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 Entertainment | April 2007 
Hayek Sets Up Mexican Movie Company
 Reuters
| | Mexican actress turned producer Salma Hayek has set up a film company with MGM to get Latino films out to mainstream audiences. |
Mexican actress turned producer Salma Hayek has set up a film company with MGM to get Latino films out to mainstream audiences.
Reuters reports the new company, Ventanazul, will be housed at MGM and will be a partnership between the Hollywood film and television studio and Hayek, the producer of hit TV show Ugly Betty.
Ventanazul plans to make or buy independent movies, and hopes to distribute two to four films a year that draw on Latin themes, feature Latino or Latina actors and cross over to mainstream audiences for broad, box office appeal.
Hayek says they want the movies to appeal to everyone, while making Latino audiences proud.
As examples, Hayek pointed to Frida, the film about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo for which she received an Oscar nomination for playing the lead role, and Ugly Betty, which tells of young Betty Suarez, a fish-out-of-water working at a fashion magazine.
Hayek will serve as president and chief executive officer of the new company. Financial details were undisclosed. |
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