Luiz Fernando
@Luiz_Fernando_J • 73,457 subscribers
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KING OF POP #MichaelJackson’s Fans asked #Lionsgate “Give us #MICHAEL sing along in theatres”🙏🏼 Lionsgate replied “Go sing alone at home”🗣️ The music biopic hits digital purchase on JUN 09, 48 days after kicking off global theatrical rollout & grossing near 860M at #BoxOffice!
Luiz Fernando18,027 views • 1 day ago
In my final post about #BadBunny’s #SuperBowl half time show: whoever was around in the end of 90s and early 2000s, surely remember the phenomenon #RickyMartin was in the U.S. and Europe. The #LivinLaVidaLoca craze was one of the biggest I’ve seen in my lifetime, something not even #BadBunny himself got close yet. And even at that level, and despite singing in English for the Anglo markets, #RickyMartin was never in a stage of the #SuperBowl . Even being bigger than anyone else in his peak wasn’t big enough for a Latino to be front and Center on that stage. Just few years ago, the #SuperBowl still thought even freaking #Shakira wasn’t big enough for their stage so she would just be allowed there if sharing the space with #JLo. That’s how far we came to see,in 2026, a Latino like #BadBunny singing in Spanish as the main act of the event. And the fact that Benito brought #RickyMartin, who opened the doors for the latino stars to do the crossover & compete on the same level as the English speaking mega pop stars, to this stage, was a beautiful recognition of the role Ricky had played for almost 30 years ago so this moment could be even possible today. And in a way, a reparation. TONIGHT was live history in so many levels. Again, #BadBunny could have made this concert all about himself, about his momentum, his career peek. But the choices and decisions he made for this show, way beyond himself, are what exactly will perpetuate the legacy and importance of this moment.
Luiz Fernando1,087,508 views • 3 months ago
By the way, #LeGrandRex shared the beginning of music biopic #MICHAEL’s Final screening + Karaoke event, celebrating over 15.000 attendees across 4 special events for KING OF POP #MichaelJackson’s return to the big screen. A cinematic experience those people would never be able to experience nor replicate at home by themselves. When you are not only a spectator but actually a fundamental part of a collective party, those memories last forever! Experiences like that are movie theatres biggest trump and streamers’ worst nightmare.
Luiz Fernando22,061 views • 17 days ago
In the very weekend ladies all over the world showed up and delivered strong numbers at Global #BoxOffice, megastar #Shakira deserves a big shout out for her triumph in #Brazil, reuniting 2M attendees in her concert at #TodoMundoNoRio annual mega concert series at #Copacabana Beach in RIO! As one of the last truly Global stars left still relevant & pulling big numbers, the Colombian singer managed to attract the BIGGEST audience ever recorded in the world for any Latino, solo or band, and even achieving the deed of surpassing QUEEN OF POP #Madonna’s historic 1.6M attendees in the first concert of the #TodoMundoNoRio series back in 2024. SHAKIRA’s biggest concert EVER crowned a lifetime of achievements in a 4-decade spanning career, in which she’s been used to achieve the highest marks usually unthinkable for Latin artists, competing on the same league as the usual American and European A-listers and opening the doors to many younger Latinos to try and achieve the same. She worked hard to show it was possible. And the world has never been the same ever since. Before Shakira, most Latin artists would come and go on those “Latin waves” that hit the world of music from time to time, usually forced to sing in English & share their spotlight with an Anglo artist collab to surf the wave while it lasted. But Shakira proved she had what it takes to stay. She wasn’t no wave. She was the new higher standard and she knew it, and fought hard to be seen that way. Shakira proved she could conquer the world also in her own language if she had the platform she worked hard to project herself into to make it happen. And paved the way so others after her could be more than a wave & could remain true to themselves while also competing with their Anglo counterparts. #Shakira’s name is already engraved in the music industry’s history, but she still will keep breaking more records, barriers & stigmas. Her mega-concert of yesterday was just the latest and biggest feather in her incredible pantheon of achievements yet. We are here for many more to come! Bravo!!!
Luiz Fernando35,633 views • 1 month ago
It’s hereee!!! WB has dropped a new #SUPERGIRL teaser spot in #Korea focused on how #Kara met her Puppy #Krypto. Starring #MillyAlcock & #JasonMomoa, the upcoming #DCU film expanding the Super family in cinema debuts on JUN 26, just a year after #SUPERMAN.
Luiz Fernando33,560 views • 2 months ago
People think that POPULAR was the moment #ArianaGrande became an award contender for her role as Glinda in #Wicked, but to me THIS was the sequence when she showcased her arsenal, from mannerisms, to character choices, to comedic timing. If the #Oscars were like the #Emmys, this would be the scene she would submit haha:
Luiz Fernando153,271 views • 1 year ago
The end of an era in #Japan, as local giant #TVAsahi announced they will stop producing #SuperSentai series, a genre that has delivered new series yearly for the last 50 years, incl. hits such as #Zyuranger (aka #PowerRangers), #Changeman, #Flashman, #GoogleV, #Maskman & others since the launch of the first Super Sentai series #Gorenger in 1975, always featuring a colorful 5-member team made of individuals with distinctive personalities and tastes, in order to inspire and reach the broadest appeal towards kids. The formula became influential worldwide, being used even in the music industry to create boy and girl bands, teen groups and others. The final series of the genre will be #Gozyuger, which debuted earlier this year in FEB 2025, and will broadcast its final episode on Q1 2026, ending a run of 49 year-long annual TV series released since 1975. It was common for the teams of different #SuperSentai series to be reunited during mega crossover film events every couple of years, which not only became a tradition but also very likely inspired many Hollywood productions, especially in the CBM space.
