Kate del Castillo’s Cholawood, Endemol Shine Boomdog Adapt Arturo Perez Reverte’s Novel ‘Revolution’
Mexico City-based Endemol Shine Boomdog has seized the adaptation rights to “La Reina del Sur” author Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s novel, “Revolution” (“Revolución”) with Kate del Castillo’s Cholawood on board as executive producers.
Del Castillo, who plays the titular role in the hit Spanish-language adaptation of “La Reina del Sur” will also star in the upcoming series based on the Mexican revolution.
“I am extremely excited to join forces once again with Arturo Pérez-Reverte, especially in a story set in my country. Arturo is undoubtedly a great lover of Mexico’s history… a history that I learned and love thanks to my father and my roots. Arturo and I share a successful professional partnership, and I am confident that ‘Revolución’ will strengthen that success,” she said.
Published in October 2022, “Revolución” delves into the essence of human nature in an adventure that unfolds against the dramatic canvas of the Mexican Revolution...
Del Castillo, who plays the titular role in the hit Spanish-language adaptation of “La Reina del Sur” will also star in the upcoming series based on the Mexican revolution.
“I am extremely excited to join forces once again with Arturo Pérez-Reverte, especially in a story set in my country. Arturo is undoubtedly a great lover of Mexico’s history… a history that I learned and love thanks to my father and my roots. Arturo and I share a successful professional partnership, and I am confident that ‘Revolución’ will strengthen that success,” she said.
Published in October 2022, “Revolución” delves into the essence of human nature in an adventure that unfolds against the dramatic canvas of the Mexican Revolution...
- 1/24/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
My guess is that Frida Kahlo would have loathed “Immersive Frida Kahlo,” the kind of touring exhibit that professes to honor the canvas while bathing it in digital-tech kitsch. And, having seen Carla Gutiérrez’s riveting documentary Frida, I’m certain the artist would have announced her disdain with a laugh and a healthy dose of juicy invective. If you want to immerse yourself in Frida Kahlo, here is the real thing.
Taking the helm for the first time, editor Gutiérrez (Rbg, Julia) pushes past the dime-a-dozen “icon” label to face the artist on her own terms, drawing upon Kahlo’s illustrated diaries and letters. The film’s archival riches also include an extraordinary selection of photographs and footage, and the transcripts of interviews with people close to Kahlo by biographer Hayden Herrera, whose 1983 book was the basis of the Julie Taymor biopic starring Salma Hayek.
Whatever that 2002 movie’s strengths and weaknesses,...
Taking the helm for the first time, editor Gutiérrez (Rbg, Julia) pushes past the dime-a-dozen “icon” label to face the artist on her own terms, drawing upon Kahlo’s illustrated diaries and letters. The film’s archival riches also include an extraordinary selection of photographs and footage, and the transcripts of interviews with people close to Kahlo by biographer Hayden Herrera, whose 1983 book was the basis of the Julie Taymor biopic starring Salma Hayek.
Whatever that 2002 movie’s strengths and weaknesses,...
- 1/19/2024
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Elia Kazan never stopped making great pictures, but much of his output after 1952 was politically defensive in nature. This powerful indictment of American media madness is a genuine classic, but it also points up the need for ‘good folk’ to sometimes betray their associates. The target this time around is the most kill-worthy monster in the history of sardonic satire: Lonesome Rhodes, a faux-populist master manipulator of the pushover public. Kazan and Budd Schulberg’s premise has come to pass in real life, but their silver bullet of truth has lost its power: even when unmasked publicly, some media monsters thrive.
A Face in the Crowd
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 970
1957 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 125 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 23, 2019 / 39.95
Starring: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick.
Cinematography: Gayne Rescher, Harry Stradling
Art Direction: Paul Sylbert, Richard Sylbert
Film Editor: Gene Milford
Original...
A Face in the Crowd
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 970
1957 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 125 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 23, 2019 / 39.95
Starring: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick.
Cinematography: Gayne Rescher, Harry Stradling
Art Direction: Paul Sylbert, Richard Sylbert
Film Editor: Gene Milford
Original...
- 4/16/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
An elegiac documentary exploring the brief life of rapper Lil Peep, “Everybody’s Everything” certainly doesn’t lack for perspectives. Interviewing virtually everyone who knew the musician (born Gustav Ahr), directors Sebastian Jones and Ramez Silyan cover the waterfront, from Peep’s family to his girlfriends, his innumerable collaborators, his managers and his fans, trying to distill exactly what it was about this shy, vulnerable kid that made him such a self-made sensation in the short years between the launch of his career via rough bedroom recordings, and his death of a drug overdose at age 21. Given the proximity to his passing (barely a year and a half ago), the remembrances are raw and sometimes free-associative, and a wealth of intimate footage offers plenty of warts-and-all testimony to the wild blur that was his life. The only perspective that’s missing here is that of Peep himself, and that hole...
- 3/21/2019
- by Andrew Barker
- Variety Film + TV
MEXICO CITY -- Despite less-than-stellar reviews, Alfonso Arau's biopic Zapata grossed 14 million pesos ($1.2 million) over the weekend, making it one of the strongest openers in the history of Mexican cinema. Distributor Videocine bowed Zapata on Friday with 430 copies, a huge release by Mexican standards. El Crimen del Padre Amaro (The Crime of Father Amaro), which raked in 31 million pesos ($2.7 million) on its opening weekend, leads all releases. Alfonso Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien opened to the tune of 11.9 million pesos ($1 million). Y Tu Mama and Padre Amaro were released with 350 and 380 prints, respectively. Zapata loosely tells the story of Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata.
