Mel Gibson considers shooting new movie in Panama

06/03/2007 - Panama
By Associated Press

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — Mel Gibson, fresh off his Mexico-based epic "Apocalypto," is thinking of heading south to film a movie in Panama, tourism officials said Monday.

Gibson dined Sunday night with Ruben Blades, a tourism spokesman and singer, who suggested his next project should be a remake of the 1950 film noir "Panic in the Streets," set in Panama, the Panama Tourism Bureau said in a news release.

Panamanian filmmaker Jose Severino was quoted in Monday editions of the daily newspaper La Prensa as saying that he was in negotiations with Gibson to produce a movie about Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern shore. The tourism bureau said Gibson and Blades spoke of the actor-director's experience directing "Apocalypto," an epic movie about the demise of the Mayan civilization. The movie was filmed in the jungles of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, and was released last year.

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Pitt and Jolie visit the Panama Canal

12/31/2006 - Archives

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt surprised fans in Panama City on Friday, visiting a souvenir shop, a colonial neighborhood and the Panama Canal.

One resident yelled, "Are you Brad Pitt?" The actor smiled and said: "Sometimes," according to the newspaper Panama America.

Besides touring the capital, where they shopped for souvenirs and walked around a colonial neighborhood, Pitt and Jolie on Thursday visited a former U.S. military base and the construction site of Panama's new Biodiversity Museum, designed by Frank Gehry, at the entrance of the canal in the Amador district.

The newspaper said Pitt, who has a love of architecture, and Jolie were considering investing in the $56 million project and buying land in Panama.

The museum, which will trace Panama's natural history, will include a botanical garden.

They consequently bought their own whopping $10.2 million property at Punta Pacifica, a penthouse belonging to the Trump Project. Publicists for Pitt and Jolie couldn't be reached for comment.

The couple, who arrived Thursday, were to return on Saturday to Costa Rica, to celebrate the New Year at a beachfront resort where room prices range into the thousands of dollars a night.

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