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Latino actors have long been outspoken about the types of roles they are frequently relegated to in most American productions: criminals, migrants, housekeepers. On that front, the romantic comedy “Say a Little Prayer” succeeds at defying the status quo by presenting professionally accomplished American Latino characters (who own enviable homes) in a plot that doesn’t involve poverty, immigration issues or marginalization. Regrettably, as harmless and brightly positive as it is on the representation front, that irreproachable approach is packaged in a film that’s overwhelmingly ordinary in all other respects.

Working from a screenplay by Nancy De Los Santos-Reza (also a producer), prolific director Patrick Perez Vidauri operates in an upbeat, broad comedic tone, somewhere between a sitcom and a telenovela, to follow Adela (Vannessa Vasquez), a 35-year-old owner of a soon-to-open art gallery in San Antonio, Texas. Conversely, her personal life seems less put-together as her boyfriend Enrique...

Ever since her debut in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s “West Side Story,” New Jersey-native Rachel Zegler has quickly become one of Hollywood’s go-to young starlets. Despite this rapid ascension and her appreciation for the success she’s found in the entertainment business, in a recent interview with Variety, she admitted that the city where much of the actual business is conducted isn’t exactly her favorite place to be.

“The reason I fell in love with this industry is not because of this town,” Zegler said of Hollywood. “In fact, I kind of can’t stand this town. I don’t like that there’s a town built around the industry that I work in; it’s stifling and isolating and weird. In New York, nobody gives a fuck.”

Zegler is currently back on the east coast for a while, starring in...

“Spoiler alert: I die,” Rachel Zegler says.

You’ll have to forgive the 23-year-old actress for giving away the ending to her next project. But to be fair, it’s been 400 years since a certain Englishman wrote the play in which she’s making her Broadway debut.

On Oct. 24, following a month of previews, Zegler will take the stage as Juliet in director Sam Gold’s revival of Shakespeare’s best-known romance. Things are going to get intense for her and her Romeo, played by “Heartstopper” star Kit Connor — after all, the tagline for the production reads, “The youth are f**ked.”

In other words, you won’t see them donning tunics or Elizabethan ruffs. Gold’s vision leans heavily into the culture of its Gen Z cast: Zegler says he originally pitched the project to her as “‘Romeo and Juliet’ if it was set in Troye Sivan’s ‘Rush’ music video.

Locarno has unveiled the half-dozen titles set to screen in this year’s 13th edition of its First Look sidebar, spotlighting works in progress. Each year, Locarno chooses one country to feature in the First Look section, and 2024 is Spain’s turn.

This year’s call for projects received 40 submissions, with a first pre-selection made by a committee that included Xavier Garcia Puerto (Tallinn Back Nights Festival/Rec – International Festival of Cinema in Tarragona), Susana Santos Rodriguez (IndieLisboa/IFFR) and Cecilia Barrionuevo (Ecam – Escuela de Cinematografía y Audiovisual de Madrid).

Locarno’s First Look competition jury is comprised of the Artistic Director of Venice’s International Film Critics’ Week Beatrice Fiorentino, Istanbul Film Festival director Kerem Ayan and Programmer for the International Film Festival Rotterdam Mercedes Martínez-Abarca.

In addition to cash and service prizes valued at tens of thousands of euros, First Look will offer a platform for producers to...

“I thought of it,” says Kelsey Grammer. At the top of THR’s Comedy Actor Emmy Roundtable, he’d been asked to recall the funniest feedback he’s ever received. It took him half an hour, but the answer found him: “I was in my 40s, and somebody said, ‘You are the worst boyfriend I’ve ever had!’ ” The Frasier star, now pretending to cry, is met with a burst of laughter. What started with a little trepidation — “This is my first roundtable,” confessed Palm Royale’s Ricky Martin, who was joined at The Georgian Hotel in Santa Monica by John Goodman (The Conners and The Righteous Gemstones), Grammer, Theo James (The Gentlemen), Anthony Mackie (Twisted Metal) and Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live) — soon shifted to dueling war stories of drunken fans and lessons learned from a combined 180 years in entertainment.

What’s the funniest or strangest feedback you’ve...

All eyes were on Ricky Martin during CAA’s seventh annual Amplify summit on Tuesday where the Grammy-winning entertainer took the stage to discuss his storied career with Bruno Del Granado, the head of CAA’s global Latin music touring division.

Martin discussed his role in Apple TV+‘s (newly-renewed for Season 2) “Palm Royale,” and opened up about his major career milestones, including his impact on Latin American music in the United States, and LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream spaces.

Martin showed love for his “Palm Royale” castmates and the “life-changing” stories they’ve been able to portray. Set in the 1960s in Palm Beach, Martin portrays Robert, a gay man and a bartender at the high society club Palm Royale.

“A couple of years ago when I was promoting ‘[The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story’], this journalist from Poland asked me ‘Ricky, aren’t you afraid that you’re going to be typecast as a gay...

