Armand Assante Crosses The Line

Armand Assante was on Good Day LA to talk about his movie The Line/La Linea co-starring Ray Liotta, Andy Garcia and Valerie Cruz. The story centers around veteran assassin Mark Shields as he tracks down, Pelon, the elusive head of the Salazar Crime Cartel. Through twists of fate, Shields ends up with a local woman, Olivia who is also fighting her own demons for the sake of her daughter. Set in the rich and atmospheric backdrop of Tijuana, Mexico, La Linea (The Line) is full of action, drama and finds its soul in the plight of the characters that inhabit the most dangerous city in North America. The Line is one of eight films that Maya Entertainment and Blockbuster Video are presenting to audiences to help grow awareness of Latino films and filmmakers. The eight films in the series are the bilingual crime drama The Line, which stars Ray Liota, Andy Garcia, Esai Morales and Armand Assante; Bad Guys, starring Kate del Castillo (La Misma Luna) as an attorney who schemes to produce and distribute a new designer drug; Bajo la Sal, a Spanish-language thriller from Mexico; Vicious Circle, a teen love story starring Paul Rodriguez Jr. and Emily Rios (Quinceañera); the Brazilian love story Once Upon in Rio, in Portuguese; Máncora, a Spanish-language film from director Ricardo de Montreuil (La Mujer de Mi Hermano), starring Enrique Murciano (The Lost City, Without a Trace), which was nominated for a Grand Jury prize at Sundance in 2008; the crime thriller Sultanes del Sur, starring Tony Dalton, Jordí Molla and Ana de la Reguera; and the comedy Crónicas Chilangas. (-homemediamagazine.com) Check out the interview below. The Line is currently available on DVD. Source: My Fox LA

Maya Indie Film Series to Begin in Los Angeles

Audiences in Los Angeles will have a very different set of movie options at the Nuart Theatre as of tomorrow, when the Maya Indie Film series begins. For seven days mainstream U.S. cinema will be fogotten in favor of Spanish-language and Latin-focused films, the likes of which Maya Entertainment CEO, Moctesuma Esparza, used to experience growing up in East Los Angeles. "Getting attention for both Spanish-language and American Latino movies in this crowded marketplace is very challenging, very difficult, and it's also very expensive," said Esparza to the LA Times this week. As part of Maya's efforts to serve the Latino cinema community and its audiences, the film series will feature everything from lesser-known Latino comedies and crime stories to more familiar fair like The Line (La Linea), starring Ray Liotta and Andy Garcia. According to the LA Times, the Maya Indie Film series will also feature the following: Elsewhere on the series' spectrum of offerings is "Máncora," an erotically charged Peruvian road-trip drama; "Once Upon a Time in Rio," a love story matching a poor Brazilian youth and a rich lawyer's daughter; "Vicious Circle," a U.S. Latino love story set in Venice Beach; "Bad Guys," with Kate del Castillo, about novice hoods caught between the cops and the Mafia; and the Mexican "Sultanes del Sur," about a bank heist gone sour. Once through with its run in LA, the film series will then tour the states, screening in San Diego, Chicago, Miami, and New York. * Maya Entertainment is a sister company of LatinoReview. Source: LA Times

Fox Fall TV Premiere Dates & Times

If you remember, back on the week of May 18th we let you know what shows were renewed and dumped with the following: 2009 CW Fall TV Line Up 2009 ABC Fall TV Line Up 2009 CBS Fall TV Line Up 2009 NBC Fall TV Line Up 2009 Fox Fall TV Line up The only snags with these listings were [...]

James Camerons Avatar Already Has A Toy Line

There is an interesting phenomenon that's currently happening in Hollywood concerning toys. A movie can have a line of toys before it has even been released. Better yet, a movie can have a line of toys before it's even a movie. Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising has chosen Mattel to design a line [...]