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Azteca Now
Azteca Now (stylized: azteca Now) is a free-over-the-top streaming service owned by Icaro Media Group and operated by TV Azteca, was released on August 10, 2021, exclusively in several Latin American countries, Canada and well as several European countries. The platform was only released for Android and iOS, Includes a catalog of Original series, Telenovelas (from TV Azteca) as well as Movies from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, Original movies Lifestyle programs and including adn40 news programming. On November 16, 2022, it was launched for the Mexican market to compete mainly against TelevisaUnivision's Vix. History At the beginning of 2021, TV Azteca would announce the launch of its streaming-platform in collaboration with the New York-based company Icaro Media Group to compete against Televisa's Blim TV, was officially launched on August 10, 2021 for both Latin America and Canada with which they would have a total coverage of 100 million people, in September they would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Over-the-top Media Service
An over-the-top (OTT) media service is a media service offered directly to viewers via the Internet. OTT bypasses cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms: the types of companies that traditionally act as controllers or distributors of such content. It has also been used to describe no-carrier cellphones, for which all communications are charged as data, avoiding monopolistic competition, or apps for phones that transmit data in this manner, including both those that replace other call methods and those that update software. The term is most synonymous with subscription-based video on demand (SVoD) services that offer access to film and television content (including existing shows and movies for which rights have been acquired from the content owner, as well as original content produced specifically for the service). OTT also encompasses a wave of "skinny" television services that offer access to live streams of linear specialty channels, similar to a traditional s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance Film
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey through dating, courtship or marriage is featured. These films make the search for romantic love the main plot focus. Occasionally, romance lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, various forms of discrimination, psychological restraints or family resistance. As in all quite strong, deep and close romantic relationships, the tensions of day-to-day life, temptations (of infidelity), and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films. Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight young and mature love, unrequited love, obsession, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, platonic love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrés García
Andrés García (born May 24, 1941) is a Dominican-born Mexican actor. He has formerly served as a scuba diving instructor in Acapulco. Career García was born and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is the son of Spanish exiles from the Spanish Civil War who received refuge in the country during the regime of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. His father was a Spanish Republican combat aviator named Andrés García La Calle. Garcia emigrated to Mexico, where he obtained Mexican nationality and pursued a career in show business. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he became a sex symbol in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, participating in movies, Spanish soap operas and photo-romance novels (magazine featuring photos of actors who create a story—a popular phenomenon across Latin America during the 1970s). In 1985 García participated in ''Tú o nadie'', with Lucía Mendez and Salvador Pineda. ''Tú o nadie'' became a major hit and helped García to receive m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Badú
Antonio Badú (August 13, 1914 – June 29, 1993) was a Mexican film actor and producer.de la Mora p.90 He appeared in more than sixty films during his career, which began during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Selected filmography * '' ¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!'' (1946) * ''Ramona'' (1946) * ''Cantaclaro'' (1946) * ''Hypocrite'' (1949) *solo Veracruz es bello (1949) * ''Love for Love'' (1950) * ''A Gringo Girl in Mexico'' (1951) *Los Hijos De Maria Morales (1952) * *''Paco the Elegant'' (1952) * ''Pain'' (1953) *''The Life of Agustín Lara'' (1959) * ''The White Renegade ''The White Renegade'' (Spanish: ''El renegado blanco'') is a 1960 Mexican adventure film directed by Fernando Méndez and starring Mauricio Garcés, Abel Salazar and Rafael Baledón.Riera p.42 Cast * Mauricio Garcés as Juan * Abel Salazar as ...'' (1960) References Bibliography * Sergio de la Mora. ''Cinemachismo: Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film''. University of Texas Press, 2009. Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Infante
Pedro Infante Cruz (; 18 November 1917 – 15 April 1957) was a Mexican ranchera music singer and actor, whose career spanned the golden age of Mexican cinema. His popularity spread across Latin America. Infante was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, and raised in nearby Guamúchil. He died on 15 April 1957 in Mérida, Yucatán, while en route to Mexico City when his plane crashed due to engine failure. From 1939 until his death, Infante acted in over 60 films (30 of them with his brother Ángel) and recorded over 350 songs. For his performance in the movie ''Tizoc'', he was posthumously awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. Childhood and early career Pedro Infante was born 18 November 1917, the son of Delfino Infante García (24 December 1880 – 17 March 1955), who played the double bass in a band, and Maria del Refugio Cruz Aranda. He was the third of fifteen children, of whom nine survived. Although the Infante Cruz family stayed f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lo Que La Gente Cuenta
