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What a difference a decade makes. It’s been nearly 10 years since Brazil produced the dystopian “3%,” its first series for Netflix. Since then, the country has launched an average of two shows a month on the platform, said Elisabetta Zenatti, VP of content for Netflix in Brazil, who announced last year that the streaming giant was investing $165 million (1 billion Reales) in Brazilian productions thru 2023 and 2024.

On Nov. 29, Netflix’s most ambitious and expensive Brazilian series, “Senna,” launched worldwide. According to the Associated Press, the streamer spent over $170 million on production. Currently ranking number two in Brazil and number six globally in its first week, it’s likely to sit high in Netflix’s Top Ten charts in Brazil and other territories, given the fervent interest in motorsports around the world.

“Senna” chronicles the triumphs, setbacks and personal journey of Brazil’s three-time Formula 1 world champion Ayrton Senna, from his...

Exclusive: Vicente Amorim, showrunner and director behind Netflix’s Senna, has signed with Anonymous Content.

Amorim has inked with Anonymous for representation but continues to be represented by Jack Leighton and David Saunders at Independent Artist Group and Shep Rosenman at Rlg Llp.

The news comes just days before Amorim and Netflix prepare for launch of one of the streamer’s biggest Latin American series of all time, Senna, a six-part biopic about the late, great racing driver.

Starring Kaya Scodelario and Gabriel Leone, the series will dramatize the high-octane exploits of the iconic Brazilian, who tragically died whilst racing in 1994. Amorim has talked previously about the sheer size of the production and it is one of the biggest swings to come from Netflix Lat Am. Footage was teased at last week’s Netflix international showcase.

Amorim’s previous work includes Netflix’s Santo, while he wrote, directed and was...

Stars: Santo, Julio Aldama, Mary Montiel, Santo, Armando Silvestre, Gregorio Casal, Ivonne Govea, Carlos Agostí, Carlos Suarez, Nathanael Leon | Written by Rene Cardona, Jesús Murcielago Velázquez | Directed by Rene Cardona

Santo vs. The Riders of Terror is the 27th entry in the vast Santo franchise, which stands as a cornerstone of Mexican popular culture and cinema. The Santo films feature the legendary luchador El Santo, in a mix of genres – many including action, adventure, and fantastical elements, a combination which has cemented the franchise’s place in the hearts of fans worldwide. This film also comes from the prolific René Cardona, who himself has a fanbase similar in size to that of Santo, making this film a double-header when it comes to fan appreciation!

Speaking of the Santo franchise, Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta is the titular El Santo, a role he began playing in the early 1960s and one that quickly grew into a cultural phenomenon.

Gale is a giddy whirlwind of energy. Within seconds of meeting her, she dives into effusive stories about where she’s been traveling and what she’s been listening to; she’ll share ideas she has for new songs and music videos, she’ll tell you about her family and friends and inspirations. She’ll even tell you if you have lipstick on your teeth.

There’s an open-book quality to the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, who’s turned heads over the last few years writing for some of the biggest acts in Latin music,...

The Pogues are back.

On Thursday evening, the cast and crew of Outer Banks gathered at Westwood’s Regency Village Theater for the show’s season three premiere. This season, the Pogues face yet another dangerous treasure hunt, and after spending the last two seasons looking for the lost Royal Merchant gold and the Cross of Santo Domingo, this season’s focus will be on El Dorado, the lost city of gold.

“It’s very overwhelming and so exciting,” Drew Starkey, who plays Rafe, told The Hollywood Reporter about reuniting with the cast for the premiere. “I’m shaking. It’s always great to get some familiar faces back together, and seeing everyone here is very humbling.”

“Chemistry is something that you can find, but to continue to facilitate and to nurture it is another thing, and I feel like this cast does that really well,” added Madelyn Cline, who plays Sarah Cameron.

Outer Banks Season 3 is still a few weeks away, but many fans have already thought ahead. The Netflix teen drama quickly became a hit in 2020 and is now a comfort show for some viewers, so they don’t want it to end anytime soon. Thankfully, the creators of Obx have thought ahead, too. In a recent interview, Jonas Pate, Josh Pate, and Shannon Burke teased the upcoming Outer Banks Season 3 finale and cleared up rumors that it would be the last season.

Chase Stokes as John B, Madelyn Cline as Sarah Cameron, and Carlacia Grant as Cleo in ‘Outer Banks’ Season 3 | Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix The creators of ‘Obx’ teased season 3’s ‘satisfying, conclusive finale’

Outer Banks Season 3 will pick up with the Pogues — John B. (Chase Stokes), Kiara (Madison Bailey), JJ (Rudy Pankow), Pope (Jonathan Daviss), Sarah (Madelyn Cline), and newcomer Cleo (Carlacia Grant) — stranded on a Caribbean island,...

