latinos in hollywood
Opinion: In Hollywood, Latinos are still waiting for their close-up
Carolyn Curiel served as a U.S. ambassador and White House senior speechwriter in the Clinton administration. Latinos will be an integral part of the Academy Awards on Sunday. You likely […]
Take Notice, Hollywood. Latinos Are Part Of The New Mainstream.
*Why you should read this: Because it’s an unapologetic challenge to Hollywood leaders – the premiere mass media storytellers – to put Latinos in the U.S. mainstream, where they belong. […]
Esai Morales And Jesse Borrego On ‘Mi Familia’ And Hollywood’s “War Of Images” Against Latinos
*Jesse Borrego, Elpidia Carrillo and Esai Morales on the business of Hollywood, the importance of seeing movies on opening weekend, and Latinos boycotting the Oscars. The responsibility, they say, isn’t […]
Hollywood is missing a big opportunity with Latinos
*There’s an incongruity when Latinos are 1/4 of the nation’s moviegoers and big industry executives say that Latinos are driving retail sales but Latinos are almost invisible in the entertainment […]
How Latinos Could Solve Hollywood’s Slump
*Think what you will of the Cantinflas movie, it cost $3.2 million to make and made $2.6 million in it’s opening weekend. It’s not breaking records, but it is beating […]
Hollywood woos Latinos… But to what extent?
By Grace Flores-Hughes, Voxxi Last week, the Wall Street Journal presented an extensive front page article on the growing movie attendance by Latinos in the United States. According to the […]
Hollywood Takes Spanish Lessons As Latinos Stream to the Movies
By Ben Fritz, Wall Street Journal LOS ANGELES—In a small room on the Paramount Pictures lot here, postproduction work is under way on a movie that sounds as derivative as they […]
Could Latinos Save Hollywood?
When I was a kid in Nuevo Laredo I watched American movies, in English, with Spanish subtitles. It drove me crazy. I was perfectly fluent (and literate) in English and […]
Hollywood’s Latino exclusion snobbery set the stage for Trumpism
By Victor Landa NewsTaco (2 minute read) I’m starting a collection of Latino paradoxes. So far I’ve collected two: The Latino health paradox – where U.S. Latino’s live longer than other […]
Remake Of Classic Television Show Means More Latinos On Netflix
*The show is set to premiere on January 6. VL By Lucas Molandes, MiTú (2 minute read) The trailer for the upcoming Latino reboot of “One Day At A Time” […]