by the El Reportero’s news services
Romeo Santos
Dominican bachatero Romeo Santos climbed to the top of Billboard’s Latin Songs chart this week with “Promise,” his collaboration with R&B titan Usher.
Falling one spot were Mexican rockers Mana, whose “El verdadero amor perdona,” featuring Prince Royce, stands at No. 2.
Reggaeton star Daddy Yankee climbed from sixth to third place with “Lovumba” (Prestige), followed at No. 4 by “Te quiero a morir” from Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizarraga. Pesado’s “El mil amores” slipped down to the fifth spot on the Latin Songs chart, where the rankings are based on radio airplay.
“Formula: Vol. 1,” the first solo disc by Aventura’s Romeo Santos, remained in the No. 1 position on Billboard’s list of best-selling Latin Albums for a third consecutive week.
Debuting in second place was a live album from Shakira, “En vivo desde Paris,” which pushed Jenni Rivera’s “Joyas Prestadas: Banda” into third.
Another new release, “Intentalo” by 3BallMTY, took the fourth spot, while Vicente Fernandez kept his grip on No. 5 with “Otra vez.”
Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In nominated for Golden Globes
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar’s psychological thriller “La piel que habito” (The Skin I Live In) has picked up a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign language film, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Thursday.
Its rivals will be “The Flowers of War” (China), “In the Land of Blood and Honey” (U.S.), “The Kid With a Bike” (Belgium) and “A Separation” (Iran).
“The Skin I Live In” is the latest Almodovar offering to compete for a major film award in the United States.
He has won two CoOscars – best original screenplay for “Talk to Her” and best foreign language film for “All About My Mother” – and two Golden Globe awards for those same films.
He also has received other Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” “High Heels,” “To Return” and “Broken Embraces.”
In “The Skin I Live In,” a medical revenge thriller with touches of surrealist and Almodovarian humor that premiered at Cannes in May, a brilliant plastic surgeon and psychopath Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) who is haunted by his wife’s and daughter’s suicides holds a beautiful woman, Vera (Elena Anaya), captive and under observation at his home.
The film, Almodovar’s 18th, has been hailed by U.S. critics.
Almodovar also has enjoyed significant box-office success in the United States, with “To Return” grossing $12 million and “Talk to Her” and “All About My Mother” taking in $9 million and $8 million, respectively.
