ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
QCinema International Film Festival is now accepting submissions for #QCShorts 2024. The festival is offering six production grants, each valued at P350,000, to support emerging filmmakers. Deadline is on February 25, 2024, 11:59 PM. All Filipino citizens aged 18 and above are qualified to submit their narrative fiction, animation, or experimental entries, with a maximum …
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Philippines. (January 19, 2024) – After entertaining audiences across the world in 2023 with his unmissable super-powered drama Moving, lauded screenwriter Kangfull returns later this year with Light Shop – a mysterious drama that explores life, death, and what makes us human, exclusively on Disney+. An adaptation of Kangfull’s hit webtoon of the same name, Light Shop follows a group of strangers, …
“I have always toyed with themes of transformation and reinvention,” says screenwriter Diablo Cody, who catapulted onto the Hollywood stage with 2007’s “Juno,” for which she won the Academy Award, BAFTA and Critics’ Choice Award for best original screenplay. “In everything I write, someone is going through a dramatic change, whether it’s becoming possessed by …
Whether you’re more interested in suave secret agents like Argylle, or superstar but shy best-selling authors like Elly Conway, there’s a character that’s sure to be your favorite in “Argylle,” the new razor-witted, reality-bending spy thriller from the twisted mind of filmmaker Matthew Vaughn (“Kingsman,” “Kick-Ass”). In “Agrylle,” Bryce Dallas Howard (“Jurassic World” franchise) is …
Catch ‘Tokyo Revengers 2: Bloody Halloween- Destiny’ in cinemas now!
Philippines. (January 15, 2024) – When the illegitimate son of a Korean conglomerate owner partners with his ambitious childhood friend, the duo will stop at nothing to seize their place at the top of the societal food chain in The Impossible Heir – a ruthless revenge drama coming this February exclusively to Disney+. Born into an impoverished single …
In 2020, with the world in lockdown, visionary filmmaker Matthew Vaughn – the director and producer of “The Kingsman” films, “Kick-Ass” and “Stardust” – sat down at his home outside London and decided to stage a film-appreciation class for his wife, Claudia Vaughn (née Schiffer), and their two daughters, who were around 10 and 15 …
January 15, 2024 – We’re making fetch happen again! Mean Girls is the homecoming queen of the US box office with an estimated opening weekend gross of US$30.5-million, enough to slay the competition for the No.1 spot. The teen movie will debut in Philippine cinemas on February 7. Watch the trailer here: A refreshing musical …
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Among the 92 films to be screened at the Sundance Film Festival from January 18-28, 2024 in Salt Lake City and Park City in Utah are four works by Filipinos. These are the documentary “And So It Begins” by Ramona Diaz, and the short films “Dream Creep” by Carlos A.F. Lopez, “Thirstygirl” by Alexadra Qin, …
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For director Will Gluck, Anyone But You was a chance to make a romantic comedy that was as funny as any in recent memory. “Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell are simply two of the funniest people I’ve ever worked with,” says Gluck. “You put them on the big screen together, and magic happens.” In Anyone But You, Sweeney …