My boy Kellvin Chavez over at LatinoReview.com saw it already and is giving it mad props. We’re excited too!! So we here at LatinoFilmChatter.com are going to pick 10 winners to go to a screening of ‘The Town’ on September 14th, here in MIAMI. More details to come in the following days.

For now check out the trailer at the bottom of the page to see what all the hype is about!!

THE TOWN – In theatres on September 17

Crime/Drama ~ Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. But that all changed on the gang’s latest job, when they briefly took a hostage–bank manager, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). Though they let her go unharmed, Claire is nervously aware that the robbers know her name…and where she lives. But she lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man named Doug…not realizing that he is the same man who only days earlier had terrorized her. The instant attraction between them gradually turns into a passionate romance that threatens to take them both down a dangerous, and potentially deadly, path.

Starring: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite.

Director: Ben Affleck

Here is a fun picture of Donnie Wahlberg hanging out in Washington Heights during the production of his new TV series for CBS ‘Blue Bloods’ I just saw it on his twitter account and wanted to share

Here is another shot of him working the streets of NY.

Check out Donnie talking about his new show BLUE BLOODS which premieres September 24, 2010 on CBS:

For more on the show click on the link below:

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/blue_bloods/

Latino Film chatter and Screen Gems are inviting you to check out this summers action-packed drama ‘TAKERS’ in Miami!!

That’s right we have FREE tickets to a screening of ‘TAKERS’ for those of you who live in the Miami Area. You and a friend can enter and win a chance to go see this summers Kick ass action drama TAKERS.

How Casper? How?

Easy I sez, all you guys gotta do is answer some fun trivia questions I will post up on Monday morning. From Monday til Wednesday I’ll be posting new questions up. Everyday The first 10 people who answer the questions correct will win FREE tickets to a screening of ‘TAKERS’ this Thursday!!

I’ll be there too so we’ll get to hang out. Shout out to DJ Ali B and RokBar MIAMI for spreading the word

‘Takers,’ directed by John Luessenhop, revolves around a notorious group of criminals (Idris Elba, Paul Walker, T.I., Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Michael Ealy) who continue to baffle police by pulling off perfectly executed bank robberies. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind and laying low in between heists. But when they attempt to pull off one last job with more money at stake than ever before, the crew may find their plans interrupted by a hardened detective (Matt Dillon) and his partner (Jay Hernandez) who are hell-bent on solving the case.

Check out this cool clip with the cast members and some scenes from the movie:

Screening will be Held :
Thursday, August 26, 2010
7 PM screening
AMC Sunset Plaza 24
5701 Sunset Drive #300
South Miami, FL 33143

TAKERS will be out in theaters Friday August 27th, 2010

For more info on the movie click on the following link:

http://www.whoarethetakers.com/

When it was announced that Marlon Wayans and not Eddie Murphy would be portraying Richard Pryor in the long-discussed biopic of the comedy giant, the news was greeted with Internet jeering. Wayans wasn’t surprised when he read the disparaging comments — you can’t hang your star on films like “White Chicks” and “Little Man” without consequences.

“Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money,” Wayans recently said with a smirk. “But that’s not all I want to do. And I think I’ve proven to some people — the ones paying attention — that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.”

Wayans believes he is on the verge of winning over skeptics and just maybe establishing a name for himself that goes beyond his status as “the other Wayans” — or maybe even “the other-other-Wayans.” The 37-year-old is the youngest of 10 children in the show-business brood that came to fame on “In Living Color,” the 1990s television show created and written by Keenen Ivory Wayans and Damon Wayans. His position in the family photo has given Marlon Wayans plenty of opportunity — he and sibling Shawn got their own show, “The Wayans Brothers,” for four seasons on Fox beginning in 1995 — but also an ongoing challenge in establishing anything resembling an individual identity.

“I have no complaints,” Wayans said, “but I do have a plan. I love doing comedy, but I also love to do drama.”

When it comes to laughter and tragedy, it would be hard to think of a figure that bundles them together in more compelling fashion than the late Richard Pryor, a Peoria, Ill., native who grew up in his grandmother’s brothel, was expelled from school at age 14 and went on to become a firebrand force in pop culture as a stand-up comic, movie star, writer. When, in 1998, he became the first recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, he was described by Lawrence Wilker, the president of the Kennedy Center, as a signature voice in the national conversation: “He struck a chord, and a nerve, with America, forcing it to look at large social questions of race and the more tragicomic aspects of the human condition.”

Luis Antonio Ramos and Luis Guzman on the set of HBO’s “How to make it in America” shooting in NYC. You get to see behind the scenes footage only here on Latino Film Chatter.

When I talk with Luis Antonio Ramos on the phone or even when we are chilling, he always calls himself a “Been around guy” guys like himself, Luis Guzman, Jaime Tirelli, and I could mention more but you get the point, these guys have been in this game for over 20 years!

I was even making that point with Luis Guzman the other day, we were discussing the sitcom “COMMUNITY” and how in the episode Luis was being honored at Greendale Community college. This is on prime time NBC and as I watch the show it hits me, the first time I ever saw Luis Guzman was on “Miami Vice” on NBC over 20 years ago.

Now I watched this show and see how full circle life is and how back then Luis was doing his first official acting gig, 20 plus years later “Community” on NBC dedicated an entire episode to Luis Guzman. He’s never in the show physically but we do see a statue of him at the end.

I’m sure he’d love to get that statue and put it in front of his house in Vermont.

Well the whole purpose of the story really was about “Been around guys” in the acting game, Luis Ramos is no slouch in this department either. He’s been a Lead in several TV shows (Early Edition CBS, Martin FOX, Huntress USA) on various networks. Yet Luis Ramos and Luis Guzman never really knew each other. They knew of each other but just weren’t cool like that.

I came to find this out cause I hang out with both and would talk about each other to both Luis’ I know it is getting confusing, lol bueno the thing is now they are friends because I introduced them to each other. Two Boricuas from New York doing their thing in the arts.

Luis Ramos was good enough to capture some of their day on the set, for us here on Latino film chatter. The been around guys that now can’t seem to stop crossing paths have been very supportive of Latino Film Chatter and I thank both Luis Ramos for always stepping up for the site, and to Luis Guzman bro what can I say except “I loved you in Ghost”

“EXCLUSIVE CLIP” of Luis Antonio Ramos on the set of HBO “How to Make it in America”