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Las Tres Sisters opens with Mar Novo’s camera tracing the dusty path to Talpa de Allende, where three Mexican-American sisters—Maria, Sofia and Lucia—converge on a six-day pilgrimage. Maria’s concealed diagnoses—one shared with her devoted husband, another kept from her siblings—set the narrative tension.

Scenes shift between bawdy campfire banter and panoramic vistas, underscoring shifts in mood from intimate revelation to rustic grandeur. Estrangement reverberates in every exchange: childhood bonds fray under the weight of secrets, faith and rivalry.

Mar Novo’s direction recalls the observational style of Indian parallel cinema, evoking Satyajit Ray’s quiet humanism and the road-trip freedom of mainstream Bollywood hits like Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. The film’s bilingual dialogue mirrors contemporary global cinema’s interest in linguistic authenticity—similar to Deepa Mehta’s portrayal of diaspora in Water.

Cinematographer’s use of warm earth tones evokes symbolic ties to heritage,...

Exclusive: Myriad Pictures has acquired the U.S. rights to the adventure-comedy Las Tres Sisters (previously known as Sisters) with plans to release it in theaters in the first quarter of 2025.

The film stars Cristo Fernández, Marta Méndez Cross, Valeria Maldonado and Virginia Novello. Fernández also executive produces through his Espectro Mx Films production banner.

Las Tres Sisters follows three sisters who reunite after years of estrangement to complete their beloved grandmother’s pilgrimage through rural Mexico. When Maria (Cross), the eldest, discovers that she has breast cancer, she cooks up a plan to bring her sisters Lucia (Maldonado) and Sofia (Novello) along with her in the search for a miracle. With an old map, no hiking experience and their lives unraveling around them, the trio encounter hilarious and touching experiences on the “camino,...

Myriad Pictures has boarded international sales and will commence talks in Cannes on the comedy drama, Sisters featuring Cristo Fernández from Ted Lasso.

Marta Méndez Cross, Valeria Maldonado, Virginia Novello, Maya Zapata, and Gonzalo García Vivanco star in the Las Caminantas Films production.

Sisters tells of a woman with cancer who tricks her estranged siblings into joining her on her pilgrimage to find a miracle along a path in Mexico used by their beloved grandmother.

Mar Novo directed from a screenplay by Virginia Novello, Marta Méndez Cross, Valeria Maldonado, and Youssef Delara.

Producing are Denisse Prieto, Novello, Cross, and Maldonado.

Exclusive: Cristo Fernández (Ted Lasso) has joined the cast of the Apple TV+ series Acapulco for Season 3 and the Disney+ film Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day reimagination.

In Acapulco, Fernández will portray an artist and community organizer. Deadline exclusively announced the addition of Jaime Camil in the role of Alejandro for Season 3. Production on the 10-episode new season is currently underway.

When Acapulco returns with new episodes, it’s time to reconcile past mistakes and exciting new beginnings. In the present story, older Maximo (Eugenio Derbez) finds himself returning to a Las Colinas he no longer recognizes. While in 1985, younger Maximo (Enrique Arrizon) continues his climb up the ladder of success while potentially jeopardizing all the relationships he’s worked so hard to build.

The cast also includes Fernando Carsa (as Memo), Damián Alcázar (Don Pablo), Camila Perez (Julia), Chord Overstreet (Chad), Vanessa Bauche (Nora...

Exclusive: Cristo Fernández has wrapped on the comedy Sisters, written by and starring Marta Cross (Criminal Minds), Valeria Maldonado (Coco), and Virginia Novello (Gone). Fernández executive produces and stars in the film via his Espectro Mx Films banner. An exclusive trailer for Sisters can be viewed above.

With their lives unraveling around them, three Mexican American sisters reunite, after years of estrangement, to complete their beloved grandmother’s pilgrimage through rural Mexico. With no hiking experience, little reception, and an old map, the sisters walk the sacred trail to Talpa de Allende and find help along the way from Kin (Fernández), a local with a dark past. They must work together through their differences in order to reach the end and find their miracle.

Sisters also stars Adam Mayfield (Ford vs Ferrari), Maya Zapata (Under the Same Moon), Ignacio Riva Palacio (Rosario Tijeras), and...