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Salma Hayek to Star in Season 6 Episode of “Black Mirror”

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Salma Hayek is Black-ing out…

Netflix has revealed the official episode titles and plot synopses for Season 6 of its dystopian sci-fi series Black Mirror, with the 56-year-old Mexican actress/producer appearing in one episode.

Salma HayekThe series, which is set to debut in June, will feature five new episodes titled “Joan Is Awful,” featuring Hayek, “Loch Henry,” “Beyond the Sea,” “Mazey Day” and “Demon 79.”

Meanwhile, Danny Ramirez will appear on a separate episode.

The Colombian & Mexican American actor will star alongside Zazie Beetz and Clara Rugaard in Mazey Day.

Here are Netflix’s plot descriptions and cast for each episode:

Joan Is Awful
An average woman is stunned to discover a global streaming platform has launched a prestige TV drama adaptation of her life — in which she is portrayed by Hayek.
Directed by: Ally Pankiw
Written by: Charlie Brooker
Starring: Annie Murphy, Hayek Pinault, Michael Cera, Himesh Patel, Rob Delaney, Ben Barnes 

Loch Henry
A young couple travel to a sleepy Scottish town to start work on a genteel nature documentary – but find themselves drawn to a juicy local story involving shocking events of the past.
Directed by: Sam Miller
Written by: Charlie Brooker
Starring: Samuel Blenkin, Myha’la Herrold, Daniel Portman, John Hannah, Monica Dolan

Beyond the Sea
In an alternative 1969, two men on a perilous high-tech mission wrestle with the consequences of an unimaginable tragedy.
Directed by: John Crowley
Written by: Charlie Brooker
Starring: Aaron Paul, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, Auden Thornton, Rory Culkin 

Mazey Day
A troubled starlet is dogged by invasive paparazzi while dealing with the consequences of a hit-and-run incident.
Directed by: Uta Briesewitz
Written by: Charlie Brooker
Starring: Zazie Beetz, Clara Rugaard, Danny Ramirez 

Demon 79
Northern England, 1979. A meek sales assistant is told she must commit terrible acts to prevent disaster.
Directed by: Toby Haynes
Written by: Charlie Brooker and Bisha K. Ali
Starring: Anjana Vasan, Paapa Essiedu, Katherine Rose Morley, David Shields

“Black Mirror” creator Charlie Brooker wrote all five of the Season 6 episodes, including executive producer Bisha K. Ali for “Demon 79.” Brooker serves as an executive producer alongside longtime producing partner Annabel Jones and Jessica Rhoades.

This is the first “Black Mirror” season to be produced by Brooker and Jones’ new production company Broke & Bones.

 

Buffalo 8 Acquires North American Rights to Rodrigo Cortés’ Musical Drama “Love Gets a Room”

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Rodrigo Cortés’ love is heading to the U.S.

Buffalo 8 has acquired the North American rights to the 48-year-old Spanish film director’s musical drama Love Gets a Room, slating it for a limited theatrical release this fall.

Rodrigo CortésStarring Clara Rugaard and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, the film is a romantic tale of love and survival in the face of harrowing circumstances and encompasses themes of perseverance, resilience, and sacrifice. It’s set in 1942 and follows a group of Jewish actors who perform a theatrical play in the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto. Rugaard’s character must make a life-or-death decision in the middle of her stage show—to follow her heart, or to escape the Warsaw ghetto.

Love Gets a Room screened for buyers at the Cannes Film Festival after making its world premiere at the Festival de Sevilla.

Cortés wrote the film with David Safier. Adrián Guerra and Núria Valls produced, with Cortés executive-producing, and Miguel Angel Faura and Rugaard serving as associate producers.

“A true roller coaster of emotions, beautifully told and thought provoking,” said Buffalo 8’s Head of Distribution, Nikki Stier Justice, of the film. “I was really impressed with Cortes’ nuanced approach to direction and Clara Rugaard stole the show with her performance.”

Cortes’ previous projects include Buried, Red Lights and Down a Dark Hall.

Rodrigo Cortés Directing the Warsaw Ghetto-Set Romantic Musical Drama “Love Gets a Room”

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Rodrigo Cortés is preparing for some love and music…

The 48-year-old Spanish film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and writer will helm Love Gets a Room, a Warsaw Ghetto-set romantic musical drama.

Rodrigo Cortés

The film will star Clara Rugaard and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo.

Shot under the radar in order to magnify impact nearer to release when theaters return, said its producer Adrián Guerra, Love Gets a Room is produced and financed by Guerra’s Nostromo Pictures, with Lionsgate International handling international rights and CAA representing U.S. rights.

Top Spanish independent A Contracorriente Films will release the film in Spain theatrically at the end of the year.

Written by German bestseller writer David Safier and Cortés, the film captures a group of actors as they perform in the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto, in a life or death context on a run-down stage, Love Gets a Room, a real-life musical comedy that was written by playwright Jerzy Jurandot, a Polish Jew, and performed by a group of actors in the winter of 1942 at the Femina Theater in Warsaw.

“Safier discovered the existence of the original work and wanted to honor that beautiful achievement made by a group of actors now forgotten in the middle of the blackness,” Guerra told Variety.

The text of the play that is represented in the film is the original, as it was performed in 1942. The lyrics of the songs have survived, with the music for the film being composed in the tradition of the musical theater of that time. All the songs have been shot live and the sound of the original takes has been used, without playback.

Told in real time —as Cortés’ acclaimed Buried – Love Gets a Room “engulfs the audience in an emotional adventure to discover a side of history never before told on film,” Guerra said.

This pictures “all kinds of artists (actors, musicians, writers) still performing, under the most unlikable circumstances, only to save their sanity, to stoke the art they deeply love, to engage in a civilizing, humanity-affirming exchange,” he added.

Love Gets a Room captures Cortés on a roll, after the publication of his second novel, The Extraordinary Years, written in the great Spanish tradition of the absurd which became one of the unexpected literary hits this summer in Spain.