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Films from parts of the world plagued by war and other hardships dominate the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Giornate Degli Autori that will open with Ukrainian-born director Vladlena Sandu’s autobiographical film “Memory” that revisits her traumatic childhood memories in war-torn Chechnya.

The competition of the Giornate – which is also known as Venice Days – comprises 10 world premieres, none of which are english-language titles. They hail from countries including Iran, Lebanon Kenya, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico, Spain, Greece and Italy.

The selection features another filmmaker, Germany-based Russian filmmaker Nastia Korkia, re-elaborating the Chechnyan conflict in “A Short Summer,” the story of eight-year-old Katya, who goes on vacation with her grandparents just as the war in Chechnya breaks out.

“In many of the selected titles the goal is life, building lives, relationships. One tries to process grief in order to overcome it and try hard to see the world...

Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori has unveiled the line-up for its 22nd edition.

The main competition, showcasing 10 features, will open with Ukrainian artist and filmmaker Vladlena Sandu’s Memory, a deeply personal work piecing together childhood memories of life in Chechnya’s capital of Grozny amid the violence of the First Chechen War.

The Chechen Wars also loom large in exiled Germany-based Russian director Nastia Korkia’s Short Summer about an eight -year-old girl vacationing with her grandparents as their marriage crumbles and the conflict in the North Caucasus spills into everyday Russian life.

Further contenders include Spanish director Gabriel Azorín Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes, following two men who return from the front and seek out an ancient thermal bath, the mysterious waters of which giving them the courage to say things they have never before told anyone.

Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser, who made waves...

Politically-charged dramas and documentaries from Ukraine to Iran, and from Mexico to Kenya will share the spotlight at the Venice film festival’s Venice Days sidebar, which announced its 2025 lineup today.

The diverse program ranges from the section’s opening night film, the autobiographical drama Memory Ukrainian artist and filmmaker Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya, who studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend and transform them via the art of cinema; to Spanish director Gabriel Azorín’s Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes about two young men returning from the front who spend a day of confession and revelation in an ancient Roman thermal bath; to Memory of Princess Mumbi, from Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser that combines elements of sci-fi, mockumentary and animation to tell a dystopian fable set in an imaginary Africa in the year 2093 after an A.I.-precipitated disaster.

‘Memory...

Damien Hauser’s Memory Of Princess Mumbi is among 10 features in competition at Giornate degli Autori, the independent sidebar of Venice Film Festival.

The latest feature from Swiss-Kenyan director Hauser is a dystopian fable set in an imaginary Africa in 2093, in which a young filmmaker attempts to make a documentary about a global conflict from 20 years earlier.

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Hauser produced the film with Shandra Apondi and former Red Sea Film Festival director of international programming Kaleem Aftab. It is Hauser’s fourth feature; his previous film After The Long Rains played at BFI London Film Festival last year.

For decades, American television has presented a familiar story: determined U.S. agents venturing into Mexico to pursue criminals. The Gringo Hunters takes that well-worn template and turns it on its head. Set in Tijuana, the series follows the International Liaison Unit, an elite Mexican police squad whose specialty is tracking and deporting American fugitives who have fled south to escape justice.

This is not just a clever narrative inversion; it is a premise grounded in the real world, drawn from a 2022 Washington Post article that documented the work of the actual unit. The show quickly establishes its procedural rhythm, but that foundation is shattered by a single event: the murder of the unit’s respected commander, Temo.

His death pulls the series out of a simple case-of-the-week format and plunges his protégé, Nico, into a conspiracy that official channels want left undisturbed. The central question shifts from “Who are they hunting this week?...

The Gringo Hunters Is Climbing Up Global Charts Within 5 Days Of Release (Photo Credit – Netflix)

The Gringo Hunters have quickly made their presence felt worldwide, which is a rare feat for non-English content. In just five days since its release on July 9, Netflix’s new crime sensation has grabbed the #9 spot on Netflix’s Global Top 10 for non-English series, racking up 1.7 million views, per ScreenRant.

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Netflix's new crime drama, The Gringo Hunters, has become a global streaming hit just one week after its release. The procedural-like series is inspired by a 2022 Washington Post report by Kevin Sieff about a Mexican police unit dedicated to capturing and returning U.S. fugitives who have crossed the border. The Gingo Hunters stars Harold Torres, Mayra Hermosillo, and Manuel Masalva.

