Benicio del Toro

On 11.06.09, In Movies , by Roque . “The Wolfman” has been delayed and delayed but it finally gets a February 12, 2010 release and the suits unveil the trailer on the same day as the “Avatar” promo. The trailer looks very positive with a good story premise and a hairy Benicio Del Toro. This is a remake of a 1941 classic. “A beast has come among us,” growls the voiceover and soon, it will be among us too. Random Posts Loading… Tagged: Benicio Del Toro , Roque Visit Authors Website  |  All Articles From This Author If you enjoyed this article, please consider ... Read Full Story

Actor Benicio del Toro attends "Che" Japan Premiere at Roppongi Hills on December 16, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. The film will open on January 10. (Photo by Koji Watanabe/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Benicio del Toro (Getty Images) more pics » Benicio del Toro apparently didn't buy the idea that girls had cooties. The 42-year-old actor first became interested in the opposite sex when he was a toddler, and claims it was a natural progression for him to lose his virginity when he was just 13. Benicio and Halle in a scene together (via Cleveland.com) He told Playboy magazine: “I remember liking girls ... Read Full Story

Benicio del Toro is asking Puerto Rico to halt a planned monkey-breeding facility, arguing the primates would suffer "extreme animal abuse." In a letter to Gov. Luis Fortuno, the Puerto Rico-born actor says the Mauritius-based company Bioculture's facility would be cruel. It would supply monkeys to pharmaceutical companies for research. Fortuno's office and Bioculture did not immediately return calls seeking comment Thursday. Bioculture community coordinator Jacinto Rivera Solivan previously said the Guayama facility would be run humanely. Del Toro won a supporting actor Oscar for his role in "Traffic" and starred in last year's "Che," a biopic of Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Read Full Story

Benicio del Toro accepted a new Cuban government award for international artists at a ceremony in Havana on Thursday, while Bill Murray entertained a small audience by crooning from "As Time Goes By. Fellow actors Robert Duval and James Caan were also on hand as the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba gave Puerto Rican-born del Toro the first Tomas Gutierrez Alea Prize for his career body of work, including the lead in "Che." Steven Soderbergh's two-part, 4 1/2-hour biopic on Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro take power in Cuba in 1959, was a hit on the island, ... Read Full Story

HAVANA (Reuters) - Havana's famous seaside avenue, the Malecon, could be mistaken for Hollywood Boulevard this week as four high profile film stars come to the Cuban capital in the splashiest sign yet of warming U.S.-Cuba relations. Benicio del Toro, Bill Murray, Robert Duvall and James Caan arrived in Cuba on Wednesday, with del Toro in town to pick up an award and the other three working on a "research project," a spokesman for the group said on Thursday. The spokesman, who asked not to be identified, said the stars were accompanied by other people in the movie industry, including producers he would not ... Read Full Story