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Exclusive: Jason Patric (Speed 2) and Cam Gigandet (Twilight) have been set to star in action-thriller movie Shrapnel.

The project will see a former Marine and his old war buddy face off against the Mexican cartel behind the disappearance of his daughter.

Currently in production in the U.S., director is William Kaufman (The Hit List) and script comes from Chad Law and Johnny Walters.

Producers are Elias Axume of Premiere Entertainment and Al Bravo of Al Bravo Films. BondIt Media Capital and Buffalo 8 are also part of the production team. Premiere will handle international sales.

The project marks the fifth collaboration between Premiere and Al Bravo after The Commando with Mickey Rourke and Michael Jai White; Mojave Diamonds with UFC stars Cowboy Cerrone, Chael Sonnen and Rampage Jackson; Blowback with Randy Couture and Cam Gigandet; and Apartment 213 with Cowboy Cerrone.

Sleepers, Speed 2 and The Lost Boys star Patric recently starred...

The opening night film for the second half of Guanajuato 2016 (the one that takes place in Guanajuato Capital) was Jorge Michel Grau’s 7:19, a drama set in the historic morning of 19 September, 1985, when Mexico City suffered a major earthquake that eventually caused the deaths of thousands of people. Grau’s film, based on a script that he wrote in collaboration with Alberto Chimal, happens in one location with only two characters, played by Demián Bichir and Héctor Bonilla. Bichir, who last year was part of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight and currently is filming in Australia Alien: Covenant, as well as preparing his debut as director (Refugio), attended the world premiere of 7:19. He was also present because the festival pays tribute to...

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Exclusive: Demian Bichir’s directorial debut follows a man travelling from Mexico to New Orleans.

Mundial is launching sales here on Demian Bichir’s feature directorial debut Refugio.

The story follows a romantic dreamer whose quest for love takes him from Mexico to New Orleans, where he falls for an exotic dancer and must contend with her dangerous former lover.

Alex Garcia produces Refugio with Santiago Garcia Galvan, Bruno Bichir, Bichir himself, and Walkiria Barbosa. The film screened on Wednesday (May 11) in Cannes and will again on Saturday (May 14).

Mundial vice-president Cristina Garza feels bullish about the film’s prospects. “It’s big, commercial and is going to do extremely well with the Us and hispanic audiences.”

Garza is on the Croisette with a strong slate. Sales titles include Tomas Portella’s Rio-set action title Special Operations (Operacoes Especiais) starring Cleo Pires, Fabricio Boliveira, Marcos Caruso and Fabiula Nascimento. It screens on Monday.

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Topher Grace’s backstage musical comedy One Shot is getting a Broadway vet in Taye Diggs. The singer-actor has joined the cast of the indie film, about a failed star turned stage manager (Grace) who must wrangle the eccentric cast and crew of a new production to save the show’s opening night. Isaac Rentz is directing from a script by Gerry De Leon and Greg Lisi; Grace, who’s currently in theaters in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, is also producing.

Diggs will play Malcolm, a flamboyant member of the production. Diggs of course got his start originating the character of Benny in 1996′s Tony-winning Rent, a role he reprised in 2005 when the musical was adapted into a film by Sony and Chris Columbus. By then he was well into a film and TV career with How Stella Got Her Groove Back, The Wood, The Best Man, and a run...

Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight has been hotly anticipated ever since the director threatened he might never even make it. But when Django Unchained brought along such oddball and exhilarating casting choices as Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx and Jonah Hill, it was anyone’s guess who the director would work with next.

Now Deadline has exclusively confirmed that Channing Tatum and Damien Bichir have both joined a now finalized cast that includes Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh (among the first confirmed), Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern (for those playing at home, that’s nine names, not eight). Tarantino announced he was officially moving forward with the project back in July, and since then Jennifer Lawrence was among the rumored names of potential casting choices.

Not only are Tatum and Bichir first timers in a Tarantino film, they were also absent among The Hateful Eight...

Exclusive: Eva Longoria and Lily Collins are in talks to star opposite Demian Bichir in the untitled Low Riders movie for Universal Pictures, Blumhouse and Imagine Entertainment. Bichir was already tapped to play the lead in the pic, which takes place in the East La world of lowrider cars and street tagging.

Ricardo de Montreuil is on board to direct the script, written by Josh Bierne-Gordon and Justin Tipping. Previous drafts were written by Cheo Hodari Coker and Elgin James.

Collins just came off Warren Beatty’s untitled Howard Hughes project. Longoria is now filming Bichir’s directorial debut Refugio, a Mexico City-set drama about a young dreamer who’s born in the circus and embarks on a search to find his long lost true love. Longoria plays a horse acrobat who joins the circus trying to heal a broken heart.

Imagine’s Brian Grazer will produce the Low Riders...

Actors Demian Bichir, Adrian Grenier and Nate Parker, along with the writing/directing/producing team of Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck and Peter Del Vecho, who earned Oscars for Frozen, will present at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 41st Student Academy Awards on Saturday, June 7, at 6 p.m. at the DGA Theater in Hollywood. The awards ceremony caps a week of industry activities for the 15 student filmmakers from the U.S. and abroad who were selected as winners this year.

