Compiled by El Reportero’s staff
Marco Antonio Solís, Marc Anthony y Chayenne.
Three Latino singers with towering international reputations – Marc Anthony, Chayanne and Marco Antonio Solís – will share the spotlight this summer on a tour of 14 American cities.
The artists presented Monday in Miami plans for their Gigant3s tour and said how thrilled they were about presenting the show to U.S. audiences.
Anthony said he was “very happy” to be able to go on tour with his fellow artists and noted that this kind of show “is a formula that works” because “for the price of one ticket” you get three artists.
Anthony has shared billing in the past with Chayanne and Solís individually, but all three have never appeared together at the same time, same stage.
About the production, Anthony said that “this is not three separate concerts,” but rather a show combining performances by the three Latino artists.
Though the vocalists didn’t reveal a lot in the way of details, they hinted at some surprises onstage with the possibility that they will form duos and trios singing songs made famous by one or another of them.
The Gigant3s tour will take the artists to 14 U.S. cities, including Miami, Chicago, San Jose, Houston, Dallas, El Paso and Las Vegas.
Javier Bardem to Appear in Film Based on Brother Carlos Novel “Alacran Enamorado”
Javier Bardem will make his return to Spanish cinema when he plays a neo-Nazi ideologue in Alacrán enamorado (Scorpion in Love), a film based on a novel by his brother Carlos.
In remarks to Efe, Spanish director Santiago Zannou said the winner of a best-supporting-actor Oscar for his turn in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men will play a secondary character named Solis, a role distinct from the purely villainous one he has in the upcoming James Bond film.
“In my film (the character) is more realistic, not a wicked villain who wants to destroy the world, but an ordinary person. Those are the ones who truly frighten me, for having a type of ideology that separates people, that engenders violence,” Zannou said.
This will mark the first time Bardem has worked with a Spanish director since he won four Goya awards for his performance in Alejandro Amenabar’s Mar adentro (The Sea Inside).
Alacrán enamorado tells the story of Alyssa, a seductive Latin American immigrant who had fallen victim to a prostitution ring and now makes a living cleaning houses, and Julian, alias “El Alacrán” (The Scorpion), a member of a neo-Nazi group.
Alex González and Judith Diakhate have the starring roles, while Carlos Bardem plays a boxing trainer and former boxer Rudo Hovic is the owner of the gym.
‘Noticias OK” in Puerto Rico to Report Only Good, Happy News
A radio program in Puerto Rico will report only good news starting May 1 as a way to try and minimize violence on the streets of the Caribbean island.
The host of “Noticias OK,” Yalitza Navedo Roman, said Wednesday in a communique that the initiative arose after a survey was conducted in June 2004 among 100 residents of lowincome communities, during which the participants asked the media to report positive news that was happening in their neighborhoods.
“These figures are the basis for the birth of ‘Noticias OK.’ That is, this media proposal was born in the heart of the people (who live in) public housing and special communities,” said Navedo Roman. She said that the project will serve to “minimize the culture of violence” and contribute to peace in Puerto Rico, which registered a record 1,136 homicides in 2011.
Latin America well represented in Cannes Film Festival
Paris, Apr 24 (Prensa Latina) Latin American will bring six films to participate in the Directors Fortnight, one of the sections of the Cannes Film Festival to be held from May 17 to 27, media reported Tuesday.
The news was announced on Tuesday by Waintrop Edouard, Director General of the Directors Fortnight, a section created in 1968 with the aim of promoting emerging filmmakers. This year, organizers chose 21 films to compete, including two documentaries, two animated films and 10 short films.
Among the films selected stand the film 3, by Uruguayan Pablo Stoll, La sirga by William Vega, which recently won the Under Construction Films award at the 17th Toulouse Film Festival, and Fogo by Mexican Yulene Olaizola, among other films from Argentina and Chile.
Waintrop said he was surprised by the dynamism of Latin American films in recent years, which is why in all the European festivals there is always a good representation of that region.
