Eva Longoria to Adapt the Chilean Comedy “Sin Filtro” for American Audiences

Eva Longoria is losing her filter

The 42-year-old Mexican American actress and producer’s UnbeliEVAble Entertainment will team up with Charles D. King’s MACRO for the American-set remake of Sin Filtro, the Chilean film by Nicolas Lopez.

Eva Longoria

They’re hoping to get into production in 2018 a comedy that follows a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Her life spirals out of control after an acupuncture treatment renders her unable to filter herself.

King’s MACRO will finance the film, and he’ll produce with Kim Roth and Poppy Hanks along with UnbeliEVAble’s Longoria and Ben Spector.

The exec producers are the original’s writer-director Lopez and Miguel Asensio Llamas, who produced the original through Sobras International.

Sin Filtro was the top-grossing live-action film in Chile in 2016, and became the second highest grossing film of all time in that country.

Lopez won’t direct the remake. His next film, Hazlo Como Hombre releases in Mexico on August 11 and in the US on Labor Day by Pantelion/Lionsgate, and No Estoy Loca bows in Chile on January 4.  ​

The producers will look to quickly set a writer and director for the remake.

Izzo to Star Opposite Keanu Reeves in Eli Roth’s “Knock, Knock”

Knock, knock! Who’s there? It’s Lorenza Izzo

The 22-year-old Chilean actress, who starred opposite Selena Gomez in Eli Roth’s Aftershock, has signed on to star opposite Keanu Reeves in Knock, Knock.

Lorenza Izzo

The psychological thriller, written and directed by Roth, centers on a happily married family man (Reeves) who’s left alone for the weekend, when two beautiful girls show up at his house and turn his life upside down.

Izzo, who just starred Roth’s The Green Inferno, will portray one of those girls.

The other will be portrayed by Cuban actress Ana de Armas, who just played Robert Duran’s wife in Hands Of Stone opposite Edgar Ramirez and Robert De Niro.

Meanwhile, Chilean actress Ignacia Allamand will portray Reeves’ wife in the film.

Roth wrote the script with his Green Inferno collaborators Nicolas Lopez and Guillermo Amoedo.

Production on Knock, Knock is set to start on April 14 in Santiago, Chile.

Lopez to Direct “Beyond the Green Inferno”

Nicolás López is preparing to go beyond The Green Inferno

The 30-year-old Chilean filmmaker has been tapped by Eli Roth and Worldview Entertainment to direct the sequel to the cannibal horror-thriller The Green Inferno.

Nicolás López

News of the follow-up came as Roth’s The Green Inferno made its worldwide premiere September 7 in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto Film Festival.

The high-profile film, set deep in the heart of the Amazon, follows a group of student activists who travel to visit a dying tribe. When their plane crashes, they are taken hostage by the very natives they came to observe.

Worldview Entertainment teamed with Roth to finance and produce The Green Inferno and will also produce and finance Beyond the Green Inferno.

Beyond the Green Inferno’s plot is being kept under wraps. Roth will present and produce the sequel, which is based on a script he wrote with Lopez and Guillermo Amoedo.

Lopez — who worked on the script for Green Inferno — and Miguel Asensio Llamas of Sobras International Pictures are also producing.

“After writing and scouting all over Peru we realized that that The Green Inferno had an expansive universe and that we would love to visit it again and go deeper into the jungle. Our plan with Beyond the Green Inferno is to make a sequel in the tradition of Aliens, where the creative team went bigger, darker and scarier into the unknown. Eli has been an amazing creative collaborator and has set the groundwork for an entire universe of stories we’re both incredibly excited to tell,” said Lopez.

Lopez and Roth also collaborated on the film Aftershock, with Lopez directing from a script he co-wrote with Roth.

Roth agreed with Lopez that  filming Green Inferno was a life-changing experience.

“We quickly learned there’s an entire world of stories, legends, myths and monsters in that jungle. It’s endless. Living in isolation we saw first hand just how far and deep we could take the world of The Green Inferno. I’m thrilled to hand the directing reins to Nicolas Lopez, who has been a key part of my creative team from the beginning of this project and I know will make an incredible film,” Roth said.

“We don’t want to give away any plot secrets, only that we want to take the story to an even darker and scarier place on all levels. Shooting begins when the rainy season ends and it’s safe enough for us to return with another ‘adventurous’ filmmaking team. We’re thrilled to produce the film with Worldview Entertainment, who has been an incredible, supportive partner right from the start,” the filmmaker continued.

Izzo to Star Opposite John Stamos in NBC’s “I Am Victor” Drama Pilot

Lorenza Izzo lands her first network television pilot project…

The Chilean actress and model has been cast as the female lead opposite John Stamos in NBC‘s legal drama pilot I Am Victor.

Lorenza Izzo

Written by Mark Goffman and based on Jo Nesbo’s book of the same name, centers on Victor Port (portrayed by Stamos), a high-powered divorce attorney with a unique view of relationships.

Izzo will portray Assistant District Attorney Lena Engles, a Harvard Law graduate with experience clerking for the Supreme Court.

Izzo, an up-and-coming actress in Hollywood, has worked on three English-language credits, including Aftershock, directed by Nicolas Lopez. She’ll next appear The Green Inferno, as well as appear in a story arc on the Netflix series Hemlock Grove.

Prior to her recent relocation to Los Angeles from her native Chile, Izzo starred in the Chilean comedy Que pena tu boda, directed by Lopez.