The Library of Congress has announced this year’s selection of 25 “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” pieces of recorded music to archive into the National Recording Registry, led by albums from Green Day, The Notorious B.I.G., and Blondie.
In addition to Green Day’s seminal Dookie, The Notorious B.I.G.’s classic debut Ready to Die, and Blondie’s commercial breakthrough Parallel Lines, other albums preserved among “the defining sounds of history” include Abba’s Arrival and The Chicks’ Wide Open Spaces. Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow and The Cars’ self-titled debut also made the list.
Songs include Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine,” Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick’s “LA-di-Da-Di,” Perry Como’s “Catch a Falling Star,” Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” and Gene Autry’s “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” See the full list below and take a look at the Library of Congress’ full registry here.
In addition to Green Day’s seminal Dookie, The Notorious B.I.G.’s classic debut Ready to Die, and Blondie’s commercial breakthrough Parallel Lines, other albums preserved among “the defining sounds of history” include Abba’s Arrival and The Chicks’ Wide Open Spaces. Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow and The Cars’ self-titled debut also made the list.
Songs include Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine,” Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick’s “LA-di-Da-Di,” Perry Como’s “Catch a Falling Star,” Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” and Gene Autry’s “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” See the full list below and take a look at the Library of Congress’ full registry here.
- 4/16/2024
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Other than making records, what do Green Day, the Notorious B.I.G., classic crooners Perry Como and Johnny Mathis, Latin music giant Héctor Lavoe, and the late Bill Withers have in common? Not much, until today: Works by all those musicians, and over a dozen more, were announced as the latest additions to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry.
Signed off on by then-president Bill Clinton in 2000, the Registry has aimed to collect recordings —musical performances, speeches, and other audio — deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically important.” The first...
Signed off on by then-president Bill Clinton in 2000, the Registry has aimed to collect recordings —musical performances, speeches, and other audio — deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically important.” The first...
- 4/16/2024
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
It’s Rauw Alejandro’s planet and we’re just living in it. The Puerto Rican reggaeton star just took the stage at the Latin Grammys in Seville, Spain Thursday to perform a medley of songs, along with a tribute to Laura Pausini and a performance with Juanes.
Rauw opened his performance with a pre-recorded, autotune-supported rendition of Pausini’s ballad “Se Fue” while surrounded by candles and a ring of fire. (Was that aimed at Rosalía?)
#LatinGRAMMY Rauw Alejandro pic.twitter.com/LRVQ86bvpS
— #DeFi (@Shibayuda) November 16, 2023
After the ballad rendition,...
Rauw opened his performance with a pre-recorded, autotune-supported rendition of Pausini’s ballad “Se Fue” while surrounded by candles and a ring of fire. (Was that aimed at Rosalía?)
#LatinGRAMMY Rauw Alejandro pic.twitter.com/LRVQ86bvpS
— #DeFi (@Shibayuda) November 16, 2023
After the ballad rendition,...
- 11/16/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Ra ta ta, tá tá. The sound of the clave plays across Brooklyn on a windy Friday night in September. Under the Brooklyn Bridge in the Dumbo Archway, Lulada Club — a 10-member, all-woman band — starts playing their instruments along to Hector Lavoe’s “Mi Gente,” which a DJ had been playing as the band set up. The crowd moves closer to the stage, singing the salsa anthem in unison: “Oigan mi gente / Los más grande de este mundo / Siempre me hacen sentir / Un orgullo profundo / Los llamé.” Everyone cheers at the end of the song,...
- 10/26/2023
- by Damaly Gonzalez
- Rollingstone.com
Last month, Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro put out a call to the public, asking people to send ideas for music by Latin artists to submit to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. It’s part of a years-long effort on Castro’s part to get more Latin art preserved within the Library of Congress and to increase Latino representation across media and pop culture.
The National Recording Registry is made up of works considered “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” or that “inform or reflect life in the United States.
The National Recording Registry is made up of works considered “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” or that “inform or reflect life in the United States.
- 10/4/2023
- by Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
In our Q&a feature series Tell Me Más, we ask some of our favorite Latine artists to answer the questions only their BFFs know about them, revealing everything from their most recent read to the songs that get them hyped. This month, we sit down with Puerto Rican alternative reggaetón artist Álvaro Díaz.
Álvaro Díaz has a secret ingredient that makes his musical recipe superb. The Puerto Rican artist, known by family and fans as Alvarito, is simply being himself. As fans anticipate the release of his sophomore album, "Sayonara," Díaz confirms the sound may be different from his first album, but his authenticity will always be his main sabor.
Related: Tell Me Más
"If you took my last album 'Felicilandia' and said 'this is a reggaetón album,' when they listen to it, it's not what they expect from a reggaetón album," he tells Popsugar Juntos. "If you...
Álvaro Díaz has a secret ingredient that makes his musical recipe superb. The Puerto Rican artist, known by family and fans as Alvarito, is simply being himself. As fans anticipate the release of his sophomore album, "Sayonara," Díaz confirms the sound may be different from his first album, but his authenticity will always be his main sabor.
Related: Tell Me Más
"If you took my last album 'Felicilandia' and said 'this is a reggaetón album,' when they listen to it, it's not what they expect from a reggaetón album," he tells Popsugar Juntos. "If you...
- 8/28/2023
- by Zayda Rivera
- Popsugar.com
Veteran director Leon Ichaso, who directed TV episodes from “Miami Vice” to “Queen of the South,” and numerous features, died suddenly of a “massive heart attack,” his sister said Monday.
“My beloved brother Leon Ichaso died today of an unexpected massive heart attack in Los Angeles,” his sister Mari Rodríguez Ichaso tweeted in Spanish on Monday. “Brilliant, full of life, youth of spirit and illusions. A wonderful filmmaker and a unique being – and everyone who has met him knows it. I am destroyed. God help us!”
Mari, who is a contributor to the Spanish-language Vanidades magazine and a style columnist for CNN en Español, shared another tweet in English, in which she wrote, “Leon Ichaso- Rip- Pioneer of telling the history of immigrants in his movies! A brilliant director & writer. Loved Life. My beloved brother!… Damn sudden heart attack!”
Leon Ichaso- Rip- Pioneer of telling the history of immigrants in his movies!
“My beloved brother Leon Ichaso died today of an unexpected massive heart attack in Los Angeles,” his sister Mari Rodríguez Ichaso tweeted in Spanish on Monday. “Brilliant, full of life, youth of spirit and illusions. A wonderful filmmaker and a unique being – and everyone who has met him knows it. I am destroyed. God help us!”
