Sanchez maps Mexico's movie future
Overseeing local cinema's fortunes in the world's eighth biggest film market, Jorge Sanchez, the new head of Mexico's Imcine film fund, has already set one major priority: Carving out larger…
John Hopewell
Telemundo fills up on telenovelas
NBCU's Telemundo Intl. announced a five-year deal with Chilean web TVN to adapt the latter's telenovela formats as well as extending a global distribution deal first made in 2006.
Exhibs to invest $200 mil in Mexico
Mexico's top two exhibs Cinepolis and Cinemex are planning to spend a combined $200 million in 2013 on infrastructure and screens.
Mexican B.O. up 9% in 2012
Mexico's box office jumped 9.4% to $841 million in 2012, powered by Hollywood blockbusters, which filled the top 10, according to national film office Canacine.
Venezuela's Telesur goes live in Cuba
For the first time since the revolution began in 1953, Cuba is transmitting a foreign TV signal in real time with the entry of Venezuela's Telesur, which began broadcasting 13 1/2 hours a day this…
Mexico looks north to curtail trail of violence
MEXICO CITY – Mexicans reacted with grief but little surprise to news of the Newtown massacre. This is a country that has spent the last six years watching its own citizens die by the tens of…
Pols probe pay TV in Mexico
President Enrique Pena Nieto's newly inducted government is offering signs it is willing to challenge entrenched interests in Mexico's pay TV industry, particularly over increasingly concentrated…
Mexico's new president calls for more nets
In his inaugural address Saturday, Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico's newly anointed president, made an explicit call for bolstering media competition, calling for the establishment of two new over-the-air…
Mexican animator adds English
Raunchy toon "El Santos vs. La Tetona Mendoza" and 3D animated film "Champions of Oz" point up the dual-track strategy of Mexico's top animation shingle, Anima Estudios.
Mexico web auction delayed
As President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto prepares to assume power Saturday, the prospects of what seemed to be the certain entry of two new terrestrial broadcasters in Mexico are now far murkier, as…
VScore
Domestic Film DAILY
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1
The Hangover Part III
The Hangover Part III
1Daily: $11.8M Cumulative: $11.8M Warner Brothers 1st in 1st week -
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Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness
2Daily: $8.0M Cumulative: $108.8M Paramount Pictures 2nd in 1st week -
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Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness
3Daily: $6.8M Cumulative: $108.8M Paramount Pictures 3rd in 1st week
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