A week after The Gringo Hunters' release on Netflix on July 9, 2025, it has officially reached the Global Top 10 for non-English TV shows. While Squid Game season 3 continues to hold strong at #1, The Gingo Hunters has claimed the #9 spot with 1.7 million views. The series hasn't yet broken into Netflix's US Top 10, which is dominated by English-language TV shows.

What The Gringo Hunters' Week-1 Success Means For The Non-English Netflix Series The Gringo Hunters Could Climb Even Higher

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The drama series The Gringo Hunters follows a Mexican special forces team tasked with finding American fugitives along the US border and sending them back in handcuffs. But when one of their own is murdered, will they be able to track down the killer? Starring Harold Torres, Mayra Hermosillo, and Manuel Masalva, the procedural inspired by a true story was executive produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard for Imagine Entertainment. It was directed by Adrián Grünberg (Bandidos) and Natalia Beristain (Noise).

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An elite Mexican police squad called the International Liaison Unit — aka the Gringo Hunters — is on a mission to capture American fugitives hiding in Tijuana, Mexico. As they try to stay under the radar to seek justice, they’re forced to contend with corruption from inside their ranks.

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The Gringo Hunters is a new crime thriller series that offers something different from the usual. While most thrillers focus on the U.S. chasing fugitives, this show flips the script. It tells the story of a real police unit in Mexico whose only job is to find and bring back American criminals hiding across the border.

Yes, you read it right. These Gringo Hunters are the federal police of Mexico, and the assignment sounds about as intense as it is placed. With fugitives trying to disappear into cities like Tijuana or Mexico City, the pressure’s on. This unit doesn’t just hunt them—they catch them, making sure justice is served.

When & Where To Watch The Gringo Hunters?

All set to be released on Netflix on July 9, 2025, this series will offer something fresh to entertain crime drama lovers.

“The Dad Quest” is a Mexican film on Netflix that revisits the father-son dynamic to pose a curious question: is the bond between father and child shaped by biology, or does it come through memories and shared experiences?

“The Dad Quest” presents these questions again to offer us one of those movies that always work: a film with a charming child who doesn’t have a good relationship with his father, and who, through the narrative process of the movie, will confront these problems to solve them.

It’s a classic formula that its director, Salvador Espinosa, approaches in the most traditional way, without eccentricities in terms of form or narrative. “The Dad Quest” gives us exactly what we expect to see, in the way we expect to see it, and resolves the matter as we anticipate.

Are you expecting a family movie? Well, here it is.

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Coming-of-age drama Vainilla, directed by actress-turned-director Mayra Hermosillo, was the standout winner of Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte showcase on Friday (December 6).

The film received multiple accolades, including the Cine + Festival Award, Sofía Films Award, Nmf / Color Front Award, and Apclai - Festival De Trieste Award, all designed to support final stages of post-production.

Set in the late 1980s, Vainilla presents a poignant family portrait through the eyes of eight-year-old Roberta. The story revolves around a household of seven women from different generations and ideologies fighting to save their home, which is on the brink of foreclosure. Stacy Perskie’s Redrum served as producer.

Coming-of-age drama Vainilla, directed by actress-turned-director Mayra Hermosillo, was the standout winner of Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte showcase on Friday (December 6).

The film received multiple accolades, including the Cine + Festival Award, Sofía Films Award, Nmf / Color Front Award, and Apclai - Festival De Trieste Award, all designed to support final stages of post-production.

Set in the late 1980s, Vainilla presents a poignant family portrait through the eyes of eight-year-old Roberta. The story revolves around a household of seven women from different generations and ideologies fighting to save their home, which is on the brink of foreclosure. Stacy Perskie’s Redrum served as producer.

With a heady dose of ‘80s nostalgia and the gravity that only a script full of fierce intergenerational matriarchs can bring to the table, Mexico’s Mayra Hermosillo revealed a cut of her nuanced and buzzy coming-of-age title “Vainilla,” among the players selected for Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte.

The film is produced by Stacy Perskie, Karla Luna Cantú and Andrea Porras Madero at Mexico’s lauded Redrum, with production credits that include Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Bardo” and Gael Garcia Bernal-fronted Golden Globe winner “Mozart in the Jungle.” Paloma Petra at Nuevo León-based Huasteca Casa Cinematográfica co-produces the project.