Mari, who is a contributor to the Spanish-language Vanidades magazine and a style columnist for CNN en Español, shared another tweet in English, in which she wrote, “Leon Ichaso- Rip- Pioneer of telling the history of immigrants in his movies! A brilliant director & writer. Loved Life. My beloved brother!… Damn sudden heart attack!”
Leon Ichaso- Rip- Pioneer of telling the history of immigrants in his movies!
- 5/22/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
Leon Ichaso, who directed the Héctor Lavoe biopic “El Cantante,” “Bitter Sugar” and several major TV series, died of a heart attack Monday morning in Los Angeles. He was 74.
Ichaso’s sister, Mari Rodriquez Ichaso confirmed the news, writing on Twitter: “My beloved brother Leon Ichaso died today of an unexpected ‘massive heart attack’ in Los Angeles. Brilliant, full of life, young in spirit and illusions. A wonderful filmmaker and a unique being – and everyone who has met him knows it. I am destroyed. God help us!”
Mi adorado hermano Leon Ichaso murió hoy de un inesperado “massive heart attack” en Los Ángeles. Brillante, lleno de vida, juventud de espíritu e ilusiones. Cineasta maravilloso y un ser único -y todos los que lo han conocido lo saben. Yo estoy destrozada. Dios nos ayude! pic.twitter.com/GdEcM7cMnE
— Mari Rodriguez Ichaso (@marichaso) May 22, 2023
Mari Rodriquez Ichaso eulogized her brother in her initial announcement,...
Ichaso’s sister, Mari Rodriquez Ichaso confirmed the news, writing on Twitter: “My beloved brother Leon Ichaso died today of an unexpected ‘massive heart attack’ in Los Angeles. Brilliant, full of life, young in spirit and illusions. A wonderful filmmaker and a unique being – and everyone who has met him knows it. I am destroyed. God help us!”
Mi adorado hermano Leon Ichaso murió hoy de un inesperado “massive heart attack” en Los Ángeles. Brillante, lleno de vida, juventud de espíritu e ilusiones. Cineasta maravilloso y un ser único -y todos los que lo han conocido lo saben. Yo estoy destrozada. Dios nos ayude! pic.twitter.com/GdEcM7cMnE
— Mari Rodriguez Ichaso (@marichaso) May 22, 2023
Mari Rodriquez Ichaso eulogized her brother in her initial announcement,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Charna Flam
- Variety Film + TV
Leon Ichaso, who directed the Jennifer Lopez and Mark Anthony-starrer El Cantante in 2006 and dozens of high-profile TV series, has died of a massive heart attack, according to his sister Mari Rodriguez Ichaso. He was 74.
Ichaso also directed the acclaimed Piñero in 2001, starring Benjamin Bratt and his breakthrough, indie El Super, starring Elizabeth Peña in 1979.
Throughout his big screen career, Ichaso also directed on some of TV’s biggest shows, including multiple episodes of SNL, Crime Story, Miami Vice, Medium, The Cleaner, Criminal Minds and, most recently, Queen of the South.
His sister, a journalist who is a longtime contributor to the Spanish-language staple Vandiades as well as CNN Español Style announced his passing early this morning in a series of tweets, the first of which is translated below.
My beloved brother Leon Ichaso died today of an unexpected “massive heart attack” in Los Angeles. Brilliant, full of life,...
Ichaso also directed the acclaimed Piñero in 2001, starring Benjamin Bratt and his breakthrough, indie El Super, starring Elizabeth Peña in 1979.
Throughout his big screen career, Ichaso also directed on some of TV’s biggest shows, including multiple episodes of SNL, Crime Story, Miami Vice, Medium, The Cleaner, Criminal Minds and, most recently, Queen of the South.
His sister, a journalist who is a longtime contributor to the Spanish-language staple Vandiades as well as CNN Español Style announced his passing early this morning in a series of tweets, the first of which is translated below.
My beloved brother Leon Ichaso died today of an unexpected “massive heart attack” in Los Angeles. Brilliant, full of life,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony once starred in a feature that Lopez felt was criminally overlooked by many in the film industry. But because of the movie’s extreme story, they were warned about doing a movie where they played a very violent couple.
‘El Cantante’ wasn’t the only time Jennifer Lopez worked with her ex-husband Marc Anthony Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony | Toni Anne Barson Archive/WireImage
El Cantante was a bit of a passion project for Lopez. It was a biographical film starring her husband at the time Anthony as singer Hector Lavoe. Lopez ended up playing his onscreen wife in the film, marking the former couple’s onscreen debut. It may have been the first time they came together on the big screen, but it wasn’t their first collaboration.
Anthony and Lopez teamed up for the 1999 song “No Me Ames”, which became one of Lopez’s biggest hits.
‘El Cantante’ wasn’t the only time Jennifer Lopez worked with her ex-husband Marc Anthony Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony | Toni Anne Barson Archive/WireImage
El Cantante was a bit of a passion project for Lopez. It was a biographical film starring her husband at the time Anthony as singer Hector Lavoe. Lopez ended up playing his onscreen wife in the film, marking the former couple’s onscreen debut. It may have been the first time they came together on the big screen, but it wasn’t their first collaboration.
Anthony and Lopez teamed up for the 1999 song “No Me Ames”, which became one of Lopez’s biggest hits.
- 4/15/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Rauw Alejandro and Angel Dior know how to party in the Dominican Republic on their new collaboration “Tamo en Nota.” On Monday, the pair of urban stars released the single and its accompanying dream sequence-like music video.
The Rodrigo Films-directed video splices seemingly random clips of the two stars in three distinct scenarios: the waters of Domincan Republic, in an Ancient Greece setting, and at a street party.
The visual opens with Dior — who was named as one of Rolling Stone‘s Latin Acts to Watch in 2023 — posing in...
The Rodrigo Films-directed video splices seemingly random clips of the two stars in three distinct scenarios: the waters of Domincan Republic, in an Ancient Greece setting, and at a street party.
The visual opens with Dior — who was named as one of Rolling Stone‘s Latin Acts to Watch in 2023 — posing in...
- 2/13/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Jennifer Lopez already has her next movie in mind.
The actress looked back on her film career with Vogue for their “73 Questions” interview and revealed she wants to make a movie with her new husband.
When asked which film she would like to make a sequel to, Lopez immediately answered her 2003 romantic-comedy “Gigli”.
