Catalina Sandino Moreno will be replacing Rosario Dawson in the upcoming thriller Incarnate. The Colombian actress who was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Maria Full of Grace (2004) is getting another opportunity to become better acquitted with American audiences.
George Zimmerman, the "innocent" man who is best known for his part in the fatal shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin, is having his ethnic identity questioned, as many immediately classified him as "white" before and during his trial, and some are now referring to him as "white Hispanic."
The Sundance film festival success Filly Brown, starring Gina Rodriguez and the late Jenni Rivera, and the studio behind it are facing a lawsuit over allegations that the film violates the rights of the owners of a popular Latino radio program.
Tito Ortiz's ex-wife, porn star-turned-writer Jenna Jameson, made headlines this week when she demonstrated disoriented behavior and slurred speech during a televised interview with Good Day New York. This comes some time after Ortiz publicly accused his former lover of having an addition to Oxycontin.
Demi Lovato and former-beau Wilmer Valderrama reportedly enjoyed one-on-one time this past weekend at Knott’s Berry Farm Halloween Haunt in Buena Park, CA, where they participated in Halloween Festivities.
Latina superstar and icon Jennifer Lopez recently graced the cover of Cosmopolitan for Latina's Winter 2013 issue. During her interview with the magazine, she disclosed information about her Puerto Rican upbringing, her childhood hero, and her body.
Social Media mega-site Facebook is receiving slack for allowing the uploading and sharing of graphic/extreme content, which includes beheadings, but opposing the uploading of images/videos that contain nudity –like women breastfeeding their children.
Tim Burton, the dark and quirky director behind classics such as The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pee-wee's Big Adventure and Sweeney Todd, is currently in talks to make the sequel to the life-after-death black comedy Beetlejuice.
Sarah Silverman, stand-up comedienne and writer, recently posted her failed NBC pilot, Susan 313 on her YouTube page, after the pilot's owner, 20th Century Fox, gave her the go ahead.
San Francisco’s AT&T Park was the site of hip hop recording artist Kanye West’s proposal to television personality and socialite Kim Kardashian yesterday, on the evening of Kardasian’s 33rd birthday
Los 33 (The 33), the highly-anticipated film about the 2010 Chilean mining disaster, will star Antonio Banderas, and it is facing its fair share of issues.
Students attending the Sparks Middle School in Nevada are still in shock over the violent display that up to 30 students witnessed. Yesterday, 8th-grade math teacher Michael Landsberry was shot dead by a lone gunman, who also injured two young classmates and then killed himself. Landsberry is being hailed as a hero for attempting to protect the students from the shooter.
Rihanna, who has crooned about falling in love "in a hopeless place," was recently kicked out of a place of hope, a mosque, for turning the place of worship into a set for her own photo shoot. The Abu Dhabi's Grand Mosque asked the pop star to leave after she posed for photographs in the compound's sanctuary.
Nearly two years after being raped and dumped in the snow, Daisy Coleman, now 15 years old, has decided to step out of the shadows and give her account of that dark evening and how life has been different ever since. Thanks to the activist hacking collective called Anonymous, who trended #justice4daisy, Daisy has found the courage to give an account of what happened.
The Cuban-American former model and telenovela star William Levy is leaving the telenova scene and has set his sights on Hollywood films, he recently told People En Español. He's currently in post-production for the films Addicted and Single Mom's Clubs, and is still filming La Tempestad (The Tempest) in Mexico.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the screenwriter for the Carrie remake, not only looked to the original script, but also to the original novel by Stephen King -which Aguirre-Sacasa read and loved as a child- for inspiration, and managed to add a hint of modernity to the classic tale.
CBS' "Damascus" will host America Ferrera's (Ugly Betty) return to television; and, believe it or not, she will be portraying a "justice-seeking" nun who "practices law on the behalf of the less fortunate," and probably on the behalf of God.
Eva Longoria and Richardo Antonio Chavira, who starred as Gabrielle and Carlos Solis on the now-retired smash hit Desperate Housewives, reunited on the third episode of the NBC series Welcome to the Family.
Lorde, 16-year-old artist from New Zealand, stepped to the bat and swung at Selena Gomez, stating in a blog post that Gomez makes anti-feminist music, particularly conveyed in the theme of Gomez’s “Come and Get it.” And, that one comment has ignited an ongoing feud between the two young pop stars, and a few others.
Alberto Fujimori, the 75-year-old former Peruvian President, began his fifth trial for misuses of public funds last Thursday after being convicted in four previous trials, and is already serving 25 years in prison for corruption and the authorization of death squads.
Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes was the third member of the hip-hop/R&B trio TLC before dying in a tragic car collision in Honduras during the spring of 2002. The two surviving members, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozanda "Chili" Thomas, disbanded. Now, after all this time, they've decided to reform the group, and in recent interviews, they've taken time to discuss life after Lopes and the future of TLC.
El Salvador's strict ban on abortions has caused the questionable denial of an abortion to a woman who was near death; and was nearly denied to another woman who was to give birth to a stillborn.
Long Walk to Freedom, the upcoming Nelson Mandala biopic based on Mandela's 1994 autobiography, gives a detailed account of the brave South African's life as a lawyer, an activist, a prisoner and a president. The film stars the attractive British actors Idris Elba and Naomie Harris.
Breaking Bad, one of television’s most critically-acclaimed crime dramas, gained quite the reputation for violence during its five season stint. And, a great deal of that violence was inflicted upon its Latino characters. *SPOILER ALERT*
