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Uruguay’s already expanding industry still has plenty of room to grow and looks primed to do so with its new financing pilot program about to be extended until 2025 and a host of companies who cut their teeth in international co-production.

Below, Variety highlights twelve Uruguayan companies with outstanding resumes in both domestic and international production likely to usher in a new era of film and TV prominence.

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Cimarrón is a pan Latin-American alliance between established producers Hernán Musaluppi, Diego Robino and Santiago López. From their offices in Montevideo, Buenos Aires and São Paulo, the company has backed six films since 2017, including Argentine Academy Award and San Sebastian Horizons-winner “The Snatch Thief” and Miguel Cohan’s Netflix Original feature “Blood Will Tell.” Currently Cimarrón has two films in post-production, Martín Boulocq’s “El visitante” and Rafa Russo’s “El año de la furia.”

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Netflix has confirmed that 57 new original series, movies and specials will be debuting on the streaming service in June including season 5 of the Emmy-winning anthology “Black Mirror”; season 3 of both “Marvel’s Jessica Jones” and the political drama “Designated Survivor,” which Netflix revived after it was canceled by ABC; and the long-awaited sequel to “Tales of the City” with Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis.

Among the new films are: the comic caper “Murder Mystery” with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston; the thriller “I Am Mother” with two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank and Rose Byrne; and the documentary “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese.” And headlining comedy specials are Adam Devine, Mike Epps and Jo Koy.

Below is the full schedule of everything that is coming and leaving Netflix in June 2019.

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Netflix has released their list of new titles coming in the month of June, as well as a last call for everything getting ready to leave the streaming service.

Highlights arriving this month include the fifth season of Netflix’s popular psychological thriller series “Black Mirror,” coming June 5, and Hilary Swank’s thriller “I Am Mother, coming June 7. And whether or not you were alive in 1993 when the original TV mini-series “Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City” came out, you can still appreciate the remake starring Ellen Page as Laura Linney’s on-screen daughter when it arrives June 7.

This month is the last chance to watch what is arguably the best moon mission movie, “Apollo 13,” starring the ultimate dream team, Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise. Other classics getting the boot include “Legally Blonde” and its sequel “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde,” along with “Friday the 13th” and “Pretty in Pink.