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Exclusive: Denise Richards (The Bold and the Beautiful) has signed on to star in The Junkyard Dogs, a family comedy from director Jacob Cooney.

The film follows a dog named Houdini who is a master escape artist, and must team up with his neighborhood puppy pals to prevent their block from being robbed by a duo of bumbling thieves.

Richards will play Monica Sullivan, a single mother of two who discovers, while focused on her upcoming wedding, that both her children and her precocious pup are devising a plan to stop the thieves before their neighborhood falls under siege.

Chad A. Verdi, Chelsea Vale, David Gere, Chad A. Verdi Jr. and Paul Luba are producing. Verdi Productions is financing the film, with Vmi Worldwide handling world sales. Pic is scheduled for a day and date theatrical release in mid 2022 through Vmi Releasing.

Richards is an actress, businesswoman, philanthropist and New...

Exclusive Update, 2.30Pm: Deadline understands that Spanish producer José Luis Moreno’s YouMore TV was dropped by agency APA after just three months in November last year. There is no suggestion it was linked to today’s events.

Previous, 8.20Pm: José Luis Moreno, a heavyweight Spanish television producer, has been arrested in Spain amid allegations of fraud, according to local reports.

Spanish state broadcaster Tve reported that Moreno was one of 53 people arrested on Tuesday during a major police operation in Madrid. Officers are investigating allegations including organized crime, fraud, and money laundering.

Deadline reported in August 2020 that Moreno’s Spanish production company YouMore TV was signed by APA as it looks to expand its operations in the U.S. Deadline has contacted his reps APA for comment.

YouMore TV was in production last year on Jane Seymour and Denise Richards’ Glow And Darkness, a three-season English language drama set in the Middle Ages.

Madrid — Jose Luis Moreno, a Spanish TV institution whose “Escenas de Matrimonio,” comic sketches of marital life, were adapted in France by M6 as “Escènes de menage,” which proved a French TV phenomenon, is back behind the camera with a star English-language cast for the now-filming period drama “Glow and Darkness,” presented at a press conference in Madrid on Tuesday.

Writer and poet Alejandro Gillermo Roemmers created the series and co-wrote the first season with Moreno, whose his Madrid-based company Dreamlight International Productions co-produces.

Notably, the series does not yet have distribution, which according to Moreno is by design.

“We hope distributors see our work and, if they value it, will start speaking with us,” he explained.

Moreno brought with him just part of the series’ substantial international cast, headlined by two former Bond girls in two-time Golden Globe-winner Jane Seymour and Denise Richards as well as Oscar-nominated actor Bruce Davison.

Now for something truly remarkable from the neglected Spanish cinema. Luis García Berlanga's wicked satire is a humanistic black comedy, free of cynicism. The borderline Kafkaesque situation of an everyman forced into a profession that horrifies him is funny and warm hearted - but with a ruthless logic that points to universal issues beyond Franco Fascism. The Executioner Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 840 1963 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 92 min. / El Verdugo / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 25, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert . Cinematography Tonino Delli Colli Film Editor Afonso Santacana Original Music Miguel Asins Arbó Written by Luis García Berlanga, Rafael Azcona, Ennio Flaiano Produced by Nazario Belmar Directed by Luis García Berlanga

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Criterion brings us 1963's The Executioner (El Verdugo), a major discovery for film fans that thought Spanish cinema began and ended with Luis Buñuel. I've seen politically-charged Spanish films from...

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This week in a Houston courtroom, the head of a Mexico-based sex trafficking ring was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison - four months after his alleged admission to FBI agents he'd smuggled dozens of underage girls into the U.S. to work as prostitutes. A statement obtained by People confirms that on Monday, U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore sentenced Gerardo Salazar, a 51-year-old Mexican national better known by his moniker "El Gallo," which means "The Rooster." In October, Salazar pleaded guilty to four counts of harboring illegal aliens for the purpose of prostitution. He was first indicted on...

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