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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Want To Build Puerto Rican Film Studio

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony on Apr. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) AP Photo/Matt Sayles

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (CBS/AP) A Puerto Rican mayor says husband-and-wife pop stars Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony hope to transform his northeast coastal city into the Hollywood of the Caribbean.

Fajardo Mayor Anibal Melendez said Thursday that the singer-actors both 41 and born in New York City to Puerto Rican families, want to build a state-of-the-art soundstage in Fajardo to attract more A-list movies and TV shows to the U.S. island.

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Melendez says the proposal for Fajardo is still in the earliest stages of development. But he said Lopez and Anthony voiced "a lot of enthusiasm'' for the project when he met with them recently in Miami.

Publicists for the couple decline comment.

In 2006, Lopez and Anthony teamed up for a movie on Puerto Rican salsa legend Hector Lavoe.

Pictures: "El Cantante" Premiere
Pictures: Filming "El Cantante"

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