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Gina Rodriguez is in the fight for her life in the ‘Miss Bala’ trailer

Gina Rodriguez in **Miss Bala** (Columbia Pictures)

Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin, Big Mouth) puts the action chops she learned from 2016’s Deepwater Horizon to the test in the trailer for tense thriller Miss Bala.

In Miss Bala, Rodriguez plays a young woman who is forced to work with a Tijuana crime boss after she witnesses a mass murder at a nightclub. Caught between the cartel and the US government, she must play both sides to survive.

Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) directs the English-language remake Mexico’s 2011 Oscar submission for the Best Foreign Language Film.

Miss Bala was written by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer also stars Ismael Cruz Córdova, Anthony Mackie and Matt Lauria. It is produced by Kevin Misher of Misher Films and Pablo Cruz of Canana Films.

Columbia Pictures will release Miss Bala on February 1, 2019.

Check out the first trailer and poster below.

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.