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Mexico has had its first – and hopefully not its last – blockbuster of the year with wedding romcom ‘Mesa de Regalos’ (roughly translated to Wedding Gift Table or Wedding Registry) with more than 1.7 million admissions, far surpassing other Mexican titles this year by over a million.

Produced by Spain’s The Mediapro Studio and Buenos Aires-based Pampa Films, its box office success is welcome news for Mexico’s film industry, which continues to see a slump in post-pandemic theatrical admissions, despite some gains.

According to the latest report from Canacine, the Mexican Film Industry’s Chamber of Commerce, theatrical admissions grew 33% in 2023 compared to the previous year but still lagged 32.30% behind its pre-Covid benchmark of 2019. The phenomenon is worldwide given the inexorable rise of streaming platforms, changing consumer habits and other factors.

Ranking second after “Captain America Brave New World” (posting $6.5 million) in the week of Feb. 10-16, “Mesa de Regalos...

Exclusive: Kate del Castillo is set to lead the ViX comedy feature Es Por Tu Bien which just kicked off production in Mexico. The project is produced by 3Pas Studios.

The film’s logline reads as follows, “Horrified by the new girlfriends of their respective sons, three sisters-in-law – Clara (Consuelo Duval), a socialite, Matis (Mónica Huarte), a widowed professional, and Nena (del Castillo), a naive housewife – make an alliance to get rid of their undesirable daughters-in-law. It’s for their own good.”

Es Por Tu Bien also stars José Eduardo Derbez, Ana Sofía Gatica, Ana González Bello, Fernando Memije, Michael Ronda, Victor Huggo Martin.

“We’re very excited to have some of the biggest names in Mexican comedy, Consuelo, Monica, Jose Eduardo, to make this wonderful film with 3pas’ signature humor and heart. And audiences are going to be very surprised by iconic Kate del Castillo doing comedy,...

Unscripted production label Banijay Mexico & U.S. has signed up actor-comedian José Eduardo Derbez to co-develop and host a number of new unscripted series.

The Banijay-owned studio, launched in September 2021, has already developed two new shows for Derbez to host: “Jinxed” and “Mexico Oscuro” with Derbez co-developing and co-producing the latter.

Derbez is best known for his turn in Amazon Prime Video comedy “Mi tio,” which scaled to the #1 slot for the streaming platform in Mexico. He has participated in Amazon’s unscripted family travel series, “De viaje con los Derbez,” led by his father, Eugenio Derbez. He has also starred in Televisa series “Mis Xv,” “Que pobres tan ricos,” “Amores con trampa,” “Renta congelada,” among others.

“As we continue to ramp up our development efforts in our first year, we couldn’t be more excited to be partnering with someone as talented as José Eduardo on these compelling new series,...

En esta temporada la familia Derbez (menos Vadhir) se van de viaje a Yellostone, el Parque Nacional Glacier en Montana y lugares para acampar con vistas espectaculares en la secunda temporada de De Viaje con los Derbez. Pero Eugenio Derbez dice que los hijos Aislynn, José Eduardo Derbez y su esposa Alessandra Rosado no se animaban para la aventura. Durante nuestra entrevista con la familia Derbez, los cuentan quién es el más valiente, el más miedoso y quien fue el más atrevido.