Benicio del Toro news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Benicio del Toro performances. According to Wikipedia: Benicio Monserrat Rafael Del Toro Sanchez is a Golden Globe and Academy Award winning Puerto Rican actor. He grew up...
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Benicio del Toro news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Benicio del Toro performances. According to Wikipedia: Benicio Monserrat Rafael Del Toro Sanchez is a Golden Globe and Academy Award winning Puerto Rican actor. He grew up in Santurce, but spent his teens and attended high school in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania.
Benicio Del Toro is all set to star in the remake of the 1941 horror flick "Wolfman". And sources say Del Toro is also remaking the cult classic TV series "T. H. E. Cat". The action drama, starring Robert Loggia as a hard-hitting former circus-aerialist-turned-gun for hire named "T. Huett Ed ward Cat," a k a "The Cat", aired on NBC for one season in 1966. "Benicio is looking to start filming early 2010," the New York Post quoted an insider as saying... Read Full Story
In the original Wolf Man film, Lon Chaney portrayed his character as a good man cursed by fate. Benicio del Toro in his new film preserves the humanity of the Wolf man but makes us believe he really is a vicious werewolf. Contributor: Gerald Watt Published: Dec 28, 2009 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read Full Story
Actor Benicio del Toro met with convicts inside a Puerto Rican prison Monday, offering encouragement to a jailhouse theater group and a few tips from his own Oscar-winning career. The Puerto Rico-born actor interrupted his vacation in the U.S. Caribbean territory for the talk at Bayamon Regional Prison outside the capital, San Juan. "I believe everyone needs a second chance," del Toro told about 30 inmates who take part in the theater group. "I am here to help reaffirm that as long as there... Read Full Story
This is legitimately the craziest news I’ve heard all year, but hey, y’know, it’s only March. To wit: the Farrelly Brothers — makers of such fine films as There’s Something About Mary , Dumb and Dumber , and Shallow Hal — have announced the casting for their upcoming Three Stooges remake. Hold onto your wigs, folks.
Larry: Sean Penn . Moe: Benicio Del Toro. Curly: Jim Carrey. Akela: dumbfounded.
Now, to set the appropriate level of WTF, consider this. Sean Penn is an Oscar winner with... Read Full Story
I’ve got to say it, The Wolfman starring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins is looking particularly awesome.
The more I see of it the more I want to see it.
Directed by Joe Stevenson and starring Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving and the aforementioned Benicio Del Toro.
The Wolfman sees Del Toro play a man who [...] Read Full Story
