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Days of Our Lives star Cherie Jimenez dealt with harsh criticism over her portrayal of Gabi Hernandez. Fans were used to Camila Banus, who played the role for 13 years. This can be a difficult transition for anyone, even the viewers. But that doesn’t excuse bullying. In a new interview, Jimenez addressed the negativity she faced on social media and warned those who compare her to her predecessor.

Loving her Role

For Jimenez, playing such an iconic character on the Peacock soap is a dream come true. She also loves the Latina representation that the show brings. In an interview with Woman’s World, Jimenez shared her thoughts about landing the role of Gabi. She first auditioned for the part in 2009.

Jimenez jumped at the opportunity when she first got it. She had no idea that Camila Banus stepped down from the role. “For this to come back around 15-plus years...

The Italian horror premiered at Spain’s Sitges festival

UK sales agent and genre specialist Jinga Films has added six titles to its slate ahead of the American Film Market (October 13-November 5) including Federico Zampaglione’s The Well and Julia Verdin’s Maya.

The Well world premiered at Spain’s Sitges earlier this month and will screen at Screamfest, the US’ longest-running horror film festival, before making its way to AFM. The Italian horror follows a young art dealer who travels to a small Italian village to restore a painting before an evil force awakens.

A sequel to Verdin’s 2020 debut Angie: Lost Girls,...

Exclusive: Patricia Velasquez (The Mummy), Gian Franco Rodriguez (Halston), Rumer Willis (Sorority Row), Billy Budinich (Frank and Penelope) and newcomer Isabella Feliciana will star in the social impact film Maya from director Julia Verdin (Angie: Lost Girls), which has entered production in Los Angeles.

The film written by Verdin looks to raise awareness on key issues including child trafficking, domestic violence, alcoholism and child abuse. It’s inspired by true events and will show how predators use social media to lure vulnerable teens into their lair.

When Maya (Feliciana) is six years old, her father abandons her and her mother Camila. This, of course, has a lasting effect on them both. Camila resorts to seeking comfort in alcohol and an abusive boyfriend, with Maya suffers from feeling unlovable. No longer feeling safe in her own home, Maya searches for comfort outside of her family—finding it in Ray (Budinich), an edgy,...

Exclusive: Morris S. Levy’s M.E.G.A. Films (Angie: Lost Girls) has acquired the rights to Jill Eileen Smith’s epic historical novel Star of Persia to develop as a television event series. Keeper of the Diary and Mayday 109 scribes Samuel Franco and Evan Kilgore are attached to write the series, based on the book and the duo’s own historical research.

Star of Persia is inspired by the Old Testament’s Book of Esther, following a brave peasant girl, Esther, who is enslaved by Persian King Xerxes, and forced to be a part of his harem. There, as she works to gain the trust and respect of the other women in the palace, she fights to become their protector and advocate. Now rising to wield great power as the King’s favorite concubine, she discovers a deadly coup among his most trusted advisors. On the heels of his army’s...

Features include comedy horror ‘Red Snow’.

UK-based genre specialist Jinga Films has added two titles to its slate, which it will introduce to buyers at the Cannes Marché (July 6-15).

The features include US comedy-horror Red Snow and Argentinean supernatural thriller The Unburied.

Sean Nichols Lynch wrote and directed Red Snow, which debuted at Panic Fest in the US last month. The comedy-horror stars Dennice Cisneros as a vampire-romance novelist who finds an injured bat outside her isolated cabin in the woods. When the bat transforms into a handsome young vampire, she attempts to protect him from a ruthless vampire slayer,...

Actor Dylan Sprayberry has signed for representation with M88 in all areas.

Sprayberry is best known for playing Liam Dunbar’ in MTV’s Teen Wolf supernatural drama from its fourth season and portrayed the young Clark Kent in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel movie for Warner Bros- DC Universe. His credits include Hulu’s Light as a Feather and the feature Angie: Lost Girls, and Sprayberry will also be seen in the upcoming The Malibu Tapes thriller film set for a release later this year.

Sprayberry on the charity front offers support to the homeless community as he works with local organizations to provide ...

Actor Dylan Sprayberry has signed for representation with M88 in all areas.

Sprayberry is best known for playing Liam Dunbar’ in MTV’s Teen Wolf supernatural drama from its fourth season and portrayed the young Clark Kent in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel movie for Warner Bros- DC Universe. His credits include Hulu’s Light as a Feather and the feature Angie: Lost Girls, and Sprayberry will also be seen in the upcoming The Malibu Tapes thriller film set for a release later this year.

Sprayberry on the charity front offers support to the homeless community as he works with local organizations to provide ...

Confronting their shame and fear in order to help their peers who are in the same dangerous situation can be a harrowing situation for many teens. But actress Jane Widdop, who plays the title protagonist in the new drama, ‘Angie: Lost Girls,’ is bravely doing just that after she escapes the sordid world of sex […]

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