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Exclusive: Tubi has acquired North American rights to Spanish and English-language thriller Upon Entry from French sales firm Charades and Anonymous Content Independent.

The SXSW movie from writer-directors Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez recently received three Spirit Award nominations and three Goya nominations and will launch on the ad-supported platform on December 12.

Tense drama-thriller Upon Entry sees a couple held and interrogated by border agents determined to see if they have something to hide. Cast comprises Alberto Ammann, Bruna Cusí, Ben Temple and Laura Gómez.

Production companies are Zabriskie Films, Basque Films and Sygnatia with executive producers Carles Torras, Carlos Juárez, Xosé Zapata, Sergio Adrià and Alba Sotorra.

Internationally, the film has played at festivals including San Sebastian, Tallinn and Thessaloniki.

Spirit nominations include Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay, while Goya noms came for Best Actor, Best Screenplay and Best New Director.

Tubi’s previous international pickups...

‘Aftersun’ distributor Condor has picked up the thriller for France.

Condor Distribution has taken French rights to Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez’s feature debut Upon Entry as Charades continues to secure sales for the Spanish psychological thriller in key territories worldwide.

The film recently won the audience award at the Reims Polar festival in northern France, following its world premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival last November where it won the Fipresci prize in the feature debut competition and its North American premiere at SXSW in March in the Narrative Spotlight section.

Upon Entry is based on...

“Upon Entry,” a gripping psychological thriller tackling an immigration story, has been boarded by Charades and Anonymous Content ahead of its North American premiere at SXSW.

The movie marks the feature debut of Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez and is based on the their personal experiences as emigrants.

The cast is led by Goya-winning actors Alberto Ammann (“Narcos”) and Bruna Cusí (“Summer 1993”), as well as Laura Gómez, best known for her role in “Orange Is the New Black,” and Ben Temple.

“Upon Entry” had its world premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival last November, where it won the Fipresci Award, and will next play at SXSW in the Narrative Spotlight Section.

“Upon Entry” tells the story of Diego and Elena, a young couple moving to the U.S. from Spain. Upon their arrival at the Newark airport with their approved residence visas, the two are unexpectedly held and...

Corinna zu-Sayn Wittengenstein shares first-hand account of her experience with King Juan Carlos I of Spain amidst a corruption scandal that stretched to countries around the world, before his abdication of the throne in 2014 Podcast will be released simultaneously in English with narration by actress Mishel Prada and in Spanish featuring actress Laura Gómez

Innovative content studio Project Brazen and award-winning public media organization Prx announced a new investigative narrative podcast, Corinna and The King. The eight-part series will debut on Monday, November 7.

In Corinna And The King, Corinna zu-Sayn Wittengenstein shares a powerful first-hand account of the abdication that shook the Spanish throne in 2014 during the reign of King Juan Carlos I as well as the corruption investigation and public scandal that continues to unfold today. Executive produced by Project Brazen Co-Founders, bestselling authors, and Pulitzer finalists Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, new episodes will be released weekly on Mondays.

In a year in which representation for minorities on television has been brought to the forefront of Hollywood’s agenda, the Emmy Awards are being called out for their lack of nominations given to Latinx actors and shows.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus called the lack of nominations “a demoralizing disappointment for the U.S.’s largest minority group” in a tweet Tuesday, urging Hollywood to “acknowledge and address the erasure of Latinx actors.”

The caucus consists of 38 members that advocate for issues important to the Latinx community via the legislative process in Congress. In its tweet, the group incorrectly said that no Latinx actors were nominated, when in fact Alexis Bledel — nominated for her guest role on “The Handmaids Tale” — identifies as Latinx.

Reps for the Television Academy did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.

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Calls are ongoing for the reopening of a toll-free hotline for detained immigrants that was shut down after it was featured in a episode of Orange Is The New Black.

The California-based Freedom for Immigrants says the hotline was shut down on August 7, about two weeks after the July 26 premiere of the final season of Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black. It had been featured in the fifth episode of the final season, in which Maritza, played by Diane Guerrero, who has been detained by Ice, discovers a toll-free hotline she can call to get a free lawyer. As she joyfully tells Gloria about the hotline, Gloria quickly warns her, “You have to be careful, though. Apparently if they figure out that you’re using the hotline, Big Brother shuts it down.”

And lo and behold, that’s what happened, in real-life.

The hotline had been featured in a various other episodes as well.

