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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first trailer for Tribeca Film Festival world premiere selection Kokoloko by Mexican writer-director Gerardo Naranjo (Miss Bala). The Spanish-language film follows a woman named Marisol who is caught between her possessive and aggressive cousin, Mauro, and passionate but inert lover, Mundo…

EXCLUSIVE: Creative directors Lucas Christman and Jarik van Sluijs and producer Alexandra Hancock have launched Antenna Creative, a motion design studio that will work with clients in feature films, TV, commercials, branded content, video games and experiential attractions. The new venture is already on the board…

Sunday AM Update/Writethru: With most of the majors sitting on the sidelines this Super Bowl weekend, 3-day ticket sales have dropped to $74.7M per ComScore. As we projected, that’s the lowest Super Bowl weekend gross in 19 years, the previous low being $66.3M. This year’s weekend ticket sales figure is also -21% from…

Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez stars in Miss Bala, the Catherine Hardwicke-directed English-language redo of Gerardo Naranjo’s hard-charging 2011 Spanish-language thriller. Columbia Pictures has set a February 1 release date for the film and took the wraps off the first trailer today. Rodriguez, in the…

Sony made a pair of tweaks to its winter release schedule today, moving Escape Room up from February 1 to January 4 and Miss Bala from January 25 to that newly vacated February 1 date. Escape Room (fka The Maze) is a psychological thriller about six strangers who find themselves in circumstances beyond their control…

EXCLUSIVE: As the fight for parity and 50/50 representation wages on, Deadline is continuing to take a deep dive into how the major studios are stacking up when it comes to how many female directors are being hired. Sony is in the spotlight this week. As of right now, the studio’s 2018 film release slate does not…

Sony has just RSVPed the following release dates: A Dog's Way Home starring Ashley Judd, Alexandra Shipp, Wes Studi and Edward James Olmos will open on January 11, 2019. Charles Martin Smith directs the tale about a dog that travels 400 miles from its owner, from a script by W. Bruce Cameron and his wife, Cathryn…

EXCLUSIVE: Gina Rodriguez has officially signed on, along with newcomer Ismael Cruz Córdova, to topline Sony’s Catherine Hardwicke-directed drama Miss Bala, a remake of the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2011. Deadline first reported the Jane The Virgin star as a front-runner for this…

UPDATE: It is Gina Rodriguez, not Michelle who is being courted for Miss Bala, the Jane The Virgin star. She doesn’t have the role yet but is the front-runner. BREAKING: Catherine Hardwicke is in talks to direct Miss Bala, the remake of the Mexican film that was nominated for Best Foreign Film in 2011. Hardwicke and…

USA has cast former How To Make It In America star Bryan Greenberg and newcomer Stephanie Sigman, the breakout star of acclaimed Mexican movie Miss Bala, as the two leads of its untitled hourlong pilot from Numbers creators Nicolas Falacci & Cheryl Heuton, Universal Cable Prods. and Doug Liman and Dave Bartis'…

This season, 63 countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 84th Academy Awards. The 2011 submissions are vying to be among the 9 long-listed by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences before the 5 finalists are announced with Oscar nominations on January 24…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Gerardo Naranjo, the Mexican writer and director of Miss Bala that plays today at Toronto after making its international premiere at Cannes in May. It will also play at The New York Film Festival October 1. Fox releases the film in the U.S. in January. The drama deals with drug violence…