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.

Edgar Ramirez to Star in the Action-Comedy “The Honest Liar”

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Tom Castaneda

Edgar Ramirez has earned honest work…

The 47-year-old Venezuelan Golden Globe-nominated actor will star in the action-comedy The Honest Liar.

Ramirez will star alongside Samuel Jackson and Andra Day in the film.

Altitude is introducing the film to buyers at this week’s American Film Market, with CAA Media Finance handling domestic rights.

Written and directed by Wayne Kramer, the film will see Jackson star as an award-winning actor tasked with teaching rookie undercover cops how to act like criminals so they can save their own lives when on the job.

The film will be produced by Hollywood veteran Dan Grodnik and Jeffrey Reisner, through their new outfit Golden Eagle Movie Studios, and executive-produced by Gail Thackray and Tracy Beam.

Cameras are due to roll early next year.

The official synopsis reads: “Nick DeFranco is an award-winning actor facing jail time when he falls for an undercover sting. Nick criticizes the undercover police for their terrible “acting’ that he can’t believe he fell for. He knew something was wrong and went for it anyway. Impressed by Nick’s acting ability, the Police Captain offers Nick probation instead of hard time, in return for teaching his team how to act like real dealers. Nick has no choice but to agree. When Nick gets involved with a female rookie, he finds himself playing amateur undercover cop and getting more involved than intended, putting them both in danger of blowing her cover with some dangerous criminals.”

Grodnik said: “Wayne Kramer’s forte is creating original stories around people we care about. The Honest Liar grabbed me from the first page, drew me in emotionally, never took its foot off the gas, and ended on a satisfying high note. Samuel L. Jackson as Nick will make this a must see movie.”

Netflix Releases First Trailer for Musical Crime Comedy “Emilia Peréz,” Starring Zoe Saldaña

Posted on August 26, 2024 by Tom Castaneda

Zoe Saldaña is mixing music, crime and comedy…

Netflix has released the first teaser for one of its most anticipated films of the year — the Spanish-language musical crime comedy Emilia Peréz, starring the 46-year-old Puerto Rican and Dominican American actress,

Hailing from Jacques Audiard, the film won multiple awards in its premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Hitting select theaters in the U.S. and Canada on November 1 before debuting on the streamer on November 13, Emilia Peréz implements song, dance and bold visuals to chronicle the journeys of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness.

Among them is Rita (Saldaña), an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead-end job, who agrees to help the fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) fake her death so that she can finally live authentically as her true self.

Also starring Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Edgar Ramírez, the film garnered an 11-minute standing ovation in its premiere in Competition at Cannes, winning the Jury Prize and the award for Best Actress, which was shared by the female members of the ensemble, as well as the Cannes Soundtrack Award.

Out of Cannes, Netflix snapped up North American and UK rights to the film, which was one of the buzziest participating in this year’s market.

In her review for Deadline at the time, Stephanie Bunbury said of the film, “On paper, it looks mad as a loose wheel. A largely Spanish-language musical about a Mexican druglord having a sex change, featuring a onetime Disney teen star Selena Gomez as a gangster’s wife…but here it is on the screen, a musical marvel.”

Written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Léa Mysius, Emilia Peréz marked the former revered French filmmaker’s seventh film to play Cannes.

Adria Arjona to Star in Ed Brubaker’s Graphic Novel Series “Criminal”

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Tom Castaneda

Adria Arjona is getting criminal…

The 32-year-old Puerto Rican actress has joined the cast of Ed Brubaker’s graphic novel series Criminal in a series regular role.

Arjona joins previously announced cast member Richard Jenkins.

Criminal is an interlocking universe of crime stories based on the multi-Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series created by Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

Arjona will bring to life Greta, a sharp-tongued top-level car thief and driver and the widowed mother of Angie. Ever since her husband died in a bank job gone bad, Greta has been battling with herself about how to escape the only life she’s ever known – and the only place she’s ever thrived. The problem is, she’s good at this. She’s looking for a big score, a lump of money she can use like a gun to shoot her and Angie out of this life and into another one.

