by the El Reportero’s staff
Francia Raisa
Honduran-mexican actress Francia Raisa, who plays Adrian Lee in the series The Secret Life of the American Teenager, has been nominated for the ALMA Awards in the category ‘Favorite TV Actress – Leading Role in Drama’.
In that same category Cote de Pable (“NCIS”), Eva La Rue (CSI: Miami), Sara Ramirez (Grey’s Anatomy) and Sara Shahi (Fairly Legal) are also nominated.
This year, the 2011 NCLR ALMA Awards will be broadcasted on TV on September 16.
Francia Raisa was also nominated in 2009 to an ALMA Award during the second season of the series. Thanks to its high ratings, The Secret Life of the American Teenager is now in its fourth season and it can be watched internationally in Latin America and Spain. Along the series, Francia Raisa has shown her big talent by playing a rebel teenager who has been through a non desired pregnancy, a destroyed family and an unstable relationship that made her change her attitude towards life.
Born in the US, from a Honduran father and a Mexican mother, Francia Raisa began her career in the movie Bring It On: All or Nothing opposite Hayden Panettiere, besides her participation on Brenda Hampton’s series, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, she has starred in ABC Family movies, The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream and The Cutting Edge: Fire & Ice.
Pacific Rim, the newest by Guillermo del Toro
Ever since Guillermo del Toro left his position at The Hobbit, every project related to him has ended up by disappearing amongst pre-production or screenwriting problems. It is not going to be the long-estime expected At the Mountains of Madness which brings the Mexican director to the scene after Hellboy II in 2008, but the newest project also has monsters, and it is said, very familiar ones. Del Toro is officially confirmed for ‘Pacific Rim’, a production by Legendary Pictures, which will open in the Summer 2013 under the classification ‘PG-13’ (which means blockbuster targeted to the public at large), and with a script by Travis Beacham (Clash of the Titans). However, what has been published online is that the plot of Pacific Rim would serve as a basis for the reboot of Godzilla, whose rights belong to Legendary Pictures itself, which is not very happy with the first draft, made for the Japanese monster.
What is clear is that Pacific Rim gives Del Toro another opportunity to create sensational creatures and fully enter into science-fiction, something he knows how to handle with three fingers. If Legendary Pictures sells this later as a ‘variation of Godzilla’, that is another story.