Read More: Jennifer Lopez Gives A Look At Thanksgiving Celebrations With Ben Affleck
The film was considered a box office and critical failure at the time of release, grossing 7.2 million against a budget of 54 million. Much attention was given to the film due to the buzz around Lopez and Ben Affleck’s romance at the time.
Despite the film’s negative press, the actress seemed to regard it fondly, even laughing along when interviewer Joe Sabia joked about “Gigli” being “Critically acclaimed!”
She may have enjoyed the film in part due to Affleck’s warm presence.
“Who...
The actress looked back on her film career with Vogue for their “73 Questions” interview and revealed she wants to make a movie with her new husband.
When asked which film she would like to make a sequel to, Lopez immediately answered her 2003 romantic-comedy “Gigli”.
Read More: Jennifer Lopez Gives A Look At Thanksgiving Celebrations With Ben Affleck
The film was considered a box office and critical failure at the time of release, grossing 7.2 million against a budget of 54 million. Much attention was given to the film due to the buzz around Lopez and Ben Affleck’s romance at the time.
Despite the film’s negative press, the actress seemed to regard it fondly, even laughing along when interviewer Joe Sabia joked about “Gigli” being “Critically acclaimed!”
She may have enjoyed the film in part due to Affleck’s warm presence.
“Who...
- 11/30/2022
- by Anita Tai
- ET Canada
Creating what looks like one of the undisputed highlights of Ventana Sur’s Spanish Screenings, three of Perú’s foremost filmmakers – Daniel and Diego Vega and Joanna Lombardi –have boarded “Bienvenido Mr. Hollywood,” which promises a complete departure for one of Catalonia’s leading edge cineastes, Mar Coll.
Co-created and directed by Coll (“Three Days With the Family”) and Aina Calleja, an editor on Coll’s first series, “Killing the Father”), “Welcome Mr. Hollywood” is written by Coll, Calleja and Diego Vega, who with brother Daniel broke out with his debut, 2010 Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner, “October.” A 2013 Locarno best actor winner for Fernando Bacilio, “El Mudo” consolidated the brothers’ reputation as top young Latin America auteurs.
““Welcome Mr. Hollywood” is lead produced by Barcelona’s Funicular Films and co-produced by Daniel and Diego Vega’s Lima-based Maretazo Cine. Lombardi, a former head of fiction at Telefonica Media Networks Latin America,...
Co-created and directed by Coll (“Three Days With the Family”) and Aina Calleja, an editor on Coll’s first series, “Killing the Father”), “Welcome Mr. Hollywood” is written by Coll, Calleja and Diego Vega, who with brother Daniel broke out with his debut, 2010 Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner, “October.” A 2013 Locarno best actor winner for Fernando Bacilio, “El Mudo” consolidated the brothers’ reputation as top young Latin America auteurs.
““Welcome Mr. Hollywood” is lead produced by Barcelona’s Funicular Films and co-produced by Daniel and Diego Vega’s Lima-based Maretazo Cine. Lombardi, a former head of fiction at Telefonica Media Networks Latin America,...
- 11/25/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Rauw Alejandro is bringing Saturno to the Latin Grammys. On Thursday, the Puerto Rican star took the stage to perform a medley of songs from his new album, including “Lejos Del Cielo,” “Mas De Una Vez,” and “Punto 40,” plus his Vice Versa hit “Desesperados.” He dove into complex choreography and welcomed dance group the Jabbawockeez for an outer space-themed performance.
It’s a massive year for Alejandro at the Latin Grammys. He’s nominated eight times, including for “Te Felicito” with Shakira in the Record of the Year category, and...
It’s a massive year for Alejandro at the Latin Grammys. He’s nominated eight times, including for “Te Felicito” with Shakira in the Record of the Year category, and...
- 11/18/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Johnny Pacheco, the Dominican-born musician and label founder who helped popularize salsa around the world, died Monday, February 15th, The New York Times reports. He was 85.
Pacheco’s wife, Maria Elena “Cuqui” Pacheco, confirmed his death on Facebook. In another post dated February 13th, the Pacheco family said the musician had been hospitalized with pneumonia.
Pacheco was a percussionist, flautist, songwriter, arranger, and bandleader. In 1964, he and Jerry Masucci co-founded Fania Records, which earned a reputation as the “Motown of salsa” with its copious hit records from acts like Celia Cruz,...
Pacheco’s wife, Maria Elena “Cuqui” Pacheco, confirmed his death on Facebook. In another post dated February 13th, the Pacheco family said the musician had been hospitalized with pneumonia.
Pacheco was a percussionist, flautist, songwriter, arranger, and bandleader. In 1964, he and Jerry Masucci co-founded Fania Records, which earned a reputation as the “Motown of salsa” with its copious hit records from acts like Celia Cruz,...
- 2/16/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Latin America’s Movistar, a label of telecom giant Telefonica, has closed a worldwide sales deal with Madrid-based Onza Distribution on the first four Movistar original series.
The deal excludes Latin America where Movistar has aired the series on Movistar Play, the burgeoning Ott services of pay TV unit Movistar TV, from September 2019. Onza Distribution will present the series virtually at MipChina, which runs July 28-31.
Representing the latest work of some of Latin America’s best-regarded film directors, who have won prizes at the Cannes, Sundance, Locarno and San Sebastian film festivals, the series take in comedies “Adulting,” “Capital Roar” and “Survival Guide,” and melodrama “My Lucky Day.”
The deal represents a major new fiction addition to the sales slate of Onza Distribution, a producer on Amazon Prime Video-aired “Little Coincidences” and a producer and co-sales agent on Spanish pubcaster Rtve’s “The Department of Time.”
Addressing different age groups,...
The deal excludes Latin America where Movistar has aired the series on Movistar Play, the burgeoning Ott services of pay TV unit Movistar TV, from September 2019. Onza Distribution will present the series virtually at MipChina, which runs July 28-31.
Representing the latest work of some of Latin America’s best-regarded film directors, who have won prizes at the Cannes, Sundance, Locarno and San Sebastian film festivals, the series take in comedies “Adulting,” “Capital Roar” and “Survival Guide,” and melodrama “My Lucky Day.”
The deal represents a major new fiction addition to the sales slate of Onza Distribution, a producer on Amazon Prime Video-aired “Little Coincidences” and a producer and co-sales agent on Spanish pubcaster Rtve’s “The Department of Time.”
