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“Hello, wizards and witches!” Tiffany Haddish exclaimed as she walked out on the stage at Universal Studios Hollywood Tuesday night to host an exclusive preview event celebrating the release of the highly anticipated upcoming augmented reality (AR) real-world mobile game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, which is set to be…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Peña will play the antagonist in Warner Bros’ live-action/aminated take on the classic cartoon, Tom & Jerry, which Tim Story is directing. Peña joins previously announced star Chloe Grace Moretz, who leads the film as Kayla, a new hire at an elegant Park Hotel where Jerry is staying. Worried for her…

Paramount Pictures released the first trailer Saturday for Dora and the Lost City of Gold. The live-action film is based on the popular Nickelodeon animated series, Dora the Explorer, and stars Eva Longoria, Michael Peña, and Isabela Moner in the title role. After spending most of her life exploring the jungle with…

Netflix has released the official trailer for Narcos: Mexico, the fourth season of the streaming network’s drug trafficking drama, with new stars Diego Luna and Michael Peña. After three seasons in Colombia in the pre- and post-Pablo Escobar world, Narcos has moved to Mexico, where it explores the origins of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Peña has been tapped to play the iconic Mr. Roarke in the Sony Pictures and Blumhouse-produced Fantasy Island film adaptation from director Jeff Wadlow (Truth Or Dare). Peña is taking on a role that was originated by Ricardo Montalban when the TV series, from Aaron Spelling, launched in 1978 on ABC…

Deadline has confirmed that Ant-Man and The Wasp star Michael Pena is joining Paramount’s live-action feature adaptation of Nickelodeon’s Dora The Explorer, playing the title character’s father to Eva Longoria’s mother. The James Bobin-directed pic hits theaters on Aug. 2, 2019. Dora experiences high school life after…

After spending three seasons in Colombia, Netflix’s drug trafficking drama is heading to Mexico. Narcos: Mexico will feature new characters including roles played by Michael Pena and Diego Luna. Netflix unveiled the first look at Pena and Luna’s characters today. Luna (right) is set to play Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo…

EXCLUSIVE: Just because Netflix withdrew its movies from playing here, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a player in the Cannes market. The streaming service has completed a worldwide distribution rights deal worth around $30 million for Next Gen, an animated feature film that is directed by Kevin R. Adams and Joe Ksander…

Netflix has secured worldwide distribution rights to Extinction, bringing the Good Universe/ Mandeville Films sci-fi thriller back to life after Universal Pictures had pulled the pic from its initial January 26 release date. Directed by Ben Young (Hounds Of Love), the pic stars Michael Peña as a man who has a…

Michael Peña and Diego Luna are the latest names to be caught up in Netflix’s drug-trafficking saga. The pair have been cast in Season 4 of Narcos, which recently began production in Mexico City for a 2018 premiere. The streaming service offered no details about their characters or a logline for the fourth season. In…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Peña has been set to star in sci-fi thriller Extinction for Good Universe and Mandeville Films. Ben Young, the helmer behind the gut-wrenchingly suspenseful tale Hounds Of Love, will direct the title from a script by Spenser Cohen, Brad Caleb Kane and Arrival scribe Eric Heisserer. Good Universe…

Surprise! It’s 2017 and maybe everything doesn’t have to be terrible. As a show of good faith, ish, Warner Bros has released the first official trailer for CHIPS, a feature-length comedic adaptation of the campy 1970s-80s NBC TV drama. And if you weren’t thinking 21 Jump Street when you heard about the project, you…