Exclusive: An authorized biopic about the life of Jenni Rivera has been greenlit at ViX with Annie Gonzalez set to star and executive produce. Filming of Jenni (wt) is underway in Bogota, Colombia, and will be completed in Los Angeles.
The project is set to premiere exclusively via ViX and in select movie theaters in the United States and Mexico later this year.
Jenni (wt) will follow Rivera’s journey from her humble beginnings in Long Beach, California, to her meteoric rise to the top of the charts, and her final days before her tragic and unexpected death. The film will also share a look at the struggles she endured in her personal life and how she became the artist fans all know and love today, and how she persevered and found strength from within.
Jenni Rivera portrayed by Annie Gonzalez in Jenni (wt)
The streamer notes,...
The project is set to premiere exclusively via ViX and in select movie theaters in the United States and Mexico later this year.
Jenni (wt) will follow Rivera’s journey from her humble beginnings in Long Beach, California, to her meteoric rise to the top of the charts, and her final days before her tragic and unexpected death. The film will also share a look at the struggles she endured in her personal life and how she became the artist fans all know and love today, and how she persevered and found strength from within.
Jenni Rivera portrayed by Annie Gonzalez in Jenni (wt)
The streamer notes,...
- 3/8/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Rolling Stone was on the red carpet for this year’s 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards. This year’s ceremony takes place in Las Vegas for the second year in a row, this time at the Michelob Ultra Arena. Our video team caught up with several acts making appearances at this year’s show, including Rauw Alejandro, Becky G, Tainy and Jorge Drexler, among others.
Tainy
Tainy has had a huge few years and is being recognized in the Producer of the Year category, among several other nominations. “To be...
Tainy
Tainy has had a huge few years and is being recognized in the Producer of the Year category, among several other nominations. “To be...
- 11/18/2022
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
The celebration of the best in Latin music is upon us with the Latin Grammys 2022 and new performers have been added to the gala set to take place in Las Vegas.
Christina Aguilera, Camilo, Elvis Costello, Jorge Drexler, John Legend, Mariachi Sol de México de José Hernández and Christian Nodal have all been confirmed by the Latin Recording Academy to take the stage at the Mandalay Bay in Sin City on Thursday, November 17.
The musical acts joined previously announced stars like Ángela Aguilar, Rauw Alejandro, Marc Anthony, Banda Los Recoditos, Chiquis, Nicky Jam, Jesse & Joy, Carin León, Sin Bandera, Sebastián Yatra and the 2022 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year, Marco Antonio Solís.
The 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards promise to honor the legacy, celebrate the present and embrace the future of Latin music, with deliberate consciousness, paying it forward to the next generations of music creators.
Univision will air the ceremony on Thursday,...
Christina Aguilera, Camilo, Elvis Costello, Jorge Drexler, John Legend, Mariachi Sol de México de José Hernández and Christian Nodal have all been confirmed by the Latin Recording Academy to take the stage at the Mandalay Bay in Sin City on Thursday, November 17.
The musical acts joined previously announced stars like Ángela Aguilar, Rauw Alejandro, Marc Anthony, Banda Los Recoditos, Chiquis, Nicky Jam, Jesse & Joy, Carin León, Sin Bandera, Sebastián Yatra and the 2022 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year, Marco Antonio Solís.
The 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards promise to honor the legacy, celebrate the present and embrace the future of Latin music, with deliberate consciousness, paying it forward to the next generations of music creators.
Univision will air the ceremony on Thursday,...
- 11/1/2022
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Ten years ago, the Mexican superstar Jenni Rivera died after a plane she was on crashed south of Monterrey, just moments after taking off. Fans lost a legend who’d blazed trails in regional genres like banda, norteño, and ranchera — and Chiquis Rivera lost her mother. The eldest of Rivera’s five children, Chiquis went into caregiver mode, looking after her siblings while managing her own grief. Eventually, she poured all her emotions into her 2015 book Forgiveness, where she chronicled her complex relationship with her mother, the painful falling out...
- 2/10/2022
- by Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
Becky G is doing the most these days – but in all the best ways possible. The global superstar, singer, actress, and activist, who just released her own beauty brand Treslúce earlier this spring, just launched her very own Facebook Watch talk show series titled Face to Face With Becky G.
The new show, which premiered in November, features raw and unfiltered conversations with some of her favorite celebrities and friends on real and relevant topics that speak to her generation and the Latinx community in particular. Executive produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment and Becky G's Yourself Productions, the show also aims to elevate and amplify diverse voices. In the first four episodes of the show, Becky G has had guests that include Demi Lovato, Tinashe, the late singer Jenni Rivera's daughter and Becky's bestie Chiquis Rivera, and most recently Diego Boneta.
