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Sony Pictures has set Jonás Cuarón as the director for El Muerto, which will star Bad Bunny, also known as Benito A Martínez Ocasio, Deadline has learned. Cuarón, the son of Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón, is known for the 2015 thriller film Desierto. El Muerto is in early development, and Gareth…

EXCLUSIVE: Jonas Cuarón has been tapped to direct an untitled feature film for Netflix with Chris Columbus’ 26th Street Pictures producing. He is also penning the most recent draft of the script based on the original script by Marcus Rinehart, Sean Kennedy Moore and Joe Barnathan. The film follows a teenager, who…

EXCLUSIVE: ICM Partners has inked Marisé Álvarez, who is the star of the Jonás Cuarón Showtime pilot Hombre.  Álvarez plays Leticia opposite Gael Garcia Bernal in a story that centers around a Mexican-American family man living undocumented in the United States. His wife (Álvarez) is detained by ICE, and he assumes…

Showtime has rounded out the series regular cast for Hombre, its thriller drama pilot from BAFTA nominee Jonas Cuarón (Gravity), starring Gael Garcia Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle). Marisé Alvarez (The Vessel), Greg Grunberg (A Star Is Born), Pepi Sonuga (Famous In Love), Adriana Santos (Taken) and newcomer Noah Reyes…

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime has given a pilot commitment to an untitled drama starring and executive produced by Golden Globe Award winner Gael García Bernal (Mozart In the Jungle) and created by Jonás Cuarón (Gravity). Lie To Me creator Sam Baum will also serve as an executive producer, along with journalist and DACA…

Jonás Cuarón, who co-wrote the acclaimed feature Gravity with his father, Alfonso Cuarón, is set to adapt Undocumented America, a manuscript by journalist — and DACA beneficiary — Karla Cornejo Villavicencio as a potential TV series for Brad Weston’s Makeready. Based on the book to be published by Spiegel & Grau, Undoc…

Talk about timely. Jonas Cuaron’s riveting, pulse-pounding Desierto premiered not at this year’s Toronto Film Festival but during the 2015 edition. Finally, STX Entertainment, which picked up the movie for domestic distribution, will release it this week, and the movie certainly touches on the hot-button topic of…

“Just doin’ a little huntin’.” That’s what the truly creepy Sam (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) calls trying to pick off helpless migrants who are trapped in the desert. Gael Garcia Bernal stars in Desierto as the prey in this border thriller from director Jonas Cuarón, who co-wrote the pic with Mateo García Elizondo. The Gravit…

The Jonas Cuaron thriller, which is closing the Los Angeles Film Festival tonight, will open on Oct. 14 in limited venues. STX Entertainment acquired Desierto out of last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Pic follows a group of Mexicans who are crossing the border and run up against a gun-toting racist who…

EXCLUSIVE: Gael García Bernal and Jonás Cuarón are coming together again — this time for the reboot of Zorro in a film entitled Z. Cuarón's Desierto, which stars García Bernal, will be released by STX Entertainment later in the year. The new pairing on Zorro is being brought to Cannes after Cuarón introduced the…

Jonás Cuarón's Desierto will be the closing night film of the LA Film Festival on June. 9. In addition, the festival will also host a world premiere special screening of James Wan's The Conjuring 2 on June 7. The horror film will be released in theaters nationwide on June 10 from New Line/Warner Bros. Also, the cast…

Jonás Cuarón, who penned Gravity and recently wrote and directed the Toronto Film Festival pic Desierto, has been tapped to write and direct a new take on Zorro. The pic, titled Z, will be produced by Lantica Media and Sobini Films, and principal photography is set to start in the summer at Pinewood Dominican Republic…