Addressing different age groups,...
- 7/13/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Buenos Aires — “El día de mi suerte” begins with Hector Lavoe – or it looks like him – dressed in white suit, putting on a ring, and dark glasses, as he prepares to dance. Cut to Lavoe’s white shoes, cracked and grimed as the camera pulls back to an establishing shot of the figure in wha looks like a hospital and a credit establishes that this is a psychiatric hospital in Nuevo Callao district of Lima in 1986 Peru.
The figure is indeed not Lavoe but Toño, a downbeat Lavoe impersonator who moonlights singing at locales in Nuevo Callao, including the hospital where his sister is interned, suffering severe depression.
By day, however, he’s a head-bowed, lowly professor helping for students to cram for university entrance exams, living in his grimy family flat, abandoned by his girlfriend who’s emigrating to Spain, unable to sell sacks of sugar piled in his home,...
The figure is indeed not Lavoe but Toño, a downbeat Lavoe impersonator who moonlights singing at locales in Nuevo Callao, including the hospital where his sister is interned, suffering severe depression.
By day, however, he’s a head-bowed, lowly professor helping for students to cram for university entrance exams, living in his grimy family flat, abandoned by his girlfriend who’s emigrating to Spain, unable to sell sacks of sugar piled in his home,...
- 12/3/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
This week was all about the all-star collaborations. Fat Joe locks in Anuel AA and Cardi ‘La Cardi’ B on Spanglish track, “Yes”; Tito El Bambino, Pitbull and El Alfa run wild in “Imagínate”; and Piso 21 recruits Christian Nodal on “Pa’ Olvidarme de Ella.” In case you missed it, here are some highlights from the week in Latin music — now with a Spotify playlist!
Fat Joe, Cardi B, Anuel AA Team Up on Scorching New Song ‘Yes’
The Bronx stands tall in “Yes,” the latest single by hometown hero Fat Joe.
Fat Joe, Cardi B, Anuel AA Team Up on Scorching New Song ‘Yes’
The Bronx stands tall in “Yes,” the latest single by hometown hero Fat Joe.
- 9/8/2019
- by Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
The Bronx stands tall in “Yes,” the latest single by hometown hero Fat Joe. With help from two of hip-hop’s most monumental Latinx voices — Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B and Latin trap star Anuel AA — the prolific Puerto Rican-Cuban Mc dropped the surprise new track at midnight on Thursday.
Fat Joe makes his mission crystal clear from the track’s onset. “Ass up, face down,” he repeats like a magic spell — presumably manifesting booty over a sample of Hector Lavoe and Willie Colón’s 1972 salsa hit, “Aguanilé.” The original song...
Fat Joe makes his mission crystal clear from the track’s onset. “Ass up, face down,” he repeats like a magic spell — presumably manifesting booty over a sample of Hector Lavoe and Willie Colón’s 1972 salsa hit, “Aguanilé.” The original song...
- 9/6/2019
- by Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
Cannes — Next stop Latin America. Having powered up high-end drama series production in Spain to 14-15 series this year via pay TV unit Movistar +, Telefonica has unveiled its first premium original series projects in Latin America.
Both set to shoot in a couple of months, they open up a further theater of production operations after Movistar + drives into originals production in Spain as Telefonica, Europe’s second-biggest telecom with €48.7 billion ($54.5 billion) revenues in 2018, bids to become the No.1 content player in the Spanish-speaking world.
The announcement has been made on the same day as Spain’s Movistar + world premieres Leticia Dolera’s “Perfect Life” in Official Competition at Canneseries, the second year in a row that a Telefonica-Movistar + high-end drama makes the cut.
Production on Movistar’s Latin American series slate will be lead by Paula Figueroa (pictured), as head of Telefonica Video Unit for Latin America, with oversight...
Both set to shoot in a couple of months, they open up a further theater of production operations after Movistar + drives into originals production in Spain as Telefonica, Europe’s second-biggest telecom with €48.7 billion ($54.5 billion) revenues in 2018, bids to become the No.1 content player in the Spanish-speaking world.
The announcement has been made on the same day as Spain’s Movistar + world premieres Leticia Dolera’s “Perfect Life” in Official Competition at Canneseries, the second year in a row that a Telefonica-Movistar + high-end drama makes the cut.
Production on Movistar’s Latin American series slate will be lead by Paula Figueroa (pictured), as head of Telefonica Video Unit for Latin America, with oversight...
- 4/7/2019
- by John Hopewell and Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
In an effort to ramp up Latinx voter participation for the 2018 midterm elections, Hamilton composer Lin-Manuel Miranda and Grammy-nominated salsa singer Frankie Negrón announced their support of a new voter mobilization coalition titled Respeta Mi Gente, or Respect My People. By partnering with nonprofit groups Hispanic Federation and Alianza for Progress, the stars are lending special attention to Puerto Rican communities in Central Florida, in hopes to rally them to the polls by November 6th.
“There was such a massive influx of Puerto Ricans to the mainland after Hurricane Maria,...
“There was such a massive influx of Puerto Ricans to the mainland after Hurricane Maria,...
- 10/23/2018
- by Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
"Lila & Eve"? Let's just say it's a far cry from "The Wedding Planner." The gritty drama starring Jennifer Lopez and Viola Davis is premiering tonight at the Sundance Film Festival - and needless to say, it's not a feel-good time at the movies. "It was a very intense shoot," said Lopez when I spoke with her this afternoon. "I can't say I was happy the whole time, I wasn't. It was intense, and the scenes between Viola and I are intense. What we're doing is insane. ...it's just a dark thing. You know what I mean? It's not like going to work on a romantic comedy." "And by the way," she hastened to add of her previous rom-coms, "I love those films. But this is something different." Lopez, in case you were wondering, is the "Eve" part of the equation - the devastated mother of a murdered child who hooks...
- 1/31/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
A new study has revealed that little has changed in Tinseltown in terms of offering up more diverse casting choices. Despite the fact that Hispanics make up a huge amount of the paying public, and have shown strong enthusiasm towards spending their money supporting whatever blockbusters are released, Hispanics only accounted for 4.9% of the speaking roles in last year's top 100 films. That figure is identical to what it was back in 2008- despite a strong surge in the Latino population here in the states.
Even when they do get roles, the women in particular are marginalized as eye candy. The study shows that Latinas are the highest-represented ethnicity when it comes to roles that feature some form of nudity.
