"Spain's Filmax Entertainment is producing the $5.6 million rural thriller "The Backwoods". Gary Oldman toplines the pic, which will be in both English and Spanish. International cast also includes Virginie Ledoyen, Paddy Considine and Aitana Sanchez-Gijon. Eight-week lensing began last Monday in northern Spain's Basque country under first-time Spanish helmer Koldo Serra. Set in the summer of 1978, film depicts the apparently quiet holiday of a couple of English tourists who travel to a friend's house in a Basque village, where they find a girl in a cabin in the woods with deformed hands..." (full details)
"Roselyn Sanchez is returning to her native Puerto Rico for her next project. The actress will star in "Yellow," which she also co-wrote and is producing. The film, which will be shot in Puerto Rico and New York, centers on a woman who is haunted by the death of her father. The cast includes Bill Duke, D.B. Sweeney, Sully Diaz, Jaime Tirelli and Manny Perez..." (full details)
Newcomer Ed Speleers will play the title role in Eragon, based on the best-seller by Christopher Paolini, about a boy who finds a dragon egg. Robert Carlyle will play the evil shade Durza and Djimon Hounsou will play resistance leader Ajihad. Also in the cast are former musketeers John Malkovich and Jeremy Irons. The movie is due June 16th, 2006..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'.
