Olivier Award winner Marianne Elliott.

She’ll also star in Bart Layton’s Crime 101 opposite Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry and Chris Hemsworth for Amazon MGM. Barbaro is also known for her breakout role as Phoenix opposite Tom Cruise and Miles Teller in Top Gun: Maverick, which received six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture.

Gluck directed the 2023 box office hit Anyone but You, starring Powell and Sweeney. He also helmed 2011’s Friends with Benefits, starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, and 2010’s Easy A starring Stone, in addition to launching the Peter Rabbit franchise.

Colman Domingo to Serve as Presenter at This Year’s Golden Globes

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Win or lose, Colman Domingo will be taking the stage at this year’s Golden Globes.

The 55-year-old Emmy-winning Belizean-Guatemalan American actor and activist is among the presenters for the 82nd Annual Golden Globes awards show.

Domingo, who is nominated in the Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama category for his performance in Sing Sing, appears on a presenters roster that includes Andrew Garfield, Anthony Mackie, Anthony Ramos, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ariana DeBose, Aubrey Plaza, Auliʻi Cravalho, Awkwafina, Brandi Carlile, Catherine O’Hara, Colin Farrell, Demi Moore, Dwayne Johnson, Édgar Ramírez, Elton John, Gal Gadot, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, Jennifer Coolidge, Kaley Cuoco, Kate Hudson, Kathy Bates, Ke Huy Quan, Kerry Washington, Margaret Qualley, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Keaton, Michelle Yeoh, Miles Teller, Mindy Kaling, Morris Chestnut, Nate Bargatze, Nicolas Cage, Rachel Brosnahan, Rob McElhenney, Salma Hayek Pinault, Sarah Paulson, Seth Rogen, Sharon Stone, Vin Diesel, Viola Davis and Zoë Kravitz.

The Golden Globes will be broadcast live this Sunday, January 5 at 5:00 pm PT/8:00 pm ET on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ in the U.S.

Comedian Nikki Glaser will host.

Apple Original Films Releases Trailer for Anya Taylor-Joy’s Survival Action Film “The Gorge”

Posted on December 7, 2024 by Tom Castaneda

Anya Taylor-Joy is in survivor mode… with a side of romance.

Apple Original Films has officially debuted the thrilling first trailer for the survival action film The Gorge, starring the 28-year-old Argentine American Golden Globe-winning actress.

Sparks fly between Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller in the trailer for the film, which takes the duo to a remote corner of the world to protect a highly-guarded secret threat.

The Gorge, which premieres February 14 on Apple TV+, was written by Zach Dean and directed by Scott Derrickson.

Taylor-Joy and Teller star as Drasa and Levi, two elite snipers appointed to guard posts on opposite sides of a deep, highly-classified gorge that protects the world from the mysterious evil lurking below.

“You need to stop what’s in the gorge from coming out,” Levi’s comrade tells him. “The gorge is the door to Hell, and we’re standing guard at the gate.”

Forbidden from communicating with the outside or even with each other, it doesn’t take long before he and Drasa get bored and start flirting with binoculars and notepads.

When their security is breached, Levi falls into the gorge and Drasa goes after him. Now, they must work together to keep the secret of the gorge buried.

“This place is evil,” she says.

The film also stars Sigourney Weaver as the government official who sends Levi on his year-long mission

Olga Merediz to Star in A24’s Rom-Com “Eternity”

Posted on June 16, 2024 by Tom Castaneda

Olga Merediz isn’t waiting an eternity to lock in her next project.

The 68-year-old Cuban actress and singer has joined the cast alongside John Early of A24’s Eternity.

The romantic comedy, in which people must decide who they want to spend eternity with, also stars Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner and Da’Vine Joy Randolph.

David Freyne is directing the movie; Pat Cunnane wrote the script, which appeared on the 2022 Black List.

A24 is financing and distributing the rom-com, as well as producing with Star Thrower Entertainment and its founders Trevor White and Tim White. The film is currently in production.

Merediz is best known for originating the role of Abuela Claudia in the Broadway musical In the Heights. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance, and she reprised the role in Jon M. Chu’s film adaptation.

Merediz also voiced a role in Disney’s animated musical hit Encanto, and her television credits include Orange Is the New Black and Shades of Blue.

Ana De Armas to Star in the Action-Thriller “Three Seconds”

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Tom Castaneda

It’s a matter of seconds for Ana De Armas…

The 29-year-old Cuban actress has landed a role in Andrea Di Stefano’s Three Seconds, based on the best-selling Swedish novel by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström.

