Guillermo del Toro
This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Jimmy Smits in a scene from "In the Heights." (Macall Polay/Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP)
‘In the Heights’ lifts hopes for a Latino film breakthrough

By Sigal Ratner-Arias Jun. 09, 2021 09:30 AM EDT

This combination of images shows promotional art for, from left, "Infinite," a film streaming June 10 on Paramount Plus, "Loki," a series streaming June 11 on Disney Plus and "In the Heights," a film both in theaters and streaming on HBO Max, beginning Friday, June 11. (Paramount+/Disney+/HBO Max via AP)
New this week: 'In the Heights,' 'Loki' and 'Infinite'

By The Associated Press Jun. 07, 2021 01:43 PM EDT

AM Prep-Segue

Jun. 12, 2020 03:05 AM EDT
“LIVE PD” CANCELED LOS ANGELES (AP) — For the second time in two days, a police-themed show has bitten the dust. A&E Network has...

FILE - This three photo combo shows Director Alejandro González Iñárritu at the awards ceremony at the 63rd international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 23, 2010, left, actress Salma Hayek during a photocall at the 70th International Film Festival, Berlinale, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, center, and Director Guillermo Del Toro during the 17th Marrakech International Film Festival, in Marrakech, Morocco, Saturday, Dec.8, 2018. Del Toro and González Iñárritu joined Hayek on Thursday, June 11, 2020, to set up a fund to help support movie industry workers out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/File)
Mexican directors, actress create fund for cinema workers

Jun. 11, 2020 06:16 PM EDT

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, left, speak during a ceremony in Lazaro Cardenas, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Monday, June 1, 2020. Amid a pandemic and the remnants of a tropical storm, President Lopez Obrador kicked off Mexico's return to a "new normal" Monday with his first road trip in two months as the nation began to gradually ease some virus-inspired restrictions. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz)
Mexico's cuts in nature, archaeology budgets draws protests

Jun. 04, 2020 06:31 PM EDT

Images of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died after being taken into police custody in Minneapolis, hang surrounded by roses on a security barrier outside the U.S. embassy in Mexico City, Saturday, May 30, 2020. A sign in Spanish reads: "Racism kills, here, there, and in the whole world," on the display put up by a group of Americans living in Mexico, along with other ex-pat and Mexican friends. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Anger rising in Mexico over alleged police brutality death

Jun. 04, 2020 05:14 PM EDT