“The incredible level of detail in the script and how vividly the world and characters came to life stood out to us. The story felt deeply personal and profoundly moving. We want to support projects that offer fresh perspectives with underrepresented voices and that can inspire audiences, this was a perfect opportunity,...

As Ventana Sur settles into its stride in its first edition in Montevideo, Uruguay, Screen highlights 10 projects expected to make a splash at the leading Ibero-American audiovisual market.

The titles are at various stages in the production cycle and the filmmakers are in Montevideo looking to establish meaningful partnerships.

Selections include stories of vampires grappling with transformation, quests, coming-of-age stories, coastal erosion, and a project from the inaugural Latam Series Market.

Ventana Sur runs through December 6.

The Condor Daughter (Bol-Per-Uru)

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Director: Álvaro Olmos

The Condor Daughter marks the second fiction feature from Olmos, who has directed documentary and television,...

Netflix's Pedro Pramo is notable for several reasons. It is the first major adaptation of the classic 1955 Juan Rulfo novel a seminal masterpiece of Mexican literature that is widely considered to be the core influence on the development of magical realism since Carlos Velo's 1967 adaptation starring Psycho's John Gavin. The new movie is also the feature-length directorial debut of cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, who has lensed a variety of well-known projects including Barbie, Brokeback Mountain, The Wolf of Wall Street, Amores Perros, and Broken Embraces.

Pedro Pramo

Director Rodrigo PrietoRelease Date November 6, 2024Writers Mateo GilCast Waldo Facco, Eduardo Humaran, Guillermo Nava, Paco Peralta, Tulio Villavicencio, Carlos Balderrama, Lorenzo Jacome, Jess Sida, Conrado Mercado, Jos Concepcin Macas, Martn Rodrguez Caas, Albida Villanueva, Jessica Toledo, Lorena Valds, Luis Rosete, Osvaldo Snchez, Doris Olimpia Araujo Delgado, Mariel, Fernanda Rivera, Ana Celeste, Ishbel Bautista, Gabriela Nez, Sarah Rovira, Santiago Colores, Ari Brickman,...

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Roman is trying to fufill his own American dream. Has the Hotel Cocaine TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on MGM+? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Hotel Cocaine, season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?  

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A crime drama series on the MGM+ subscription service, the Hotel Cocaine TV show stars Danny Pino, Yul Vazquez, Michael Chiklis, Mark Feuerstein, Laura Gordon, Tania Watson, and Corina Bradley. Recurring and guest stars include Don Mike, Pedro Giunti, Lola Claire, Matthew Del Negro, Victor Oliveira, Robert Beck, Sam Robards, Candy Santana, Mayra Hermosillo, Juan Pablo Raba, Erniel Baez, Nick Barkla, Cale Ambrozic, Camila Valero, and...

Roman does what he needs to do for the survival of his family in the first season of the Hotel Cocaine TV show on MGM+. As we all know, Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Hotel Cocaine is cancelled or renewed for season two. MGM+ and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data. If you've been watching this TV series, we'd love to know how you feel about the first season episodes of Hotel Cocaine here.

An MGM+ crime drama series, the Hotel Cocaine TV show stars Danny Pino, Yul Vazquez, Michael Chiklis, Mark Feuerstein, Laura Gordon, Tania Watson, and Corina Bradley. Recurring and guest stars include Don Mike, Pedro Giunti, Lola Claire, Matthew Del Negro, Victor Oliveira, Robert Beck, Sam Robards, Candy Santana, Mayra Hermosillo, Juan Pablo Raba, Erniel Baez,...

Network: MGM+

Episodes: Ongoing (hour)

Seasons: Ongoing

TV show dates: June 16, 2024 -- present

Series status: Has not been cancelled

Performers include: Danny Pino, Yul Vazquez, Michael Chiklis, Mark Feuerstein, Laura Gordon, Tania Watson, and Corina Bradley with Don Mike, Pedro Giunti, Lola Claire, Matthew Del Negro, Victor Oliveira, Robert Beck, Sam Robards, Candy Santana, Mayra Hermosillo, Juan Pablo Raba, Erniel Baez, Nick Barkla, Cale Ambrozic, Camila Valero, and Maggie Lacey.

