Spanish actor Jordi Molla plays Vin Diesel's nemesis in Riddick and the actor is comparing his role to Han Solo, but as a villain.
The multi-talented actor from Barcelona, Spain was personally picked to play a bounty hunter named Santana by Riddick star and producer Vin Diesel, and director David Twohy. You may recognize the actor from memorable roles as the bad buy in Bad Boys II (Will Smith), Knight & Day (Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz) and Colombiana (Zoe Saldana). His breakthrough Hollywood film was with Blow starring Johnny Depp and another Spanish import, Penelope Cruz. Aside from Hollywood, the painter and author has worked with highly acclaimed Spanish directors Bigas Luna, Montxo Armendáriz, Pedro Almodóvar, Ricardo Franco and Fernando Colomo.
Fernando Esquivel sat down with the Riddick star to chat about the band of Latinos in the Vin Diesel sequel
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The multi-talented actor from Barcelona, Spain was personally picked to play a bounty hunter named Santana by Riddick star and producer Vin Diesel, and director David Twohy. You may recognize the actor from memorable roles as the bad buy in Bad Boys II (Will Smith), Knight & Day (Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz) and Colombiana (Zoe Saldana). His breakthrough Hollywood film was with Blow starring Johnny Depp and another Spanish import, Penelope Cruz. Aside from Hollywood, the painter and author has worked with highly acclaimed Spanish directors Bigas Luna, Montxo Armendáriz, Pedro Almodóvar, Ricardo Franco and Fernando Colomo.
Fernando Esquivel sat down with the Riddick star to chat about the band of Latinos in the Vin Diesel sequel
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- 9/5/2013
- CineMovie
The death of Elias Querejeta, “producer of producers” according to the leading lights of Spanish cinema, did not cause a Gandolfini-size wake in the world of film. But film lovers should note the accomplishments of a man who, as much as anyone, moved his country’s cinema into a post-Franco landscape –a state-of-the-cinema where the likes of Pedro Almodovar are even imaginable. A pivotal figure in the movement that would eventually become known as the New Spanish Cinema, Querejeta produced the essential films of Carlos Saura and Victor Erice (including Erice’s beloved masterpiece, “The Spirit of the Beehive,” a “Pan’s Labyrinth” without monsters), and worked with Manuel Gutierrez Aragon, Ricardo Franco, Eloy de la Iglesia, and many other of his nation’s most challenging films and filmmakers. While filmmakers still had to be cautious in the waning days of Francisco Franco (still dead), what was important about Querejeta...
- 6/29/2013
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Madrid -- The relationship between the Spanish film industry and the Socialist government here looked set to improve dramatically Tuesday as the president of the Spanish Film Academy was named the country's new culture minister.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero replaced Cesar Antonio Molina with writer-director Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde in a major government reshuffle that saw five new names appointed to the cabinet while other ministers switched ministries, as Zapatero looked to bolster his government a year after general elections.
Gonzalez-Sinde won a Goya award for best original screenplay in 1998 for Ricardo Franco's "La Buena Estrella" and another Goya for best new director for her 2003 directorial debut "Sleeping Luck."
Her appointment is the first time an industry insider has held the country's top culture post and the local film industry was celebrating Tuesday after the announcement.
"Fapae, in the name of all the Spanish audiovisual producers it represents,...
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero replaced Cesar Antonio Molina with writer-director Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde in a major government reshuffle that saw five new names appointed to the cabinet while other ministers switched ministries, as Zapatero looked to bolster his government a year after general elections.
Gonzalez-Sinde won a Goya award for best original screenplay in 1998 for Ricardo Franco's "La Buena Estrella" and another Goya for best new director for her 2003 directorial debut "Sleeping Luck."
Her appointment is the first time an industry insider has held the country's top culture post and the local film industry was celebrating Tuesday after the announcement.
"Fapae, in the name of all the Spanish audiovisual producers it represents,...
- 4/7/2009
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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