Gina Rodriguez News

Ayo Davis has been promoted to the newly created position of executive vice president, Talent and Casting, ABC Entertainment and Disney+, it was announced today by Karey Burke, president, ABC Entertainment, to whom she will report.

A Rugby Story – a new documentary by Rashid Kadura, will premier at Dances With Films on Thursday, June 20th, at 2:45PM at the TCL Chinese Theaters in Hollywood.  The film takes a heart-wrenching look at a group of rugby players in Benghazi, Libya who cope with the realities of a civil war, as they come together to form Libya's first national rugby team.  The film was produced by Abdulfatah Khabaz, Moh Soliman and Kadura.

Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez is set to star in the film Awake for Netflix from Mark Raso.

The feature film drama The World Without You, starring Radha Mitchell and James Tupper, will premiere on June 22nd at 5PM at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood.  Along with Mitchell and Tupper, the all-star cast includes Chris Mulkey (Captain Phillips), Perrey Reeves (Famous in Love, Entourage), PJ Byrne (Wolf of Wall Street, Green Book), Annika Marks (Anguish), Lyndie Greenwood (Sleepy Hollow), Lynn Cohen (Hunger Games, Munich), and Suzanne C. Johnson (Empty Space).  

Variety and PBS SoCal announced today the actor lineup and schedule for the tenth season of their EMMY®Award-winning Variety Studio: Actors on Actors. The new season will include exclusive one-on-one conversations between top acting talent from this year's most notable television  shows who are expected to contend this Emmy season. The first two episodes will premiere on PBS SoCal on Tuesday, June 18 at 7:00 p.m. and episodes three and four will premiere on Thursday, June 20 at 7:00 p.m.  All episodes will stream on pbssocal.organd on the free PBS Video app following their premieres.

Clay Epstein's Film Mode Entertainment is pleased to announce the Cannes World Market Premiere of Yale Production's romantic adventure, BAILEY AND DARLA.

MTV unveiled the categories and nominees for the “2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards,” celebrating pop culture's biggest night with the performances, stories and moments that drove the conversation this year. Fans can begin voting immediately at vote.mtv.com, and by direct messaging @MTVAwards on Twitter and Facebook Messenger.

The 2019 Jeff Lima Production Award, created by Chicago Fire actor Jeff Lima in partnership with the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, has been awarded to Max Walker-Silverman, an MFA candidate at NYU's Graduate Film Program.

Last night the JANE THE VIRGIN season premiere aired!  In the episode was the epic 7 minute and 20 second monologue that was directed, choreographed and performed by the multi-talented Gina Rodriguez.

Deadline reports Remy Hii will be the male co-lead opposite Hunter Parrish in Jane the Novela, the CW's Jane the Virgin spinoff pilot. Jane The Virgin co-star Ivonne Coll has also been cast as series regular, along with Benito Martinez (The Shield) and Holland Roden (Teen Wolf).

Golden Globe® winner[1], Gina Rodriguez (Annihilation,“Jane the Virgin”) takes charge in the high-octane action adventure, MISS BALA, debuting on Digital April 16 and coming to Blu-ray and DVD April 30, from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Caught in the perilous world of a brutal cross-border cartel, a young woman finds powers she never knew she had as she seeks to rescue her friend. Hollywood's newest heartthrob, Ismael Cruz-Córdova (Mary Queen of Scots), stars alongside Rodriguez as the cartel kingpin, whose growing attraction to his strong-willed female hostage raises the stakes for both as the CIA, DEA, and rival cartels close in. Rodriguez and Cruz-Córdova are joined by co-stars, Anthony Mackie (Avengers: Infinity War) and Matt Lauria (“Friday Night Lights”) in this female-driven action story directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) from a screenplay by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (Contrapelo).