Exclusive: RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio is returning for a third movie in the Hurricane Bianca franchise and will star alongside Willam Belli (A Star Is Born), Rachel Dratch (Wine Country), Thora Birch (The Walking Dead), Drag Race contestant fan favorite Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, and Doug Plaut (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt).
Hurricane Bianca: The Roots Of All Evil, which is due to shoot in early 2023, is written and directed by Matt Kugelman.
Pic will see Richard Martinez return home to Florida for his beloved grandmother’s funeral. There, he is lured back into a decades-old feud with his mother who owns a homophobic fast-food chain restaurant, and so decides to go undercover as Bianca Del Rio to put his mother out of business. With the help of his chosen family, he embarks on an adventure exposing corruption, confronting cults and healing relationships.
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Hurricane Bianca: The Roots Of All Evil, which is due to shoot in early 2023, is written and directed by Matt Kugelman.
Pic will see Richard Martinez return home to Florida for his beloved grandmother’s funeral. There, he is lured back into a decades-old feud with his mother who owns a homophobic fast-food chain restaurant, and so decides to go undercover as Bianca Del Rio to put his mother out of business. With the help of his chosen family, he embarks on an adventure exposing corruption, confronting cults and healing relationships.
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- 12/20/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
After celebrating her 35th birthday in May, Lynsi Snyder became the majority owner of the beloved fast-food chain In-n-Out Burger, bringing her net worth to an estimated $1.3 billion, according to Forbes.
Snyder first took over in 2010 as president of the company that her grandparents, Harry and Esther Snyder, founded in 1948 and was once run by her uncle, Richard, and father, Guy. She’s been named one of the most trustworthy leaders in the country, but her rise to the top has not been picture-perfect. Below are a few fast facts about the reclusive heiress.
1. She’s extremely private.
Snyder has...
Snyder first took over in 2010 as president of the company that her grandparents, Harry and Esther Snyder, founded in 1948 and was once run by her uncle, Richard, and father, Guy. She’s been named one of the most trustworthy leaders in the country, but her rise to the top has not been picture-perfect. Below are a few fast facts about the reclusive heiress.
1. She’s extremely private.
Snyder has...
- 5/15/2017
- by Ana Calderone
- PEOPLE.com
The heiress to the massive In-n-Out Burger fortune opened up about her past substance abuse, failed marriages and the death of her father in a rare interview.
On her 35th birthday in May, Lynsi Snyder will become the majority owner of the famous fast-food chain. And as the private heiress gears up to take on the responsibility, she is speaking candidly about her downward spiral following the death of her father, Guy Snyder.
“Probably around age 5 or 6, I noticed we were going to visit my dad in the hospital. And I thought it was just a hospital he was staying...
On her 35th birthday in May, Lynsi Snyder will become the majority owner of the famous fast-food chain. And as the private heiress gears up to take on the responsibility, she is speaking candidly about her downward spiral following the death of her father, Guy Snyder.
“Probably around age 5 or 6, I noticed we were going to visit my dad in the hospital. And I thought it was just a hospital he was staying...
- 1/13/2017
- by Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
GrillChat: Why Gun Control Advocate Richard Martinez’s Closest Friends ‘Are Other Survivors’ (Video)
Richard Martinez, a gun control advocate who lost his son to a shooting in Santa Barbara in 2014, told the audience attending TheWrap’s GrillChat on Thursday that no one can truly know what it’s like to be affected by gun violence until it happens to them. “My closest friends now are other survivors, because no one really knows what its like except other survivors,” he said. “You know it’s bad, but until you’ve lived it, you don’t really know. It takes you down into a place you’ve never been before.” Martinez, a senior associate for...
- 6/24/2016
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Richard Martinez is spending Father's Day at a restaurant he used to go to with his son Christopher. But for the third holiday in a row, Christopher isn't there to celebrate it with him. On May 23, 2014, Christopher, then 20, and five others were killed in a rampage near the University of California, Santa Barbara. The college student was killed at the IV Deli Mart in Isla Vista, California. "He was hit by one bullet and it went really close to his heart. He just fell and died," Richard, 63, tells People. "I lost my son to gun violence in this country and I'm angry.
