A new international thriller toplined by Colombian star Carolina Gaitan (“Celia”) opposite Chile’s Alfredo Castro (“From Afar”) is slated to shoot on location in New York, Malta and Slovakia in October.
Titled “Perfidious,” and with an estimated $13 million budget, the feature debut of Dominican Republic-born Ileana Vasquez boasts an international cast that includes American thesp of Cuban, Mexican and Spanish descent Omar Chagall (“Frida”), Greek “Bond” girl Tonia Sotiropoulou (“Skyfall”), Greek star Alexis Georgoulis, Spain’s Peter Vives (“Velvet”) and British Mma Champion Lee Shone. Dutch actor Rutger Hauer (“Blade Runner”) is circling the project.
The English-language thriller turns on a U.S. Latina political writer whose wealthy Czech fiancé (Vives) is assassinated. In her efforts to investigate the truth behind her beau’s murder, she is caught up in a high-profile political scandal. Castro plays the concierge in her apartment building.
“She is somewhat a cross between Nancy Drew and Jason Bourne,...
Titled “Perfidious,” and with an estimated $13 million budget, the feature debut of Dominican Republic-born Ileana Vasquez boasts an international cast that includes American thesp of Cuban, Mexican and Spanish descent Omar Chagall (“Frida”), Greek “Bond” girl Tonia Sotiropoulou (“Skyfall”), Greek star Alexis Georgoulis, Spain’s Peter Vives (“Velvet”) and British Mma Champion Lee Shone. Dutch actor Rutger Hauer (“Blade Runner”) is circling the project.
The English-language thriller turns on a U.S. Latina political writer whose wealthy Czech fiancé (Vives) is assassinated. In her efforts to investigate the truth behind her beau’s murder, she is caught up in a high-profile political scandal. Castro plays the concierge in her apartment building.
“She is somewhat a cross between Nancy Drew and Jason Bourne,...
- 8/16/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Another entrant in the recent-reunion phenomenon: The members of At the Drive-In are coming back with new music and live shows in 2016. The hard-rock band from El Paso teased the announcement across its social-media accounts earlier in the week, and have tipped Fuse off that this year's material could potentially go toward its first fresh studio album since 2000's Relationship of Command. "Fifteen years ago, [our ambition] was, Man, this shit sounds cool, let's make a record and go on tour," guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López told Fuse on Thursday, noting he and his bandmates have been sharing partially and fully formed songs with each other again. "That's our motivation now, too."The inventive quintet (Rodríguez-López, Jim Ward, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Paul Hinojos, and Tony Hajjar) took a prolonged, differences-and-exhaustion-fueled hiatus in the ’00s — fracturing into nearly half-a-dozen other projects including the Mars Volta, Sparta, Bosnian Rainbows, and Antemasque — before reuniting briefly in...
- 1/22/2016
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
We're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Alice Cooper, Linkin Park, The Mars Volta, Aerosmith, Opeth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Unearth, Whitechapel, In Flames, Hawthorne Heights, Misfits, Gwar and more. Don't touch that dial.
News
In honor of their late singer Dave "Oderus Urungus" Brockie, the members of Gwar have created The Dave Brockie Foundation, a charity to promote the advancement of the arts.
Alice Cooper's "doc opera," Super Duper Alice Cooper, will hit theaters nationwide beginning April 30th. Find a theater near you and watch the trailer here.
Linkin Park will release their new album, The Hunting Party, on June 17.
Opeth have announced their eleventh studio album, Pale Communion. It will be released on June 17 via Roadrunner Records.
The remaining members of As I Lay Dying have teamed up with vocalist Shane Blay (formerly of Oh,...
News
In honor of their late singer Dave "Oderus Urungus" Brockie, the members of Gwar have created The Dave Brockie Foundation, a charity to promote the advancement of the arts.
Alice Cooper's "doc opera," Super Duper Alice Cooper, will hit theaters nationwide beginning April 30th. Find a theater near you and watch the trailer here.
Linkin Park will release their new album, The Hunting Party, on June 17.
Opeth have announced their eleventh studio album, Pale Communion. It will be released on June 17 via Roadrunner Records.
The remaining members of As I Lay Dying have teamed up with vocalist Shane Blay (formerly of Oh,...
