Molina to Star in the War Drama “The Yellow Birds”

Daniel Jose Molina has yellow fever…

The Latino actor has landed a role in The Yellow Birds, the Cinelou-backed war drama about two young soldiers who become friends in boot camp.

Daniel Jose Molina

The elder (Alden Ehrenreich) promises to take care of his buddy (Tye Sheridan), but it becomes increasingly difficult in wartime.

Jack Huston and Jennifer Aniston co-star.

Newcomer Molina will play Vasquez, but no additional details about the character have been released.

He previously spent three seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, appearing in the productions of The Tempest; Water by the Spoonful; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cymbeline; Romeo and Juliet and Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella.

He was the recipient of the 2011 National Irene Ryan Acting Award.

Broad Green Pictures to Distribute García’s “Last Days in the Desert”

Rodrigo García’s latest project hasn’t seen its last days

Broad Green Pictures has agreed to a deal to distribute the 56-year-old Colombian filmmaker and screenwriter’s drama Last Days in the Desert.

Rodrigo García

García’s project stars Ewan McGregor, who portrays both Jesus and the Devil in the film that highlights the work of Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki.

Tye Sheridan, Ciarán Hinds and Ayelet Zure co-star in Last Days, which follows Jesus in an imagined chapter from his 40 days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, he struggles with the Devil over the fate of an ordinary family in crisis, setting for himself a dramatic test with distinctly human conflicts.

Ewan McGregor in Last Days In The Desert

Last Days In The Desert premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

The deal puts the film on the 2016 release slate in a partnership with Tugg and specialty marketing agency Different Drummer that will put the movie in non-theatrical spaces in local markets.

It’s the first collaboration between Broad Green — coming off the recent successful bow of its Robert RedfordNick Nolte film A Walk In The Woods — and Tugg, after the former announced an investment in the crowdsourcing cinema-on-demand platform last year.

García’s previous projects include the films Mother and Child, Nine Lives, Albert Nobbs, and the television series In Treatment.