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“Windfall,” the buzzy new Netflix thriller starring Jesse Plemons, Lily Collins and Jason Segel, is a contained, Hitchcockian thriller, one that will leave you on the edge of your seat for the entirety of the svelte, 92-minute runtime and whose ending will leave you talking long after you’ve switched over to “Love Is Blind.”

In “Windfall,” Segel plays a burglar who breaks into the sprawling, orange-farm-adjacent estate of a tech dynamo (Plemons) and his young wife (Collins). The only problem is that, in the middle of the break-in, the house’s owners come home. This leaves Segel in a very awkward position, as he must now deal with them (quickly adding “kidnapping” to his laundry list of offenses), along with other unexpected complications that arise as a result. It’s never easy, is it?

All of this climaxes with a genuinely shocking ending that will leave your jaw on the floor.

Jennifer Lopez and Antonion Banderas are among this year’s Imagen Awards nominees, which span a range of categories including informational programming, on-air advertising, outstanding individual performances and prime time programming in film and television.

The Imagen awards were first established in 1985 upon recommendation from TV veteran Normal Lear in an effort to recognize more Latinx representation in the media. The nominees are determined by an independent panel of entertainment industry executives and Latino community leaders.

The 34th Annual Imagen Awards will take place Aug. 10 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.

See the full list of nominees below.

Best Feature Film

“¡He Matado a mi Marido!” (Hm Movie)

“Instant Family” (Paramount Pictures)

“Monsters and Men” (Neon/Moviepass Films)

“Pain and Glory” (El Deseo/Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Director

Sean Anders, “Instant Family” (Paramount Pictures)

Pedro Almodovar, “Pain and Glory” (El Deseo/Sony Pictures Classics)

Reinaldo Marcus Green, “Monsters and Men...

In a Gold Derby exclusive, we have learned the category placements of the key Emmy Awards contenders for HBO. For this season, the premium network has returning champs “Game of Thrones”, “Barry” (Bill Hader), “Veep” (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), newcomers “Gentleman Jack” (Suranne Jones) and “Succession” (Brian Cox), plus limited series “Chernobyl” (Jared Harris), “Sharp Objects” (Amy Adams) and “True Detective” (Mahershala Ali) as part of their 2019 campaign.

Below, the list of HBO lead, supporting and guest submissions for their comedy, drama, TV movies and limited series. More names might be added by the network on the final Emmy ballot. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.

SEECarmen Ejogo Interview: ‘True Detective’

“Ballers”

Comedy Series

Comedy Actor – Dwayne Johnson

Comedy Supporting Actress – Joy Bryant, Brittany S. Hall

Comedy Supporting Actor – Russell Brand, London Brown, Donovan W. Carter, Rob Corddry, Troy Garity, Omar Miller,...

And so the calendar closes on yet another TV year. As critics start to assemble year-end best lists and look forward to what the next 12 months might have in store, there’s still a final flurry of new original programming to sift through before 2018 fades away.

Per usual, these are spread out across broadcast, cable, and subscription services, this time with an extra peppering of original films debuting on TV airtime. With plenty of other options to juggle as 2018 closes, allow this one final collection to cap off the bunch.

(We do this roundup of new shows pretty much every month — if you missed any of those previous picks, here are some notable TV premieres from February, March, April, May, June, July, August, October, November, and our giant fall preview.)

“Nightflyers”

Joining the ever-growing sci-fi subgenre of “Hey, space is probably not the best place to go with people you don’t completely know!

"In this very moment, you have to grow up." HBO has released the official trailer for a film titled Icebox, which first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this year. Adapted from filmmaker Daniel Sawka's award-winning short film of the same name from 2016, Icebox is about a young boy seeking asylum who becomes trapped inside America's rigid immigration process. Young actor Anthony Gonzalez stars as Oscar, with a full cast including Genesis Rodriguez, Omar Leyva, Johnny Ortiz, Matthew Moreno, and Jessica Juarez. This very timely, very upsetting film shows just how horrible they treat these people, kids included, who are just trying to life a better life in America. Even though it may be infuriating, this is worth a watch. Here's the first official trailer for Daniel Sawka's Icebox, direct from HBO's YouTube: A young boy named Oscar (Anthony Gonzalez), forced to flee his home and seek asylum...