Related: Phew! The Sky-High Slit on Becky G's...
The new show, which premiered in November, features raw and unfiltered conversations with some of her favorite celebrities and friends on real and relevant topics that speak to her generation and the Latinx community in particular. Executive produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment and Becky G's Yourself Productions, the show also aims to elevate and amplify diverse voices. In the first four episodes of the show, Becky G has had guests that include Demi Lovato, Tinashe, the late singer Jenni Rivera's daughter and Becky's bestie Chiquis Rivera, and most recently Diego Boneta.
Related: Phew! The Sky-High Slit on Becky G's...
- 12/10/2021
- by Johanna Ferreira
- Popsugar.com
Times Square in New York will be closed to the public Thursday night for New Year’s Eve celebrations, the first time there won’t be a crowd at the iconic locale on December 31 since the first ball drop in 1907 (the first celebration at One Times Square in Manhattan was in 1904). But in a year in which the entertainment industry has had to adjust to a virtual stage, the show will go on and the ball will still drop at midnight.
Official Times Square New Year’s Eve co-organizers Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment will present a six-hour commercial-free webcast (closed to the public and following New York state health protocols), with Jonathan Bennett returning as host. It will include performances from Andra Day, Gloria Gaynor, the Uso Show Troupe and The Waffle Crew. Other New York-based performers on the night among the various broadcast and cable networks, which...
Official Times Square New Year’s Eve co-organizers Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment will present a six-hour commercial-free webcast (closed to the public and following New York state health protocols), with Jonathan Bennett returning as host. It will include performances from Andra Day, Gloria Gaynor, the Uso Show Troupe and The Waffle Crew. Other New York-based performers on the night among the various broadcast and cable networks, which...
- 12/31/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Univision will ring in New Year’s Eve from both New York and Miami with “¡Feliz 2021!” (Happy 2021!) with a jam-packed night filled with performances and celebrations.
Starting at 10 p.m. Et/Pt and 9 p.m. Ct, hosts Raúl de Molina, Alejandra Espinoza, Rafael Araneda, and Angélica Vale will take a look back at the crazy year, and viewers can participate in the night by using the hashtags #AmorEnNavidad, #Nuestra Navidad and #Feliz2021 on Facebook and Instagram.
International music star Pitbull will keep his New Year’s Eve performance tradition, which this year will be broadcasted from New York’s Times Square instead of his hometown of Miami. He’ll be joined in New York by iconic superstars Anitta, Gloria Gaynor and Andra Ray.
From Miami, musical acts Greeicy, Mike Bahía, Cali y El Dandee, Camilo, Carmen DeLeon, Chesca, Joss Favela, Kany García, Matisse, Joey Montana, Natalia Jiménez, Llane, Pitizion, Chiquis Rivera,...
Starting at 10 p.m. Et/Pt and 9 p.m. Ct, hosts Raúl de Molina, Alejandra Espinoza, Rafael Araneda, and Angélica Vale will take a look back at the crazy year, and viewers can participate in the night by using the hashtags #AmorEnNavidad, #Nuestra Navidad and #Feliz2021 on Facebook and Instagram.
International music star Pitbull will keep his New Year’s Eve performance tradition, which this year will be broadcasted from New York’s Times Square instead of his hometown of Miami. He’ll be joined in New York by iconic superstars Anitta, Gloria Gaynor and Andra Ray.
From Miami, musical acts Greeicy, Mike Bahía, Cali y El Dandee, Camilo, Carmen DeLeon, Chesca, Joss Favela, Kany García, Matisse, Joey Montana, Natalia Jiménez, Llane, Pitizion, Chiquis Rivera,...
- 12/31/2020
- by Andrea Towers
- The Wrap
It’s been eight years since the shocking, tragic, and untimely death of singer Jenni Rivera, and her family still misses her each and every day. The late singer died tragically when her jet crashed in Mexico when she and her passengers were on their way to make an appearance that’s known as the Mexico version of “The Voice,” on December 9, 2012. The news shocked the world, and her daughters took the news hardest. Daughter Chiquis Rivera spoke out on the eighth anniversary of her mother’s death, and she said in a Twitter post, “I miss you. I need you,”
10 Things You Didn’t Know about Chiquis Rivera...
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- 12/16/2020
- by Tiffany Raiford
- TVovermind.com
At the onset of 2020, everything was coming up Becky G. Nearly a decade after she signed a record deal with Sony Music, the now-23-year-old Chicana pop starlet had finally released her full-length debut on Sony Latin, Mala Santa, in October of 2019. A Spanish-language jaunt through pop, reggaeton, and Latin trap, the album was a grab-bag of new songs and earworms that had already circulated heavily across the U.S. and Latin America: take the 2018 feminist anthem “Sin Pijama” with Natti Natasha, and the Bad Bunny-assisted “Mayores.” She dipped her...
