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Stuart McBratney’s Don’t Read This On a Plane, which had its world premiere and won the Audience Award at the just-wrapped Dances With Films, has been acquired by Gravitas Ventures. The dramatic comedy is getting a digital release in the U.S. beginning Tuesday.

The pic, a Australia/Romania co-production, stars Sophie Desmarais as Jovana Fey, a novelist who learns that her publisher has gone bankrupt just ahead of a European book tour for her latest work. Penniless and stranded, she hitchhikes and sleeps rough to give readings in bookstores across the continent, testing her resilience daily as she questions whether her dreams are worth the struggle.

Eugene Gilfedder, Allen C Gardner and Dorotheea Petre also star. McBratney also produced alongside Amazing Visuals’ Laszlo Kun. Cardinal Xd, which reps worldwide sales on the film, also secured deals in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Taiwan. The domestic distribution deal was...

The premiere of Telemundo's new captivating thriller Jugar con Fuego (Playing with Fire), produced by Telemundo International Studios and Globo, ranked as the # 1 program on Spanish-language television at 9 p.m., among adults 18-49 and adults 18-34, according to Nielsen. Starring Jason Day, Carlos Ponce, Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Gaby Espino, Laura Perico, Tony Plana and Marcelo Serrado, the premiere of the 10-episode series averaged 615,000 adults 18-49 and 256,000 adults 18-34, outperforming Univision's Mi Marido tiene más Familia in both demos, and ranking as the #1 most social program among Hispanic networks in primetime.

Locally,Jugar con Fuego's premiere ranked as the #1 program, regardless of language, among adults 18-49 in Houston and Miami in its timeslot. It also ranked as the #1 Spanish-language program in its timeslot in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago among adults 18-49.

Shot entirely on location in the Colombian coffee "triangle," Jugar con Fuego tells the story of Fabrizio,...