Amazon MGM’s ‘Vengeance’ Hits No. 1 Across Prime Video Territories, Fueling Pablo Cruz’s Push for Mexican Genre at Scale

May 6, 2026 6:00am PT Amazon MGM’s ‘Vengeance’ Hits No. 1 Across Prime Video Territories, Fueling Pablo Cruz’s Push for Mexican Genre at Scale

By Callum McLennan

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“Vengeance” (“Venganza”), pitched as the biggest-budgeted Mexican action movie ever produced and the first Mexican original from Amazon MGM Studios granted an exclusive theatrical window before streaming, has rolled off Prime Video as a bona fide global hit, taking the platform’s No. 1 spot in territories as far-flung as Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines and Italy.

For producer Pablo Cruz, the El Estudio chief who shepherded the film over six years, that vindicates an argument Mexican producers have been making for a decade: Locally-rooted genre, made at scale, travels.

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