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A crime drama series, the Hotel Cocaine TV show was created by Chris Brancato.

The story revolves around Roman Compte (Pino), a Cuban exile and the general manager of The Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of the late '70s and early '80s. Businessmen, politicians, international narcos, CIA and...

"What's happening to this city?" MGM+ has revealed the official trailer for a series titled Hotel Cocaine, which will be streaming in June this summer on MGM+. Made by MGM and Epix, this crime series tells the story of Roman Compte, a Cuban exile and general manager of The Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene in the '70s. Compte was a Cuban exile, CIA operative, and the general manager of the Hotel Mutiny – known as "Casablanca on cocaine." Businessmen, politicians, international narcos, CIA and FBI agents, models, sports stars, and musicians all frequented the hotel and its glitzy nightclub and restaurant. At the center of it all was Compte, who did his best to keep it going & fulfill his own American dream. Starring Danny Pino (best known from "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Mayans M.C") as Compete, with Yul Vazquez as Nestor Cabal,...

Hotel Cocaine has a premiere date. MGM+ has announced that the eight episode season will kick off in June with first-look photos and a teaser trailer.

Starring Danny Pino, Michael Chiklis, Mark Feuerstein, and Yul Vazquez, the crime thriller is set in Miami at the start of the 1970s cocaine scene. Don Mike, Pedro Giunti, Lola Claire, Matthew Del Negro, Victor Oliveira, Robert Beck, Sam Robards, and Candy Santana are joining the previously announced recurring cast of Mayra Hermosillo, Juan Pablo Raba, Erniel Baez, Nick Barkla, Cale Ambrozic, Camila Valero, and Maggie Lacey.

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Today, premium network MGM+ revealed a first look at the crime thriller Hotel Cocaine, executive produced by Chris Brancato and Guillermo Navarro (Pan’s Labyrinth).

The teaser follows the eight-episode series’ global debut at Series Mania in Lille, France. The first episode of Hotel Cocaine will premiere on June 16 on MGM+, and new episodes will air on Sundays until August 4.

Hotel Cocaine is the story of Roman Compte (Danny Pino), a Cuban exile and general manager of the Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.

The Mutiny Hotel was Casablanca on cocaine, a glitzy nightclub, restaurant, and hotel frequented by Florida businessmen and politicians, international narcos, CIA and FBI agents, models, sports stars, and musicians. At the center of it all was Compte, who was doing his best to keep it all going and fulfill his own American Dream.

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Exclusive: Production has begun on the new Netflix series The Gringo Hunters in Mexico City and the core cast has been revealed. They include José María Yazpik, Sebastian Roché, Harold Torres and Mayra Hermosillo. Plans to shoot in Tijuana are also in place.

Torres and Hermosillo are part of the gringo hunters’ core group alongside Manuel Masalva, Andrew Leland Rogers, Héctor Kotsifakis, Dagoberto Gama and Regina Nava. Gerardo Trejoluna and Paulina Dávila also star. All 11 are contracted as series regulars on the bilingual crime series which will be shot mostly in Spanish with some English.

As Deadline revealed exclusively in 2022, a series based on The Washington Post story “A U.S. murder suspect fled to Mexico. The Gringo Hunters were waiting,” by Kevin Sieff was in development for Netflix. The series is inspired by a real elite...

Corina Bradley, Laura Gordon, and Tania Watson join ‘Hotel Cocaine’

Tania Watson (The Head), Corina Bradley (Star-Crossed Romance), and Laura Gordon (Late Night with the Devil) have joined the cast of MGM+’s crime thriller Hotel Cocaine. The threesome board the project which already has Danny Pino (Mayans M.C.), Michael Chiklis (The Shield), Mark Feuerstein (Power), and Yul Vazquez (Severance) involved as series regulars.

Chris Brancato created the series and serves as executive producer and showrunner. Additional executive producers include Michael Panes, Alfredo Barrios Jr., and Guillermo Navarro, with Navarro directing the pilot.

Hotel Cocaine is set in the 1970s and will be shot in the Dominican Republic. The eight-episode season is expected to premiere this summer.

The streaming service also announced Mayra Hermosillo, Juan Pablo Raba, Erniel Baez, Nick Barkla, Cale Ambrozic, Camila Valero, Maggie Lacey, John Ventimiglia, and Larry Powell have joined the cast in recurring and guest starring roles.