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden will direct the first four episodes.

The series is executive produced by Brubaker and Jordan Harper, alongside Phillips, Sarah Carbiener and Phillip Barnett.

Legendary Television will also serve as an executive producer. The series is produced by Amazon MGM Studios.

Arjona can currently be seen in Richard Linklater’s Netflix movie Hit Man starring alongside Glen Powell. Before that, she starred as “Bix Caleen” in the Disney+ hit series, Andor, a prequel to Star Wars’ Rogue One film.

Arjona played a recurring role in HBO’s True Detective Season 2, Netflix’s Narcos and HBO’s Irma Vep, a limited series based on Olivier Assayas’ 1996 feature film.

Up next, she’ll be seen in Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut film Blink Twice as well as Los Frikis, a film she stars in and executive produces.

Additionally, she will star alongside Wagner Moura in the feature film adaptation of Francisco Goldman’s bestselling book Say Her Name and Jayro Bustamante’s dystopian thriller El Sombreron opposite Edgar Ramirez.

Prior film credits include Father Of The Bride, Sony’s Marvel franchise Morbius, Netflix’s Sweet Girl, Michael Bay’s Six Underground, Marco Perego Saldana’s feature The Absence Of Eden, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Life of the Party and Triple Frontier.

Adria Arjona to Star Opposite Edgar Ramirez in Jayro Bustamante’s Dystopian Thriller “El Sombreron”

Posted on May 18, 2024 by Tom Castaneda

Adria Arjona has landed her next role…

The 32-year-old Guatemalan-Puerto Rican actress will co-star opposite Edgar Ramirez in in Jayro Bustamante’s dystopian thriller El Sombreron as The Match Factory launches worldwide sales on the project in Cannes, with CAA Media Finance representing North America.

Bustamante, a Guatemalan director, previously made waves with Mayan drama Ixcanul, which premiered in competition in Berlin, winning the Alfred Bauer Prize (since renamed the Silver Bear Jury prize), and war criminal horror La Llorona, which won Best Director and Best Film in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori in 2019.

Arjona will play an ambitious woman trapped in a marriage as the trophy wife of a violent cartel boss. Desperate for liberation, she seizes the opportunity presented by a mysterious stranger (Ramirez), who promises to smuggle her north. However, once on route, she discovers the harrowing truth about her companion and finds herself thrust into a surreal odyssey.

Bustamante’s La Casa de Produccion, Alejandro De Leon and Brian Clark and Sergio Lira and Lynette Coll for Luz Films will serve as producers.

“In El Sombreron, Jayro fuses magical realism, folklore, and horror to vividly evoke the hell that borders create,” said producers. “We could not have asked for two better guides through the inferno than the immensely talented Adria Arjona and Edgar Ramirez.”

Arjona will next be seen starring in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man opposite Glen Powell, which releases in theaters on May 24 and on Netflix June 7. She’ll also be seen in Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut film Blink Twice, which hits cinemas on August 23.

Ramirez, who clinched Golden Globes nominations for American Crime Story and Carlos, is in Cannes this year for Jacques Audiard’s Competition title Emilia Perez opposite Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez. Upcoming projects include Eli Roth’s Borderlands, co-starring Cate Blanchett, and Arenas directed by Camille Perton.

Peacock Releases First Trailer for Season Two of Edgar Ramírez’s “Dr. Death”

Posted on November 28, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Edgar Ramírez is turning up the charm…

Peacock has released the first trailer for Dr. Death Season 2 starring the 46-year-old Venezuelan actor and Mandy Moore ahead of the show’s December 21 premiere.

Viewers will be able to binge Season 2 in its entirety on drop date.

Season 2 of the anthology series will feature the “Miracle Man” storyline based on the most recent third season of the Wondery podcast.

