The biggest Latino box office hit in U.S. history

Tue06Feb2007

The biggest Latino box office hit in U.S. history

Latinos swept the Golden Globes and then the Oscar nominations, and after this past weekend, Latinos have some more entertainment news to crow about: Mexican Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth beat a record previously held by Like Water for Chocolate to become the biggest Latino box office hit in U.S. film history, raking in a whopping $21 million dollars. And it seems that's only the beginning:

Box office previsions for this week say that the film will take in $3 million dollars more, leaving way behind the 1992 film by Mexican Alfonso Arau with screenplay by Laura Esquivel, which took in $20 million.

In total, Pan's Labyrinth has taken home 9 Goya awards (Spanish equivalent of the Oscar -- the movie was a Mexico-Spain coproduction), received 8 BAFTA nominations in the U.K., and 6 Oscar nominations.

Via / 20 Minutos

Image: Reuters

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