Funny-man Steve Carrell will produce and star in a Hollywood adaption of the Argentine movie Un Novio para Mi Mujer, the daily Variety reported Thursday.

“In the original film, Un novio para mi mujer,’ a timid husband believes the only way out of his stifling marriage is to get his wife to fall in love with another man, so he enlists the help of a legendary yet unlikely Lothario,” Variety noted.

“Directed by Juan Taratuto, it was Argentina’s leading homegrown pic in 2008.”

Carrel is perhaps best known for his leading role as the hilariously inappropriate office manager on The Office.

If you haven’t seen the original Argentine flick, it’s definitely worth checking out.

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The legendary rock band Bon Jovi is coming to Buenos Aires.

The New Jersey-born band, led by John Francis Bongiovi, Jr., will play Buenos Aires Oct. 3 at the River Plate stadium.

This will be the band’s first return to Argentina in 15 years.

Tickets for the band’s “The Circle Tour” go on sale Aug. 27 at ticketek.

If you happen to be a customer of Banco Francés, or have a friend that is, you can get pre-sale tickets starting Aug. 20 through Ticketek by calling 5237-7200 or via the website.

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The Oscar-winning American film director Oliver Stone met Thursday with Argentine President Cristina Fernández.

Stone has been in town promoting his new film, South of the Border, in which he reportedly focuses on how leaders like Fernández, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, have “revolutionized” Latin America.

Stone interviews seven regional presidents and looks at how they compare their work with the way they are typically portrayed in the media.

In the photo here Stone is shown with Fernández, her translator, and Tristan Bauer, who runs the state news channel, Canal 7.

You can see a trailer of the film here below:

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The bearded blues rockers ZZ Top will play Luna Park on May 26, according to the band’s official web site. You can get tickets to see the famous Houston, Texas-born trio here.

Prices range from 120 to 350 pesos, plus additional ticketing fees.

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The head banging heavy metal band Megadeth will rock Buenos Aires on April 28, according to a report in Rolling Stone magazine.

The concert, which hasn’t yet been announced on the band’s official web site, is part of the Rust in Peace 20th Anniversary Tour.

Fellow mosh pit lovers Testament and Exodus will open the concert, which will be at Luna Park.

Tickets will be available here beginning April 8.

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Cirque de Soleil is returning to Buenos Aires in May with its show Quidam.

The show, which is an intricate mix of circus entertainment and street performance art, opens May 29th in Vicente Lopez, just outside the city limits.

Cirque de Soleil was started by a small group of performance artists in Canada in 1984. The Montreal-based group now has more than 4,000 employees from around 40 nations, about 1,000 of which are performing artists.

Quidam premiered in 1996 in Montreal and has traveled around the world since.

Last year Cirque de Soleil performed 20 different shows simultaneously around the world. Some of the group’s shows are near-permanent fixtures located in cities like Las Vegas while others were traveling shows.

You can get “Pre-sale tickets” here. For more information, click here.

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The legendary rock band Aerosmith will rock Buenos Aires on May 27, according to the band’s official site.

UPDATE: Aerosmith has cancelled its plans and will not be coming to Buenos Aires.

Aerosmith will play its “Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock” tour at the Hipodromo in San Isidro, the same place where Beyoncé performed last month.

Ticket sales information isn’t available yet, but we’ll update this post when it is.

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El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Juan Jose Campanella’s film starring Ricardo Darín, won the Oscar Sunday for the Best Foreign Language Film of 2009.

Campanella said he was “stunned” by the award, saying it seems like “a lie” that’s too good to be true. Darín called the award “miraculous.” Darín also said he had seen the other films competing for the same award. How did see see them? He watched pirated copies of them, he said.

If you haven’t seen El Secreto yet, check it out. It’s well worth it.

Also be sure to check out a fun Newsweek interview that my buddy Brian Byrnes did with Darín here.

Juan Jose Campanella is an Argentine-born director of both local and international TV and films. He is perhaps most famous for directing El Hijo de la Novia, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2001, though he has also directed episodes of U.S. TV shows such as House, 30 Rock and Law & Order.

Link: Official Movie Site
Link: YouTube Trailer (why it’s not available in HD is beyond me)

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The U.S. Embassy and the Centro Cultural Borgeswill open a photography exhibit Thursday highlighting the work of the great American photographer Steve McCurry.