- 11/5/2020
- by Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
Dolly Parton’s Seventies country classic, “Jolene,” has received many a rendition in English, including takes by goddaughter Miley Cyrus, the White Stripes, Pentatonix, and even a queer interpretation by Nadine Gibbs. But nearly 50 years since its release, the legendary song finally gets its first Spanish-language makeover by two Mexican American divas: regional Mexican songstress Chiquis Rivera and reggaeton-pop hitmaker Becky G.
In la nueva “Jolene,” the L.A.-born superstars play two tough-as-nails outlaws — with a soft spot for the same desperado. Produced by Ulises Lozano (of electro-rock band...
In la nueva “Jolene,” the L.A.-born superstars play two tough-as-nails outlaws — with a soft spot for the same desperado. Produced by Ulises Lozano (of electro-rock band...
- 6/29/2020
- by Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
It was a big night for multiple winner Daddy Yankee at the Premio Lo Nuestro awards, and it was a very big night for Univision.
Taking over the Spanish-language network’s entire primetime, the 32nd annual Latin music show was a star-studded night with Ricky Martin, Natti Natasha, J Balvin, Sebastián Yatra, Christian Nodal, Chiquis Rivera and Canada’s Snow. There also was a surprise appearance as co-host Pitbull was joined by fellow shaved-head pal John Travolta at the Miami-based shindig — with Chesca and Lil Jon coming onstage later too.
Este performance de John Travolta y @pitbull nos tiene a todos con las manos arriba...
Taking over the Spanish-language network’s entire primetime, the 32nd annual Latin music show was a star-studded night with Ricky Martin, Natti Natasha, J Balvin, Sebastián Yatra, Christian Nodal, Chiquis Rivera and Canada’s Snow. There also was a surprise appearance as co-host Pitbull was joined by fellow shaved-head pal John Travolta at the Miami-based shindig — with Chesca and Lil Jon coming onstage later too.
Este performance de John Travolta y @pitbull nos tiene a todos con las manos arriba...
- 2/21/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital together with Univision radio stations across 15 media markets raised $4.7 million dollars during this year’s Promesa y Esperanza (Promise and Hope) radio event held on Dec. 5 and 6.
Events as these help inspire donors to support the life-saving mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and ensure that families never receive a bill for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
The two-day radio campaign encouraged thousands of Univision radio listeners across the country to become Angeles de Esperanza (Angels of Hope) by pledging to make a monthly donation of $20 or more. Through their pledge, monthly donors receive a t-shirt that reads Esta Camiseta Salva Vidas, the Spanish-language version of the widely popular “This Shirt Saves Lives” campaign, which gives them the opportunity to join an online movement supported by donors across the country, celebrities...
Events as these help inspire donors to support the life-saving mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and ensure that families never receive a bill for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
The two-day radio campaign encouraged thousands of Univision radio listeners across the country to become Angeles de Esperanza (Angels of Hope) by pledging to make a monthly donation of $20 or more. Through their pledge, monthly donors receive a t-shirt that reads Esta Camiseta Salva Vidas, the Spanish-language version of the widely popular “This Shirt Saves Lives” campaign, which gives them the opportunity to join an online movement supported by donors across the country, celebrities...
- 12/17/2019
- Look to the Stars
Premios de la Radio — the world’s longest-running regional Mexican music awards show — celebrated its 20th anniversary Thursday night in Dallas, TX. Unique to these awards are that they actually give nod to the diversity of the Mexican folk genre, by highlighting subgenres such as banda, mariachi, and norteño. American Spanish-language network EstrellaTV stacked the three-hour telecast with live acts that highlighted the past, present, and future of the genre — from Lifetime Achievement Award honorees Bronco, to young corrido urbano stars Fuerza Regida — and embraced the evolution that regional Mexican...
- 11/8/2019
- by Lucas Villa
- Rollingstone.com
mun2 and Telemundo networks have released a statement on the tragic passing of singer Jenni Rivera, who, along with six others, died in a plane crash early Sunday outside of Monterrey, Mexico. Rivera had been involved with the two Spanish-language networks as the producer/star of the hit reality show I Love Jenni, as well as the producer of her daughter Janney Marin’s new show Chiquis ‘n Control. Statement from Diana Mogollon, general manager, mun2, and Emilio Romano, president, Telemundo Media: “It is with a heavy heart that both the mun2 and Telemundo Media family mourn the tragic passing of Mexican-American [...]...
- 12/10/2012
- by Jeff Pfeiffer
- ChannelGuideMag
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