"Part of the problem is conditioning. When you hear the names De Niro or Pacino, you automatically know it's an American movie," says actor Esai Morales. "But the minute you have...
Even when they do get roles, the women in particular are marginalized as eye candy. The study shows that Latinas are the highest-represented ethnicity when it comes to roles that feature some form of nudity.
"Part of the problem is conditioning. When you hear the names De Niro or Pacino, you automatically know it's an American movie," says actor Esai Morales. "But the minute you have...
- 8/6/2014
- by Mario-Francisco Robles
- LRMonline.com
Puerto Rican Salsa sensation Marc Anthony marked his return to music when he premiered his new song, “Vivir Mi Vida”, at the Billboard Latin Music Awards in Miami. Anthony took the stage to a standing ovation for the performance of the title track of his long-awaited, original album. He not only stole the show with an amazing performance, but also stole the limelight during his duet with Tito El Bambino for “¿Porque Les Mientes?”
The question on everyone’s mind that night was “what took so long?” Why did it take nearly 10 years for the Puerto Rican singer to release an album of original songs?
“I needed to miss it,” admitted Anthony to the hosts of NBC’s “Today Show” the day before the awards show. He certainly had plenty of other endeavors to occupy his time to help him miss it.
There was his leading role in the film “El Cantante,...
The question on everyone’s mind that night was “what took so long?” Why did it take nearly 10 years for the Puerto Rican singer to release an album of original songs?
“I needed to miss it,” admitted Anthony to the hosts of NBC’s “Today Show” the day before the awards show. He certainly had plenty of other endeavors to occupy his time to help him miss it.
There was his leading role in the film “El Cantante,...
- 5/1/2013
- by VOXXI
- Huffington Post
Superstar couple first met in the late 1990s.
By Gil Kaufman
Mark Anthony and Jennifer Lopez
Photo: Afp/Getty Images
Fans were shocked when the news broke on Friday night that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony announced they were ending their seven-year marriage.
The split came after the two worked closely together on this season of "American Idol" — on which they even performed a song together — and embarked on a South American adventure this summer for their upcoming reality talent competition, "¡Q'Viva! The Chosen."
The Latin stars first crossed paths in the 1990s and their relationship had a number of ups and downs, but the pair seemed steady, particularly in the last year, working on projects together and raising their twins, Max and Emme, born in 2008. Here, we look back on their union.
» Lopez and Anthony first met backstage at singer Paul Simon's 1998 Broadway show "The Capeman," in which Anthony starred.
By Gil Kaufman
Mark Anthony and Jennifer Lopez
Photo: Afp/Getty Images
Fans were shocked when the news broke on Friday night that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony announced they were ending their seven-year marriage.
The split came after the two worked closely together on this season of "American Idol" — on which they even performed a song together — and embarked on a South American adventure this summer for their upcoming reality talent competition, "¡Q'Viva! The Chosen."
The Latin stars first crossed paths in the 1990s and their relationship had a number of ups and downs, but the pair seemed steady, particularly in the last year, working on projects together and raising their twins, Max and Emme, born in 2008. Here, we look back on their union.
» Lopez and Anthony first met backstage at singer Paul Simon's 1998 Broadway show "The Capeman," in which Anthony starred.
- 7/18/2011
- MTV Music News
Getty Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez
During the last season of “American Idol,” it sometimes seemed like judge Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony were trying to steal the show and make it something of their own. Their sensual, sexy performance of Hector Lavoe’s “Aguanile” during the May 25 season finale was one of the highlights of the star-studded episode.
Apparently that duet was a sign of things to come. The dynamic Latin music duo released an elaborately-produced trailer...
During the last season of “American Idol,” it sometimes seemed like judge Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony were trying to steal the show and make it something of their own. Their sensual, sexy performance of Hector Lavoe’s “Aguanile” during the May 25 season finale was one of the highlights of the star-studded episode.
Apparently that duet was a sign of things to come. The dynamic Latin music duo released an elaborately-produced trailer...
- 6/1/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Jennifer Lopez made 40 look 20 years younger last night when she took the stage to shake her money maker during husband Marc Anthony's rendition of Hector Lavoe's salsa hit "Aguanile" on the season finale of American Idol last night.
Lopez wasn't shy - she showed off her world famous derrière in a crowd cheering booty shake and slithered and salsa danced her way across the stage and around her very distracted husband. And after you watch the below clip, you will understand why he was so distracted.
"Now we know what they do at home!" American Idol host Ryan Seacrest said.
It should really come as no surprise that Jennifer, clad in a tasseled body suit, has such good dancing skills - she started her career as a fly girl on the 90s comedy show In Living Color.
Lopez's fellow judge Steven Tyler also took to the stage to...
- 5/26/2011
Los Angeles — Marc Anthony is joining wife Jennifer Lopez as a TV regular, but he's taking the dramatic route.
The Grammy-winning salsa star will become a cast member on TNT's "Hawthorne," playing police Detective Nick Renata. He appeared as the character in two episodes last season.
The medical series that stars Jada Pinkett Smith as Christina Hawthorne, a hospital's chief nursing officer, returns for its third season in June.
Lopez already is on the air as a judge on Fox's "American Idol." The couple starred together in the film "El Cantante," about the life of salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe.
Anthony's other film credits include Martin Scorsese's "Bringing Out the Dead" and "Man on Fire."...
The Grammy-winning salsa star will become a cast member on TNT's "Hawthorne," playing police Detective Nick Renata. He appeared as the character in two episodes last season.
The medical series that stars Jada Pinkett Smith as Christina Hawthorne, a hospital's chief nursing officer, returns for its third season in June.
Lopez already is on the air as a judge on Fox's "American Idol." The couple starred together in the film "El Cantante," about the life of salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe.
Anthony's other film credits include Martin Scorsese's "Bringing Out the Dead" and "Man on Fire."...
- 3/7/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Jane Fonda wishes she was still producing movies because she'd like to find the perfect project to showcase her pal Jennifer Lopez.
The singer/actress, who is now a judge on TV talent show American Idol, hasn't had a lot of luck of late with Hollywood - but her Monster-in-Law co-star Fonda insists that's because she hasn't been offered the right role.
In a blog posting following Monday's Chateau Marmont pre-Oscars party, which Lopez co-hosted with Mick Jagger, movie veteran Fonda writes, "I had an opportunity to tell Jennifer how incredible I thought she was in the film she did several years ago with her husband, Mark Anthony, El Cantante.
