Hollywood rising stars Melissa Barrera and Tonatiuh are joining forces with Latin music heavyweights Los Tigres Del Norte and Chiquis for an American Friends Service Committee-led PSA campaign to champion the contributions of Latino immigrants in the United States. Rolling Stone can exclusively reveal the PSA campaign, titled “Immigrants Make …
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Stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before: Some criminals abduct a rich guy’s child and demand a hefty sum to give the youngster back. The “victim” then proceeds to make life hell for the kidnappers. It’s more or less the plot of The Ransom of Red …
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Melissa Barrera seems remarkably composed for someone navigating one of the most trying periods of their personal and professional lives. You’ve probably seen the headlines: The rising star of Vida, In the Heights, and the Scream films was fired from the horror franchise and falsely branded antisemitic for a series …
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Melissa Barrera is keeping things positive after being removed from the Scream movie franchise. In November, Spyglass Media Group — the production company behind thefilms — fired Barrera following her social media posts in support ofPalestineamid theIsrael-Hamas war, claiming they have “zero tolerance” for antisemitism. Speaking to Deadline at Sundance …
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A ballerina vampire? On Thursday, Universal Pictures released the trailer for the horror film Abigail, starring Melissa Barrera and Angus Cloud, in one of the last films the actor shot before his death last year. The trailer sees a group of “would-be criminals” as they wait inside a mansion with …
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Director Christopher Landon announced on Saturday that he has “formally” left Scream VII. The announcement comes following the high profile exits of stars Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega from the beleaguered film. “I guess now is as good a time as any to announce I formally exited Scream 7 weeks …
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Jews are not a monolith. And yet, for the past several decades, those in favor of Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration have mendaciously branded any criticisms of the Israeli government as antisemitism. It is a curious conflation, given how a 2021 Pew Research Center survey revealed that only 58% of Jewish adults …
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Jenna Ortega will no longer be in Scream VII. Several outlets reported that the actress will be stepping away from the Scream franchise due to alleged scheduling conflicts with the second season of Wednesday. But the new reporting arrives just one day after Spyglass Media Group — the production company …
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Say what you want about Scream, the 2022 reboot of everybody’s favorite ‘90s/‘00s meta-slasher — it completely understood the pop-culture–osphere it was coming into and commenting on, i.e. the era of endless nostalgia retreads and “requels.” That original cycle was all about making horror movies that bet on how much …
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