by Hispanically Speaking News
Alejandro SanzNearly half a million people viewed the live online broadcast of Alejandro Sanz’s Dec. 6 concert in Miami, the Web site Terra reported Monday.
The Terra Live Music special with Alejandro Sanz obtained 375,000 broadcast requests during the live performance and about 100,000 more via video on demand, said Terra in a communiqué.
Concert promoters expect the number of people who view the approximately one-hour concert Sanz gave to rise in the coming weeks.
“We’re very satisfied with the incredible results of this initiative available via multiple platforms and happy to share this concert with the world via Video on Demand,” said Fernando Rodriguez, the executive director of Terra in the United States.
The broadcast, which can be viewed free from laptop computers, cell phones and other mobile devices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the United States (including Puerto Rico), El Salvador, Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela, also made a big splash on social networks.
Sanz, who on Tuesday will celebrate his 44th birthday, has sold more than 22 million albums during his career and is the Spanish artist with the largest number of Grammy awards – 19 – including 16 Latin Grammys.
Hollywood tribute for Spanish director Pedro Almodovar
Pedro Almodovar unveiled the first footage from his new film, “Los amantes pasajeros” (I’m So Excited), during a Hollywood tribute to the Spanish filmmaker in the English capital.
Almodovar chose the intimate and moving retrospective by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to show the trailer for his much-anticipated film, a comedy that unfolds on board a plane and whose cast includes Javier Camara, Cecilia Roth, Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz.
The film is due to premiere in Spain in March.
A scene in which three flight attendants dance in front of the passengers to the tune of The Pointer Sisters’ song “I’m So Excited” was shown at the end of Thursday’s tribute.
The maker of films such as Volver (To Return) and Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother) was surrounded by family and friends during the ceremony, including his brother and producer Agustin.
Also in attendance were leading figures in British cinema including director Stephen Frears and actors Miranda Richardson and Kristin Scott Thomas.
U.S. filmmaker Quentin Tarantino also paid tribute to Almodovar in a videotaped message, calling him the contemporary director he most admired.
“I’m surrounded by family and friends and they are the ones who deserve this tribute because I do what I do thanks to them,” the 63-year-old filmmaker said.
Almodovar, who gained fame in the 1980s with a series of sexually charged melodramas, has won a pair of Oscars for two of his more recent and less outrageous efforts – best original screenplay for the 2006 film “Hable con ella” (Talk to Her) and best foreign-language film for Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother), which was released in 1999.
