Gold Derby: Robert Rodriguez recalls how George Clooney filmed his ‘Spy Kids’ cameo in pajamas
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Robert Rodriguez
Robert Anthony Rodriguez is an American filmmaker, composer, actor, chef and visual effects supervisor. He shoots, edits, produces, and scores many of his films in Mexico and in his home state of Texas. Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film El Mariachi, which was a commercial success after grossing $2.6 million against a budget of $7,000. The film spawned two sequels known collectively as the Me…
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entertainment · American filmmaker (born 1968) · film director · film producer · screenwriter · cinematographer · visual effects supervisor · composer · film editor · actor · production designer · director · also Robert Rodriguez, Robert Anthony Rodríguez, Robert Anthony Rodriguez, Rodriguez
Born 20 June 1968 · Q47284
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: Robert Rodriguez coming home to celebrate 'Desperado's' 30th anniversary
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2024· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and actor John Malkovich made a movie in 2015 that isn't scheduled to be released until the year 2115.” True.
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2023· 2 entries
Dollars) against a budget of $7,000 ($14,937 in 2023 dollars)
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Released Spy Kids: Armageddon on Netflix
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2020· 1 entry
Rodriguez wrote and directed We Can Be Heroes, a Sharkboy and Lavagirl spinoff, which was released on December 25, 2020, on Netflix to mixed reviews
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)”.
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D”.
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Rodriguez announced at Comic-Con that he had purchased the film rights to Heavy Metal and planned to develop a new animated film at the new Quick Draw Studios
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2010· 2 entries
Rodriguez responded to Arizona's controversial immigration law by releasing an "illegal" trailer on Ain't It Cool News
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Rodriguez produced a new Predator sequel, entitled Predators
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Grindhouse: Planet Terror: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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2005· 5 entries
Released album “The Adventures of Sharkboy & Lavagirl in 3D”.
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Awarded CST Award of the Technical Artist for Sin City (2005).
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Released album “Sin City: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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A superhero-kid movie intended for the same younger audiences as his Spy Kids series
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As well as a box office success, particularly for a hyperviolent comic book adaptation that did not have name recognition comparable to the X-Men or Spider-Man
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2004· 3 entries
“s comic art to be just as important as his own in the film. However, the Directors Guild of America would not allow it, citing that only”
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Rodriguez insisted Miller be credited as co-director, because he considered the visual style of Miller's comic art to be just as important as his own in the film
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Allred, while promoting his comic book The Golden Plates, announced that a screenplay by George Huang was near completion
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Once Upon a Time in Mexico”.
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Released album “Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Spy Kids 2”.
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1999· 1 entry
Won Golden Bear (1999).
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1996· 1 entry
And developed its television series adaptation (2014–2016)
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Sundance Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic presented by Sundance Institute for El Mariachi (1993).
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“So I wrote him this idea of a federale from Mexico who gets hired to do hatchet jobs in the U.S. I had heard sometimes FBI or DEA have a really tough job that they don”
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1970· 1 entry
“Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”
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1968· 1 entry
Born 1968-06-20.
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1965· 1 entry
“Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!”
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