STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS' Zoe Saldana is one kick-ass movie star appearing in the latest movie in the Star Trek franchise, turning blue once again for the Avatar sequels and going green for her new role in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. Who doesn't envy the beautiful Latina actress?
Director, writer and producer Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel) teams up with Chilean filmmaker Nicolas Lopez on their first collaboration AFTERSHOCK, but Roth has bigger plans that includes making Chile the new Hollywood and renaming it Chile-Wood.
Roth produced and co-wrote the horror disaster flick AFTERSHOCK, an independent film shot in Chile with filmmaking savant Nicolas Lopez who impressed the American-born Roth with his MTV tv pilot when he was sixteen and his follow up comedies. “I’m a huge fan,” the director and producer behind the Hostel movies told CineMovie’s Pili Montilla.
Roth teamed up with Nicolas Lopez on AFTERSHOCK in Chile to produce a mainstream Hollywood film featuring Latin actors that would work for the “whole world.” Roth, along with Lopez, coined the phrase Chile-Wood in hopes of making more films with his new found filmmaking community in Chile. The experience working with top quality talent and crew was so positive he cast many of the actors from AFTERSHOCK in his directorial effort, The Green Inferno, also shot partially in Chile. Roth has since appeared in Lopez’s next film.
By going to Chile and featuring Latino actors, Roth is looking to tap into the Latino movie-going public. “Latins are the strongest movie-going audience right now. And they love horror movies,” he remarks during our sit down with the multi-hyphenate. Roth got a taste of Latino humor with the constant ribbing of the gringo. Roth reveals filmmaking is so lax in Chile that the cast and crew kept making fun of him for thinking there was such as thing as art department and professional stunt men. “Gringo, you’re so worried about everything. You’re so gringo about it,” they teased him.
Roth, who broke out with his own indie film, Cabin Fever in 2002, brought his own knowledge of low-budget, high quality filmmaking with Lopez who had his own cost-saving methods. Roth tells Pili he thought the art department did a great job with the life-like skeletons and hair in a cemetery scene, but then he was told those cemetery location props were real, left behind by the destruction of the previous Chilean earthquake. The incident also led to more ribbing by his new Chilean friends.
Roth had the most fun “smashing” things up in the Spanish and English language film which opens May 10, 2013.
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Besides appearing in the American television hit Dallas, Kuno Becker is staying close to his Mexican roots by starring as the famous Mexican general who won the battle over the French in the Spanish war drama, CINCO DE MAYO: LA BATALLA. CineMovie sits down with the actor to talk about his historical-based character.
Tony plays an unlikeable victim in Michael Bay’s PAIN & GAIN, but the actor doesn’t see himself as a ‘bad guy’ since he never judges his characters. The actor also reveals whether a Monk movie is in his near future.
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PAIN & GAIN stars Ken Jeong and Tony Shalhoub consider Michael Bay’s departure for this black comedy the director’s best film yet.
Aside from praising the Transformers director’s adaptation of the true story into a motion picture, the PAIN & GAIN stars also reveal their own harebrained ideas. Mark Wahlberg plays real-life bodybuilder turned extortionist Daniel Lugo in PAIN & GAIN, who masterminded the kidnapping and torture of a self-made millionaire in Miami in the 1990’s. Lugo then recruited other bodybuilders (Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie) to join his knucklehead quick rich scheme, which becomes the basis of Michael Bay’s PAIN & GAIN.
Ken Jeong, Tony Shalhoub, and Bar Paly tell CineMovie’s Zay Zay they are all guilty of knucklehead ideas, of course, they don’t compare to the character’s insane plan in the movie. The Israeli-born actress Bar Paly, who plays Dwayne Johnson’s girlfriend in the film, says she committed a few of them during the press interviews when she said something out loud she shouldn’t have. Tony Shalhoub’s character Victor suffers at the hands of the bodybuilders, but he admits he’s had a few harebrained ideas of his own, although he wouldn’t fess up to what they are.
Ken Jeong’s true rag to riches story certainly makes him guilty of what some would say is a foolish decision. Jeong practiced medicine as a doctor while developing his own stand-up comedy. He left his full-time practice after his breakout role in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, playing what else but a physician. He’s gone on to star in some of the biggest movies like The Hangover franchise, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and as a regular on the television show Community. He agrees during out sit down that he too thought “it was a numbskull idea” at the time, but luckily it paid off for him. “To work is a big reward. I’m very lucky.”
When asked if Michael Bay’s reputation for being a tough director is true, Tony and Ken had nothing but praise for the blockbuster filmmaker. “He’s all about energy and bringing your A-game,” Ken said of the PAIN & GAIN director who worked with him previously on the third Transformers movie. He went on to say that he considers PAIN & GAIN one of Michael Bay’s best films.
There’s no doubt PAIN & GAIN is quite the departure for the 48-year-old music video director turned filmmaker. Tony Shalhoub, best known for playing Monk on the long running television series, credits Bay with handling the subject matter of PAIN & GAIN very well. “Michael did a great job of combining both the manic quality, craziness of the story, the comedy that’s inherit in it and the sort of brutality of it, the sort of darker aspects of it…all mixed into one,” he told Zay Zay while visiting Miami for the round of press events.
Many would agree PAIN & GAIN is a welcome relief from Bay’s usual pompous outings.
PAIN & GAIN opens in movie theaters April 26, 2013.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Mark Wahlberg, and Anthony Mackie pumped iron for their turn as bodybuilders in the new movie PAIN & GAIN. Who benched the most weights? PAIN & GAIN stars Anthony Mackie and Tony Shalhoub weigh in on the debate.
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper Potts finally gets her long overdue “kick ass” moment in the Iron Man franchise when she dons the suit and saves Robert Downey, Jr. as seen in the trailer. But could Gwyneth imagine herself as an Avenger perhaps?
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In Morgan Freeman's ideal futuristic world, humans would live in trees and hunt for their own food. Why does the OBLIVION star want humans to return to the days of the nomad?
We caught up with the stars at the Miami movie premiere where Zay Zay got the scoop on real-life events from the true crime story that didn’t make it into the Michael Bay movie starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson.
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Ashley Tisdale takes over for Anna Faris in the Scary Movies franchise. The High School Musical alumni talks about her nerve-racking lesbian scene in SCARY MOVIE 5, co-star Lindsay Lohan, a deleted scene with Ted, the talking teddy bear, and her friendship with other Disney alumni in our Q&A.
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Gina Rodriguez is being called the “It Girl” for her breakthrough performance in FILLY BROWN, but the up and coming actress isn’t about to compromise her values in exchange for fame.
Edward James Olmos executive produces the inspirational and gritty portrait of a young Los Angeles hip-hop artist in FILLY BROWN. The film was a family affair with his son co-directing and other son producing. The Academy Award nominee talks about how the indie film came together with Kevin Smith coming in to save the day.
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