Can Hugo Chavez's Cinema Villa Studio Contend With Hollywood?

by alaaron | October 1, 2007 at 06:21 am
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Unhappy with what he considers Hollywood's monopoly on the silver screen, President Hugo Chavez is bankrolling Venezuelan movies through a state-run film studio. Now rolling: a biopic about Luis Posada Carriles, the former CIA operative who lives freely in the United States despite allegedly masterminding a jetliner bombing and trying to kill Fidel Castro.

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