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Editors note: Santiago Pozo is founder and CEO of Arenas Entertainment, the oldest Hispanic company in Hollywood. He is also a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and serves on the Public Relations branch executive committee. Watching last week's Golden Globe Awards, and noting the number…

Modern Family star Sofia Vergara is teaming with Emiliano Calemzuk, former CEO of Shine Americas and president of Fox TV Studios, and her longtime business parther Luis Balaguer, founder of Latin World Entertainment, to form digital media company Raze, which will center on Latin-centered stories. UTA and Ziffren…

The brightest stars in Hollywood gathered at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday to celebrate the power of movies and television to “bring diverse tales to life” and “inspire us to find deeper meaning in our shared humanity,” as President Barack Obama wrote in his slap-on-the-back letter to attendees inside the ceremony’s…

The social media universe reacted quickly to Sofia Vergara’s speech Sunday night at the Golden Globes when she introduced this year's Misses Golden Globes, Sylvester Stallone's daughters Sophia, Sistine and Scarlet. The Modern Family star read a script in which she deliberately fudged the word “annual” to result in…

ABC has put in development The Classic, an hourlong family drama produced by Mandalay Sports Media, Modern Family star Sofia Vergara and her Latin WE, and Delirio Films. 20th Century Fox TV, which also produces Modern Family, is the studio. Written by Todd E. Kessler  (The Good Wife, Nashville) and to be directed by…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben-Hur‘s Toby Kebbell, X-Men‘s James Marsden and Bad Teacher‘s Lucy Punch have joined Sofia Vergara and others in the cast of Whitney Cummings’ comedy The Female Brain. Based on the book by neuro-psychiatrist Louann Brizendine, Female Brain looks at the inner workings and complex power of brain chemistry…

Sofia Vergara and Luis Balaguer’s Latin World Entertainment has hired producer Melissa Gelineau as VP Television & Development. The company is under an overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV. Gelineau moves to LatinWE from NBCUniversal International TV Production, where she served as VP Development. During her tenure…

A mob of actors has signed on to James Oakley’s broad comedy The Brits Are Coming. Tim Roth, Parker Posey, Maggie Q, Alice Eve and Stephen Fry are joining Uma Thurman, who along with Roth play an eccentric British con-artist couple Harriet and Peter Fox. In debt to Ivanka, a notorious gangster played by Maggie Q…

HBO’s documentary film The Latin Explosion: A New America is set to debut Monday, November 16 on HBO and HBO Latino and simulcast in Latin America and the Caribbean. Created and executive produced by music mogul Tommy Mottola, The Latin Explosion: A New America celebrates the artists and visionaries who have exploded…

There’s a new member of the Pritchett family. Jeremy Maguire has joined Modern Family Season 7 in a recasting for the role of Fulgencio “Joe” Pritchett. His onscreen mom Sofia Vergara (Gloria) revealed the identity of the newest cast member in an instagram post this morning. The role has been played for the past two…

Hot Pursuit director Anne Fletcher has been quoted as saying in essence she’s only concerned — presumably, in this case — about making a movie for audience satisfaction, not critics. All well and good but, as I say in my video review above, this movie is one hot mess that even easy-to-please average moviegoers are…

In buddy comedy Hot Pursuit (fka Don’t Mess With Texas), Reese Witherspoon plays an uptight cop trying to protect the widow (Sofia Vergara) of a drug kingpin as they race through Texas. The pic, a combo of Midnight Run and The Heat, is being produced by Witherspoon and her Pacific Standard partner Bruna Papandrea with…