Weeks after Orange Is the New Black referenced a toll-free hotline that helps immigrants in detention centers obtain legal counsel, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) allegedly shut down the number.

Freedom for Immigrants, the California organization that created the National Immigration Detention Hotline in 2013, says the number was nixed on August 7th, roughly two weeks after the premiere of the Netflix series’ seventh season. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the show features a storyline in which two characters, Blanca and Maritza, end up in deportation proceedings and other people at the...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the series finale of Orange Is the New Black!

Real-life issues make their way into Orange Is the New Black season seven, and the storylines hit home for many people. One of the most prominent ones is immigration. More than one character we've known for seasons and seasons is faced with deportation. Maritza Ramos (Diane Guerrero), who did not appear in season six, became a main player in the first few episodes of the final season, and her story doesn't end in smiles.

Since she wasn't in the previous season, we don't see exactly when she is released from prison. But we do see that she's enjoying the nightlife, even though her probation is supposed to stop her from doing that. Maritza meets an NBA player based in Los Angeles who wants to bring her there. She doesn't tell him about her past and how she can't leave the state,...

[This story contains major spoilers from the final season of Netflix's Orange Is the New Black.]

Orange Is the New Black went into its seventh and final season with ambitious ground to cover.

In the season six finale, Jenji Kohan's prison dramedy had released starring inmate Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), sent Dominican inmate Blanca Flores (Laura Gómez) into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and returned wrongfully convicted Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson (Danielle Brooks) to the maximum security facility at Litchfield Penitentiary. All three cliffhangers — as specific as they may be — ended up paving three ...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the series finale of Orange Is the New Black.

Immigration is a heavy topic tackled in the latest season of Orange is the New Black. One of its original characters, Blanca Flores (Laura Gómez), in particular, finds herself at the center of the deportation scandal. All season long, we watch Blanca's time in the Us quickly drift away like sand in an hourglass. Her green card expires, her freedom is at risk, and the love of her life disappears into Ice custody. Let's just say, Blanca's story gives us all the feels.

We start by seeing Blanca in an Ice detention center alongside Maritza (Diane Guerrero). Confusing, because last season we see her walk free, kicking rocks to the Litchfield Penitentiary. We come to find that her freedom came with a price: her immigration status. With the help of her new pal, Karla Córdova (Karina Arroyave...

Warning: The following contains spoilers from Season 7 of Orange Is the New Black. Read no farther until you have finished Episode 5.

For Orange Is the New Black‘s Diane Guerrero, the topic of immigration is deeply personal.

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Before she became known as Litchfield inmate Maritza Ramos, Guerrero, a U.S. citizen, was the daughter of undocumented immigrant parents.

Are you locked into the seventh and final season of the Orange Is the New Black TV show on Netflix? Usually, the Nielsen ratings play a big role in determining whether TV shows like Orange Is the New Black will be cancelled or renewed for season eight. Netflix and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data, and the decision to end it here was announced last year. If you've been watching this TV series, we'd love to know how you feel about the Orange Is the New Black season seven episodes. We invite you to rate them for us here.

A Netflix comedy-drama, Orange Is the New Black stars Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Michael Harney, Kate Mulgrew, Uzo Aduba, Danielle Brooks, Natasha Lyonne, Taryn Manning, Selenis Leyva, Adrienne C. Moore, Nick Sandow, Yael Stone, Jackie Cruz, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Jessica Pimental, Laura Gómez, Matt Peters, Dale...

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Are the ladies of Litchfield finally short-timers? Has the Orange Is the New Black TV show been cancelled or renewed for an eighth season on Netflix? The television vulture is watching all the latest TV cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Orange Is the New Black season eight. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?   

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A Netflix comedy-drama, Orange Is the New Black stars Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Michael Harney, Kate Mulgrew, Uzo Aduba, Danielle Brooks, Natasha Lyonne, Taryn Manning, Selenis Leyva, Adrienne C. Moore, Nick Sandow, Yael Stone, Jackie Cruz,  Elizabeth Rodriguez, Jessica Pimental, Laura Gómez, Matt Peters, Dale Soules, Alysia Reiner, and Dascha Polanco. The series follows Piper Chapman (Schilling), a New...

Orange Is the New Black was technically the second of Netflix’s original series to debut, arriving five months after House of Cards in 2013. But where Cards was exactly the kind of antihero drama that had been made for years on cable TV (Netflix in fact won a bidding war with HBO for it), Orange felt like something new in almost every way. As the women’s prison drama enters its seventh and final season this week, it feels right to celebrate it as the first series explicitly designed for the streaming era,...

