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Next month’s Mubi lineup for the U.S. has been unveiled, with a major highlight being their recent release Lingui, The Sacred Bonds and more films from director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (read our recent chat with him). Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella and Kazik Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 Ft., two of last year’s highlights, will also arrive.

Two recent Cannes premieres, the Adèle Exarchopoulos-led Zero Fucks Given and Peter Tscherkassky’s Train Again will also finally come to the U.S. courtesy of Mubi. In terms of older highlights, Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark, Hong Sang-soo’s The Power of the Kangwon Province, Jafar Panahi’s Crimson Gold, Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion, and more will arrive.

Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.

March 1 | The Willmar 8 | Lee Grant | Down and Out in America: Lee Grant’s Documentaries

March 2 | Train Again | Peter Tscherkassky | Brief Encounters

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The careers of Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna will forever be linked thanks to Alfonso Cuarón’s 2001 drama “Y Tu Mamá También,” which served as an international breakthrough for all three gentlemen (although Luna had a head start with “Amores Perros” the year before). Both actors have gone on to U.S. stardom, Bernal with his Golden Globe-winning role in Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle” and Luna with his role as Cassian Andor in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” Luna is reprising this character in the upcoming Disney+ television series “Andor.” Would Bernal join him? The actor told The Independent he’d definitely consider it.

“If Cassian Andor ever needs to find his lost brother or something, then maybe they can call me,” Bernal said when asked about career interest in joining the “Star Wars” franchise. “Or his antagonist. That would be cool actually! In a galaxy far away!

For filmmakers, the process of getting the cultural powers that be to submit your film to contend for the Best International Feature Film Oscar varies from country to country. That Oscar can give your movie an enormous boost. Mexico has been participating in the foreign-language Oscar race since 1957, a year after the category was created. Of the 53 films submitted, nine have been nominated, including five from Arturo Ripstein, two from A.G. Iñárritu (“Amores Perros” and “Biutiful”), one from Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”), and one from Alfonso Cuarón (“Roma”), which was the first Mexican film to win the foreign-language Oscar. Cuarón lobbied the Academy Board of Governors to change the category name to Best International Feature Film.

As expected this year, the selection committee from the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas has picked out of six finalists Fernando Frías de la Parra’s “I’m No Longer Here...

In a landmark deal, Sony Pictures Television (Spt) has inked a multi-project development deal with acclaimed Chilean writer and author Jose Ignacio ‘Chascas’ Valenzuela, a prominent voice in the LGBTQ community.

The three-project deal kicks off with “El Filo de Tu Piel,” a gay-themed romance based on Valenzuela’s eponymous novel.

“A prolific screenwriter, Chascas’ impeccable storytelling talent is essential to bringing such important LGBTQ representation to the small screen,” said Ana Bond, SVP and MD of international production in Latin America and U.S. Hispanic for Spt.

The new pact dovetails with Spt’s strategy to forge development and production deals with key players around the world. Last year, it signed a co-development and co-production deal with Spain’s The Mediapro Studio, which started with thriller series “Implacables – Mexico.” A development agreement with Colombia’s Fernando Gaitan, the creator of global hit “Ugly Betty,” was unfortunately scuttled after his...

Exclusive: NBC has put in development Life at the Bottom, a single-camera comedy from writers David Posamentier and Geoff Moore (Better Living Through Chemistry), Jamie Tarses and her FanFare Productions and Universal TV.

Written by Posamentier and Moore, Life at the Bottom centers on an aimless New Yorker who follows a girl to Antarctica, only to get dumped and abandoned there. He suddenly finding himself living amongst a bizarre assortment of passionate and eccentric scientists, soldiers and outcasts who have found their home at the bottom of the world.

Posamentier and Moore executive produce with Tarses via FanFare, which produces. Universal TV is the studio.

Posamentier and Moore wrote and directed the 2014 feature Better Living Through Chemistry, starring Sam Rockwell, Michelle Monaghan and Olivia Wilde. The duo most recently developed the hourlong fantasy drama Best Wishes and crime drama Down in the Valley, both with ABC. They are repped by Verve,...

Drew Barrymore will soon be taking over your TV screens.

The actress, 44, is getting a daytime talk show with CBS after she reportedly filmed a pilot for the show in August, according to Variety.

The show will launch in the fall of 2020.

“It is beyond my wildest dreams to have this opportunity for a daily talk show,” Barrymore said in a statement. “I’m truly thrilled and honored to be creating this show with CBS.”

CBS Chief Operating and Financial Officer Steve LoCascio announced the news on Thursday, saying, “Drew is a huge star and a breath of fresh air...

Stephanie Wang-Breal did not set out to make another social issue film, but when she stumbled on a New York Times article about a Queens courtroom that treated sex workers as victims rather than criminals, her documentary filmmaker instincts kicked in.

“It combines two populations of women that [I’ve] made films about for the last eight years,” Wang-Breal said, describing her initial reaction to the story. “Asian women — Asian women immigrants, specifically — and youth who are coming out of the foster care system. Her previous two features, “Wo Ai Ni Mommy” and “Tough Love,” were both released by PBS’s lauded non-fiction series Pov. What’s more, the courtroom was led by an Asian woman, Judge Toko Serita. “Which is just something that is very attractive to me as an Asian female filmmaker.”

Set primarily inside the courtroom (and the hallways right outside), “Blowin’ Up” follows the daily proceedings of the...

Our country tends to treat sex workers like, for lack of a better term, trash. Because sex work is largely illegal in the United States (the one exception is a handful of counties in Nevada, where prostitution is highly regulated), women who sell sex are often arrested and subject to brutal treatment by cops, which forces them to conduct their business in the shadows and puts them at further risk of violence at the hands of pimps and clients. Furthermore, the legal system often disregards whether sex workers are forced...

MEXICO CITY -- Telemundo has acquired international distribution rights to Dance, Dance, Dance, the first high-definition telenovela from Brazilian network Bandeirantes.

Also, NBC Universal's Telemundo said Tuesday at NATPE that it recently closed two deals with Television Nacional de Chile to adapt two of its formats in Russia. Under an agreement with Sony, the TVN drama series Complices will be adapted for Russia's CTC network. The second deal is with Star Media for an adaptation of the telenovela Amores de Mercado.

Distribution arm Telemundo Internacional has inked a deal with Paris-based DTT channel NRJ 12 for the adaptation of 12 Corazones, Telemundo's popular dating show.

Telemundo Internacional head Marcos Santana said sales increased more than 30% last year thanks to the company's strong presence in Europe and Asia. The Spanish-language broadcaster last year distributed about 35,500 hours of programming worldwide.