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Premiere Entertainment Group’s body swap comedy The Ballad Of Hortensia has become the most successful local film ever released in El Salvador after its opening weekend.

The film, produced and sold by Premiere, drew an audience of more than 25,000 admissions over its first four days, according to Premiere and local distributor Balun Films.

Directed by Arturo Menendez and starring noted Salvadoran comedian Julio Yúdice,Francisco Gattorno, and Helena Haro, The Ballad Of Hortensia overtook the previous record-holder La Rebusqueda, the 2014 release that garnered 22,300 admissions over three months.

The Ballad Of Hortensia opened in eight theatres on December 12 and ranked...

Toonz Media Group has teamed with Evolutionary Films and Mojo Global Arts on “Minibots,” a new animated feature targeting family audiences, with “Mulan” director Tony Bancroft at the helm. The project, set for release in 2026, was unveiled for pre-sales at AFM 2024.

“Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” scribe Michael Ferris wrote the screenplay, which follows three young geniuses at a summer robotics camp who create sentient mini robots. The story tracks their efforts to protect their creations from a powerful tech company seeking to acquire the technology.

Toonz Media Group CEO P. Jayakumar said the collaboration with Evolutionary Films and Mojo Global Arts “has been a fantastic experience,” expressing confidence in the film’s potential in the global family entertainment market, describing it as a “lively, fun adventure.”

John Adams of Evolutionary Films emphasized the project’s broad appeal: “‘Minibots’ is a story that connects with the entire family.

They say necessity is the mother of invention. In the new crime drama Curfew, viewers are presented with a world where one perceived necessity has led to quite an invention—and imagination is required to truly conceive what such a society would look like.

The show takes place in a future UK where, in response to violence against women, all men are now under a nightly electronic curfew and tagging system. Those are the basic facts of the plot premise, but like any good speculative fiction, Curfew aims to transport us deeper into this imagined world, raise thoughtful questions, and spark meaningful discussion.

Leading the way is seasoned detective Pamela Green, who must investigate when a murder breaks the one rule of this heavily policed system. Played by the skilled Sarah Parish, Pam is convinced only a man could be responsible for such a brutal crime. But with all males confined after dark,...

With Now Showing , your Halloweenies gather each month for a review on something new and something old in horror. This month, co-hosts Michael Roffman and Rachel Reeves are joined by Sammie Kuykendall of The Lady Killers: A Feminine Rage Podcast. Together, they discuss recent fare like ‘Salem’s Lot , Beetlejuice Beetlejuice , Alien on Stage before dusting off older classics like Hell High , Curfew , and The Forever Purge

Stream the episode below or subscribe via Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify , RadioPublic , Acast , Google Podcasts , and RSS . New to the Halloweenies? Catch up with the gang by revisiting their essential episodes on past franchises such as Halloween , A Nightmare on Elm Street , Friday the 13th , Scream , The Evil Dead , Chucky , and Alien .

You can also become a member of their Patreon, The Rewind , for even more hilariously irreverent commentaries and one-off deep dives on your favorite rentals. Each month promises something new and unexpected...

Hogwarts Legacy is the first video game set in the well-loved Wizarding World to make players really feel like they're immersed in their own Hogwarts story. Though there are some key features still missing from the gameplay experience, like Quidditch, thanks to Headmaster Black's cancelation, being able to walk through the halls of Hogwarts as a character other than those well-trodden in the Harry Potter franchise was a unique premise fans have flocked to.

Thanks to the use of mods, there are opportunities to make the gameplay experience even more immersive for those looking to get more replay opportunities out of the title. A mod from Nexus Mods user nathdev can help do just that; called Night Curfew, the mod implements a strict curfew time, upping the stakes for those who decide to sneak out in the middle of the night to go on midnight excursions. Though this isn't a new mod,...

Exclusive: AGC Television is dropping a hot TV project into this week’s Series Mania market in Lille.

The Stone Quarry’s Zack Snyder (Zack Snyder’s Justice League), Deborah Snyder (Wonder Woman) and Wesley Coller (Rebel Moon) are among producers of French Foreign Legion series Until The Last One, whose pilot is being directed by Eli Snyder, most recently second unit director on his father’s Rebel Moon.

The series will follow a British deserter from the infamous French Foreign Legion who is found twenty years after fleeing the harsh reality of his mercenary service and forced back with the new recruits in the thick of danger. The series will chart the violence and the politics of the global hotspots where the Legion are sent to fight and the emotional stories and scars carried by its recruits.

The Foreign Legion is famed for its uniqueness as a military outfit,...

Paramount+ may have culled a raft of international originals last month but UK commissioning appears to be continuing apace.

The streamer has given the green light to The Crow Girl from Buccaneer Media, the producer that saw another of its shows, The Doll Factory, ditched by the platform last month.

Starring Eve Myles, Katherine Kelly and Dougray Scott, The Crow Girl is adapted from the Erik Axl Sund novel and begins with the gruesome discovery of a teenage boy’s body discarded in plain sight. Determined to find who is responsible, Dci Jeanette Kilburn joins forces with psychotherapist Sophia Craven to hunt the killer, despite opposition from her superiors including confidant Di Lou Stanley.

The Crow Girl is the first major TV writing gig for Milly Thomas,...