From variety.com
According to Variety, two of Spain?s latest projects have just set production dates. Guillem Morales? Julia's Eyes and The Homecoming, the feature debut of Sergio Sanchez, screenwriter of Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage.?

A blindness chiller, the English-language Eyes is Morales' follow-up to his 2005 Spanish-language debut, psychological thriller El habitante incierto (The Uncertain Guest). Rodar and London-based Becker Intl. have inked for an English-language remake of Guest, with Morales once more to helm.

Before that, however, Morales will shoot Eyes in the first half of next year, said Padro.

Story concerns a young woman investigating her blind sister's suicide.

Morales is finalizing the screenplay. The film will shoot with English actors and an English-Spanish crew, said Morales.

To roll in fall 2008, Homecoming turns on a brother and sister, aged 10 and 8, who go on vacation with their parents to an island and return home to a world without people.

"Like my shorts and 'The Orphanage,' I guess the film's about an impossible return to childhood," said Sanchez.

Homecoming will also be English-language. Sanchez, who has written the screenplay for one of Guillermo del Toro's future projects, Spanish-language ghost film 3993, is also putting the final touches to the script of Homecoming.

Films will cost around $10 million-$12 million, said Padro. Those budgets will allow the directors longer shoots and more facilities than most Spanish films.

"Our aim is to shoot exteriors on location abroad but some interiors in Barcelona, taking advantage of lower production costs. We'd like to make international pictures, but not completely outside Barcelona," Padro added.

Godfathered by del Toro and a Picturehouse pickup for the U.S., The Orphanage is the subject of advanced negotiations for an English-language remake by New Line.