HBO Films announced on Thursday that it has acquired the worldwide rights to director-writer Daniel Sawka’s feature film debut “Icebox.”

The film stars Anthony Gonzalez (“Coco”) as Oscar, a 12-year-old Honduran boy who is forced to flee his home and seek asylum in the U.S., only to find himself trapped in the U.S. immigration system.

As Oscar attempts to reach his uncle in Arizona, he is apprehended by Border Patrol and placed in “the icebox,” a detention facility where he joins scores of other migrant children being held without their families. Faced with a seemingly impenetrable immigration system, Oscar struggles to navigate a path to freedom, with a journalist and his uncle, himself a recent immigrant, as his only lifelines.

Also Read: Laura Dern, Lin-Manuel Miranda, America Ferrera Among Stars at Rallies to Protest Trump Immigration Policy

The drama will debut on HBO on Friday, Dec. 7.

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HBO Films has acquired the worldwide rights to director-writer Daniel Sawka’s timely drama feature Icebox, which premiered at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.

Produced by Oscar- and Emmy-winning James L. Brooks’ Gracie Films and co-financed with Endeavor Content, Icebox will debut Friday, December 7 on HBO.

Filmed on location in New Mexico, the film was shot primarily in Spanish with English subtitles. It tells the story of Óscar, played by Anthony Gonzalez (Coco), a 12-year-old Honduran boy who is forced to flee his home and seek asylum in the United States, only to find himself trapped in the U.S. immigration system.

“I have seldom seen a movie so of the moment – it’s almost reportage,” said Len Amato, president, HBO Films. “Icebox gives viewers not only an opportunity to witness what it’s like inside these migrant detention centers, but also to feel the emotions of the children,...

Exclusive: Talk about having the pulse of an issue. Daniel Sawka first wrote and directed Icebox as a short film for his American Film Institute thesis project in 2016. The pic ended up being shortlisted for a 2018 Oscar, won a jury prize at AFI Fest and screened at Telluride. At some point James L. Brooks saw it, leading to he and his Gracie Films teaming with Sawka to develop it into a feature film.

That result is Icebox, which is having its world premiere Sunday in the Discovery section of the Toronto Film Festival. It lands smack in the middle of national outrage over the U.S. government’s controversial polices of separating families trying to cross the border (and the government’s seeming ineptness in reuniting children and their parents after the fact).

The film, based on research and interviews with child migrants, Border Patrol officers and immigration lawyers, is told...

Currently available on DVD from Wolfe Video, Mosquita y Mari follows two Latina teenagers growing up in immigrant households who fall for each other in Southeast Los Angeles. Aurora Guerrero directs this indie drama about Yolanda (a.k.a. Mosquita) trying to achieve the American dream, while Mari just tries to survive. We offering fans a chance to win a copy of the DVD. Continue reading for more details.

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Writer/Director Aurora Guerrero's semi-biographical look at friendship and first love, is an exquisitely crafted coming-of-age tale follows a pair of Latina teenagers who fall gradually in love against the...

Simon Baker's Patrick Jane is going back to the past in the next episode of "The Mentalist". While he and the team examine the crime scene where a baseball scout is found murdered, he is clocked in the head by a ball and flashes back to his childhood with his overbearing father.

Titled "Throwing Fire", the episode will be aired on December 17 and has Nick Chinlund playing as Jane's father. Other guest stars include Brent Sexton, Jude Ciccolella, Omar Leyva, Frank Gallegos and Ben Bledsoe among others.

Previously, it was reported that Aunjanue Ellis will be joining "The Mentalist" cast, playing the new head of the California Bureau of Investigation. She is slated to make her debut on the show next spring, stepping in for Gregory Itzin who headed back to "24" to reprise his role as former President Charles Logan.