Amplification
Highlighting and uplifting Latine-related accomplishments and announcements across television, film and other disciplines, along with findings and interrogations about the industry.
Deadline | Writer-Producer Vanessa Ramos Inks Overall Deal With Universal Television
Writer-producer Vanessa Ramos is expanding her relationship with Universal Television with a multi-year overall deal. Under the pact, Ramos will develop and produce projects for a variety of television platforms for Universal TV, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Deadline | Paramount Players Steps To ‘Quinceanerx,’ Kevin Lima-Directed Musical On A 14-Year Old Genderfluid Youth Determined To Celebrate A Rite Of Passage
Paramount Players prevailed in an auction for Quinceanerx, an original pitch for a musical that Kevin Lima (A Goofy Movie, Tarzan and Enchanted) will direct with script by Alvaro Garcia Lecuona, who is writing What If for Billy Porter to direct at Orion.
Variety | ‘Transformers’ Standalone Movie in Development With ‘Charm City Kings’ Director Angel Manuel Soto
Marco Ramirez (showrunner for Netflix’s Marvel series “The Defenders”) has signed to write a script for a new, standalone “Transformers” movie based on the Hasbro toy brand, with “Charm City Kings” director Angel Manuel Soto attached to direct.
Deadline | Carmen Carrera, Stephanie Beatriz & YaYa Gosselin Board Kase Peña’s Debut Feature, ‘Trans Los Angeles’
Carmen Carrera, Stephanie Beatriz and YaYa Gosselin have joined the cast of transgender writer/director Kase Peña’s debut feature, Trans Los Angeles.
THR | ‘Selena’ Creator Launches Latinx-Focused Production Company (Exclusive)
Moisés Zamora has partnered with Bianca Quesada to launch Zone One, with a film and multiple TV projects already in the works.
Deadline | The first Native American to run a TV comedy talked about creating the new series with Michael Schur and Ed Helms and about her long family history of storytelling.
Queen Sugar writer and producer Lisa Morales is joining the anthology horror series for its third season as showrunner and exec producer.
IndieWire | Yalitza Aparicio Is Now Filming Her First Movie After Historic ‘Roma’ Oscar Nomination
Aparicio is starring opposite Damián Alcázar in a new horror movie titled “Presences.”
THR | America Ferrera to Make Feature Directorial Debut With ‘I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’
America Ferrara is set to make her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of the young adult novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter for Netflix.
THR | DC’s ‘Blue Beetle’ Finds Director in Angel Manuel Soto
Soto, who helmed the 2020 Sundance coming-of-age drama Charm City Kings, takes on what will be DC’s first film to center on a Latino superhero.
Deadline | George R.R. Martin & Kalinda Vazquez Developing Adaptation Of Roger Zelazny’s Sci-Fi Novel ‘Roadmarks’ At HBO
The Game of Thrones creator is exec producing a TV adaptation of Roadmarks from sci-fi novelist Roger Zelazny, which is development at the WarnerMedia cable network. The adaptation comes from Kalinda Vazquez, who has written on Star Trek: Discovery and was a co-exec producer on Fear The Walking Dead.