“I’m done defining love.” says John Lloyd Cruz in a press conference for Jollibee Studios’ “One True Pair” the movie. Many people are looking for the one and a love that lasts and while many have been fortunate to find it and keep it, many are still searching for that person, or
Category: Press Releases
Jo Atienza, pioneer in film archiving, joins SOFIA’s Sixth Microlearning Sessions
Ms. Atienza is the guest speaker for SOFIA’s 6th Microlearning Sessions happening this October 24th. The Society of Filipino Archivists for Film (SOFIA) invites you to join its sixth Microlearning session with guest speaker, Ms. Jo Atienza who will discuss “The Many Beginnings of Film Archiving in the Philippines” happening
Brillante Ma. Mendoza’s GENSAN PUNCH is nominated for the Kim Jiseok award
A brand-new HBO Asia Original film GENSAN PUNCH will have its world premiere in “A Window on Asian Cinema” section (Competition) at the upcoming 26th edition of Busan International Film Festival, before premiering exclusively on HBO GO and HBO in the next few months. The Filipino-Japanese title in English, Japanese
Wanna watch films FOR FREE? The 20th PELÍCULA-Spanish Film Festival is offering all its films to stream for free from October 1 to 10, 2021
PELÍCULA-Spanish Film Festival from October 1 to 10, 2021, watch all twenty films for FREE! The Instituto Cervantes de Manila will be showcasing a total of 20 films—4 short films and 16 contemporary Spanish and Latin American feature films—for you to enjoy. All of them will be available for free streaming with English subtitles at www.pelikula.es within 48
Have you seen the trailer for Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’?
Netflix series Squid Game has released the ensemble poster and main trailer for the show providing a sneak peek at the exciting story of participants risking their lives while playing mysterious games to win a 45.6 billion won cash prize. In eye-popping colors, stands out a scene in this trailer
‘BINH’ wins this year’s SeaShorts Best Film
We’re certainly happy to be invited to this year’s SeaShorts Film Festival, as it allowed us to explore films from the Southeast Asian region. As concluded on Thursday, closing nine days’ worth of masterclasses, workshops, and film screenings that celebrated Southeast Asian filmmakers and cinema. Earning the festival’s main honor,
MALIGNANT’s Second Trailer shows Madison’s longer POV on bad imaginary friends
Malignant second trailer promises to be James Wan’s most terrifying film yet. Going back to his roots, James Wan uses imaginary friends as a way to scare us through Malignant, a sinister new film from Australian filmmaker whose foray into the horror genre had led us to the Insidious and
Selena + Chef premieres on HBO Go this August 12
MANILA, AUGUST 2021 – The first two seasons of the Max Original Selena + Chef will premiere in Asia exclusively on HBO GO from August 12. Stream or download the unscripted cooking series featuring Selena Gomez, the multi-platinum selling recording artist, actress, producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, as she navigates unfamiliar
Here’s where you can watch A is for Agustin, and many more hard-to-find docus and shorts from TBA Studios
In case you missed their limited theatrical and festival runs, TBA Studios has released these five award-winning short films and documentaries will be available for on-demand viewing this month on major streaming platforms. Shorts Bundle Premiering on Aug. 20 on the platforms are Goyo prequel Angelito, QCinema Film Festival 2019
‘Malignant’ is James Wan’s latest foray back into the Horror genre releases it’s new trailer
James Wan proves to us once again that ghosts at home, like “imaginary friends” are the best monsters of them all. Have you ever had an imaginary friend so wild and so… dark that it’s best to keep them all to yourself until one day you forget about them? But
The Mitchells vs The Machines trailer is here! Can this family save the world from robot apocalypse?