Corina Bradley, Laura Gordon, and Tania Watson join ‘Hotel Cocaine’

Tania Watson (The Head), Corina Bradley (Star-Crossed Romance), and Laura Gordon (Late Night with the Devil) have joined the cast of MGM+’s crime thriller Hotel Cocaine. The threesome board the project which already has Danny Pino (Mayans M.C.), Michael Chiklis (The Shield), Mark Feuerstein (Power), and Yul Vazquez (Severance) involved as series regulars.

Chris Brancato created the series and serves as executive producer and showrunner. Additional executive producers include Michael Panes, Alfredo Barrios Jr., and Guillermo Navarro, with Navarro directing the pilot.

Hotel Cocaine is set in the 1970s and will be shot in the Dominican Republic. The eight-episode season is expected to premiere this summer.

The streaming service also announced Mayra Hermosillo, Juan Pablo Raba, Erniel Baez, Nick Barkla, Cale Ambrozic, Camila Valero, Maggie Lacey, John Ventimiglia, and Larry Powell have joined the cast in recurring and guest starring roles.

Hotel Cocaine has added to its cast. Tania Watson, Corina Bradley, and Laura Gordon are joining the previously announced cast of Danny Pino, Michael Chiklis, Mark Feuerstein, and Yul Vazquez.

Mayra Hermosillo, Juan Pablo Raba, Erniel Baez, Nick Barkla, Cale Ambrozic, Camila Valero, and Maggie Lacey have recurring roles while John Ventimiglia and Larry Powell will guest.

Chris Brancato and Guillermo Navarro are executive producers for the eight-episode series, which is set in the Miami cocaine scene of the late 1970s. Production resumes later this month, and the show will arrive on the streaming service this summer.

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Exclusive: Tania Watson (The Head), Corina Bradley (Star-Crossed Romance) and Laura Gordon (Late Night with the Devil) have joined Danny Pino, Yul Vazquez, Michael Chiklis and Mark Feuerstein as series regulars in the MGM+ series Hotel Cocaine. Production on the Chris Brancato and Guillermo Navarro series resumes this month in the Dominican Republic following a pause during the dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

The eight-episode series from MGM+ Studios, in partnership with MGM Television, is slated to premiere this summer.

Hotel Cocaine is the story of Roman Compte, a Cuban exile and general manager of the Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. The Mutiny Hotel was Casablanca on cocaine; a glitzy nightclub, restaurant, and hotel frequented by Florida businessmen and politicians, international narcos, CIA and FBI agents, models, sports stars, and musicians. At the center of it all was Compte,...

The program announcements continue for the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival this week, with the full Panorama line-up now confirmed.

Adding to the initial titles unveiled back in April are films including Alain Guiraudie’s Nobody’s Hero, which opens the strand this year.

Also confirmed today were the titles that will participate in the Berlinale Series Market and Co-Pro Series event this year.

Taking part in Berlinale Series Market Selects will be The Fear Index, the upcoming show from Left Bank Pictures that is set to star Josh Hartnett, as well as projects from Keshet, Viaplay and Globo. See the full lists below.

Tomorrow, Berlin chiefs Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek will unveil the 2022 Competition line-up at an event that kicks off at 11Am Cet.

Panorama Additions:

Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm

Germany

by Cem Kaya

World premiere / Panorama Dokumente

Baqyt (Happiness)

Kazakhstan

by Askar Uzabayev

with Laura Myrzakhmetova,...

Amazon Prime Video announced that the comedy special “Yearly Departed” will return for its second special this December, this time hosted by Yvonne Orji.

The new special will feature an all-female lineup of guests to be announced at a later date. They will bid farewell to the trends we are leaving behind in 2021, including hot vaxx summer, hermit life, ignoring the climate crisis and Zoom.

“In my career, I’ve been fortunate to work on a show that was created by Blacks, for Black characters, and now, I get to host a special that was written by all women, featuring a lineup of incredibly funny female comedians, directed by a talented female director and produced by a group of amazing female producers. I guess lightning can strike twice,” said Orji.

“Yearly Departed” is from Amazon Studios, Done+Dusted and Scrap Paper Pictures. The special is executive produced by Rachel Brosnahan,...

Narcos: Mexico is drawing to a close. Netflix's cartel-centric series will air its final 10 episodes on November 5, concluding its third season. 

