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In 2014, director Bryce McGuire made Night Swim, an acclaimed five-minute short shot in the backyard of Grammy-winning musician Michelle Branch and featuring actress Megalyn Echikunwoke (Fox’s Almost Family) as a young woman who goes missing in her own pool when an evening swim leads to a close encounter with something creepy. The short made a splash …
“The children were great!” says Academy Award nominee Kerry Condon of Amélie Hoeferle and Gavin Warren, who play her character’s children in Night Swim, a new supernatural thriller opening in cinemas this week. In Night Swim, based on director McGuire’s acclaimed 2014 short film of the same name, Ray Waller (Wyatt Russell) is a former major league …
February 19, 2023 – Bob Marley: One Love, a film celebrating the legendary reggae musician, opened at No. 1 across several countries worldwide with an estimated gross of $80-million, including $51-million in North America. The movie broke the record for biggest opening day for a music biopic in several markets, including the UK, New Zealand, and …
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Like his Night Swim character, Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters) was a former athlete, one of the reasons director Bryce McGuire wanted him for the role of former baseball pro Ray Waller. For the actor, being able to draw on his own experience as an athlete definitely helped his performance. “There …
If you feel it, chase it. Experience being in the center of it all as storm chasers try to predict and tame one of the most awe-inspiring, yet terrifying forces of nature. Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, and Brandon Perea, Twisters is storming into Philippine theaters on July 17. Watch the trailer here: …
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Okay, I was skeptical upon hearing Julia Barretto will be paired with Aga Muhlach in a movie. And not just any movie, a romance movie. Aga has been paied with Julia’s aunts Claudine and Gretchen and he also revealed that Marjorie was his on-screen girl friend in one of his series when they were young. …
Continue reading “‘Ikaw Pa Rin Ang Pipiliin Ko’ and the issues of May-December love affairs”
A four-part mini series sounds like something that would left a viewer hanging but Rae Red’s ‘Roadkillers’ starring Nadine Lustre was actually planned as a movie before it became a series. The question now is why? “With a series, we really just felt that we’d be able to tell more of the story, get into …
The guardians of nature. The protectors of humanity. The rise of a new empire. Catch the brand new trailer of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the new action adventure directed by Adam Wingard, who helmed its predecessor Godzilla vs. Kong. Returning for the sequel are Rebecca Hall and Bryan Tyree Henry, along with new cast member Dan Stevens. Godzilla x Kong sweeps into Philippine theaters on March 30.
Madame Web, the first superhero movie with a female lead in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, is the #1 movie in the Philippines this week, scoring a record-breaking PHP 10,402,829 on its first day. With a Valentine’s Day debut in 326 screens nationwide, the film holds the biggest opening day gross so far for 2024.
When director Zelda Williams and her team first screened Lisa Frankenstein, the host asked the focus group at the end what they thought the main message of the movie was. “There was of course mention of flying body parts,” shares Williams. “But one of them, who seemed to be around 18, raised their hand and confidently …