Paolo Macchiarini (Ramírez) is a charming surgeon, renowned for his innovative operations that earn him the nickname “Miracle Man.” When investigative journalist Benita Alexander (Moore) approaches him for a story, the line between personal and professional begins to blur, changing her life forever.

As she learns how far Paolo will go to protect his secrets, a group of doctors halfway across the world make shocking discoveries of their own that call everything about the “Miracle Man” into question.

Luke Kirby, Ashley Madekwe and Gustaf Hammarsten also star.

The companion documentary Dr. Death: Cutthroat Conman will be released on the same day as the 8-episode season.

Peacock Releases Trailer for Season 2 of Edgar Ramírez Series “Dr. Death”

Posted on October 21, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Death still becomes Edgar Ramírez…

Peacock has released the official teaser and premiere date for Season 2 of Dr. Death starring the 46-year-old Venezuelan actor and Mandy Moore.

All eight episodes will drop on Thursday, December 21 on the streamer.

Season 2 is based on the “Miracle Man” season of the Wondery podcast. It follows Paolo Macchiarini (Ramírez), a superstar celebrity surgeon who ascended to global fame after performing the world’s first synthetic organ transplant. When investigative journalist Benita Alexander (Moore) approaches him for a story, the line between personal and professional begins to blur, changing her life forever. As she learns how far Paolo will go to protect his secrets, a group of doctors halfway across the world make shocking discoveries of their own that call everything about Paolo into question.

Other cast members include Luke Kirby, Ashley Madekwe and Gustaf Hammarsten.

“The joy of an anthology series is the freedom to explore variations on a theme,” said Ashley Michel Hoban, Dr. Death showrunner, EP and writer. “Dr. Death is a show about systemic failures, and this season, these issues reach a global scale. Amid complex narratives, we’ve been fortunate to delve deeply into a story that, while entirely unique, remains surprisingly familiar, as it taps into a truly universal part of the human condition: illness. Even putting aside any recent global pandemics, we all know what it’s like to feel sick. It renders us vulnerable, small, in desperate need of help. A doctor we can trust.”

“This pursuit of trust and truth is what ties our two stories together this season,” Hoban continued. “Two stories that, on the surface, may not seem to have much else in common: Doctors in Sweden on the verge of a breakthrough. A journalist in New York falling in love. However, both revolve around individuals made to feel small. They’re about people standing up to something bigger, for something bigger, and how their seemingly small choices ripple out into the world to give power and voice to those who have been made to feel powerless and silenced.”

Jennifer Morrison directed episodes 1-4, while Laura Belsey helmed episodes 5-8.

Dr. Death is produced by UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group.

The streamer will also release a companion documentary called Dr. Death: Cutthroat Conman, about the rise and fall of Macchiarini, on Thursday, December 21. It’s from Maxine Productions (a part of Sony Pictures Television), and Universal Television Alternative Studio and chronicles how the surgeon was exposed as an international con man whose web of lies extended decades.

Edgar Ramirez to Appear on the Second Season of Peacock’s “Wolf Like Me”

Posted on August 24, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Edgar Ramirez is howlin’ at the moon…

The 46-year-old Venezuelan actor has joined the cast of Peacock’s romantic-dramedy series Wolf Like Me for season two.

The sophomore season of the series will will debut on October19. It will consist of seven half-hour episodes.

This will mark the second Peacock series in which Ramirez will appear. H

He will also lead the second season of the anthology drama Dr. Death, though that show doesn’t have a premiere date at this time.

The official description of the new season of “Wolf Like Me” states:

“In the second season of Wolf Like Me, Mary (Isla Fisher) and Gary (Josh Gad) leap into the next phase of their relationship and face their biggest challenge yet: pregnancy. As much as they try to have a ‘normal’ pregnancy, it seems impossible with so many questions looming over them. Will their child be a baby or a wolf pup? Just how long can they keep things secret from the rest of their family? And will what happened in the outback come back to haunt them? But when Mary’s former professor, Anton (Ramirez), suddenly reappears in her life, new secrets from Mary’s past are revealed, leaving Mary and Gary to question whether they’re even meant to be together.”