Changes come behind and before the camera, with showrunner Eric Newman handing the reins over to co-creator Adam Bernard (Newman remains executive producer) and without Diego Luna's magnetic screen presence. A cadre of usual suspects return for the last season, including Scoot McNairy, José María Yázpik, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Hermosillo, Matt Letscher, Manuel Masalva, and Alejandro Edda. This season locates its players in the '90s amid the exponential spread of the drug cartel business. The synopsis, from Netflix:

"As newly independent...

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Narcos Mexico's upcoming third season will also be its last.

Netflix on Monday confirmed the news, revealing the series will end for good on November 5 when the third season drops in its entirety.

As for what's on tap in the final season, the streamer offered up the following:

Set in the 90s, when the globalization of the drug business ignites, Season 3 examines the war that breaks out after Felix’s arrest.

As newly independent cartels struggle to survive political upheaval and escalating violence, a new generation of Mexican kingpins emerge. But in this war, truth is the first casualty - and every arrest, murder and take-done only pushes real victory further away…

New series regulars for the final season include Luis Gerardo Méndez (Charlie’s Angels) as Victor Tapia, Alberto Guerra (Crime Diaries: The Candidate) as Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, and Luisa Rubino (Simply Maria) as Andrea Nuñez,

Additionally, Benito...

For once, those sniffles you hear aren’t a coke thing: “Narcos: Mexico” will come to an end with its upcoming third season, Netflix said on Monday. The streaming service also released a teaser of the show’s final episodes.

Watch the video above, which also reveals that the final “blow” of “Narcos: Mexico” will debut on Nov. 5.

Here’s the description for “Narcos: Mexico’s” 10-episode third and final season: Set in the 90s, when the globalization of the drug business ignites, Season 3 examines the war that breaks out after Felix’s arrest. As newly independent cartels struggle to survive political upheaval and escalating violence, a new generation of Mexican kingpins emerge. But in this war, truth is the first casualty – and every arrest, murder and take-done only pushes real victory further away…

“Narcos: Mexico” stars Scoot McNairy, José María Yázpik, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Alberto Guerra, Luisa Rubino, Alfonso Dosal,...

Netflix is giving viewers their first look at Narcos: Mexico‘s third season which is officially set to arrive Friday, November 5. The 10-episode season features a bevy of new characters including regulars Luis Gerardo Méndez, Alberto Guerra, and Luisa Rubino as well as guest star Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio who is known best as musician Bad Bunny. Together they join Scoot McNairy, José María Yázpik, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Hermosillo, Matt Letscher, Manuel Masalva, Alejandro Edda, and Gorka Lasaosa. (Credit: Juan Rosas/Netflix) Along with unveiling a premiere date and revealing photos, Netflix is also sharing a brief teaser trailer which sets up the action at the center of this next chapter. Set in the ’90s as the globalization of the drug business ignites, Season 3 looks at the war that breaks out after Felix’s arrest. As newly independent cartels struggle to survive political upheaval and growing violence a whole new generation of kingpins are emerging.

Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico returns with season 3 on Nov. 5 — its final season in Mexico. It is as yet unknown if the franchise will continue with another installment after the original series, set in Colombia, and the Mexico offshoot, both of which ran for three seasons. Executive producers previously have said their intention was to follow the drug trade across various countries.

The new season is set in the ’90s, when the globalization of the drug business ignites. It examines the war that breaks out after Félix Gallardo’s (Diego Luna) arrest. As newly independent cartels struggle to survive political upheaval and escalating violence, a new generation of Mexican kingpins emerge. But in this war, truth is the first casualty – and every arrest, murder, and take-done only pushes real victory further away.

Although Luna won’t return as Gallardo, there are many returning stars as well as some new ones. Most notably,...

Season 3 will be Narcos: Mexico‘s last, Netflix announced Monday, but that won’t stop Amado, El Chapo and the rest of the cartels from bringing the heat when the series returns for its final showdown Friday, Nov. 5.

In a new teaser (embedded above), we catch our first glimpse of the third season, as war breaks out after the splintering of Felix’s smuggling empire. The conflict is described via voiceover as “a war that would change Mexico and drug trafficking forever.”

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Netflix announced that the third and final season of “Narcos: Mexico” will premiere on Nov. 5 and released some first looks at the episodes.