HBO has secured another ratings hit with their new video game adaptation “The Last of Us,” and while it’s as exciting and epic as the original video game, it also has the distinction of having a Latino leading man. Chilean actor Pedro Pascal plays the protagonist Joel, who is tasked with trekking across the horrific landscape to help find a cure with young Ellie in tow.

With a Latino actor leading such a massive hit for the horror genre, it got us thinking about other great Latino Horror Heroes from pop culture. Here are five of our favorites.

Pablo Simon Bolivar – Ash vs. Evil Dead

Pablo (Ray Santiago) is an Ash fan boy when we first meet him, referring to him as “El Jefe” with admiration. When he’s pulled into the war against the Deadites, the seemingly non-threatening blue collar worker becomes a vicious foe against evil, even...

The 23rd annual Latin Grammys are in full swing and the award list is already full of surprises. Bad Bunny, who led this year nominations with 10 nods, has already snagged some big awards, while Christina Aguilera walked away with a major award in the pop category. The Best New Artist category also saw an unexpected tie between 95-year-old Angela Alvarez, who broke records as the oldest person nominated in the category, and Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada. See the full list of winners so far below:

Best Pop Vocal Album

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Ryan Murphy’s Jeffrey Dahmer series “Monster” overpowered the Netflix top 10 rankings this week, taking the No. 1 spot with 196.2 million hours viewed following its Sept. 21 premiere. During the Sept. 19-Sept. 25 viewing window, the 10-episode limited series knocked “Cobra Kai” Season 5 off of its pedestal and down to the third spot.

Season 2 of “Fate: The Winx Saga” stayed at the No. 2 spot for the second week. The second installment of the fantasy series, which premiered on the streamer on Sept. 16, earned nearly 61 million hours viewed in its first full week of availability. The show’s first season also appeared at No. 5, more than a year after its Jan. 2021 release. It received 20.3 million hours watched during the measured window.

The fifth season of “Cobra Kai” dropped in viewership during its second full week on Netflix. The show raked in 38.1 million hours viewed –– a drastic fall from the previous week’s 95.6 million hours viewed.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 season 13 officially premiered on May 6, but Kickstarter backers were given early access to the first episode, “Santo in the Treasure of Dracula,” on March 4. The live event, the first hosted by MST3K’s own app, the Gizmoplex, opened with 20 minutes of technical difficulties. A black screen with a white dot sporadically gave updates as the audience waited. Once the movie started, there was terrible sound quality. The end credits weren’t done yet, either.

And it was the most fun MST3K has been in a long time.

Everyone behind the scenes seemed to feel it too – the adrenaline of a near-disaster. The live post-show chat was filled with jokes about the difficulties of getting the episode to air, with the production team reveling in the mishaps and the occasionally jury-rigged solutions to their newly pared-down budget.

“We always gotta make sense out of it,...

Netflix is readying the debut of crime original “Santo,” which bows Sept., 16, marking a new milestone for the U.S. streaming giant – its first fiction project shot between Spain and Brazil, two of its key overseas markets.

A major undertaking, the series packs experienced partners and behind-the-camera talent. Produced by Nostromo Pictures (“Through My Window”) with support from Prodigo Films (“Invisible City”), the six-episode series is created by Carlos López (“La Embajada”) and directed by Vicente Amorim (“Yakuza Princess”), an auteur who has consolidated in the last few years as one of Brazil’s foremost action series helmers, having been attached to direct Netflix banner title “Senna.”

“Santo” follows two dogged but divergent cops, Cardona and Millán, as they chase an elusive drug trafficker implicated in occult-linked crimes occurring between Salvador de Bahia, Brazil and Madrid.

The criminal is omnipresent, leading the pair to put aside their mounting differences to...

“Senna,” Netflix’s biggest and most ambitious series ever in Latin America, now has a director. Seasoned Brazilian film-tv action thriller director Vicente Amorim — whose credits include “Good” with Viggo Mortensen and “Yakuza Princess,” with Japanese American singer Masumi and Jonathan Rhys Meyers — has boarded the production.

Portraying the life of Formula One racing genius Ayrton Senna, “Senna,” produced for Netflix Brazil by Sao Paulo-based Gullane in partnership with the Senna family, is now in prep.

The eight-episode fiction miniseries will plumb “the intimacy of the man who became a national hero and conquered the world,” Netflix Brazil announced on Monday.

It looks set to be the biggest play ever by Netflix for one of its biggest markets anywhere in international. In January 2021, Netflix was reported to have already run up 19 million household accounts in Brazil, nearly as many as the streamer’s then 25.49 million for the whole of Asia.