Robert Rodriguez

Voto Latino Using Technology to Get Youth Vote

Actor Rosario Dawson and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Promote Free Text Messaging Service For Registering Young Voters Voto Latino, a nonprofit organization co-founded by actor Rosario Dawson, announced today that it is rolling out the first U.S. cell phone-based voter registration drive to register an ambitious number of young American Latinos for the November 2006 elections. The nonpartisan campaign will ….

The Girls of Grind House

I could barely hold my water when I first watched these videos. The cast and crew of Grind House talk about doing their own stunts, the music from the films, and how the development of these projects began. What… The Grind House (Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof and Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror) films hit theaters on April 6, 2007. The films’ stars ….

Wanna Know Who’s in Tarantino’s Grindhouse?

First…For those of you not familiar with the upcoming Grindhouse, it’s two 75 minute horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill) and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) put together as two film features, including fake movie trailers in between both movies. The highly anticipated double feature will include two films joined by the faux ads and trailers. Rodriguez’s Planet Terror will be a ….

New Helmer for New Conan

Variety reports that Warner Brothers has attached director Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans) to write and possibly direct the Conan the Barbarian film, a new take on the Robert E. Howard character. The trade reports that Yakin’s concept is more faithful to the original Howard story than were the two Dino De Laurentiis-produced films that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as the sword-wielding conqueror/king. Warners has ….

Sin City 2 On Hold For Baby

SCI FI Wire reports that production on the sequel to Sin City is on hold, according to the actress Rosario Dawson, until Angelina Jolie gives birth to her and Brad Pitt’s first child, due sometime this summer. Dawson, who played the sexy-but-deadly hooker Gail in Sin City, told the website, “The film’s kind of been postponed because (director Robert Rodriguez) has been interested in Angelina Jolie for the lead. ….