This third and final season follows the war that breaks out after Felix’s arrest and the new Mexican kingpins who emerge as newly independent cartels navigate political turmoil and escalating violence.

Returning series regulars include Scoot McNairy, José María Yázpik, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Hermosillo, Matt Letscher, Manuel Masalva, Alejandro Edda and Gorka Lasaosa. New cast members include Luis Gerardo Méndez, Alberto Guerra and Luisa Rubino, with guest star Bad Bunny aka Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.

Executive producers on the series are Sidonie Dumas; Christophe Riandee; Nicolas Atlan; José Padilha; Doug Miro; Andrés Baiz, who also directs; Eric Newman and showrunner Carlo Bernard. Other directors are Alejandra Márquez Abella, Luis Ortega, Amat Escalante and Wagner Moura direct. Gaumont serves as the production company.

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Heading into this year’s Guadalajara’s Co-Production Meetings, the team behind Michelle Garza’s maternal horror flick “Huesera” has shared with Variety news of a new minority co-producer, choreographer and key casting details.

“Huesera” is produced by Paulina Villaviencio from Mexico’s Disruptiva Films and Edher Campos of Machete Producciones. Villaviencio’s recently produced Simon Hernández‘s 2019 Sitges Documenta Award-winner “La venganza de Jairo,” documenting the final shoot of Colombian genre master Jairo Pinilla.

A recent Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences addition, Campos’ impressive resume includes Cannes awarded fare such as Michael Rowe’ Cannes Camera d’Or-winner “Leap Year” and Diego Quemada-Díez’s “La Jaula de Oro,” which scooped A Certain Talent award for its leads in 2013. Most recently, he produced Heidi Ewing’s Sundance Audience Award and Next Innovator Award-winner “I Carry You with Me.”

Lorena Ugarteche from Peru’s Señor Z will co-produce on the...

Luis Gerardo Méndez, Alberto Guerra, Luisa Rubino and Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (aka Bad Bunny) are joining the Season 3 cast of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico.

Méndez will play Victor Tapia, a Juarez cop with a moral dilemma; despite his

misgivings over getting involved, he is drawn into the mystery of a series of brutal killings Guerra is Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, an independent drug trafficker, whose unassuming manner belies the fact that he is quietly one step ahead of everyone else Rubino will be Andrea Nuñez, a young idealistic and ambitious journalist, whose mission to expose corruption brings her an even bigger story than she anticipated Ocasio “Bad Bunny” will guest star as Arturo “Kitty” Paez, a member of Ramon Arellano Felix’s gang called the “Narco Juniors” – rich, well connected kids from upper society who fell in with the cartel life for the money, drugs and violence.

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Netflix has officially announced that Bad Bunny will have a guest role on the upcoming third season of Narcos: Mexico.

Per a release, Bad Bunny will play Arturo “Kitty” Paez, a member of the so-called Narco Juniors gang run by Ramon Arellano Felix (Manuel Masalva). The gang is filled with “rich, well connected kids from upper society who fell in with the cartel life for the money, drugs, and violence.”

Bad Bunny first revealed that he was involved in Narcos: Mexico in a Rolling Stone cover story back in May.

Netflix is keeping Narcos: Mexico around.

The streamer has confirmed that a third season has been ordered, almost nine months after the sophomore run dropped.

There will be some changes behind-the-scenes ahead of the new season.

Series co-creator Carlo Bernard is taking over as showrunner reins from the longtime Narcos boss Eric Newman.

Newman is currently under an overall deal with the streamer on both the feature side and the television side and he will segue into overseeing a broadening Netflix slate that includes the previously announced opioid TV drama Painkiller, Escape From Spiderhead starring Chris Hemsworth and Miles Teller, and The Upper World starring Daniel Kaluuya.

Newman will continue to executive produce alongside Bernard and Jose Padilha, so he will still have input on the show.

In addition, Wagner Moura, who starred as Pablo Escobar during the first two seasons of Narcos, will return to the series, directing two episodes in the new season.

Netflix has ordered a third season of drug-trafficking drama series Narcos: Mexico. When it returns it will be without series lead Diego Luna, who portrayed drug cartel leader Félix Gallardo, and with a new showrunner.

