{"id":213404,"date":"2025-10-10T04:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/213404\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T04:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:13:07","slug":"carlos-lopez-estrada-camila-mendes-eugenio-derbez-team-on-ded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/213404\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada, Camila Mendes & Eugenio Derbez Team On ‘Ded’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada<\/a> (Raya and the Last Dragon) has wrapped production on his latest feature, DED<\/a>, a silent film in which he stars alongside Camila Mendes<\/a> (Masters of the Universe) and Eugenio Derbez<\/a> (CODA).<\/p>\n

\n\tDED follows the journey of a recently deceased young man struggling to undo his fate as he watches his soulmate \u2014 and the world \u2014 spin on without him. Featuring original musical numbers and told entirely without dialogue, the film was shot and takes place in L\u00f3pez Estrada\u2019s vibrant hometown of Mexico City, exploring the profound relationship between Mexican culture and death.<\/p>\n

\n\tMendes plays the lead role of Flora, with L\u00f3pez Estrada taking on the titular role of Ded. Derbez portrays Ded\u2019s father, Oscar, with Arcelia Ram\u00edrez (Like Water for Chocolate) as Ded\u2019s mother, Carla.<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by L\u00f3pez Estrada and Anna Moskowitz, the film is described as a love letter to the timeless comedies of Mario Moreno (aka Cantinflas), Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton \u2014 reimagined through a modern lens. The story is based on a 2015 stage production of the same name, created by L\u00f3pez Estrada and L.A. theater maker Cristina Bercovitz.<\/p>\n

\n\tDED is produced by Valerie Bush and L\u00f3pez Estrada for Antigravity Academy; Mendes and Rachel Matthews for Honor Role; Josh Peters for Spark Features; Stacy Perskie for Redrum; filmmaker Sean Wang; Max Siemers and Tanner Anderson for Magic Hour Entertainment; Chris Quintos and Will Cathcart; Jennifer J. Pritzker for Cedar Road; and Derbez.<\/p>\n

\n\tL\u00f3pez Estrada broke out with the 2018 Sundance pic Blindspotting, starring Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, which inspired a Starz series of the same name. He later earned an Oscar nomination for his work on Disney\u2019s Raya and the Last Dragon. His Antigravity Academy banner\u2019s first produced project, D\u00ecdi (\u5f1f\u5f1f), written and directed by Sean Wang, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and won both the Audience Award and the Special Jury Award for Ensemble. The film was acquired by Focus Features and went on to win two Independent Spirit Awards. As reported last month, the company is currently gearing up<\/a> for the third edition of its flagship Screenwriters Camp, slated for next summer. L\u00f3pez Estrada is repped by M88 and Ziffren Brittenham.<\/p>\n

\n\tSoon to be seen starring alongside Nicholas Galitzine in Amazon MGM\u2019s Masters of the Universe, Mendes\u2019 past credits include M\u00fasica, Upgraded, Do Revenge and Palm Springs, as well as the series Riverdale and Fairfax. Upcoming, she\u2019ll be seen in Nastasya Popov\u2019s indie comedy Idiotka, which premiered at SXSW. She is repped by CAA, Luber Roklin and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.<\/p>\n

\n\tPart of the cast of Apple\u2019s Best Picture winner CODA, and most recently seen starring in the Apple TV+ series Acapulco, which he also executive produced, Derbez is repped by CAA and Behr Abramson Levy Johnson.<\/p>\n

\n\tRam\u00edrez is repped by K-One Productions and Talent on the Road Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada (Raya and the Last Dragon) has wrapped production on his latest feature,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[121370,121371,236,121372,88,113915],"class_list":{"0":"post-213404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-camila-mendes","9":"tag-carlos-lu00f3pez-estrada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-ded","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-eugenio-derbez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}