Luiz Fernando67,624 views • 6 months ago
#Neon expanded Brazilian sensation #TheSecretAgent aka #OAgenteSecreto from 43 to still just 133 theatres at US #BoxOffice, and once again the film surrounded by awards buzz starring #WagnerMoura grossed STRONG 335k on 4th limited 3-day weekend, up +40% from last weekend, with a $2.5k average per theatre. The film hits a 952k cume in the U.S and has not even reached 150 theatres yet. Next week. It’ll become just #5 Brazilian film in history to cross the 1M mark in the U.S., and will beat #NothingToLose2’s 1.2M US run as #4 highest grossing Brazilian film of all time at US #BoxOffice. #Neon will keep gradually expanding its footprint throughout the following weekends.
Luiz Fernando49,902 views • 5 months ago
Despite extremely limited release by #Neon in just 2 theatres, Brazilian sensation #TheSecretAgent aka #OAgenteSecreto exploded at US #BoxOffice, where the film surrounded by awards buzz starring #WagnerMoura grossed $71k on #Thanksgiving 5-day opening & $46k on 3-day weekend, an insane $35k average per theatre over the long Holiday, beating #ImStillHere’s $25k Average Per Theatre over 5 theatres, previous record for Brazilian productions in the U.S, and also #CentralStation’s $17.9k APT back in NOV 1998, & #CityOfGod’s $17.6k APT back in JAN 2003. #Neon will expand its footprint next month.
Luiz Fernando23,479 views • 6 months ago
In the week we’ve been discussing a lot about how Chinese are consuming more and more their own productions, this piece of interview #FernandaTorres gave to Deadline is so fascinating, involuntarily presenting herself as the exact antithesis to everything director #JacquesAudiard says & represents to me. Torres not only defends a cultural product so strong in LatAm as the soap operas aka TELENOVELAS are, but also blows the interviewer’s mind with the why soap operas were and are so important and beneficial to their own markets’ protection and self-development- while I’m sure that a coloniser mindset - such as Mr. Audiard’s - would 100% refer to soap operas as “a thing of the poor, of the simple minded” as European and American cultural elites traditionally would refer to them. But those elites criticise soap operas (as they criticise bollywood, anime, tokusatsu, doramas, etc) because those local productions are exactly what stayed in the way of US and Europe’s intent of total cultural dominance in the west, helping those countries as some of their own several tools to build their own cultural identities’ armours, along with their unique music, arts and theatre scenes that gave opportunities for them to see & listen to themselves and feel proud of what they can do and can achieve by themselves, instead of only relying on/consuming just what the markets from the north hemisphere sent to them. We also see a lot of that in Asian markets which have their own cultural products and powerful local industries that US and Europe tried to diminish & isolate for decades, like in Japan, Korea, China, India, but those markets resisted and now are slowly gaining international traction as well, and giving us more variety and making Hollywood to rethink their way of reaching global audiences that learned to represent themselves in their own ways instead of waiting Hollywood to do it for them. Fascinating stuff.
Luiz Fernando43,140 views • 1 year ago
She didn’t know yet, but with this now iconic transformation, #UsagiTsukino aka #Serena wasn’t just transforming herself into #SailorMoon for the first time, but also transforming pop culture forever. 34 years ago, On this very MAR 07, #PrettyGuardianSailorMoon debuted the first out of 200 TV episodes in #Japan (Series Premiere with a self explanatory title THE CRYBABY: USAGI’s BEAUTIFUL TRANSFORMATION by the way) and across 5 Seasons from 1992 until its end in 1997, #SailorMoon reshaped the anime landscape locally, repositioned the shojo magical girls as a driving force and export powerhouse as much as their shonen anime counterparts, demonstrated that girls could also be a major demo for anime as much as the boys, and became a global phenomenon which expanded towards the Americas and Europe in such a mainstream impactful way only seen prior to it with #DragonBall, with an influence across all media which still endures to this day. Happy anniversary, Pretty Soldier!
Luiz Fernando12,090 views • 2 months ago
It’s hereeee!!! #11 The biggest surprise drop I’ve ever seen on #SuperBowl trailer palooza just happened. Out of nowhere, #Netflix drops a Big Game trailer spot of #OnceUponATimeInHollywood’s spinoff #TheAdventuresOfCLIFFBOOTH: Directed by #DavidFincher, written by #QuentinTarantino! That’s all we need to know! Life is good, folks! What a trailer!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Luiz Fernando14,631 views • 3 months ago
It’s hereee!!! If there ever was a potential 1B music biopic, THIS IS IT, as #Lionsgate & #Universal unveil an emotional, thrilling first trailer of #Michael, biopic of the KING OF POP, #MichaelJackson! The long delayed biopic hits theatres on APR 24, 2026
Luiz Fernando21,958 views • 6 months ago
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