"I missed it when it came out but (boyfriend) Richard and I watched it the other night. She is as fine as I've ever seen her. Her considerable acting talent in full force as a tough, sexy (gorgeous) Puerto Rican woman, the partner of the Puerto Rican singing idol, Hector Lavoe, played well by Mark Anthony.
"She blew my mind in the role. If I was still producing, I'd find a project for her with a role that allowed her to play this sort of character."...
The singer/actress, who is now a judge on TV talent show American Idol, hasn't had a lot of luck of late with Hollywood - but her Monster-in-Law co-star Fonda insists that's because she hasn't been offered the right role.
In a blog posting following Monday's Chateau Marmont pre-Oscars party, which Lopez co-hosted with Mick Jagger, movie veteran Fonda writes, "I had an opportunity to tell Jennifer how incredible I thought she was in the film she did several years ago with her husband, Mark Anthony, El Cantante.
"I missed it when it came out but (boyfriend) Richard and I watched it the other night. She is as fine as I've ever seen her. Her considerable acting talent in full force as a tough, sexy (gorgeous) Puerto Rican woman, the partner of the Puerto Rican singing idol, Hector Lavoe, played well by Mark Anthony.
"She blew my mind in the role. If I was still producing, I'd find a project for her with a role that allowed her to play this sort of character."...
- 2/9/2011
- WENN
• Following up on her antics at Tuesday's Palm Spring filmfest -- reported in detail by Pete Hammond -- Mariah Carey should make for must-see TV tonight. As Roger Friedman reports she, "is all set to pick up her People’s Choice Award tonight on CBS. She’s a winner, I’m told, for Best R&B singer. What? Yes, everyone seems to know who’s won those People’s Choice Awards before they arrive at the studio." As Roger writes, "If you watch this show, you’ll know who’s won right away by who’s in the audience waiting to get their award. Since Hugh Jackman, Sandra Bullock, Carrie Underwood, and Taylor Swift are already being promoted by CBS, you can guess they won their categories. Surprise! They’re not hanging around that studio for their health!" Showbiz 411
• Another diva -- Jennifer Lopez -- is none too pleased with...
• Another diva -- Jennifer Lopez -- is none too pleased with...
- 1/6/2010
- by tomoneil
- Gold Derby
Jennifer Lopez has suggested that she missed out on an Oscar for her role in El cantante. The actress starred opposite husband Marc Anthony in the 2006 biopic, which follows the life of salsa dancer Hector Lavoe. Lopez portrayed Lavoe's wife Puchi in a part that she believes should have won her acting recognition. "I feel like I had that [Oscar role] in El cantante, but I don't even think the Academy members saw it," Lopez told Latina magazine. "I feel like it's their responsibility to do that, to see everything that's out there, everything that could be great." (more)...
- 1/6/2010
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Jennifer Lopez has lashed out at Oscar voters for not nominating her for her role in "El Cantante". The singer/actress felt let down when her name wasn't among the hopefuls for the 2008 Academy Awards - and can only imagine the experts didn't get around to seeing her turn as salsa star Hector Lavoe's wife Puchi.
She tells the upcoming issue of Latina magazine, "I feel like I had that (Oscar role) in 'El Cantante', but I don't even think the Academy members saw it. I feel like it's their responsibility to do that, to see everything that's out there, everything that could be great."
Lopez admits she would have loved to have accepted her first Oscar from a hospital bed after just giving birth to her twins Max and Emme. She adds, "I had just given birth on the 22nd (February), and the Oscars, I think,...
She tells the upcoming issue of Latina magazine, "I feel like I had that (Oscar role) in 'El Cantante', but I don't even think the Academy members saw it. I feel like it's their responsibility to do that, to see everything that's out there, everything that could be great."
Lopez admits she would have loved to have accepted her first Oscar from a hospital bed after just giving birth to her twins Max and Emme. She adds, "I had just given birth on the 22nd (February), and the Oscars, I think,...
- 1/6/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Jennifer Lopez has sensationally claimed she is an Oscar-worthy actress. J-Lo – who has starred in such critical flops as Gigli and Anaconda – believes her role alongside hubby Marc Anthony in El Cantante should have received Academy Award attention. 'I feel like I had that in El Cantante, but I don't even think the Academy members saw it,' she said. 'I feel like it's their responsibility to do that, to see everything that's out there, everything that could be great.' El Cantante – a biographic picture about legendary Puerto Rican salsa singer Hector Lavoe – currently has a 24 percent 'splat' rating on internet film site Rotten Tomatoes. Despite its poor reception...
- 1/6/2010
- by Eric Munn
- Monsters and Critics
Jennifer Lopez has lashed out at Oscar voters for not nominating her for her role in El Cantante.
The singer/actress felt let down when her name wasn't among the hopefuls for the 2008 Academy Awards - and can only imagine the experts didn't get around to seeing her turn as salsa star Hector Lavoe's wife Puchi.
She tells the upcoming issue of Latina magazine, "I feel like I had that (Oscar role) in El Cantante, but I don’t even think the Academy members saw it. I feel like it’s their responsibility to do that, to see everything that’s out there, everything that could be great."
Lopez admits she would have loved to have accepted her first Oscar from a hospital bed after just giving birth to her twins Max and Emme.
She adds, "I had just given birth on the 22nd (February), and the Oscars, I think, were a day or two later. I was sitting there with my twins (and) I couldn’t have been happier, but I was like, 'How dope would it have been if I would’ve won the Oscar and been here in my hospital bed accepting the award?' - 'Thank you so much! I just want to thank the Academy!'"
And she still has her sights on an Oscar: "Things will happen when they’re supposed to happen. I have the utmost faith and no doubt that it will (happen) one day."...
The singer/actress felt let down when her name wasn't among the hopefuls for the 2008 Academy Awards - and can only imagine the experts didn't get around to seeing her turn as salsa star Hector Lavoe's wife Puchi.
She tells the upcoming issue of Latina magazine, "I feel like I had that (Oscar role) in El Cantante, but I don’t even think the Academy members saw it. I feel like it’s their responsibility to do that, to see everything that’s out there, everything that could be great."
Lopez admits she would have loved to have accepted her first Oscar from a hospital bed after just giving birth to her twins Max and Emme.
She adds, "I had just given birth on the 22nd (February), and the Oscars, I think, were a day or two later. I was sitting there with my twins (and) I couldn’t have been happier, but I was like, 'How dope would it have been if I would’ve won the Oscar and been here in my hospital bed accepting the award?' - 'Thank you so much! I just want to thank the Academy!'"