- 6/19/2016
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
Richard Martinez is spending Father's Day at a restaurant he used to go to with his son Christopher. But for the third holiday in a row, Christopher isn't there to celebrate it with him. On May 23, 2014, Christopher, then 20, and five others were killed in a rampage near the University of California, Santa Barbara. The college student was killed at the IV Deli Mart in Isla Vista, California. "He was hit by one bullet and it went really close to his heart. He just fell and died," Richard, 63, tells People. "I lost my son to gun violence in this country and I'm angry.
- 6/19/2016
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
Inside a Santa Barbara coffee shop, the father of a killer and the father of one of his victims shared their grief and vowed to unite to prevent future tragedies. Richard Martinez, whose son Christopher, 20, was one of six University of California, Santa Barbara, students killed by 22-year-old Elliot Rodger, met Sunday with Rodger's father, Hollywood director Peter Rodger. "We plan to work together so other families such as ours will not suffer as ours have," Richard Martinez tells Keyt-tv in Santa Barbara. "This was a private conversation between grieving fathers who've reached common ground." According to police, hours after...
- 6/2/2014
- by Elaine Aradillas
- PEOPLE.com
Inside a Santa Barbara coffee shop, the father of a killer and the father of one of his victims shared their grief and vowed to unite to prevent future tragedies. Richard Martinez, whose son Christopher, 20, was one of six University of California, Santa Barbara, students killed by 22-year-old Elliot Rodger, met Sunday with Rodger's father, Hollywood director Peter Rodger. "We plan to work together so other families such as ours will not suffer as ours have," Richard Martinez tells Keyt-tv in Santa Barbara. "This was a private conversation between grieving fathers who've reached common ground." According to police, hours after...
- 6/2/2014
- by Elaine Aradillas
- PEOPLE.com
The father of one of the victims of the 2012 Newtown, Conn. school shooting is offering his support to the father of one of the people killed during last week's Santa Barbara shooting spree. Mark Barden posted a letter to Richard Martinez, whose son Christopher was fatally shot in Santa Barbara, on a Facebook page set up for a non-profit created from the Newtown massacre. The elder Martinez has been speaking out since the incident, pushing for new gun-control laws. Video: Santa Barbara Shooting Suspect's Parents Mourning Victims More Than Son, Spokesman Says In his letter, Barden, who
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- 5/29/2014
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As families try to make sense of the deaths of their children from a man who went on a shooting and stabbing rampage in Santa Barbara, one Sandy Hook father wants them to know they are not alone. Mark Barden, who lost his 7-year-old son, Daniel, in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, penned a letter to Richard Martinez. "We have not met, but you are now part of our extended family," writes Barden. "It is not a family we chose, but a family born from the horrible circumstance of losing a child to gun violence - one that's growing steadily.
- 5/28/2014
- by Carlos Greer
- PEOPLE.com
As families try to make sense of the deaths of their children from a man who went on a shooting and stabbing rampage in Santa Barbara, one Sandy Hook father wants them to know they are not alone. Mark Barden, who lost his 7-year-old son, Daniel, in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, penned a letter to Richard Martinez. "We have not met, but you are now part of our extended family," writes Barden. "It is not a family we chose, but a family born from the horrible circumstance of losing a child to gun violence - one that's growing steadily.
- 5/28/2014
- by Carlos Greer
- PEOPLE.com
Richard Martinez, the father of Ucsb shooting victim Chris Martinez, has a message to Congress: stop calling him and do something. Martinez, who slammed ”irresponsible politicians and the NRA” in the wake of his son's death, told Anderson Cooper Tuesday night that he would not take phone calls from Congresspeople until something was done addressing gun violence. Also read: Portrait of a Psychopath: Ucsb Shooter Elliot Rodger a Child of Hollywood, Privilege, Isolation “I know you've had people reach out to you, people from Capitol Hill,” Cooper said. “What is your message to them, what is your message of what needs to change?...
- 5/28/2014
- by James Crugnale
- The Wrap
Richard Martinez, the outspoken father of University of California Santa Barbara shooting victim Christopher Michael-Martinez, lashed out at Congress Tuesday during an emotional memorial service honoring the victims of Friday's deadly massacre. “Not one more,” the elder Martinez demanded as he addressed a crowd of several thousand students, parents and family members who gathered to remember the six Ucsb students killed in Isla Vista. The killing spree left a total of seven dead, including the gunman, Elliot Rodger, 22. During the memorial service, the names of Rodger's victims were each read aloud — Veronika Weiss, 19, Katie Cooper, 22, Chris Martinez,...