She joins a cast that includes Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Common and Clive Owen.

The action-thriller was written by Matt Cook, with revisions by Rowan Joffé and current revisions by DiStefano.

The story follows reformed criminal and former Special Ops soldier Pete Hoffman who, in order to free himself from jail and return to his wife and daughter, has been working undercover for crooked FBI handlers to infiltrate the Polish mob’s drug trade in New York. In a final step toward freedom, Hoffman must return to the one place he’s fought so hard to leave: Bale Hill Prison, where his mission becomes a race against time when a drug deal goes wrong and threatens his identity as a mole.

De Armas will play Hoffman’s wife, Sofia, a small-businesswoman who owns a grocery store. She most recently was seen in Hands of Stone with Edgar Ramirez and Robert De Niro, and War Dogs with Jonah Hill and Miles Teller.

She’ll next appear in Blade Runner 2049 with Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, which will bow in the U.S. on October 6 via Warner Bros.

Hernandez to Star Opposite Emma Stone in Lionsgate’s Musical Film “La La Land”

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Tom Castaneda

Callie Hernandez is La La Land bound…

The Latina actress has joined the cast of Lionsgate’s film La La Land.

Damien Chazelle’s musical, set in contemporary Los Angeles, stars Ryan Gosling as a jazz pianist and Emma Stone as the aspiring actress he falls in love with. The catch: the city that brought them together may tear them apart, as they soon discover that balancing love and art in such a cutthroat climate isn’t easy.

Hernandez, who has appeared in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, has been cast as on of Stone’s three roommates. The other two roommates will be played by Sonoya Mizuno and Jessica Rothe.

La La Land has already secured a July 15, 2016 release date.

The film originally had Miles Teller and Emma Watson in the works to star. Teller and Chazelle had teamed on Whiplash, and the writer-director penned La La Land before that movie, which landed a Best Picture nomination last year and won him the Adapted Screenplay Oscar. But Teller moved on and Lionsgate scooped up Gosling and Stone in April.

Hernandez’s other credits include television appearances on From Dusk Till Dawn and Members Only. She’ll next star in the upcoming film Cover Girl.

de Armas’ “Arms & The Dudes” Set for March 2016 Release

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Tom Castaneda

Ana de Armas and her Dudes will be hitting theaters next March…

Warner Bros. has set the release date for Arms & The Dudes, starring the 27-year-old Cuban actress, for March 11, 2016.

Based on the Rolling Stone article by Guy Lawson, the film follows two arms dealers Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz, who get a government contract to supply weapons for US troops in Afghanistan.

The is set for release on March 11, 2016.

de Armas portrays Iz in the Todd Phillips-directed biographical crime comedy, which also stars Jonah Hill, Miles Teller and J. B. Blanc.

de Armas’ will next appear in the Edgar Ramirez-starrer Hands of Stone, which tells the story of boxing legend Roberto Duran.

de Armas to Star Opposite Jonah Hill in “Arms and The Dudes”

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Tom Castaneda

Ana de Armas is up in arms…

The 26-year-old Cuban actress has landed a starring role opposite Miles Teller and Jonah Hill in Warner Bros.’ Arms and The Dudes.

The Todd Phillips film, which heads into production this month, revolves around two buddies who join forces as young adults to become successful international arms dealers until they find themselves well beyond their depth.

The film is based on a 2011 Rolling Stone article by Guy Lawson.

de Armas was at the Sundance Film Festival last month with her latest movie, Eli Roth’s Knock Knock, in which she stars opposite Keanu Reeves.

Her credits include the upcoming Roberto Duran biopic Hands of Stone and she’s shooting Gee Malik Linton’s mystery-thriller Daughter of God right now in New York City.

Casciani to Star in the Vinnie Pazienza Biopic “Bleed For This”

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Tom Castaneda

Tina Casciani is ready to bleed…

The half-Brazilian actress has landed a role in director Ben Younger’s Vinnie Pazienza biopic Bleed For This.

Casciani will portray Heather, a love interest for boxing champ Pazienza (played by Miles Teller).

The cast also includes Katey Sagal, Aaron Eckhart and Ciaran Hands.

She has a recurring role on the CW’s Jane The Virgin, starring Gina Rodriguez.

Her credits include television appearances on Reckless, Murder In The First, CSI and Revenge.

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