And she still has her sights on an Oscar: "Things will happen when they’re supposed to happen. I have the utmost faith and no doubt that it will (happen) one day."...
- 1/5/2010
- WENN
The 2010 World Cup, new novelas and reality shows all play key roles in Univision's program development for the 2009-10 season, the network said late Thursday.
The World Cup, originating from South Africa in June-July 2010, will be featured on all three Univision networks, with 56 live games airing on the flagship net and another eight contests airing on sister network Telefutura. Both Telefutura and sibling cable network Galavision will rebroadcast 52 World Cup matches.
"Year after year, Univision broadcasts many of the most watched programs, which on many nights outdeliver its English-language network competitors," said Ray Rodriguez, president and COO, Univision Communications Inc., in a statement. "We are very excited about our 2009-2010 lineups, including once again being the exclusive Spanish-language home of the World Cup, which reached 50 million viewers in 2006 and is sure to be an even greater success in 2010 in high definition across our networks."
New novelas include "Atrevete a Sonar...
The World Cup, originating from South Africa in June-July 2010, will be featured on all three Univision networks, with 56 live games airing on the flagship net and another eight contests airing on sister network Telefutura. Both Telefutura and sibling cable network Galavision will rebroadcast 52 World Cup matches.
"Year after year, Univision broadcasts many of the most watched programs, which on many nights outdeliver its English-language network competitors," said Ray Rodriguez, president and COO, Univision Communications Inc., in a statement. "We are very excited about our 2009-2010 lineups, including once again being the exclusive Spanish-language home of the World Cup, which reached 50 million viewers in 2006 and is sure to be an even greater success in 2010 in high definition across our networks."
New novelas include "Atrevete a Sonar...
- 5/22/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
El Cantante (2007)
Tuesday. 12:35 a.m., HBO
This underrated but beautifully acted biopic tells the story of Latino singer Hector Lavoe, a creator of salsa music. As Lavoe, Marc Anthony jumps off the screen and Jennifer Lopez sizzles as his wife. The story traces Lavoe's rise to stardom in the 1970s and his subsequent fall 10 years later. Even though the story is heartbreaking, the music is terrific.
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Tuesday, 10 p.m., Max
Another hoot-and-a-half horror spoof that manages to still be creepy. This sequel takes up where "28 Days Later" left off,...
Tuesday. 12:35 a.m., HBO
This underrated but beautifully acted biopic tells the story of Latino singer Hector Lavoe, a creator of salsa music. As Lavoe, Marc Anthony jumps off the screen and Jennifer Lopez sizzles as his wife. The story traces Lavoe's rise to stardom in the 1970s and his subsequent fall 10 years later. Even though the story is heartbreaking, the music is terrific.
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Tuesday, 10 p.m., Max
Another hoot-and-a-half horror spoof that manages to still be creepy. This sequel takes up where "28 Days Later" left off,...
- 8/3/2008
- by By LINDA STASI
- NYPost.com
Birthday boy Marc Anthony and his wife Jennifer Lopez are celebrating after their Hector Lavoe biopic became the subject of the biggest deal at this year's Toronto Film Festival in Canada late on Friday. Anthony, who turned 38 on Saturday, plays the late salsa superstar in the acclaimed new movie El Cantante, which premiered in Toronto last week. Lopez plays Lavoe's wife Puchi in the film, which was bought for almost $5 million by executives at Picturehouse, who now plan to release the film in July 2007. Picturehouse spokesman Bob Berney says, "The Latino community is really an under served market, but because of the music and the cast, we really think it can cross over."...
- 9/19/2006
- WENN
TORONTO -- The downward spiral for the main characters in El Cantante begins in the first scenes, so all director Leon Ichaso can do to distract you from the depressing story of salsa king Hector Lavoe is put as much exuberance into the musical performances as in the drug highs. Thus Ichaso fills his movie with so many chart-busting hits, El Cantante almost feels like a party film. Unfortunately, the music is as irresistible as the tired story of a musician succumbing to substance abuse is resistible. What can you do with a character whose own wife admits that the greater he becomes as an artist, the deeper he sinks as a human being?
Real-life husband and wife Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez provide the real chemistry -- albeit the combustible kind -- as Lavoe and his wife of 20 years, Puchi. And Anthony's re-recordings of Lavoe's classics bring great energy to the movie. Even so, El Cantante may struggle to attract an audience beyond fans of the music and of the stars who re-create the tragedy behind such happy songs.
The framing device in the screenplay Ichaso wrote with David Darmstaedter and Todd Anthony Bello is an interview, shot in black and white, given by Puchi some time after her husband's death. Indeed, it is a ghost story because, as she sadly laughs, just about everyone is dead except her.
Hector Perez, as Lavoe was known before his record label renamed him, came to the isle of Manhattan from the isle of Puerto Rico intent on conquering the music world. According to Puchi, this proves all too easy. Record producers quickly recognize his talent in small clubs. They pair him with trombonist Willie Colon (John Ortiz) and set the duo out to "cook up" a stew of rumba, mambo, jazz, merengue and plena called salsa.
Hector and Puchi see each other around at Puerto Rican clubs and parties, and soon one thing leads to another. It takes a few years and a son for her to pin him down to marriage. By then she is his unofficial manager, only she cannot manage their offstage lives.
Both become druggies, only he is much worse. What the movie never makes clear is to what degree Puchi was Hector's enabler when it came to substance abuse. She warns him against drugs, in between hits, which is not the best anti-drug message you can deliver.
The movie keeps you at arm's length from its characters, possibly because the filmmakers don't understand them, either. The couple fights over the wrong things as drugs eat away at their bodies and souls. A son, Tito, is seen at various ages, but you get no idea of what family life may be like for the Lavoes. Or if such a thing exists at all.
The movie offers up pat, simplistic reasons for such self-destructive behavior -- a father's rejection, rough patches in a tumultuous marriage -- but they don't wash. Hector can clearly see what is happening to him and to those around him he holds dear.
Anthony and Lopez (who is one of the film's producers) are thoroughly convincing as a couple that cannot live with or without one another. He is a soothing, romantic singer whose songs capture the intoxicating island fever of good times and bracing tropical breezes. She is hot, tough and determined, a devastating combination of brains and beauty.