Fans couldn’t help but feel sorry for Enrique Iglesias after actress Jennifer Love Hewitt shared a memory from her time acting in the singer’s video Hero. Hewitt shared that the Tonight singer was mourning the death of his close friend and singer Aaliyah while they shot the music video. The R&b star was killed in an airplane accident in the Bahamas on August 25, 2001.

Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Love Hewitt in Hero | Interscope Records

Hero was released as part of Iglesias’s English language album, Escape. The song received critical and commercial success, selling over 8 million copies worldwide. It was also one of the songs that was popularized by New York City DJs during the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

Enrique Iglesias Was Mourning Aaliyah’s Death While Shooting Hero

Aaliyah in We Need a Resolution | Blackground Records

During a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, 9-1-1 star...

Directed by Hernan Guerschuny, Nahir is the story of a girl who finds herself stuck in a grave situation that turns her life upside down and shocks the entire nation. One of the best decisions taken by the makers is using “silence” to their advantage. A lot of times, we see that directors make the narrative so dense with dialogue that the film loses its essence and isn’t able to have a deep impact on the viewers. The creative decision taken by the makers to give the protagonist minimal lines works in favor of the film. A lot of times, we do not get to know what is happening in Nahir’s mind, and it is left up to the viewers to form their own opinions and perceptions. So let’s find out what happened with Nahir Galarza, why the case garnered so much publicity, what all happened in real life,...

“For me, that song, when I listened to it, it was so inspiring and it was so cool and it was so good,” Enrique Iglesias told will.i.am about the Black Eyed Peas’ 2003 debut single, “Where Is the Love?”

A guest on “will.i.am Presents the Fyi Show” recorded live at the SiriusXM Miami Studios, Enrique said he still gets goosebumps thinking about that song and how he knew it was the “tipping point” for the group’s career similar to Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance.”

“I remember being at Interscope [Records] and begging to work with you in the studio,” Enrique added.

Enrique also talked about how he spent over a year writing his 2001 hit song “Hero,” but the label wanted a more uptempo lead single for the album — an experience will.i.am could relate to.

“I’ve been scarred, as far as like, you think, ‘This is it.

Ever since James Gunn announced his decision to come up with a Superman reboot and turn the character into a positive one (unlike Zack Snyder’s grim version) fans have been appreciating the new CEO. Throwing unnecessary shade upon Snyder’s version, fans began shifting their support towards David Corenswet, as the new face of Superman.

DC CEO James Gunn | image: Inside of You/YouTube

However, soon enough, James Gunn’s fans got a reality check when the potential costume of Superman in the upcoming reboot came into the spotlight. The debate around David Corenswet’s potential costume has raged for months. But now, as a scooper account shared the supposed image of the attire, Zack Snyder’s haters got punched in the face with the objectively worst costume choice ever.

Fans Upset with David Corenswet’s Potential Superman Costume

For a long time, Zack Snyder was associated with the character of Superman in DC,...

Pitbull, Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin are heating up the stage on the opening night of their Trilogy Tour!

The global superstars brought their arena run to Capital One Arena on Saturday night (October 14) in Washington D.C.

The show is the first time the trio shared the stage, featured three unique headlining sets from each icon, starting with Pitbull delivering hits like “Time of Our Lives” and “Give Me Everything.”

Enrique kept the party going with smashes like “Bailando” and “El Perdón,” while Ricky followed with his own global hits, including “Vente Pa’ Ca,” “La Mordidita” and “Maria.”

The 25-city tour continues with two nights in Toronto at Scotiabank Arena before hitting cities like Boston, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles and more before wrapping up at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on December 11.

For all ticket info, head to ticketmaster.com.

Keep reading to see the set lists…...

San Francisco, Aug 23 (Ians) X (formerly Twitter) has increased the max Dm group chat size from 150 to 200.

Enrique, a product engineer at X, posted on Tuesday, “Max Dm group size has been increased from 150 to 200. And a cool improvement coming to DMs as well next week so keep your eyes peeled.”

Reacting to the update, X-owner Elon Musk said, “Should there even be a limit?”

Several users also expressed their thoughts on the new update.

While one user said, “I’d love to know who has group chats with that many people lol,” another posted, “Great feature, but first I need that many friends to test it.”

On the other hand, responding to a user’s post about missing the Twitter blue bird, Musk said: “He is now in logo heaven.”

Also, when a user noted that a sponsored advertisement that was misleading users got community noted, X-owner said: “Finally...

For years, much of the film industry has considered Sundance as a ’90s legacy, one most famous for launching the festival that cemented a market for American independent film. However, the seeds for that phenomenon were sown in the previous decade.

Hollywood raced into the ’80s with its blockbuster juices flowing, as the box-office sensations of “Jaws” and then “Star Wars” rejuvenated the studio confidence in mass-market commercial storytelling, and the prospects of small-scale independent filmmaking seemed more marginalized than ever. Enter Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute, which launched its first feature film lab in 1981, and created a seminal resource for working outside the system still unparalleled in the U.S. today.

In the midst of the studios getting a second wind, Redford felt unnerved. Though the movie star made a successful pivot to directing with “Ordinary People” in 1980, he had long felt that Hollywood underserved movies made with an economy of means.