Lopez takes up journalism

Jennifer Lopez will re-team with her Selena director Gregory Nava to play a journalist in her next movie, Bordertown.

Lopez, who won acclaim when she portrayed tragic singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez in the 1997 movie, will play a reporter who investigates a series of murders near American-owned factories on the border of Juarez, Mexico , and El Paso, Texas.

Production on the movie is set to begin in New Mexico and Mexico on April 30.