Warning: this post contains spoilers for Orange Is the New Black season six.

Over the years, Orange Is the New Black's Blanca Flores (played by Laura Gómez) has become a fan favorite. In season one, Blanca is deemed crazy because she's constantly in a particular bathroom stall talking to "Diablo" ("Devil" in Spanish). Turns out it's because she has a hidden cell phone and Diablo is actually her boyfriend's nickname. She's later forced into psych after flipping out when her contraband cell phone is stolen, but by season four, it's clear she's done messing around. Her peaceful protest of the COs and Piscatella's power turns violent and results in Poussey's death. In season five, she plays a pivotal part in the riot at Litchfield, is taken captive by Piscatella, and has to witness the torture of Red. All of this is to say that Blanca has been going through...

Orange Is the New Black is full of quietly fascinating characters, but Blanca might take the cake. While she first appears as crazy, we learn in season one that she's just pretending to talk to herself because it means people don't realize she's talking to her boyfriend on her hidden cell phone. Blanca is a smart cookie, and we see even more of that in season five. Since Blanca has such an extreme look, I recently started wondering what actress Laura Gómez looks like in real life. The answer? Very different than her onscreen persona.

Daphne Rubin-Vega, Joe Morton, and Brandon Victor Dixon are among the guest artists at the Developing Artists’ Rebel Verses Youth Arts Festival. The two-week event provides young artists, between the ages of 13 to 19, with a chance to collaborate and network with peers and prominent artists, and to showcase original work. It is hosted at the Vineyard Theater, a prominent Off-Broadway venue, and is an attempt to promote and nurture new theatrical voices.

Each evening will feature a performance by theater stars such as Rubin-Vega and Victor Dixon. Additional performers include Emmy Award-winner Kevin Mambo (“Fela!”), Laura Gómez (“Orange is the New Black”), and Flaco Navajo, a poet and actor. The event will take place Aug. 9-18.

Week One will feature performances by young-artist companies the Door (NYC), Alumni Theatre Company, and the Brotherhood/Sister Sol (NYC). Week Two will feature McC Youth Company (NYC), Epic Next (NYC), 6th Borough Slam,...

The ladies in orange are back but things aren’t looking quite the same. Netflix has released the trailer for the upcoming season of Orange is the New Black. Check out the season 6 trailer below.

Following the women’s take over of the Litchfield Penitentiary in season 5, the women have been taken out of their “home” and put into a new maximum security prison. The women will have to adapt to the new the ways of the prison which means more rules, less freedom and new inmates. How will they manage? Will they stick together or fall apart?

The trailer starts off with a Good Morning, Vietnam reference followed by Crazy Eyes (Uzo Aduba) quickly realizing that she’s no longer home and out of her comfort zone. The next we see are bits and pieces of what problems the ladies will face adjusting to a maximum security prison – even...

When it comes to rewarding the best comedic cast on television, the SAG Awards often simply go with the biggest cast. Recent winners like “Orange is the New Black” (2014-2016), “Glee” (2009), “Desperate Housewives” (2004-2005) and “Ally McBeal” (1998) all prevailed thanks in part to having the most cast members on the voting ballot. Interestingly enough, all four of these were also hour-long dramedies, which suggests SAG voters are more apt to give the prize to large casts when they’re also in large productions.

What does this statistic mean in terms of predicting the 2018 SAG Awards? “Orange is the New Black” once again boasts the biggest comedy cast with a record-setting 45 men and women nominated for the Netflix prison series. That’s up from 37 cast members in 2016, 34 in 2015, and 40 in 2014. Of this year’s other nominated ensembles, Netflix’s “Glow” consists of 18 cast members, followed by HBO’s “Veep” at 15, ABC...

Vulture Watch How long with the ladies languish in Litchfield? Has the Orange Is the New Black TV show been cancelled or renewed for a sixth season on Netflix? The television vulture is watching all the latest TV cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Orange Is the New Black season six. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?    What's This TV Show About? Streaming on the Netflix paid subscription platform, Orange Is the New Black stars Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Michael Harney, Kate Mulgrew, Uzo Aduba, Danielle Lyonne, Taryn Manning, Selenis Leyva Adrienne C. Moore, Nick Sandow, Yael Stone, Jackie Cruz, Lea DeLaria, Elizabeth Rodriguez, and Jessica Pimental. The recurring cast includes: Laverne Cox, Beth Fowler, Annie Golden, Laura Gómez, and Diane Guerrero. The series follows Piper...