Lee, Buck and Del Vecho took home Oscars earlier this year for the Animated Feature Film winner Frozen, the highest-grossing animated film of all time. Along with becoming the first female feature director in the history of the Walt Disney Animation Studios, Lee also wrote the screenplay for Frozen and co-wrote the 2012 Oscar nominee Wreck-it Ralph. Co-director Buck’s other animated feature credits include Pocahontas and Tarzan, and...

Taking time away from the set of her upcoming film "Refugio," Eva Longoria garnered herself a little added exposure by covering the latest issue of Parade magazine.

While striking a few poses with her adorable puppy for the Ari Michelson-shot spread, the former "Desperate Housewives" leading lady dished about everything from having her own children to her sister's constantly teasing her when she was younger.

Check out a few highlights from Miss Longoria's interview below. For more, be sure to visit Parade!

On her age:

"No, no, no! I would never want to repeat my 20s. I welcome age with open arms because I want to evolve as a human being, gain more wisdom. I have so much more to do! And the only way you do that is with age."

On her child plans:

"I’ve always wanted a family. I believe in family. But children are a product of love.

Taking time away from the set of her upcoming film "Refugio," Eva Longoria garnered herself a little added exposure by covering the April 2014 issue of Prestige Hong Kong magazine.

The former "Desperate Housewives" star looked gorgeous in a stunning black dress for the Eric Schnieder-shot front page while opening up about everything from her devoted fans on Twitter to being defined as a "sex symbol."

Highlights from Miss Longoria's interview are as follows. For more, be sure to visit Prestige Hong Kong!

On her Twitter popularity:

"I obviously don’t answer every tweet. But I tweet, I do it all. It’s a very interesting process. Actually, the airplane pillow that Brookstone used to make – my favorite airplane pillow – I tweeted Brookstone and I said, “Pleeeeeease make this pillow again!” And they reached out to me. That’s how many people retweeted my tweet to Brookstone and they reached out to me and said,...

• Eva Longoria has signed on to star in the Blumhouse horror pic Visions, alongside Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers), Gillian Jacobs (Community), and Anson Mount (Hell on Wheels). Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) is also in talks to join the movie about a pregnant woman (Fisher) who’s haunted by visions of a “sinister hooded figure.” Kevin Greutert (Saw VI) is set to direct. Longoria, who plays Fisher’s character’s best friend in the film, recently wrapped the drama Frontera with Michael Pena and Ed Harris and is currently filming Demian Bichir’s Refugio. [Deadline]

• Richard Dreyfuss will join Patrick Wilson...

After earning an Oscar nomination for his acting work in the 2011 immigration tale, A Better Life, actor Demian Bichir proved himself to be a huge talent that mainstream audiences had been generally ignoring. Finally, after years of good work, the man got some recognition. It turns out he’s got ambitions beyond just taking that next step in his career as an actor, however, as Deadline is reporting that he’s now getting ready to direct his own feature, a romantic drama he also wrote called Refugio. The story of Refugio follows one particular character, named Refugio, who we meet through various phases in his life, with the overarching narrative being built on his search to find a long lost true love. Due to the jumps in the story’s timeline, the character is going to have to be played by multiple actors, and due to the fact that he grew up in the circus, Bichir...

• Hugh Jackman (The Wolverine) may take on an antagonist role in Neill Blomkamp’s next venture Chappie. The Elysium director has also recruited Sharlto Copley and Dev Patel to tell the story of a robot who gets abducted by two gangsters angling to use it for their own illegal needs. The Les Miserables star confirmed his involvement during a press conference for his recently released Prisoners, and will be traveling to South Africa to film his scenes at the beginning of next year. Jackman can be seen next in X-Men: Days of Future Past (out May 23). [ScreenDaily]

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Deadline revealed back in April that A Better Life star Demian Bichir was moving toward his feature directing debut on the indie Refugio. He’s set his cast—Eva Longoria, Jose Angel Bichir, and Jorge Perugorria (Strawberries And Chocolate)—and production is just getting underway in Mexico City. The film follows the title character, a young dreamer who’s born in the circus and embarks on a search to find his long lost true love. That character will be played at various points in his life by a series of actors including Demian Bichir himself. The majority of screen time goes to Jose Angel Bichir, who is the director’s nephew. Longoria plays a horse acrobat who joins the circus in Mexico trying to heal a broken heart. Stefanie Sherk, Ana Claudia Talancon, Arcelia Ramirez and Ludwika Paleta also star, and Julian Fidalgo will play the young Refugio in flashback scenes.

Eva Longoria, Jose Angel Bichir, and Jorge Perugorria have joined the cast of the indie drama "Refugio" at Ag Studios and Bn Films.

Demian Bichir ("The Bridge," "Machete Kills") is making his feature directing debut on the film about a young dreamer who is born in the circus and embarks on a search to find his long lost true love.

Jose Angel Bichir plays the main version of the dreamer, while his father Demian will play one of the older versions. Julian Fidalgo stars as a younger version.

Longoria plays a horse acrobat with a broken heart who joins the circus. Stefanie Sherk, Ana Claudia Talancon, Arcelia Ramirez and Ludwika Paleta also star.

Filming just got underway in Mexico City.

Source: Deadline...