''Lo que la gente cuenta'' (in English: ''What people say'' ell is a Mexican horror, thriller and anthology series created and produced by Alejandro Rodríguez for TV Azteca since November 20, 2005. The series recreates popular Mexican horror legends, It first premiered on Azteca Trece and then revived and transferred to Azteca 7 in 2019. On August 31, 2021, during the press presentation of ''Un día para vivir ''Un día para vivir'' is a Mexican thriller anthology television series that premiered on Azteca 7 on 6 September 2021. The series is produced by Rafael Urióstegui, and it is star María José Magán. Premise ''Un día para vivir'' will tel ...'', it was announced that the series was renewed for a ninth season, which is scheduled to premiere on October 11, 2021, and its production began on August 23, 2021. Plot The program focuses on horror and suspense stories based on real events, only the names of the characters were changed and also a little change of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs. Cinematic techniques used in horror films have been shown to provoke psychological reactions in an audience. Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious beliefs and superstitions of different cultures, and the Gothic and horror literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley. From origins in silent films and German Expressionism, horror only became a codified genre after the release of ''Dracula'' (1931). Many sub-genres emerged in subsequent decades, including body horror, comedy horror, slasher films, supernatural horror and psychological horror. The genre has been produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Novel
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as historical fiction or science fiction, but the boundaries are indistinct. Crime fiction has multiple subgenres, including detective fiction (such as the whodunit), courtroom drama, hard-boiled fiction, and legal thrillers. Most crime drama focuses on crime investigation and does not feature the courtroom. Suspense and mystery are key elements that are nearly ubiquitous to the genre. History The ''One Thousand and One Nights'' (''Arabian Nights'') contains the earliest known examples of crime fiction. One example of a story of this genre is the medieval Arabic tale of "The Three Apples", one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the ''Arabia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thriller (genre)
Thriller is a genre of fiction, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the mood (psychology), moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, Psychomotor agitation, excitement, Surprise (emotion), surprise, anticipation (emotion), anticipation and anxiety. Successful examples of thrillers are Alfred Hitchcock filmography, the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax (narrative), climax. The cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, unreliable narrators, and cliffhangers are used extensively. A thriller is often a villain-driven plot, whereby they present obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. The most common genres that overlap with the thriller genre include crime fiction, crime, horror fiction, horror and detective fiction. Characteristics Writer Vla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drenaje Profundo
''Drenaje Profundo'' is a primetime television series produced by TV Azteca. It stars Ana Serradilla, Rodrigo Murray, Juan Pablo Medina and Elizabeth Cervantes. The series began in October 2010. Plot After an accident in the Mexico City subway system, the detective Ulises Elizalde (Juan Pablo Medina) is sent to investigate. Ulises follows after a man who punches him on the subway tracks and he accidentally falls into the sewers. Underground he is rescued by Yamel (Ana Serradilla) a young woman who's hiding an enormous secret. It's later revealed that Yamel, and the other people living in the sewer drain have been injected with an eternal youth serum that was developed by a scientist named Igor, under the orders of Milosz, an evil scientist from the late sixties. That's the reason why Yamel, who in actuality is 65 years old, has the appearance of a 25-year-old woman. Cast International broadcast * Azteca Guatemala * Azteca America * Astro Bella Astro Bella was a South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrestling
Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat sports and military systems. The sport can either be genuinely competitive or sportive entertainment (see professional wrestling). Wrestling comes in different forms such as freestyle, Greco-Roman, judo, sambo, folkstyle, catch, submission, sumo, pehlwani, shuai jiao and others. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two (sometimes more) competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position. There are a wide range of styles with varying rules, with both traditional historic and modern styles. The term ''wrestling'' is attested in late Old English, as ''wræstlunge'' (glossing ''palestram''). History Wrestling represents one of the oldest forms of combat. The origins of wrestl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
