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While working at a bar in Beverly Hills he received advice from veteran movie star Sylvester Stallone, �Create your own opportunities�. That stuck with him, while working as a messenger on the 20th Century Fox lot, Arevalo met the fresh young director Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi) who he struck up a friendship with. Arevalo was then offered the unforgettable role of the guy with the broken leg in the 1995 blockbuster Desperado.
He went on to guest star on Fox's Space: Above and Beyond, played Ernest Borgnine's nephew on NBC's �The Single Guy�, made a guest appearance as a boxer in HBO's Arliss, guest starred in NBC's Days of Our Lives, and appeared for the second time with Salma Hayek in the romantic comedy Fools Rush In. Arevalo co-starred in the ABC movie of the week the Runaway Virus in. While growing up on both sides of the border Arevalo experienced the best of both worlds and developed a knowledge that would serve to target his own culture in the years to come. This being telenovelas (Mexican Soap Operas), Classic Films, Mariachi�s, palenque�s, music, food and Mexican wrestling. As a filmmaker, Arevalo established in 2002 his own production and distribution company "Rebel Crew Films," The focus was to make a dent in the domestic home video market targeting Latinos and Mexican immigrants. Arevalo has been responsible for acquiring the rights to valuable pop culture icons such as �Cantinflas� and �El Santo�. Some of these films were just collecting dust until they finally saw the light of day. With over 100 films to their library and distribution in major retail outlets such as Wal-mart, target, Best-Buy,Virgin, and Tower Video Arevalo was at the right place at the right time focusing on bringing back new, classic, and cult Mexican cinema to a community that had been overlooked by the major retailers for some time. After a successful tenure, Arevalo left and in 2005 created MACH 8 FILMS with the vision of forming a solid partnership with a studio willing to take Latin cinema into the future. He has found that in Lion�s Gate Films and is looking to once again lead the way into a very important and crucial market. MACH 8 FILMS has two new Mexican productions �Mexican Bloodbath� slated for spring 2006 production launch and �La Loteria� based on the Mexican card game from the 1800�s, immediately following. MACH 8 FILMS is one of the few independently owned minority companies, growing at a fast pace with great success.
Reviews
Silent Night (2023)
A total dud.
Unfortunately as the title states this film lands face first. A true dud of a film despite legendary action director John Woo. Joel's performance was just okay in this film. I literally yawned in the opening set up of the storyline despite the situation the character is in to make him do what he does. In an ironic twist in terms of "John Wick style" action being that John Woo is a legend this effort painfully tries to be a bad John Wick style film. Halfway in the film I walked out because my head was going to explode from all the cliche nonsense. But congrats to everyone who worked on the film.
Mexican Bloodbath (2010)
Robert Rodriguez indie film school student
Arévalo was able to gain on set knowledge from Rodriguez who showed him how he was setting up his scenes during production. When Arévalo was filming his own scenes during Desperado as the character "The Opponent" he was shadowing Rodriguez who was more than helpful in parting his film knowledge to Arévalo.
Arévalo then used this to make his own $50k indie action film on location in Mexico on 35mm. The script for Mexican Bloodbath was written by Arévalo and had gone through several rewrites. The original budget was going to be a lot more but when the investor came up short Arévalo said,"Let's do it".