Salma Hayek wins studio backing for Latino films
NEW! SALMA HAYEK HAS signed a deal with the film studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer to promote films with a Latino twist and mainstream box office appeal.
The Mexican actress will go into partnership with MGM to form a production company, Ventanazul, specialising in movies that draw on Latin themes, feature Latino or Latina actors and cross over to wider audiences.
The company aims to make or buy independent movies and distribute between two and four a year.
'We want these movies to appeal to everyone, but we also hope to make Latino audiences proud,' Hayek told the news agency Reuters.
Hayek, who was nominated for a Oscar for her role in
Frida, about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, and is the producer of the hit television show
Ugly Betty, will be president and chief executive officer.
Last month the 40-year-old Hollywood star revealed she was pregnant with her first child. She is engaged to Francois-Henri Pinault, the chairman of French luxury goods empire PPR SA, which owns fashion houses including Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Stella McCartney. (16 April 2007)
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