by the El Reportero’s news servicies
Gloria TrevisA film inspired by the eventful life of singer Gloria Trevi will premiere next Sept. 5 in more than 1,000 movie theaters around Mexico, the producers said.
While Trevi has expressed unhappiness over the “Gloria” project, producer Matthias Ehrenberg told a press conference that the screenplay is based on interviews she gave to journalist and playwright Sabina Berman and seeks above all to pay tribute to the singer.
“It’s an impartial story with no yellow journalism in it. Basically it’s about Gloria the celebrity, her rise to fame, what happened to her, things that go out of control and the consequences,” Ehrenberg said.
Taking the story to the screen are Sofia Espinosa as Trevi and Marco Pérez in the role of her manager Sergio Andrade.
The film includes several of Trevi’s songs because the production company acquired the rights, and will be sung by Espinosa, Ehrenberg said.
“Gloria” will screen in theaters around Mexico starting Sept. 5, Mauricio Duran Ortega, vice president of marketing and distribution at Universal Pictures in Latin America, said.
Gloria Trevi was arrested in Brazil in the year 2000, accused by a Mexican court of the kidnapping, sexual abuse and corruption of minors, together with Andrade and one of her backup singers.
After a long legal battle in Brazil, the singer was extradited to her country in 2002 and pardoned by a Mexican court two years later, after which she returned to show business.
New Robert Rodriguez TV series debuts on El Rey network
Director Robert Rodriguez’s “From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series,” a television adaptation of his popular 1996 film that starred George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino, debuted on his El Rey Network.
The series, the first original content produced for the network, is about two crazy bank-robbing brothers who are on the run after a heist that left several people dead.
The 10 one-hour episodes in the series star D.J. FranciscoCotrona as Seth Gecko, George Clooney’s character in the movie; Zane Holtz as Richie Gecko, who was played by Quentin Tarantino in the feature film; and Jesse Garcia, who plays a Texas ranger.
Don Johnson is Sheriff Earl McGraw, the role played by Michael Parks in the film version.
“From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series” looks at the start of the criminal careers of Seth and Richie, and how the FBI tried to capture them.
The brothers head for Mexico and end up in a strip club that, as in the film, turns out to be a den of vampires.
Colombian actress Celmira Luzardo dies, age 61
Colombian actress Celmira Luzardo, who pursued her career in theater, film and television and may have been best known for her role in the soap opera “Yo soy Betty, la fea,” has died in Bogota, family and friends said Thursday. She was 61.
Luzardo, the youngest of a family of actors, died Wednesday of respiratory problems, friends and relatives said Thursday via the social networks.
Luzardo stood out during the 1980s and ‘90s in several Colombian television productions and is remembered in particular for her role as Catalina Angel, a fashion designer on “Yo soy Betty, la fea.”
She also landed roles in other Colombian soap operas and TV. Luzardo, besides acting, had studied editing and production at the National Film Institute in London and filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cimenatografia in Italy.
Several years ago she had moved to the Caribbean island of San Andres and had distanced herself from acting.
