IFC Midnight Acquires the U.S. Distribution Rights to Rivera’s Thriller “Home”

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Tom Castaneda

All’s moving forward on the home front for Naya Rivera…

IFC Midnight has acquired the distribution rights to 27-year-old half-Puerto Rican actress and Glee star’s feature film Home, following its premiere last month at the SXSW Film Conference and Festival.

From writer-director Nicholas McCarthy (The Pact), the thriller stars Rivera, Academy Award-nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno, Awkward’s Ashley Rickards, Wyatt Russell and Ava Acres.

It centers on an ambitious real estate agent (Moreno) who is selling a house with a checkered past. When she tries to help the runaway daughter of the property’s owners, she and her sister (Rivera) cross paths with a sinister supernatural force.

IFC Midnight will release Home in theaters and via video on demand (VOD) this year.

Café Tacvba to Tour in 14 U.S. Cities Starting in August

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Tom Castaneda

Café Tacvba is ready to perk up the United States with the band’s Latin art rock sounds…

The Mexican band, consisting of Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega, Emmanuel “Meme” del Real Díaz, José Alfredo “Joselo” Rangel Arroyo and Enrique “Quique” Rangel Arroyo, has announced plans to perform in 14 U.S. cities including L.A.’s Nokia Theatre, New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom and Austin City Limits Live.

Café Tacvba’s tour will kick off August 29 at The Warfield in San Francisco.

It’s the first extended U.S. tour by the eminent Mexican quartet since the release of their album El Objecto Antes Llamado Disco, widely acclaimed for the 20-plus-year-old group’s progressive fusion of rock, folkloric and electronic sounds.

Earlier this year, the band gave its first-ever performance at the SXSW Film Conference and Festival, as well as took the stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.

Watch Café Tacvba perform their classic “El Baile y el Salon” at Coachella earlier this year.

Heres a look at Café Tacvba’s U.S. tour dates:
Aug 29 – San Francisco (The Warfield)
Aug 30 – Los Angeles (Nokia Theatre)
Aug 31- Fresno, CA (Rainbow Ballroom)
Sept. 1 – Ventura, CA (Ventura Theater)
Sept. 4 – San Diego (Humphreys)
Sept. 5 – Tucson, AZ (Rialto Theatre)
Sept. 6 – El Paso, TX (Speaking Rock Casino)
Sept. 7 – Austin, TX (Austin City Limits Live)
Sept. 8 – Houston Arena Theatre)
Sept. 11- Dallas (Verizon Theatre)
Sept. 13 – Chicago (Aragon Ballroom)
Sept. 14 – Milwaukee (Eagles Ballroom)
Sept. 16 – New York (Hammerstein Ballroom)
Sept. 17 – Washington, DC (The Fillmore)

Paxton’s “Cheap Thrills” to Screen at the Fantasia International Film Festival

Posted on June 27, 2013 by Tom Castaneda

Sara Paxton is bringing some cheap thrills to Montreal…

The 25-year-old half-Mexican-American actress’ latest film, Cheap Thrills, has been added to the list of projects set to be shown at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival.

Cheap Thrills, the directorial debut of E.L. Katz, also stars Pat Healy, David Koechner and Ethan Embry.

The film, which was acquired for distribution during its premiere at the SXSW Film Conference and Festival, follows a recently fired father facing eviction who agrees to take on an escalating series of insane challenges in exchange for cash payments from a rich couple with a twisted sense of humor.

Cheap Thrills was written by Trent Haaga and David Chirchirillo.

Paxton’s “Cheap Thrills” Gets Acquired at the SXSW Film Festival

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Tom Castaneda

Sara Paxton has plenty of reason to be thrilled about her latest project…

Drafthouse Films and Snoot Entertainment have acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Cheap Thrills, the twisted dark comedy thriller starring the 24-year-old half-Mexican-American actress.

Cheap Thrills, which has its world premiere at the SXSW Film Conference and Festival, stars Pat Healy as a recently fired father facing eviction who agrees to take on an escalating series of insane challenges in exchange for cash payments from a rich couple with a twisted sense of humor.

In addition to Paxton and Healy, the film stars David Koechner and Ethan Embry.

The directorial debut from E.L. Katz was written by Trent Haaga and David Chirchirillo.

A video on demand and theatrical release in a minimum of 20 markets is planned for the film.

Café Tacvba to Give First-Ever Performance at SXSW

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Tom Castaneda

It’s turning out to be a busy year for Café Tacvba…

The Mexican alternative rock band will give their first-ever performance at the SXSW Film Conference and Festival.

Café Tacvba will headline a March 14th lineup at the SXSW Auditorium Shores Stage in Downtown Austin that will include opening sets from Molotov and Bajofondo.