Season 2 ended with Luna’s Gallardo sentenced to prison for his drug trafficking crimes and there had been much speculation he would not return if the series was renewed for a third season. Luna is set to reprise his Cassian Andor character in Disney+’s Star Wars spinoff series Rogue One, which is currently in pre-production.

Series co-creator Carlo Bernard will be taking over day-to-day showrunning duties from Eric Newman who is stepping back after five seasons. Newman will continue to executive produce the series alongside Bernard, Jose Padilha, Sidonie Dumas, Christophe Riandee, Nicolas Atlan, Doug Miro and Andrés Baiz. Wagner Moura, who starred as Pablo Escobar during the first two seasons of Narcos, also will return to the series,...

Nearly nine months after Season 2 came and went, Narcos: Mexico has been renewed for a third season at Netflix. In confirming the news, the streamer also announced a big change behind-the-scenes: Series co-creator Carlo Bernard will take the showrunner reins from the longtime Narcos boss Eric Newman.

The Narcos franchise first launched on Netflix back in August 2015. Its first two seasons focused exclusively on Pablo Escobar, while Season 3 turned its attention to the rise of the Cali Cartel in the wake of the cocaine kingpin’s death. Opting not to order a fourth season, Netflix in 2018 instead launched Narcos: Mexico,...

“Narcos: Mexico” has been renewed for Season 3 at Netflix.

Along with the renewal, Netflix announced that Wagner Moura — who played Pablo Escobar in the first two seasons of “Narcos” — will board Season 3 in order to direct two episodes of the season.

In addition, series showrunner Eric Newman will exit that role after five seasons and turn things over to series co-creator Carlos Bernard.

“I am grateful for my five years at the helm of ‘Narcos’ and ‘Narcos: Mexico’ and am immensely proud of what this spectacular team has achieved with these shows,” Newman said. “Carlo Bernard is the first person I ever spoke to about this project, over ten years ago, and I am extremely pleased to leave the steering of Season 3 of ‘Narcos: Mexico’ in his very capable hands.”

Originally intended as a fourth season of “Narcos,” which focused on the rise of the cocaine business in Colombia under Escobar and his Medellín Cartel,...

Netflix has renewed “Narcos: Mexico” for a third season, but showrunner Eric Newman is handing over the reins to Carlo Bernard.

Newman had been showrunner for all five seasons of the “Narcos” franchise, including the first three that centered on Pablo Escobar. The two most recent seasons, called “Narcos: Mexico,” shifted both the setting and time period, along with the majority of the cast.

Newman is under an overall deal with Netflix and will transition to overseeing the streaming service’s upcoming opioid drama “Painkiller,” “Escape From Spiderhead” with Chris Hemsworth, and “The Upper World” with Daniel Kaluuya. He will remain executive producer on “Narcos” alongside Bernard and Jose Padilla.

“I am grateful for my five years at the helm of ‘Narcos’ and ‘Narcos: Mexico’ and am immensely proud of what this spectacular team has achieved with these shows,” Newman said. “Carlo Bernard is the first person I ever spoke to about this project,...

The official trailer for Season 2 of Netflix's Narcos: Mexico is here, and it promises quite the drug-fueled drama to come. One part ancient history lesson and one part Heat, this trailer plays up the newly emerging drug empire, focusing on both those who attempt to wrest control of it and build it up and those who attempt to divide and conquer in order to tear it all down. What are you waiting for? Check it out now! Starring Diego Luna, Scott McNairy, Teresa Ruiz, Mayra Hermosillo, Sosie Bacon, Andrés Londoño, Alex Knight, Miguel Rodarte, Jesse …...

Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Tuesday, December 17, 2019.

Syfy is gearing up to say goodbye to another series.

The cable network has renewed Van Helsing for a fifth and final season, set to air sometime in 2020.

The news broke days before the Season 4 finale of the vampire drama.

“We are thrilled to be able to bring the amazing Van Helsing saga to a close,” said Chad Oakes, Executive Producer and Co-Chairman of Nomadic Pictures.

“This could not have been done without the support of our incredible cast, crew, Syfy, Netflix and SuperEcran.”

“We are so proud of Van Helsing and would like to thank Syfy and the amazing fans who embraced this series,” said Daniel March, Managing Partner, Dynamic Television.

“We are excited to end the show on its own terms and to give our story, these characters, and our fans the conclusion they so richly deserve.