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Diego Luna to Star in the Indie Thriller “Eleven Days”

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Diego Luna is ready to thrill audiences…

The 45-year-old Mexican actor, director and producer will star in the indie thriller Eleven Days opposite Taylor Kitsch from Concussion director Peter Landesman.

Diego LunaThe film is set in the sweltering heat of a Texas summer in 1974, when ruthless prisoner Federico Carrasco (Luna) plays a deadly game against Jim Estelle (Kitsch), head of the Texas Department of Corrections, after taking over Huntsville Penitentiary and holding dozens hostage when his pre-planned escape goes awry. Lines between captor and captive, and justice and survival, begin to blur as the siege spirals for 11 endless, terrifying days.

The screenplay is written by Kevin Sheridan with revisions by Landesman, based on the book Eleven Days In Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas by William T. Harper.

The film, which will shoot in Texas in September, is produced by Vincent Newman and Vance Howard.

Luna has already had himself quite a year following the second season of the Disney+ series Andor.

Luna also received Golden Globe and Gotham TV Award nominations for his role in Hulu’s first Spanish-language limited series La Máquina, where he plays the self-destructive manager of an aging boxer. He stars alongside longtime collaborator Gael García Bernal, and the pair produced the series through their company La Corriente del Golfo, which they founded in 2018 to tell global stories across film, TV, theater and audio.

Up next, Luna stars opposite Jennifer Lopez in Bill Condon’s adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Woman, a Sundance Film Festival standout set for release by Lionsgate on October 10.

Luna was introduced to worldwide audiences with his starring role in Alfonso Cuarón’s 2001 award-winning road epic Y Tu Mama Tambien, alongside García Bernal.

Jennifer Lopez Reveals European “Up All Night Tour” Dates

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Jennifer Lopez is ready to pull some all-nighters this summer…

The 55-year-old Puerto Rican superstar has announced plans to take her Up All Night Tour to Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia this summer, writing on social media, “Are you ready for UP ALL NIGHT #JLoLiveIn2025?! I can’t wait to see you this summer ✨🎤🎶 It’s almost time…”

Jennifer LopezLopez posted the full routing for the Euro swing, her first road show in five years, which is slated to kick off on July 8 in Vigo, Spain, at Parque Tafisa, and includes six more stops in the country before moving on to Hungary on July 20, followed by shows in Italy, Turkey, Poland and Romania.

The tour will then move on to the Middle East with gigs in the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, before hitting Kazakhstan, Armenia, Turkey and Uzbekistan, wrapping up on August 10 at the Central Stadium in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Last week, Lopez posted rehearsal footage with choreographer Derek Hough, following on the heels of a June 20 photo dump of photos from her intense prep for the tour.

Lopez has not mounted a proper tour since 2019’s It’s My Party global outing; she announced a North American tour in support of her 2024 This is Me… Now album only to cancel it less than a month before launch in order to take time off “to be with her children, family and close friends.”

Lopez is also gearing up for a return to the big screen on October 10 when she stars in director Bill Condon’s adaptation of the 1993 Broadway play Kiss of the Spider Woman.

JLo stars as Ingrid Luna in the film, in which two prisoners (Diego Luna and Tonatiuh) cook up song-and-dance routines based on the legendary actress’ roles while stuck in a prison cell during the waning days of Argentina’s Dirty War, which ravaged the nation from 1974 until 1983.

Here’s the list of Lopez’s summer 2025 European shows:

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Breaking Ground? Twilight’s First Spanish Song

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There’s a little sabor Latino on the soundtrack to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1…

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Along with part-Puerto Rican doo-wop singer Bruno Mars’ “It Will Rain,” the new album features a Spanish track written and performed by Argentinean actress/singer Mia Maestro, who plays the matriarch of the vegetarian Denali coven in the much-anticipated film.

The ballad  “Llovera” is the only Spanish-language song to ever be featured on any of the Twilight soundtracks.

Mia Maestro

“It’s nice to know that millions of people who are going to go see this film are going to hear my song,” Maestro told Latina.com about the song. “It’s quite exciting!”

So  how did the 33-year-old actress/singer—who starred opposite Jennifer Garner on ABC’s Alias—end up scoring the first Spanish song on the Twilight soundtracks ?

“I was working on my album while I was shooting the movie,” recalls Maestro. “Everyone was aware that I was finishing my record and [the film’s director] Bill Condon wanted to hear it. He did and he really loved it and he said he was going to see if there was any part in the film where he could find placement for it.”

Well, it appears he has… But Maestro can only hint at where in the movie it appears:

“A beautiful moment in the film—I can’t say which one, but I hope people will love it.”

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 soundtrack is available now.

Meanwhile, the film opens nationwide on November 18.