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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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Daniel Day-Lewis Ends Acting Retirement for a Movie Directed by His Son

Writer-director Rebecca Miller, right, and husband Daniel Day-Lewis attend a special screening of "She Came to Me" at Metrograph, Oct. 3, 2023, in New York. (AP)
Writer-director Rebecca Miller, right, and husband Daniel Day-Lewis attend a special screening of "She Came to Me" at Metrograph, Oct. 3, 2023, in New York. (AP)
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Daniel Day-Lewis Ends Acting Retirement for a Movie Directed by His Son

Writer-director Rebecca Miller, right, and husband Daniel Day-Lewis attend a special screening of "She Came to Me" at Metrograph, Oct. 3, 2023, in New York. (AP)
Writer-director Rebecca Miller, right, and husband Daniel Day-Lewis attend a special screening of "She Came to Me" at Metrograph, Oct. 3, 2023, in New York. (AP)

Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis.

The project was announced Tuesday by Focus Features and Plan B, who are partnering on “Anemone.” The film, Ronan Day-Lewis’ directorial debut, will star his father along with Sean Bean and Samantha Morton. The film was co-written by the two Day-Lewises.

Earlier Tuesday, Daniel Day-Lewis and Bean were spotted driving a motorbike through Manchester, England, stoking intrigue about his impending return to acting. After making Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2017 film “Phantom Thread,” the 67-year-old had said he was quitting acting.

“All my life, I’ve mouthed off about how I should stop acting, and I don’t know why it was different this time, but the impulse to quit took root in me, and that became a compulsion,” he told W Magazine in 2017. “It was something I had to do.”

Since then, his appearances in public have been infrequent. In January, though, he made a surprise appearance at the National Board of Review Awards to present an award to Martin Scorsese, who directed him in “Gangs of New York” (2002) and “The Age of Innocence” (1993).

“Anemone,” currently in production, is described as exploring “the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and brothers, and the dynamics of familial bonds.”

Ronan Day-Lewis, 26, is a painter who has previously exhibited his works in New York. His first international solo exhibition debuts Tuesday in Hong Kong.

“We could not be more excited to partner with a brilliant visual artist in Ronan Day-Lewis on his first feature film alongside Daniel Day-Lewis as his creative collaborator,” said Peter Kujawski, chair of Focus Features. “They have written a truly exceptional script, and we look forward to bringing their shared vision to audiences alongside the team at Plan B.”