The Mitchells vs The Machines features a stellar cast of characters voiced by Danny McBride and Olivia Coleman. From the humans who brought you the Academy Award-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and The LEGO Movie comes The Mitchells vs. The Machines, an animated action-comedy about an ordinary family who find
‘The Nevers’ combines some wicked Sci-Fi and witch craft savagery in this new show from HBO
Set in Victorian-London, ‘The Nevers’ is mostly led by female characters who suddenly manifest some special abilities. HBO drama series The Nevers premieres same time as the U.S. on Monday, 12 April at 9am exclusively on HBO GO and HBO, with a same day encore at 10pm on HBO. The
Elisa Lam’s chilling story is coming to Netflix in ‘The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’
‘The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’ has been home to numerous mysteries which are now being explored in Netflix’s new Original Documentary from director Joe Berlinger. It’s a story like no other. 21-year old Canadian student Elisa Lam was last seen checking into the Cecil Hotel, where she was then
Can’t get enough of the HBO series ‘Euphoria’? The second episode is underway this January 2021
Euphoria’s second special episode will be directed by Sam Levinson, entitled “F*ck Anyone Who’s Not A Sea Blob”. EUPHORIA withdrawals include thinking about Zendaya’s performances a lot especially after the premiere of this month’s first episode special, Not to worry though as the second episode for this Emmy winning* HBO
Inspired by PH true crime story “Kisapmata” gets the restored treatment, premieres online this Dec. 19
KISAPMATA was inspired by the true crime report “The House on Zapote Street”. “In The Wink of An Eye” as it would also be known as has been a staple favorite among budding cinephiles in the country. Considered as a classic of epic proportions not only because of the controversy
Mysterious thriller “The Flight Attendant” features Kaley Cuoco, streams on HBO Go this Nov. 26
One “The Flight Attendant” review claims that the mini-series is “dark, maddening, and depends on how much you like Kaley Cuoco”. Kaley Cuoco has been famous for portraying the sassy cool neighbor who normalizes every geek terminology her other next-door neighbors lambast in each episode of The Big Bang Theory.
Black diablos unleash in this first teaser trailer for Monster Hunter
“She’s found her prey.” Check out the first teaser trailer for Columbia Pictures’ Monster Hunter. Based on the global video game series phenomenon, Monster Hunter is written for the screen and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. The film stars Milla Jovovich, Tony Jaa, Tip ‘T.I.’ Harris, Meagan Good, Diego Boneta, Josh Helman,
Stories of Yolanda, unfolding this week in Daang Dokyu
Stories of survival and struggle from the aftermath of Yolanda unfold each day. Documentarists want to keep the conversation going as seen in this week’s edition of the month-long Daang Dokyu. In the ongoing festival of Philippine documentaries, Daang Dokyu, three films on Typhoon Yolanda (International name: Haiyan) are streaming. These
“TENET” USES SCI-FI ELEMENTS TO REINVENT THE SPY GENRE
Most people see time as an unalterable dynamic of our existence, but in the hands of filmmaker Christopher Nolan, it becomes a compellingly tractable thread, able to be bent, twisted, juxtaposed…or inverted. (Watch the Tenet – Final Trailer at http://bit.ly/TENETFinalTrailer.) Nolan, who wrote, directed and produced Warner Bros. Pictures’ new sci-fi
‘The Croods’ is back with “A New Age” in this first trailer
The world’s first family is back with an adventure for the Stone Ages! The Croods have survived their fair share of dangers and disasters, from fanged prehistoric beasts to surviving the end of the world, but now they will face their biggest challenge of all: another family. The Croods need
Tuesday One-Sheet: We Hear There’s ‘A Quiet Place II’
With what’s left of the Abbott Family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe), they must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue to fight for survival in silence. From the looks of this featurette, there’s more to creatures that are attracted to sound that they should
Daang Dokyu: A Celebration of Filipino Stories opens this March 16 to 21
A hundred years since Filipinos started capturing in film the story of their islands and their people, recorded facts, narratives, and perspectives have been shaped and developed. This year marks a special occasion for this collection of Filipino stories as they are set to be celebrated in Daang Dokyu, the
Catch Will Smith in this action-packed thriller ‘Gemini Man’ this October 9
This is a quick one-sheet for ‘Gemini Man’ is provided to us by our friends at United International Pictures. Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Ang Lee directs Gemini Man, an innovative action-thriller starring Will Smith as both Henry Brogan, a veteran ex-Special Forces sniper turned assassin for a clandestine government organization; and, with the
These are the three documentaries to screen in QCinema 2019
QCinema is home to some of the finest independent-produced films in the country. They’ve just announced the three documentary films to receive post-production grant of P500,000 each, while retaining exclusive rights to their films. A move considered a breakthrough in most film festival circuits in the country. Jet Leyco’s For My
Daniel Hui’s Snakeskin will be screening at the UPFI!
[Editor’s note: the following is a press release from Los Otros] Los Otros co-presents with UP Film Center a free screening of Daniel Hui’s critically-acclaimed second film, SNAKESKIN (2014), followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. “A striking vérité snapshot of present-day Singapore that doubles as a semi-mystical cinematic incantation