- 4/15/2014
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- DreadCentral.com
The mighty Boston Underground Film Festival celebrates their impressive 15th edition this year on March 27-31 at the Brattle Theatre. Here’s some highlights to be on the lookout for:
Opening night film: I Declare War, a childhood parable about war and brutality, directed by Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson.
Closing night film: Big Ass Spider!, a raucous giant arachnid vs. the military flick, directed by Mike Mendez.
Other Feature Films: Both Drew Tobia’s first feature, See You Next Tuesday; and the punk documentary A Band Called Death by Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett recently won awards at the 20th Chicago Underground Film Festival and will now kill it at Buff. Sion Sono, a Buff regular, will be screening the last of his “Trilogy of Hate,” Guilty of Romance; while Calvin Lee Reeder has the gross-out feature-length version of his gross-out short The Rambler. And Zach Clark, a Bad Lit favorite,...
Opening night film: I Declare War, a childhood parable about war and brutality, directed by Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson.
Closing night film: Big Ass Spider!, a raucous giant arachnid vs. the military flick, directed by Mike Mendez.
Other Feature Films: Both Drew Tobia’s first feature, See You Next Tuesday; and the punk documentary A Band Called Death by Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett recently won awards at the 20th Chicago Underground Film Festival and will now kill it at Buff. Sion Sono, a Buff regular, will be screening the last of his “Trilogy of Hate,” Guilty of Romance; while Calvin Lee Reeder has the gross-out feature-length version of his gross-out short The Rambler. And Zach Clark, a Bad Lit favorite,...
- 3/27/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Mars Volta's sixth and probably final LP, Noctourniquet, dropped in March 2012. In lieu of a corresponding tour, there was talk of a hiatus. Now it's officially over, per vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, who broke off from At the Drive In with Omar Rodríguez-López in 2001 to form the psych-prog-jazz-hardcore-math-etc.-rock group. "I can't sit here and pretend any more. I no longer am a member of Mars Volta," Bixler-Zavala tweets. "Thank u 2 all Volta fans u deserved more especially after the way u rooted for us on this album. I tried my hardest to keep it going. But Bosnian Rainbows was what we all got instead." (Bosnian Rainbows is the latest musical venture for the brain-smashingly prolific Rodríguez-López, incidentally the Lennon to Bixler-Zavala's McCartney, or vice-versa.) "For the record I tried my hardest to get a full scale North American tour going for Noctourniquet but Omar did not want...
- 1/24/2013
- by Zach Dionne
- Vulture
Shuffle and Stories is an attempt to get a more personal look on why we feel the way we do about music. Music is like art, subjective, and that means that everyone has a different way at looking at one album or band. Every week I’ll pick from one of ten songs when my library is on shuffle and talk about the music but also talk about why I personally like it or tell any personal stories regarding the music.
Oh boy were today’s pickings good, local punk band Bike Tuff are pretty radical and my library once again tries to bait me into talking about video games with the excellent soundtrack to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project but one band shines a little brighter. The subject of today’s talk will be the brilliant Post-Punk/Dance-Punk band Funeral Party.
I was turned onto Funeral...
Oh boy were today’s pickings good, local punk band Bike Tuff are pretty radical and my library once again tries to bait me into talking about video games with the excellent soundtrack to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project but one band shines a little brighter. The subject of today’s talk will be the brilliant Post-Punk/Dance-Punk band Funeral Party.
I was turned onto Funeral...
- 9/9/2012
- by Jay Gary
- Obsessed with Film
Making your way through a new Mars Volta record isn’t that it's always a challenge; there’s just always the promise of density and compositions that take some digestion. With newest “Noctourniquet,” there’s also bigger bevy of memorable refrains than before, with fewer diatribes. The songs are singular and tighter, too. This may piss some fans off. Omar Rodríguez-López again arranges each track like a choir of power tools, this time with drummer Deantoni Parks (of Kudu) battling melodies with avant, behind- or off-beat flavors or with a metronomic exactness. I mention the importance of this new rhythm member because of the...