It’s the band’s latest booking for 2013…

Prior to Café Tacvba’s trip to Austin, the band will perform at the at the 4th Green Festival of Musical Culture on February 23 in Ciudad del Saber on the banks of the Panama Canal.

Band members Rubén Albarrán, Emmanuel “Meme” del Real, José Alfredo “Joselo” Rangel and Enrique “Quique” Rangel will also perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California on Saturday, April 13th.

The Café Tacvba concerts will include live performances of songs from El Objeto Antes Llamado Disco, which iTunes editors named the best Latin album of 2012. The album, the band’s first new release in five years, has been called “ambitious, groundbreaking and quite simply, superb… another masterpiece… forty minutes of pure musical bliss!”

Gomez’s “Spring Breakers” to Open Earlier in New York & LA

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Tom Castaneda

Spring Break will arrive a week earlier than scheduled for Selena Gomez…

The 20-year-old half-Mexican American actress/singer’s highly anticipated Disney-image-shattering film Spring Breakers will now be getting a limited sneak peek in Los Angeles and New York City on March 15, one week before opening nationwide on March 22, according to Annapurna Pictures.

The R-rated girls-gone-wild film, directed by Harmony Korine, follows a gang of trouble-seeking coeds (Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine) who get mixed up with a drug-dealing rapper (James Franco) in Florida.

Spring Breakers first debuted at the Venice Film Festival last year; and it will get its big premiere in the United States on March 10 at the SXSW Film Conference and Festival in Austin.

The International Trailer of Gomez’s “Spring Breakers” Released

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Tom Castaneda

The international trailer for Selena Gomez’s Spring Breakers shows just how far of a departure she’s taken from her Wizards of Waverly Place character…

The 20-year-old half-Mexican American actress/singer, who will be releasing a new music soon, appears in the just-released, red-band worthy Spring Breakers trailer from French company Mars Distribution.

The clip for Harmony Korine’s R-rated Day-Glo coed crime romp shows a racier look at what the domestic previews have held back: drug use, nudity, guns galore and gratuitous f-bombs dropped by Gomez and her co-stars Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine.

James Franco also stars in the film as a blinged-out thug rapper complete with a gold grill.

Spring Breakers, which will premiere at the SXSW Film Conference and Festival in Austin next month, will open in theaters in the United States on March 22.

Gomez to Release New Single in March

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Tom Castaneda

In less than two months, you’ll be hitting repeat–peat–peat–peat–peat-peat to a new Selena Gomez single

The 20-year-old half-Mexican American singer excitedly revealed plans to release a new single this March during a special UNICEF charity concert in New York.

It’ll be the first single off Gomez’s new studio album, for which she’s already recorded 18 tracks. But Gomez – who is starring in edgier fare like Spring Breakers, which will have its U.S. premiere at the SXSW Film Conference and Festival – hasn’t yet decided which of the songs will make the final cut.

“Through Spring Breakers and experiencing so much last year it will be interesting to kind of have my fans know everything I went through, through music,” Gomez said of her experiences in the last year, including her on-off relationship with Justin Bieber.

“I think for me, it was actually interesting to see that towards the middle of me recording my record, a big turn happened to me and it was incredible to see how I applied that to music because I’ve never done that before and it’s great,” Gomez said of her new song-writing approach, quite similar to that of her best friend Taylor Swift’s way of writing breakup songs after each failed romance.

Gomez covered Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” during her UNICEF benefit concert, along with Britney Spears‘ “Baby One More Time” and Justin Timberlake‘s “Cry Me a River“, which incidentally, Bieber covered back in November after his first breakup with Gomez.

Following their most recent and reportedly final breakup following a string of make-ups, Gomez went back to the studios to focus on her music.

Gomez’s “Spring Breakers” to Premiere at SXSW Film Festival

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Tom Castaneda

It looks like Selena Gomez will be spring breaking in Austin this March…

The 20-year-old half-Mexican American actress/singer’s highly anticipated Spring Breakers will have its United States premiere at the SXSW Film Conference and Festival in Austin, taking place March 8-16.

Directed by Harmony Korine, Spring Breakers stars Gomez as one of four college girls who end up in jail after robbing a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation, only to find themselves bailed out by a drug and arms dealer who wants them to do a little dirty work.

In addition to Gomez, the film stars Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and James Franco.

Meanwhile, Uruguayan director/screenwriter Fede Álvarez’s Evil Dead remake will have its world premiere at the festival.

Based on the cult classic from director Sam Raimi, the film centers on five friends, holed up in a remote cabin, who discover a Book of the Dead that unwittingly summons up dormant demons, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left to fight for survival.

The film stars Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas and Elizabeth Blackmore.

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