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EXCLUSIVE: In the midst of Hispanic Heritage Month, The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts has teamed with the ArcFord Foundation for the inaugural Latinx Story Arc Writer’s Room Program, which will help create a strong television and film Latinx writer pipeline. In a time when representation in front of and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Titans just made a killer cast addition: Esai Morales will portray Deathstroke, the fan-favorite assassin and archenemy of Teen Titans leader Dick Grayson. The Titans, the first original programming franchise for the DC Universe subscription steaming site, launched in September and finished its first…

Esai Morales (Superfly) is set for a recurring role on the upcoming tenth season of CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles. Morales will play Deputy Director Louis Ochoa. Smart, authoritative, polished and trustworthy, Ochoa accompanies a special prosecutor from the Department of Defense who is investigating the NCIS office and its…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about tonight's How to Get Away With Murder Season 4 finale "Nobody Else is Dying" on ABC. A car crash, a stolen baby, a long-lost son, a break-up, deportation, criminal justice reform, and, obviously, murder – the Season 4 finale of How to Get Away With Murder had it all…

EXCLUSIVE: Twilight alum Jackson Rathbone, Esai Morales (How To Get Away With Murder), and Alex Meneses (Everybody Loves Raymond) have been cast in the indie film, The Wall Of Mexico, along with Marisol Sacramento, Moises Arias, and Rosanna Arquette. The political comedic drama is being co-directed by Magdalena Zyzak…

Esai Morales is urging his fellow Academy members to watch One on One, a short documentary about a school in rural Puerto Rico that turned around its dropout rate thanks to the tireless work of local activist Nilda Prieto. "This is a school in crisis," he said in a trailer for the film, which he hopes will get some…

It's politics as usual at SAG-AFTRA in the wake of the union's recent election, with several top vote-getters stepping down from their national and local board seats and handing them over to members of their own political faction. What's not usual, however, is that this year a complaint has been filed alleging…

Esai Morales is on a mission. He's running for president of SAG-AFTRA, but more importantly, he says, he's on a crusade to change the union's culture. The union's current leaders, he says, have put their own "petty partisan politics over the needs of the members, and that needs to change." And now he's threatening to…

National Geographic has begun filming and set full cast for Season 2 of its global sci-fi series Mars, from Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment and Radical Media. Shooting began this week in Budapest on the six-episode series, which is slated to premiere in spring 2018. Esai Morales (Ozark), Roxy Sternb…

UPDATED with video of post-meeting chaos, below: Tempers flared at a raucous SAG-AFTRA informational meeting in Burbank yesterday when a security guard grabbed presidential candidate Esai Morales and tussled with him, yanking the microphone out of his hands as he tried to speak to the members from the floor about his…

It's election season again at SAG-AFTRA, and the results of three local elections are already in, with dozens of candidates running unopposed and being "declared elected without the necessity of a membership vote." More than 30 candidates in the Michigan, Twin Cities and Missouri Valley locals – including their…

Esai Morales has announced that he's running for president of SAG-AFTRA. He will be joined on the Membership First ticket by Jane Austin, who is running for re-election as national secretary-treasurer. This will be Morales' second run for the presidency; he was defeated by Ken Howard in 2013. SAG-AFTRA president…