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Luis Guzmán to Star in Rian Johnson’s Peacock Series “Poker Face”

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Luis Guzmán is playin’ poker…

The 66-year-old Puerto Rican actor will star in Peacock’s Poker Face, a mystery drama series starring Natasha Lyonne, hailing from Rian Johnson, his T-Street banner and MRC Television.

Luis GuzmánGuzman is among a roster of new cast additions that includes Cherry Jones, Hong Chau and Reed Birney.

Details of their roles, as well as plot details of the 10-episode anthology-like series are being kept under wraps.

In addition to Lyonne, the four join previously announced cast members Adrien Brody, Angel Desai, Audrey Corsa, Benjamin Bratt, Charles Melton, Chloe Sevigny, Clea DuVall, Danielle MacDonald, Dascha Polanco, Ellen Barkin, Jasmine Aiyana Garvin, Jameela Jamil, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Judith Light, Leslie Silva, Lil Rel Howery, Niall Cunningham, Nicholas Cirillo, Nick Nolte, Ron Perlman, S. Epatha Merkerson, Shane Paul McGhie, Simon Helberg, Stephanie Hsu, Tim Blake Nelson and Tim Meadows.

Johnson is the creator, writer and director of Poker Face and will also executive produce alongside T-Street partner Ram Bergman and the company’s television president Nena Rodrigue. Nora Zuckerman and Lilla Zuckerman (Prodigal Son, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D) serve as showrunners and executive producers. Lyonne also will serve as an executive producer via her Animal Pictures. The company’s Maya Rudolph and Danielle Renfrew Behrens will co-executive produce.

Guzmán is best known for his roles in Steven Soderbergh’s films such as Out of Sight, The Limey, and Traffic, and in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch-Drunk Love.

On television, he has had key roles on Showtime’s Shameless, Epix’s Godfather of Harlem and Perpetual Grace, LTD.

Concourse Media Acquires Worldwide Sales Rights to Yara Martinez’s Comedy “Good Egg”

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Yara Martinez will be eggin’ on audiences across the globe…

Concourse Media has acquired the worldwide sales rights to the 42-year-old Puerto Rican actress’ comedy Good Egg ahead of its premiere at the Bentonville Film Festival this week.

Yara Martinez, Good EggThe film follows a warmhearted schoolteacher, played by Martinez, who inadvertently gets plunged into a dangerous scheme by her suspicious IVF egg donor, played by Andrea Londo. As the adventure ensues, she and her husband, played by Joel Johnstone, must evade criminal captors.

The film was written and directed by Nicole Gomez Fisher and produced by Fisher alongside Dorottya Mathe and Martinez.

The film also stars Priscilla Lopez, Joseph Melendez, and Sharinna Allan, alongside Johnstone, Nick Creegan, Haas Manning and Nicholas Cirillo.

Concourse Media will be presenting the film to select domestic distributors during this week’s Bentonville festival and will launch international sales at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

“Good Egg is an entertaining and heartfelt film that puts an amusing spin on the complexities of fertility treatment, which millions of families in the US and abroad go through,” said Concourse Media CEO Matthew Shreder. “There’s a large audience out there who will relate to and enjoy this film which we are excited to share with distributors.”

Martinez’s previous credits include Jane the Virgin, Bull and The Tick.