Anitta is living her best life at the 2021 Latin GRAMMYs.The Brazilian super star was «so happy» to be a part of this year's celebration, held in Las Vegas on Thursday.
01.11.2021 - 21:21 / variety.com
Anna Marie de la Fuente Miami-based sales and distribution company FiGa Films, led by Sandro Fiorin, has picked up worldwide sales rights to Brazilian AIDS inception drama “The First Fallen” (“Los Primeiros Soldados”) by Rodrigo de Oliveira.Set to world premiere at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Int’l Film Festival, where it will also vie for the top prize, “The First Fallen” traces the beginning of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s when the first wave of the AIDS epidemic hit Brazil.The story begins
.Anitta is living her best life at the 2021 Latin GRAMMYs.The Brazilian super star was «so happy» to be a part of this year's celebration, held in Las Vegas on Thursday.
Davide Abbatescianni Zürich- and Berlin-based sales outlet First Hand Films has acquired world rights (excluding Norway) for Håvard Bustnes’ “Name of the Game” ahead of its world premiere in IDFA’s Frontlight section, Variety has learned. The director’s previous credits include IDFA 2017 competition entry “Golden Dawn Girls” and “Two Raging Grannies.”Bustnes’ new effort centers on controversial politician Trond Giske, who was for many years the “crown prince” of the Norwegian Labor Party.
Marília Mendonça was a Brazilian singer and songwriter known for her powerful ballads.Mendonça’s musical style was sertanejo, a popular Brazilian genre. She became known for her heartfelt ballads and songs of female empowerment as she led the burgeoning subgenre called feminejo.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaJet Media Network has closed a $2.5 million seed round of funding led by Los Angeles Media Fund. Other investors in the data-driven digital publishing company include 10X Capital, Gaingels, JetSynthesys, Spivy Private Capital and Equinox Systems.The investment comes as Jet Media Network is preparing to launch its first mobile app — a collaboration with former Brazil, Barcelona and AC Milan soccer star Ronaldinho.
GOIANIA, BRAZIL -- Struck with grief, tens of thousands of fans gathered Saturday to pay tribute to Marília Mendonça, one of Brazil's most popular singers who was killed a day earlier in an airplane crash at age 26.The Latin Grammy winner and four other passengers, including her producer and uncle, perished Friday when their plane crashed while flying from Mendonça's hometown of Goiania in Goias state to Caratinga, a small city in Minas Gerais state north of Rio de Janeiro.Some mourners arrived
CNN that the plane the singer was travelling on had hit a cable on an electric tower that is operated by the company.
A post shared by Marilia Mendonça (@mariliamendoncacantora)This statement roughly translates to “With immense regret, we confirm the death of singer Marília Mendonça, her producer Henrique Ribeiro, her uncle and advisor Abicieli Silveira Dias Filho, the pilot and co-pilot of the plane, whose names we will preserve at this time.”“The plane took off from Goiâna to Caratinga/MG, where Marilia would have performed tonight,” the post continued.
Marília Mendonça, a popular and successful Brazilian singer, has died at the age of 26 in a plane crash north of Rio de Janeiro. Four others died in the crash.
A post shared by Marilia Mendonça (@mariliamendoncacantora)The Latin GRAMMY-nominated singer had been active on her Instagram just as she was about to depart.
Marilia Mendonça has sadly died, along with four others, en route to her concert, on Friday (November 5) in Brazil.
Debuting in an initial 14 international box office markets on Wednesday, Disney/Marvel’s Eternals opened to an estimated $7.6M with No. 1s across the vast majority. First-day results on the Chloe Zhao-directed pic put it 85% ahead of Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings and 20% ahead of Black Widow on a like-for-like basis. Wednesday previews not included in the total above out of Mexico ($500K) and Brazil ($400K) place the film at No. 1 in each.
EXCLUSIVE: Music Box Films has acquiredNorth American rights to Medusa, the well-received thriller-satire by Brazilian writer and director Anita Rocha da Silveira.
Anna Marie de la Fuente After a record-growth year fueled by pandemic-induced lockdowns, São Paulo-based VOD data and content aggregator Sofa Digital will be launching a Latin American film investment fund, Sofa Capital, on Nov. 9.As the number of streaming platforms proliferate and demand for online content continues to mount across the region, Sofa Digital plans to set up a fund that will enable it to produce 100 Latin American titles a year by 2024.