McCurry is well-known, among other things, for taking the deservedly-famous photo of the green-eyed Afghan girl seen above. It was originally published on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1985. Check out his blog here to see more of his stunningly good photos.

The exhibit will run February 25 through March 31.

Details follow:

What: Steve McCurry photography exhibit
Where: Centro Cultural Borges, San Martin & Viamonte, Room 21, downtown Buenos Aires
When: M-Saturday 10am-9pm, Sundays 12pm-9pm
Contact: 5555-5359

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It’s an incredibly beautiful TV.

It’s HD, ultra slim, big but not obnoxious, and it’s LED, meaning its bright and doesn’t use much electricity. As far as TVs go, it’s about as eco-friendly as you can get.

I’ve wanted it since the moment I first saw it. But when I left Argentina a few months ago to spend time with my family in Colorado, these TVs didn’t even exist in Argentina. Nobody sold them here. And even if they did, I knew it would cost a lot more than it would in Colorado. As is the case with almost all electronic items here, things are way overpriced.

So while in Colorado, I went to Best Buy and bought myself one. It was On Sale for US $989, taxes included – an incredible deal. But how on earth would I get this thing back to Argentina?

Intellectually, I had always known that it was possible to bring such things on the plane as shipped baggage. But I had never tried something so bold – or perhaps so stupid – as to bring down a gigantic HDTV. So, what the heck, I figured. I called American Airlines and asked if I could bring the TV with me to Argentina. “As long as it weighs less than 70lbs and isn’t more than 115 inches (height x width x length),” they said. The box fit!

But it was fragile, very fragile, with practically no protective padding or reinforced styrofoam. So I got another box, grabbed the TV, still inside its original box, and stuffed it into the other box, lining it wall-to-wall with styrofoam. It was still under 50lbs and it totaled just 93 inches. Bingo! I was ready to go.

I got to the check-in counter at American, where they charged me an extra US $150 to ship the box as “an oversized bag.” I feared it would be destroyed during the flight or by the baggage handlers. But it arrived perfectly, without a scratch. The box didn’t even look like it had been shipped at all. Plus, the TV works perfectly here in Argentina with the local digital cable service.

At EZE airport, I got pulled aside by customs officials, who charged me the typical 50% import fee. The policy is simple. They charge 50% of the value of your item after US $300. Since the TV cost US $989, they charged me 50% of US $689, or US $345. I paid the tax with my Visa card. There was no haggling, no request for a bribe. Just a simple, quick transaction. The whole thing took less than five minutes.

All told, then, it cost me US $1,484 to bring the TV down to Buenos Aires. The TV now sells here for 9,999 Argentine pesos, or US $2,603. So even after all the hassle of shipping it, I still saved US $1,119.

That’s a decent chunk of cash, enough to buy another R/T ticket up to the States.

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El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Juan Jose Campanella’s recent film starring Ricardo Darín, got an Oscar nomination Tuesday for the Best Foreign Language Film of 2009.

Last year Variety magazine described the movie as “simply mesmerizing:”

“A deeply rewarding throwback to the unself-conscious days when cinema still strove to be magical, “The Secrets in their Eyes” is simply mesmerizing. While it packs two generation-spanning love stories, a noirish thriller, some delicious comedy, a pointed political critique and much food for thought into more than two hours’ compelling, grown-up entertainment, the film is still more than the sum of its parts. Repping a change of direction for Juan Jose Campanella, whose “The Son of the Bride” also starred Ricardo Darin, this is an altogether darker, more complex piece of work, as well as Campanella’s finest film.”

You can read the complete review here.

Also be sure to check out a fun Newsweek interview that Brian Byrnes did with Darín here.

Juan Jose Campanella is an Argentine-born director of both local and international TV and films. He is perhaps most famous for directing El Hijo de la Novia, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2001, though he has also directed episodes of U.S. TV shows such as House, 30 Rock and Law & Order.

Link: Official Movie Site
Link: YouTube Trailer (why it’s not available in HD is beyond me)

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The strikingly beautiful, hyper-talented singer and dancer Beyoncé will perform in Buenos Aires on Feb. 12.

Argentina will at least momentarily break from its typical, Rolling Stones-dominated music culture while Beyoncé sings at the Hiprodromo in San Isidro.

For more info from Beyoncé’s official site, click here.

For a very funny video of a fat man dancing to Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” song, click here (who says white men can’t dance!). For an even more fun Saturday Night Live spoof with Justin Timberlake, click here.

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