MEXICO CITY -- It began as a lucid dream and it has grown to become the most expensive film project in the history of Mexican cinema. About six years ago, director Alfonso Arau was seeking Hollywood financing for "Zapata", a mystical story of Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata. But he had no such luck. Then one night when Arau was fast asleep, a spirit from the past came to him with a message that changed the course of the production: "Do not betray me", said the apparition of Zapata. "You must do this in Mexico and you must do it in Spanish." When Arau recounts his dream, one wonders if he just might be thumbing his nose at those who doubted him.
- 10/13/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Unveiled at last year's Berlin Film Festival, Canadian documentarian Nettie Wild's informative, evocative film about the Zapatista movement in the Mexican state of Chiapas leaves one wanting to know more about the subject -- a "regional hotspot" that's a lot closer than Kosovo. The filmmakers accomplish their goal of getting one's attention.
Opening for a limited engagement at Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica, "A Place Called Chiapas" includes extensive sequences with the indigenous Mayan people, masked followers of charismatic military leader Marcos, ranch owners displaced by the Zapatista uprising of January 1994 and government-allied paramilitary soldiers controlling the northern part of the state.
From June 1996-February 1997, Wild and a Canadian-Mexican crew chronicled the events of the "uneasy peace" that followed the brief, bloody Zapatista campaign. After taking over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico and using the Internet and news media to declare their goals, Marcos and the Zapatista National Liberation Army engage in peace negotiations that are strained to begin with and ultimately prove inconclusive.
While the movement's namesake Emiliano Zapata, the fiery, betrayed leader of Mexico's 1910 revolution, was publicity shy, Marcos is telegenic, articulate and a post-modern warrior-poet with his features always hidden. A mestizo from Mexico City, whose favorite book is "Don Quixote", he rides a horse and smokes a pipe and his basic, gun-toting outfit has inspired a line of dolls.
There are No Battles or violent scenes filmed by Wild, but the atmosphere is tense, even at a "post-glasnost revolutionary Woodstock" held by Marcos with international guests. Surrounded by the Mexican army and allied paramilitary forces, the Zapatistas seem committed to maintaining peace, particularly with the official indifference and outright antagonism from the country's self-destructing ruling party in Mexico City.
Offering no solutions to the ongoing situation but focusing on the plight of refugee villagers displaced by the "Peace and Justice" paramilitary group in northern Chiapas, the well-balanced but energetic and alive film concludes with a surprise Day of the Dead one-on-one with Marcos, who speaks somberly of "coexisting with death," and not being terrified of fighting and dying for one's beliefs.
A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS
Zeitgeist Films
A Canada Wild production
Director: Nettie Wild
Producers: Nettie Wild, Betsy Carson, Kirk Tougas
Writers: Manfred Becker, Nettie Wild
Cinematographers: Kirk Tougas, Nettie Wild
Editor: Manfred Becker
Music: Joseph Pepe Danza, Salvador Ferreras, Celso Machado, Laurence Mollerup
Color
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA Rating...
Opening for a limited engagement at Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica, "A Place Called Chiapas" includes extensive sequences with the indigenous Mayan people, masked followers of charismatic military leader Marcos, ranch owners displaced by the Zapatista uprising of January 1994 and government-allied paramilitary soldiers controlling the northern part of the state.
From June 1996-February 1997, Wild and a Canadian-Mexican crew chronicled the events of the "uneasy peace" that followed the brief, bloody Zapatista campaign. After taking over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico and using the Internet and news media to declare their goals, Marcos and the Zapatista National Liberation Army engage in peace negotiations that are strained to begin with and ultimately prove inconclusive.
While the movement's namesake Emiliano Zapata, the fiery, betrayed leader of Mexico's 1910 revolution, was publicity shy, Marcos is telegenic, articulate and a post-modern warrior-poet with his features always hidden. A mestizo from Mexico City, whose favorite book is "Don Quixote", he rides a horse and smokes a pipe and his basic, gun-toting outfit has inspired a line of dolls.
There are No Battles or violent scenes filmed by Wild, but the atmosphere is tense, even at a "post-glasnost revolutionary Woodstock" held by Marcos with international guests. Surrounded by the Mexican army and allied paramilitary forces, the Zapatistas seem committed to maintaining peace, particularly with the official indifference and outright antagonism from the country's self-destructing ruling party in Mexico City.
Offering no solutions to the ongoing situation but focusing on the plight of refugee villagers displaced by the "Peace and Justice" paramilitary group in northern Chiapas, the well-balanced but energetic and alive film concludes with a surprise Day of the Dead one-on-one with Marcos, who speaks somberly of "coexisting with death," and not being terrified of fighting and dying for one's beliefs.
A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS
Zeitgeist Films
A Canada Wild production
Director: Nettie Wild
Producers: Nettie Wild, Betsy Carson, Kirk Tougas
Writers: Manfred Becker, Nettie Wild
Cinematographers: Kirk Tougas, Nettie Wild
Editor: Manfred Becker
Music: Joseph Pepe Danza, Salvador Ferreras, Celso Machado, Laurence Mollerup
Color
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA Rating...
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