Even the movie skips the last five years of Lavoe's life, choosing to end with his failed suicide attempt rather than dwell on a slow death from AIDS. Along the way, the film catches glimpses of the heady days of salsa in the '70s as well as the decline of that musical craze the next decade. However, footage from Lavoe's funeral in New York in 1993 demonstrates that thousands still adored the man and his music.
EL CANTANTE
Picturehouse
A Nuyorican Prods./R-Caro Prods. production in association with Union Square Works
Credits:
Director: Leon Ichaso
Screenwriters: Leon Ichaso, David Darmstaedter, Todd Anthony Bello
Producers: Julie Caro, Jennifer Lopez, Simon Fields, David Maldonado
Director of photography: Claudio Chea
Production designer: Sharon Lomofsky
Costume designer: Sandra Hernandez
Co-producer: Margo Myers
Music: Andres Levin
Editor: David Tedeschi
Cast:
Hector Lavoe: Marc Anthony
Puchi: Jennifer Lopez
Willie Colon: John Ortiz
Eddie: Manny Perez
Papo: Antone Pagan
Ralph: Vincent Laresca
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 116 minutes...
Real-life husband and wife Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez provide the real chemistry -- albeit the combustible kind -- as Lavoe and his wife of 20 years, Puchi. And Anthony's re-recordings of Lavoe's classics bring great energy to the movie. Even so, El Cantante may struggle to attract an audience beyond fans of the music and of the stars who re-create the tragedy behind such happy songs.
The framing device in the screenplay Ichaso wrote with David Darmstaedter and Todd Anthony Bello is an interview, shot in black and white, given by Puchi some time after her husband's death. Indeed, it is a ghost story because, as she sadly laughs, just about everyone is dead except her.
Hector Perez, as Lavoe was known before his record label renamed him, came to the isle of Manhattan from the isle of Puerto Rico intent on conquering the music world. According to Puchi, this proves all too easy. Record producers quickly recognize his talent in small clubs. They pair him with trombonist Willie Colon (John Ortiz) and set the duo out to "cook up" a stew of rumba, mambo, jazz, merengue and plena called salsa.
Hector and Puchi see each other around at Puerto Rican clubs and parties, and soon one thing leads to another. It takes a few years and a son for her to pin him down to marriage. By then she is his unofficial manager, only she cannot manage their offstage lives.
Both become druggies, only he is much worse. What the movie never makes clear is to what degree Puchi was Hector's enabler when it came to substance abuse. She warns him against drugs, in between hits, which is not the best anti-drug message you can deliver.
The movie keeps you at arm's length from its characters, possibly because the filmmakers don't understand them, either. The couple fights over the wrong things as drugs eat away at their bodies and souls. A son, Tito, is seen at various ages, but you get no idea of what family life may be like for the Lavoes. Or if such a thing exists at all.
The movie offers up pat, simplistic reasons for such self-destructive behavior -- a father's rejection, rough patches in a tumultuous marriage -- but they don't wash. Hector can clearly see what is happening to him and to those around him he holds dear.
Anthony and Lopez (who is one of the film's producers) are thoroughly convincing as a couple that cannot live with or without one another. He is a soothing, romantic singer whose songs capture the intoxicating island fever of good times and bracing tropical breezes. She is hot, tough and determined, a devastating combination of brains and beauty.
Even the movie skips the last five years of Lavoe's life, choosing to end with his failed suicide attempt rather than dwell on a slow death from AIDS. Along the way, the film catches glimpses of the heady days of salsa in the '70s as well as the decline of that musical craze the next decade. However, footage from Lavoe's funeral in New York in 1993 demonstrates that thousands still adored the man and his music.
EL CANTANTE
Picturehouse
A Nuyorican Prods./R-Caro Prods. production in association with Union Square Works
Credits:
Director: Leon Ichaso
Screenwriters: Leon Ichaso, David Darmstaedter, Todd Anthony Bello
Producers: Julie Caro, Jennifer Lopez, Simon Fields, David Maldonado
Director of photography: Claudio Chea
Production designer: Sharon Lomofsky
Costume designer: Sandra Hernandez
Co-producer: Margo Myers
Music: Andres Levin
Editor: David Tedeschi
Cast:
Hector Lavoe: Marc Anthony
Puchi: Jennifer Lopez
Willie Colon: John Ortiz
Eddie: Manny Perez
Papo: Antone Pagan
Ralph: Vincent Laresca
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 116 minutes...
- 9/18/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Picturehouse president Bob Berney has landed all North American rights to the most sought-after film of the Toronto International Film Festival, El Cantante, paying a little less than $6 million. The $18 million-range salsa music-filled biopic stars the film's producer, Jennifer Lopez, and her husband, Marc Anthony, as an onscreen husband and wife. Director Leon Ichaso's drug-fueled story of late salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe (Anthony) had indie distributors Miramax Films, Focus Features and the Weinstein Co. dancing around sellers Endeavor Independent and William Morris Independent since its world premiere Tuesday night at Toronto's Elgin Theatre, but Picturehouse completed the deal at 5:30 a.m. Friday at the Park Hyatt Toronto.
- 9/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Picturehouse president Bob Berney has landed all North American rights to the most sought-after film of the Toronto International Film Festival, El Cantante, paying a little less than $6 million. The $18 million-range salsa music-filled biopic stars the film's producer, Jennifer Lopez, and her husband, Marc Anthony, as an onscreen husband and wife. Director Leon Ichaso's drug-fueled story of late salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe (Anthony) had indie distributors Miramax Films, Focus Features and the Weinstein Co. dancing around sellers Endeavor Independent and William Morris Independent since its world premiere Tuesday night at Toronto's Elgin Theatre, but Picturehouse completed the deal at 5:30 a.m. Friday at the Park Hyatt Toronto.
- 9/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Picturehouse president Bob Berney has landed all North American rights to the most sought-after film of the Toronto International Film Festival, El Cantante, paying a little less than $6 million. The $18 million-range salsa music-filled biopic stars the film's producer, Jennifer Lopez, and her husband, Marc Anthony, as an onscreen husband and wife. Director Leon Ichaso's drug-fueled story of late salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe (Anthony) had indie distributors Miramax Films, Focus Features and the Weinstein Co. dancing around sellers Endeavor Independent and William Morris Independent since its world premiere Tuesday night at Toronto's Elgin Theatre, but Picturehouse completed the deal at 5:30 a.m. Friday at the Park Hyatt Toronto. Picturehouse plans a summer release for the film on about 500-700 screens before a wider rollout.
- 9/15/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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