- 3/30/2012
- Hitfix
In addition to his rock-star duties as the guitarist for The Mars Volta, Omar Rodríguez-López has technically made seven movies, but he won't let you see most of them. The eccentric musician-filmmaker (formerly of At the Drive In, which recently announced plans for a reunion at Coachella) has worked on movies with a close-knit group of friends in Mexico, but has only allowed the last two to screen at festivals: "The Sentimental Engine Slayer" played at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010, while the outrageous exploitation movie "Los Chidos" premiered in competition at SXSW this week. A gross-out spectacle done in the style of Spanish telenovelas but positioned as a satire of male chauvinism, "Los Chidos" technically revolves around a Mexican family dealing with crime and other misdeeds while sorting out their interpersonal dramas. Intentionally dubbed and filled with countless provocative images, "Los Chidos" is one...
- 3/16/2012
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Tune in alert for MTV Iggy Live: Le Butcherettes. MTV Iggy presents rising garage punk rock buzz band Le Butcherettes live from New York. The Los Angeles-via-Mexico City based band, led by fiery front woman Teri Gender Bender, has received critical attention for their 2011 debut album Sin Sin Sin and raucous live performances. Driven by a desire to defy gender and genre stereotypes, the band's live shows are like performance art, featuring everything from feather dusting to blood-spattered aprons. In this one-of-a-kind show, Mars Volta's Omar Rodríguez-López jams alongside Le Butcherettes for a never-before-seen searing performance. In addition to the seductive performance, MTV Iggy features a 360-coverage of this fascinating band, including an in-depth feature...
- 1/10/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
By Zachary Swickey
Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor had a daunting task ahead of him when his extraordinary touring drummer Josh Freese bowed out of the group in late 2008 to tend to his pregnant wife. Not only was Reznor down a drummer, but he was planning his upcoming “Wave Goodbye” tour to be his last – retiring Nin, at least in a live setting. Fans were shocked when the announcement was made that Ilan Rubin, a shaggy, then-20-year-old kid from San Diego, would be taking over for Freese, who is one of rock’s most revered drummers. What many fans didn’t know (but soon found out) is that Rubin is inarguably a musical genius himself. An ex-pupil of Travis Barker, Rubin is a one-man musical collective in the studio with his solo project, The New Regime.
At the young age of 8, Rubin took to playing his father’s...
Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor had a daunting task ahead of him when his extraordinary touring drummer Josh Freese bowed out of the group in late 2008 to tend to his pregnant wife. Not only was Reznor down a drummer, but he was planning his upcoming “Wave Goodbye” tour to be his last – retiring Nin, at least in a live setting. Fans were shocked when the announcement was made that Ilan Rubin, a shaggy, then-20-year-old kid from San Diego, would be taking over for Freese, who is one of rock’s most revered drummers. What many fans didn’t know (but soon found out) is that Rubin is inarguably a musical genius himself. An ex-pupil of Travis Barker, Rubin is a one-man musical collective in the studio with his solo project, The New Regime.
At the young age of 8, Rubin took to playing his father’s...
- 9/28/2011
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (21 Grams, Babel) was determined to take greater control over his stories by directing and made his debut in the well-intentioned The Burning Plain. The movie, out now on DVD from Magnolia Home Entertainment, played at various festivals before receiving an unsuccessful theatrical release. Starring Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger, the movie is told in Arriaga’s patented nonlinear manner, but keeps us at arm’s distance from the characters.
In short, the story is told in three parallel timelines that eventually begin to converge. Basinger plays Gina, an unhappy mother who is having an affair with Nick (Joaquim de Almeida) and doing a poor job of hiding it from her eldest daughter, Mariana (Jennifer Lawrence). In attempting to keep her family together, Mariana trails them to the trailer they use for their trysts, setting the gas line on fire, hoping to flush them out. Things don’t go well and later,...
In short, the story is told in three parallel timelines that eventually begin to converge. Basinger plays Gina, an unhappy mother who is having an affair with Nick (Joaquim de Almeida) and doing a poor job of hiding it from her eldest daughter, Mariana (Jennifer Lawrence). In attempting to keep her family together, Mariana trails them to the trailer they use for their trysts, setting the gas line on fire, hoping to flush them out. Things don’t go well and later,...
- 1/28/2010
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Members of alternative rock band At The Drive-In have rejected reports that they are planning a comeback. Earlier this month, ex-frontman and Mars Volta member Cedric Bixler-Zavala said that a reunion "might happen" and admitted to being in touch with his former bandmates. However, regarding the possibility of an imminent return, Bixler-Zavala told Clash: "No, no, it's not true." Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López said: "It's nothing personal. (more)...
- 6/18/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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