The cast for Season 2 also includes Ariel Donoghue, Emma Lung, Anthony Taufa, and Honour Latukefu.

Abe Forsythe created the series and serves as writer, director, and executive producer via Little Monsters. Made Up Stories produces in partnership with Fifth Season and Stan.

Forsythe wrote a message to fans about the new season prior to the launch of the writers’ strike, which can also be seen below.

Note from Abe Forsythe:

When season one of “Wolf Like Me” concluded, there were countless directions the story and characters could take. I recognized that if we were going to continue, it needed to be just as daring for me as it was for my characters. Mary and Gary’s universe is expanding and is rife with a wealth of new characters, interactions and threats…

In this new world, Isla’s portrayal of Mary continued to surprise me with her heartbreaking vulnerability. She’s operating at another level this season and it continues to be a privilege to push her further and further into what she does best. And Josh always impresses me with how he can register ridiculousness in a way that lets the audience into how crazy everything is, without breaking the tension and letting it fall apart. This season, humor plays an even larger role as we explore the inherent absurdity that ensues when their secrets spill into the open.

Season one was a testament to the mysterious forces of the universe bringing Mary, Gary and Emma together. As we delve into season two, we ask a new question: Is the universe now conspiring to pull them apart?

It’s safe to say that with this new season of “Wolf Like Me,” you can truly expect the unexpected.

Edgar Ramirez’s “Borderlands,” An Adaptation of the Videogame, Will Premiere in August 2024

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Edgar Ramirez is heading to the borderlands next summer…

Eli Roth’s film adaptation of video game Borderlands, starring the 46-year-old Venezuelan actor, has set an August 9, 2024, release date.

In the film, Lilith (two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett) is an infamous treasure hunter with a mysterious past who reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of Atlas (Ramirez), the universe’s most powerful SOB. She forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits – Roland (Kevin Hart), once a highly respected soldier but now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), a feral preteen demolitionist; Krieg (Florian Munteanu), Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), the scientist who’s seen it all; and Claptrap (Jack Black), a persistently wiseass robot.

These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who might hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands – but they’ll be fighting for something more: one another.

Roth and Joe Crombie wrote the screenplay. Ari Arad, Avi Arad and Erik Feig produce. Lionsgate made the film with Media Capital Technologies. It’s an Arad/Picturestart production and a Gearbox Studios and Take-Two Interactive production.

Borderlands is one of the world’s most successful video game franchises, with more than 68M units sold worldwide, including more than 24M units for Borderlands 2, which is the best-selling title in the history of 2K. Borderlands 3, launched in September 2019 for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, selling 12M+ units around the globe and was honored with the Best Multiplayer Game awards at Gamescom 2019 and Best Ongoing Game at Gamescom 2020.

The Lionsgate film will face off against Universal’s Speak No Evil and MGM’s Flint Strong.

Netflix Releases Trailer for Edgar Ramirez’s Limited Series “Florida Man”

Posted on March 5, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Edgar Ramirez is Florida bound…

Netflix has released the trailer for its limited series Florida Man, starring the 45-year-old Venezuelan actor.

The series is set to premiere on April 13.

In Florida Man, created by Donald Todd, when a struggling ex-cop (Ramírez) is forced to return to his home state of Florida to find a Philly mobster’s runaway girlfriend, what should be a quick gig becomes a spiraling journey into buried family secrets and an increasingly futile attempt to do the right thing in a place where so much is wrong.

The series is described as a wild odyssey into a sunny place for shady people in the spirit of Body Heat and Elmore Leonard’s Out of Sight.

The 7-episode project also stars Miami native Otmara Marrero, Anthony LaPaglia, Abbey Lee, Lex Scott Davis, Emory Cohen, Clark Gregg, Isaiah Johnson, Paul Schneider and Lauren Buglioli.

Todd serves as creator, showrunner, and executive producer of Florida Man. Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan executive produce for Aggregate under their Netflix first-look deal.

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