The ladies of Litchfield will not be denied. Watch the official season five trailer for the Orange Is the New Black TV show and check out these episode photos, from Netflix. Orange Is the New Black, season five, drops to Netflix on June 9, 2017. A prison comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black stars Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Michael Harney, Kate Mulgrew, Uzo Aduba, Danielle Lyonne, Taryn Manning, Selenis Leyva Adrienne C. Moore, Nick Sandow, Yael Stone, Jackie Cruz, Lea DeLaria, Elizabeth Rodriguez, and Jessica Pimental. The recurring Netflix cast includes: Laverne Cox, Beth Fowler, Annie Golden, Laura Gómez, and Diane Guerrero. Read More…...

Were there any surprises at this year's SAG Awards?

Check out all of the winners in the TV categories, below, and tell us if you're surprised by those chosen to take home a statue.

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

Stranger Things (Netflix)

Millie Bobby Brown / Eleven

Cara Buono / Karen Wheeler

Joe Chrest / Ted Wheeler

Natalia Dyer / Nancy Wheeler

David Harbour / Jim Hopper

Charlie Heaton / Jonathan Byers

Joe Keery / Steve Harrington

Gaten Matarazzo / Dustin Henderson

Caleb McLaughlin / Lucas Sinclair

Matthew Modine / Dr. Martin Brenner

Rob Morgan / Officer Powell

John Paul Reynolds / Officer Callahan

Winona Ryder / Joyce Byers

Noah Schnapp / Will Byers

Mark Steger / The Monster

Finn Wolfhard / Mike Wheeler

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

Claire Foy / Queen Elizabeth II – “The Crown” (Netflix)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

John Lithgow / Winston Churchill – “The Crown” (Netflix)

Outstanding Performance by...

Tonight at the SAG Awards, “Orange is the New Black” beat out all other comers for the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. The ensemble cast includes Uzo Aduba, Alan Aisenberg, Danielle Brooks, Blair Brown, Jackie Cruz, Lea DeLaria, Beth Dover, Kimiko Glenn, Annie Golden, Laura Gómez, Diane Guerrero, Michael J. Harney, Brad William Henke, Vicky Jeudy, Julie Lake, Selenis Leyva, Natasha Lyonne, Taryn Manning, James McMenamin, Adrienne C. Moore, Kate Mulgrew, Emma Myles, Matt Peters, Lori Petty, Jessica Pimentel, Dascha Polanco, Laura Prepon, Jolene Purdy, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Nick Sandow, Abigail Savage, Taylor Schilling, Constance Shulman, Dale Soules, Yael Stone, Lin Tucci, and Samira Wiley.

Read More: ‘Orange is the New Black’ Cast Speaks Out Against Hollywood’s Low Standards for Women in Fiery SAG Sizzle Reel

There was some tough competition to be had in this category, with veteran “The Big Bang Theory” having been nominated six times with no wins,...

A dark season is yielding great results for Orange Is the New Black.

The cast of the Netflix dramedy won the award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday.

Most of the large cast took to the stage to accept the award, and Taylor Schilling used the opportunity to boast of the ensemble’s diverse group in the wake of Donald Trump‘s executive order that temporarily bans all refugees from entering the U.S..

“We know that it’s gonna be up to all of us and...

The 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards took place in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 29. The awards, presented by the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-aftra), allows the acting community to pay tribute to the year’s finest performances in film and television. Check out the complete categories and winners below.

2016 SAG Life Achievement Award:

Lily Tomlin

Television Awards:

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

Julia Louis-Dreyfus – “Veep” as Selina Meyer

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

William H. Macy – “Shameless” as Frank Gallagher...

Netflix has unveiled new photos from the fourth season of “Orange is the New Black,” revealing new characters, plot points and a lot more unanswered questions. Something is going on between Piper (Taylor Schilling) and Bianca (Laura Gomez), while Sophia (Laverne Cox) still remains in solitary after she getting attacked by the entire kitchen staff to end season 3. But the most shocking photo from the upcoming season is one in which Laura Prepon‘s character, Alex, is very much alive. In last season’s finale, Alex’s fate became a mystery when a hitman dressed as a correctional officer cornered her in the shed.