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Yvette Yates on Being Latina and  “El Gringo”

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Yvette Yates on Being Latina and “El Gringo”

El Gringo Opens Friday, May 11, 2012 By Elia Esparza The action-packed film El Gringo opens up Friday, May 11, 2012 and walking down the red carpet is leading lady, Yvette Yates in all her beauty, grace and glory. It is her first leading role where she kicks a little ass and does it with [...]

Marvel’s The Avengers Sets Domestic All Time Box Office Record at $200.3 Million

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Marvel’s The Avengers Sets Domestic All Time Box Office Record at $200.3 Million

The Walt Disney Studios announced today that Marvel’s The Avengers posted an estimated $200.3 million in its domestic debut May 4-6, shattering previous records and positioning the film as the highest-grossing domestic debut of all time. The film’s cumulative global box office gross is an estimated $641.8 million over 12 days in release. In just [...]

Top 10 Weekend Box Office

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Top 10 Weekend Box Office

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Week Ending April 27-29, 2012 Think Like A Man (Sony)                      $18.0 million 2 wk total $60.9m The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Sony)        $11.4 million opening weekend The Lucky One (Warner Bros.)                $11.3 million 2 wk total $39.9m The Hunger Games (Lionsgate)              $11.3 million 6 wk total $372.4m The Five-Year Engagement (Universal)    $11.2 million opening weekend [...]

“Mamitas” Coming of Age Story Hits Theaters May 27th

“Mamitas” Coming of Age Story Hits Theaters May 27th

The COOList Indie Movie Weekend Release USC thesis film gets theatrical release with top talent on board Mamitas?  Don’t know what the title of this indie film that opens today has to do with the story, but hey the trailer looks good enough for me to go see it and find out.  The USC film [...]

Girl in Progress:  Sweet and a Tad Spicy

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Girl in Progress: Sweet and a Tad Spicy

Film Review by Christine Davila From Latino studio, Pantelion Films, Girl in Progress stars Eva Mendes as Grace, an immature and impetuous single working mother who faces off with her equally impetuous but way more mature, scholarly teenaged daughter named Ansiedad.  Like a Freaky Friday where adult and child roles are reversed to comedic and lesson-learning [...]

Why Filly Brown is so Fly

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Why Filly Brown is so Fly

It was pretty rad to talk to co-director, Michael D. Olmos and his lead actress, Gina Rodriguez at NALIP.  Check out the interviews by linking on their names, where they talk about their movie Filly Brown (which will be released by Indomina Releasing), and the U.S. Latino film community in general. And if you don’t know about Lisa “Khool-Aid” Rios, who plays [...]

CinemaCon Message from Chris Dodd:  Don’t Ignore Latinos

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CinemaCon Message from Chris Dodd: Don’t Ignore Latinos

The COOList Hollywood Update By Bel Hernandez So many entertainment conferences!  One of the biggest is CinemaCon currently taking place in Sin City — Las Vegas Baby! On the top of the list, aside from all the awards, networking, and gambling is the news that Chris Dodd Motion Picture Association of America Chief re-iterated that [...]

The Avengers: A Superhero Rollercoaster Ride

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The Avengers: A Superhero Rollercoaster Ride

The COOList Movie By Bel Hernandez I hate superhero movies.  I was more a Veronica & Betty comic book fan so I was not interested in the least in going to see grown up men dressed in ridiculous costumes, flying around saving the world.  The Avengers?  Get real!  However after seeing Samuel L. Jackson, who [...]

Top 10 Weekend Box Office

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Top 10 Weekend Box Office

Top 10 Weekend Box Office Week Ending April 20-22, 2012 Think Like A Man (Sony)                       $33.0 million opening weekend The Lucky One (Warner Bros.)               $22.8 million opening weekend The Hunger Games (Lionsgate)              $14.5 million 5 wk total $356.9m Chimpanzee (Disney)                           $10.2 million opening weekend The Three Stooges (20th Century Fox)    $9.2 million 2 wk total $29.4m The Cabin in the [...]

Andy Garcia Promotes “For Greater Glory” in Mexico

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Andy Garcia Promotes “For Greater Glory” in Mexico

Garcia Calls for More Freedom of Expression and Religion By Edgar Lopez Soto Mexico City, MX – Cuban-American actor, Andy Garcia expressed his love for this country during the premiere of his latest film For Greater Glory directed by Dean Wright in which Garcia  plays the role of general Enrique Gorostieta Velarde  who, despite being an [...]

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