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Mexico President Asks Bad Bunny for Free Mexico City Concert

Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny performs in concert at El Campin stadium in Bogota, Colombia, 20 November 2022. (EPA)
Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny performs in concert at El Campin stadium in Bogota, Colombia, 20 November 2022. (EPA)
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Mexico President Asks Bad Bunny for Free Mexico City Concert

Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny performs in concert at El Campin stadium in Bogota, Colombia, 20 November 2022. (EPA)
Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny performs in concert at El Campin stadium in Bogota, Colombia, 20 November 2022. (EPA)

Mexico's President on Wednesday asked Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny to perform a free concert in the vast Zocalo square in Mexico City's center after a fiasco with Ticketmaster left hundreds of ticket holders unable to enter his sold-out show at the Estadio Azteca stadium on Friday. 

"I know he is super busy and tired because he works a lot, but I'm asking him to consider the possibility of coming to Mexico to the Zocalo. We can't pay him. It would have to be a collaboration," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said during a regular news conference. 

Ticketmaster, which has blamed the issue on an "unprecedented number of fake tickets", said in a statement on Monday it is collaborating with authorities and committed to fully reimbursing fans that could not get into the concert, plus an additional 20% of the total cost of the ticket. 

In neighboring United States, Ticketmaster faces a tsunami of criticism for problems in selling tickets to a 2023 Taylor Swift tour.  

US Senator Amy Klobuchar has said a Senate antitrust panel will hold a hearing on the lack of competition in the ticketing industry following the company's Swift ticket sales debacle. 

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First Trailer for Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' after On-set Death

Alec Baldwin. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images
Alec Baldwin. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images
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First Trailer for Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' after On-set Death

Alec Baldwin. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images
Alec Baldwin. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images

The first trailer for Alec Baldwin's "Rust" -- the Western film made infamous by the fatal on-set shooting of its cinematographer -- was released Wednesday.

The dark movie trailer shows Baldwin's gunslinging character on the run with his grandson, who has been sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher, AFP said.

"Some things in this life you can't get back," says Baldwin's character, in one scene.

In real life, Baldwin was pointing a gun toward cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal in New Mexico in 2021 when the weapon fired, killing her and wounding the film's director Joel Souza.

The Hollywood star was accused by prosecutors of violating gun safety rules, but his involuntary manslaughter trial collapsed last year over withheld evidence.

Both Baldwin and Souza returned to finish the movie, on another set in Montana.

It will now be released in limited US theaters on May 2 by tiny indie distributor Falling Forward Films.

Featuring a tombstone, a hanging and several shootouts, the trailer is accompanied by the sound of a foreboding thunderstorm, intense music, and ominous dialogue.

There are frequent shots of characters in silhouette or with their faces partly in shadow. Violence of all kinds -- gunfights, beatings, brawls in the mud -- is a clear motif.

The trailer concludes with a standoff between gunmen in a small dusty room, eerily reminiscent of the scene in which Hutchins was killed.

"Heaven ain't waiting on either one of us," says Baldwin, before the men draw guns on each other.

The film has already received its world premiere, at a Polish film festival in November.

Introducing the film, Souza said he had been "on the fence" about completing the movie, but was convinced to finish upon learning that Hutchins's husband wanted her final work to be seen.

Hutchins, a former journalist from Ukraine who grew up on a Soviet military base, was considered one of the industry's rising stars.

Baldwin did not attend the premiere, and it is unclear what role he will now play in promoting the film's release.