- 5/28/2014
- by Anita Bennett
- The Wrap
His son's murder left him with a raw anger and outrage that, over the weekend, turned to a search for answers and action. Richard Martinez, who tearfully lashed out at "craven, irresponsible politicians" and the National Rifle Association the day after his son Christopher was gunned down in the Isla Vista massacre, now wants to meet with the father of the shooter. "I lost my son. He lost his son. We have that in common," Martinez tells the Los Angeles Times. "We want, if possible, that the deaths of our son and his son should mean something." Elliot Rodger, 22, the...
- 5/26/2014
- by Michael Fleeman
- PEOPLE.com
The idyllic town of Isla Vista was rocked when a man went on a killing spree, stabbing three men in his apartment complex, then fatally shooting three university students as he drove around in a BMW. The shooting victims - Veronika Weiss, Katie Cooper and Christopher Martinez - were remembered Saturday evening at an on-campus vigil that drew more than 1,000 members of the tight-knit University of California, Santa Barbara, community. (The names of the stabbing victims, also all Ucsb students, weren't released until Sunday.) Here's a closer look at three of the lives cut short by Elliot Rodger, 22. Katie Cooper,...
- 5/25/2014
- by Howard Breuer and Melody Chiu
- PEOPLE.com
The idyllic town of Isla Vista was rocked when a man went on a killing spree, stabbing three men in his apartment complex, then fatally shooting three university students as he drove around in a BMW. The shooting victims - Veronika Weiss, Katie Cooper and Christopher Martinez - were remembered Saturday evening at an on-campus vigil that drew more than 1,000 members of the tight-knit University of California, Santa Barbara, community. (The stabbing victims still have not been identified). Here's a closer look at three of the lives cut short by Elliot Rodger, 22. Katie Cooper, 22The senior, who grew up in Chino Hills,...
- 5/25/2014
- by Howard Breuer and Melody Chiu
- PEOPLE.com
A California gunman who went on a rampage near a Santa Barbara university stabbed three people to death at his apartment before shooting to death three more in a terrorizing crime spree through a neighborhood, sheriff's officials said Saturday. The three people in the apartment were among the six left dead Friday night during the shootings near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Elliot Rodger, 22, the suspected gunman, apparently killed himself, authorities said. At a news conference, Sheriff Bill Brown called it a "chaotic, rapidly unfolding convoluted incident" that involved multiple crime scenes. Police provided new details...
- 5/25/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
The father of a Ucsb shooting victim denounced the National Rifle Association and politicians in a heartfelt plea to “stop this madness” on Saturday after a shooting rampage left seven dead. A visibly distraught Richard Martinez publicly mourned the loss of his son Christopher, 20, in a heartbreaking speech at a press conference on Saturday in Santa Barbara. Also read: Alleged Ucsb Shooter Elliot Rodger Posted Several Disturbing Videos: Watch “Why did Chris die?” he asked. “Chris died because of craven, irresponsible politicians and the NRA. They talk about gun rights. What about Chris's right to live?” he pleaded. Twenty-two-year-old Elliot Rodger,...
- 5/24/2014
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
The father of one of seven people killed when a man went on rampage in Santa Barbara, California, spoke out at an emotional news conference. "Our son Chris and six others are dead," Richard Martinez told reporters Saturday as he fought back tears. "Our family has a message for every parent out there. You don't think it'll happen to your child until it does." His wavering voice filled with anger, he added, "Chris was a really great kid. Ask anyone who knew him. His death has left our family lost and broken." Elliot Rodger, the son of an assistant director on The Hunger Games,...
- 5/24/2014
- by K.C. Blumm
- PEOPLE.com
The father of one of seven people killed when a gunman went on a drive-by shooting rampage in Santa Barbara, California, spoke out at an emotional news conference. "Our son Chris and six others are dead," Richard Martinez told reporters Saturday as he fought back tears. "Our family has a message for every parent out there. You don't think it'll happen to your child until it does." His wavering voice filled with anger, he added, "Chris was a really great kid. Ask anyone who knew him. His death has left our family lost and broken." Elliot Rodger, the son of...
- 5/24/2014
- by K.C. Blumm
- PEOPLE.com
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