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Max confirmed today the streaming service has renewed HBO Original series Like Water for Chocolate for a second season. The series has become the most watched Latin American content on Max worldwide and has climbed to rank among the top three most watched series on the platform during its premiere month.

The renewal announcement was made by Salma Hayek Pinault, executive producer of the series, during an event in London where HBO and Max content leaders including Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO of HBO and Max Content, and Mariano César, SVP of General Entertainment Content and Programming Strategy for Latin America and Ush, presented top upcoming titles for Max globally.

“We are proud to see the success that Like Water for Chocolate is having on international screens. It is an original Latin American production made with the highest quality standards that characterize HBO series, with an incredibly talented community of local creators and artists,...

The HBO Original series Like Water for Chocolate debuts on Sunday, November 3, on HBO Latino in the U.S. and will be available to stream globally on Max, where the platform is available. New episodes will debut weekly.

An original production from Warner Bros. Discovery, the series is produced by Ventanarosa Productions, Endemol Shine North America, and Endemol Shine Boomdog.

Like Water for Chocolate explores the idea that sometimes traditions can become a prison, an obstacle for love. Tita de la Garza and Pedro Múzquiz are two souls deeply in love yet unable to be together due to entrenched family customs.

The protagonists navigate a world of magical realism and rich flavors as Tita struggles between the destiny imposed on her by her family and her fight for love. Along the way, the audience will witness her greatest refuge: the kitchen.

For Tita, her magical connection to cooking becomes an active resistance against oppression,...

Exclusive: Michael Hoff, an up-and-coming producer who has worked on such titles as Tyger Tyger starring Dylan Sprouse and the forthcoming Wetiko, on Tuesday announced the launch of The Shed, a new production company focused on developing film and television projects for global markets with an emphasis on the U.S. and Latin America.

The debut project for the company will be a feature produced by and starring Mexico’s Ale Fips (Como dice el dicho), titled That’s our thing, What If…. A modern-day love story set in the incredibly tumultuous yet often hilarious dating landscape of Los Angeles, it’s based on the award-winning 2018 short of the same name, which Fips wrote and produced. Hoff will join Fips as a producer of the feature adaptation.

Explained Hoff of the genesis of his partnership with Fips, “When I was shooting Wetiko, I first heard of Ale from our incredible crew in Mexico.

TelevisaUnivision is running more than 90 hours of new programming leading up to its airing Sunday of a Spanish-language telecast of Super Bowl Lviii. Executives hope the NFL may give the company a few more.

The Spanish-language media giant, created via an early 2022 merger between Univision Holdings and Groupo Televisa valued at $4.8 billion, has long shown the annual NFL extravaganza in Mexico, This year, however, it has secured U.S. rights to run a Spanish-language version of the game. And it’s betting a successful telecast will get noticed by the sports league whose games continue to win big linear audiences even as more TV viewers move to streaming.

U.S. rights to NFL games are sewn up for years in multi-billion dollar deals with Paramount Global, Fox Corp., NBCUniversal, Disney and Amazon. But the league has proven adept at carving out ways to reach new crowds. Univision can’t help...

Julián Figueroa, the 28-year-old son of actress Maribel Guardia and late Mexican music icon Joan Sebastian, died Sunday of a heart attack, Guardia confirmed Monday morning. He was 28.

“It saddens me to inform you about the death of my beloved son Julián Figueroa, who unfortunately has left us in this life,” she wrote in Spanish. “He was found unconscious in his room, while I was at the theater.”

Guardia explained that 911 was called, and when an ambulance and police arrived, Figueroa was found dead due to a heart attack and...

Julián Figueroa, a singer-songwriter and telenovela actor best known for his role as Leonardo Santos in Univision’s “Mi Camino Es Amarte,” has died at the age of 27.

“The National Association of Interpreters announces the sensitive death of the interpreter partner Julián Figueroa. Actor and singer, he has released several albums, including “Julián Figueroa y su banda”,” the National Association of Interpreters of Mexico confirmed in a tweet on Monday. “We send our deepest condolences to his family and friends.”

La Asociación Nacional de Intérpretes comunica el sensible fallecimiento del socio intérprete Julián Figueroa.

Actor y cantante, ha lanzado varios álbumes, entre ellos “Julián Figueroa y su banda”.

A sus familiares y amigos les mandamos nuestras más sentidas condolencias. pic.twitter.com/tCwODrZk5j

— Andimexico (@ANDIMexico) April 10, 2023

Born on May 2, 1995, Figueroa is the son of Grammy-winning Mexican singer Joan Sebastian and singer Maribel Guardia. According to Guardia, he was found...

Exclusive: Eduardo Minett is set to make his English-language feature film debut co-starring opposite Clint Eastwood in Warner Bros’ Cry Macho, which Eastwood will also direct. Natalia Traven, Dwight Yoakam, Horacio Garcia Rojas and Fernanda Urrejola are also on board. Eastwood has shown a knack for finding fresh new talent to share the screen with over the years including his 2008 drama Gran Torino, when he tapped newcomer Bee Vang as his co-star.

Al Ruddy and Jessica Meier are producing, along with Tim Moore and Eastwood at Malpaso. The production is currently wrapping filming in New Mexico.

Based on the underlying book written by N. Richard Nash and a screenplay written by Nash and Nick Schenk, Cry Macho stars Eastwood as a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder who, in 1978, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man’s young son home and away from his alcoholic mom.

One of the most buzzed-about horror movies from 2019, Issa López's Tigers Are Not Afraid is coming out on Blu-ray/DVD SteelBook and DVD on May 5th from Rlje Films, and we've been provided with a look at the cover art and the full list of bonus features, including a 43-minute behind-the-scenes video and an audio commentary with López.

Read on for the full SteelBook Blu-ray/DVD and DVD release details, and in case you missed them, read Heather Wixson's interview with López and Ben Larned's review of Tigers Are Not Afraid.

Press Release: Los Angeles – Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to Shudder’s, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, Tigers Are Not Afraid which releases on May 5, 2020 on DVD and DVD/Blu-ray SteelBook. Written and directed by Issa López (Secondary Effects), the horror/thriller stars...