SONY BMG Film & Nuyorican Productions ‘Reggaeton’.

SONY BMG Music Entertainment announced that the company has acquired all rights to “Reggaeton,” an original screenplay written by Albert Leon, and plans to produce the project, in conjunction with Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions, through the recently launched SONY BMG Film.

“Reggaeton,” SONY BMG Film’s first feature, will be produced by Jennifer Lopez and Simon Fields for Nuyorican Productions and by Sofia Sondervan on behalf of SONY BMG Film.

Pic will be shot on location in New York and Puerto Rico with production expected to commence in Spring 2006.

“Reggaeton” is the story of Rob, a talented 21-year-old from the South Bronx whose dreams of hip-hop stardom are dashed when a run-in with local thugs makes him flee the city to hide in Puerto Rico with the father he never knew. There he finds love with a street-savvy local girl, CC, and discovers a new genre of music, a mix of hip-hop and reggae. The locals call it Reggaeton. Rob partners with his half brother, a DJ, and together they make groundbreaking strides and are poised to become Reggaeton stars. But, when a corrupt music producer “discovers” Rob and offers him a record deal that
brings him and CC back to New York, a new conflict threatens his romance and his budding career.

“‘Reggaeton’ is one of the most original scripts we’ve come across since we launched this division,” said Sofia Sondervan. “We expect it will attract a top-notch director and cast.”