Sanchez to Star in Brandon Camp’s “Benji” Movie Remake

It’s dog days ahead for Kiele Sanchez

The 39-year-old half-Puerto Rican actress is set to star in director Brandon Camp’s retelling of his father Joe Camp’s 1974 Benji movie.

Kiele Sanchez

In addition to Sanchez, whose credits include the television series Kingdom and the film Purge: Anarchy, the film will also star Gabriel Bateman, Darby Camp, Will Rothhaar, Angus Sampson and Jerod Haynes.

The film, which is already in production in New Orleans, also boasts renowned animal consultant Mark Forbes as head trainer, whose work has been seen in such movies as We Bought a Zoo, Marley & Me and Doctor Dolittle.

The Montelongo-Produced “Mission Park” to Open in Select AMC Theaters This September

Armando Montelongo, Jr. is set to get the independent treatment at the box office…

AMC Theaters has announced plans to run Mission Park, the first film from the 43-year-old real estate entrepreneur and reality television star’s production company Armando Montelongo Productions, in select theaters this September, as part of its AMC Independent platform.

Armando Montelongo, Jr.

Mission Park will be released in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Antonio on September 6. Other markets will follow.

The crime drama, written and directed by Bryan Ramirez in his directorial debut, is the first project from Montelongo’s San Antonio-based company, which he formed in 2011 to promote the production of independent films and cable TV programming in South Texas.

Mission Park

The film follows four friends who become divided when two of them fall into a life of crime and the other two become FBI agents who are sent undercover to attempt to bring their best friends down. It was filmed in San Antonio.

Mission Park stars Jeremy Ray Valdez, Walter Perez, Fernanda Romero, Joseph Julian Soria and Will Rothhaar. It also features Vivica A. Fox, Will Estes and Sean Patrick Flanery.

Mission Park won the best narrative feature, best director and best acting performance (for Perez) prizes at this year’s Boston International Film Festival, and the Special Jury Prize for Best Feature Film at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.

Montelongo is the former star of A&E’s Flip This House