Robert Rodriguez’s breakout film, 1992’s El Mariachi, famously cost him $7,000 and some change to shoot. It still holds the Guinness World Record for lowest-budget film to gross $1 million at ...

‘El Mariachi’ Actor Peter Marquardt Dies at 50. He got the part of the drug lord Moco in the 1992 film due to a chance meeting with writer-director Robert Rodriguez when they were bunkmates at ...

The new film was a project that sprung from memories of working on El Mariachi, the $7,000 indie he infamously paid for by selling his body to medical experimentation.

As a fan greeted Robert Rodriguez during the Q&A of his latest film “Hypnotic” at the SXSW Film & TV festival, the fan recalled a story that after seeing Rodriguez’s breakthrough “El ...

Rodriguez was participating in the study to raise money for 1992’s El Mariachi, his first film, famously shot for a little more than $7,000. Marquardt played Mauricio, ...