Lead Photo: Eva Longoria attends the 2020 Sundance Film Festival - "Sylvie's Love" Premiere at Eccles Center Theatre on January 27, 2020 in Park City, Utah. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images
Eva Longoria attends the 2020 Sundance Film Festival - "Sylvie's Love" Premiere at Eccles Center Theatre on January 27, 2020 in Park City, Utah. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images
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CineInforme is a weekly film and television news column that keeps you up to date on the Latinx stories happening on the big and small screens. From casting choices to studio briefs in Hollywood and beyond, CineInforme is your one-stop-shop for film and TV updates. Swing by every Friday to make sure you don’t miss the latest happenings.
Here’s your glimpse at what’s going on:
Eva Longoria (TV’s Desperate Housewives) has been appointed to the board of directors at the Television Academy Foundation. Along with working on programs like its annual internship program, Longoria will assist in developing educational and professional opportunities for students with diverse backgrounds. [Deadline]
Jess Morales will be the Latina lead character in a TV series based on the National Treasure film franchise. She will take over for Benjamin Gates, who was played by Nicholas Cage in the two movies. An actress to play Morales, who is portrayed as a 20-year-old DREAMer, has not been cast yet. [Deadline]
Natalie Morales (Battle of the Sexes) has been cast to voice Phil and Lil’s mother Betty DeVille in the revival of the animated Rugrats series on Paramount+. Voice actress Kath Soucie, who voiced the original character starting in the early 1990s, will return to reprise her roles as Phil and Lil. [Deadline]
Clint Eastwood’s new film Cry Macho has been put on the calendar and will open October 22. The film stars Eastwood as a washed-up rodeo star who is entrusted to take a young Mexican boy to his family in Texas. [Variety]
Chrissie Fit (All My Life) will star in the series I Know What You Did Last Summer for Amazon. The show is a modern take on the 1997 slasher film starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. Details about her character have not been released yet. [Deadline]
Michelle Ortiz (TV’s Gentefied) and Frankie Quiñones (TV’s Victor & Valentino) are joining comedian Chris Estrada (TV’s Entre Nos) in a pilot for Hulu called Punk Ass Bitch. The show is inspired by Estrada’s life in South Central Los Angeles. Quiñones will play an ex-convict living in Estrada’s character’s neighborhood. Ortiz plays Estrada’s character’s ex. [Deadline]
Aimee Carrero (TV’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) will play a superhero on the untitled spinoff of The Boys. The series is set at a college exclusively for superheroes. [Deadline]
Dan Hernández (Pokémon Detective Pikachu) will serve as one of the showrunners on the animated series Koala Man for Hulu. The show will follow an Australian man without any superpowers who becomes a superhero. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Danny Trejo (Machete), Fernanda Romero (The Eye) and Cuban singer Malu Trevejo will be featured in the horror film Wolf Mountain about a man who goes back to the area where his parents died and experiences some mysterious phenomena. [Deadline]
Nicholas Gonzalez (TV’s The Good Doctor) will join the cast of the NBC series La Brea about a family that is separated when a mysterious sinkhole destroys Los Angeles. Gonzalez will play Levi Brooks, an Air Force pilot who is sent on a mission to save the people who have fallen into the sinkhole. [Deadline]
