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Exclusive: Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks locked deals on its AFM titles Electrophilia and Pacifico.

The company has sold Pacifico to Splendid Films for German-speaking Europe and Nashe Kino for Russia, Cis, and the Baltics. The film is set for a 2025 release in all the territories. Directed by Gonzalo Gutierrez, Pacifico is currently in post-production and is set to launch the pic with a market premiere next year. The company has said it’s currently in negotiations with U.S., Spanish, UK, and Latin American distributors.

Described as an adventure-Sci-Fi film, Pacifico follows a group of young travelers that are stranded on an island in the Pacific where they struggle to escape an evil presence that has been kept hidden from mankind for centuries.

The film stars an expansive Latin American ensemble, including Gabi de Faria (James Gunn’s DC Comic’s Superman 2025), Manolo Cardona (Undertow), Ricardo Abarca (Que Culpa Tiene...

Stars: Gina Rodriguez, Anthony Mackie, Thomas Dekker, Vivian Chan, Barbarella Pardo, Cristina Rodlo, Sebastián Cano, Damián Alcázar, Ricardo Abarca, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Erick Delgadillo, Mikhail Plata | Written by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer | Directed by Catherine Hardwicke

Miss Bala is the English language remake of the Mexican film of the same name, released in 2011, directed by Gerardo Naranjo. The 2019 remake is directed by Catherine Hardwicke and features Jane the Virgin star, Gina Rodriguez as Gloria. A character who is caught up in a deadly game between gangland Mexico and Us forces, who plant Gloria in the midst of gathering intel on the former or face prosecution in the Us by the latter. Miss Bala for the most part, is an enjoyable little action/thriller. It’s never completely riveting or mesmerising in what it offers but sticks to what it knows with Hardwicke strong behind the wheel.

Performance wise it’s a mixed bag overall.

With a soundtrack recorded by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Wellington and sound engineer John Neill of Peter Jackson’s Park Road Studio serving as recording producer and score mixer, Latin America’s first multi-million dollar science fiction horror movie “Pacific,” is set to make a splash when it bows next year.

Producer Mauricio Brunetti estimates the final production cost for “Pacific,” now in post for its multiple visual effects, will reach up to $10 million and if all goes well, it may even have its world premiere in New Zealand.

The Colombian-Argentine co-production is the directorial debut of visual effects supervisor Gonzalo Gutierrez who has worked on such films as “Xyz” and on the original Argentine and Colombian versions of hit romantic comedy “Lion’s Heart” (“Corazon de Leon”).

“Pacific” is a reunion of sorts for Gutierrez, Brunetti and the leads of the Colombian “Lion’s Heart,” Manolo Cardona and Maria Nela Sinisterra.

The first trailer for Catherine Hardwicke’s forthcoming action thriller, Miss Bala has been released by Sony Pictures UK.

Crammed with lots of action, the Jane the Virgin star, Gina Rodriguez, takes the lead in the movie which she’s her being forced into a life of crime as a mole for the DEA. As events unfold and her Family come under threat, she takes matters into her own hands.

Directed by Hardwicke, the film also stars Ismael Cruz Córdova, Matt Lauria, Ricardo Abarca, and Anthony Mackie.

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The film releases into UK cinemas February 8, 2019.

Miss Bala Official Synopsis

Gloria (Gina Rodriguez) finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength.

Gina Rodriguez and Ismael Cruz star in Miss Bala...

Gina Rodriguez, who is best known her role in Jane The Virgin is being built up to be the next big female action star. She recently had a role in the sci-fi thriller Annihilation, and now there’s Miss Bala. She takes on the lead role in the movie in which she plays a young woman who is forced to become a mole for the DEA in a drug cartel. As the story progresses she is forced to take the situation into her own hands when her family is threatened. Here’s the synopsis that was released:

Gloria (Gina Rodriguez) finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength.

Miss Bala is actually based on a Mexican film of the same name, which was inspired by the true story of...

"You have to believe me - they made me do it!" Sony Pictures has unveiled the first trailer for the remake of Miss Bala, about a young beauty contest winner who is forced to work for a crime boss after she witnesses a murder. This Hollywood remake is based on Gerardo Naranjo's original 2011 film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival that year. This new take on Miss Bala stars Gina Rodriguez and it's entirely in English, despite still being set in/around Mexico. The full cast includes Anthony Mackie, Matt Lauria, Aislinn Derbez, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Cristina Rodlo, and Ricardo Abarca. I'm a fan of the original film, unfortunately this looks like an exaggerated, action-filled update that focuses way too much on everything Hollywood loves - beautiful women, guns, action, explosions. It looks like a really bad remake. Watch out. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Catherine Hardwicke's Miss Bala,...