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Elijah Wood stars with Vin Diesel in ‘The Last Witch Hunter’
Elijah Wood, whose steady rise to fame left unforgettable imprints in blockbuster action adventure franchise movies such as “The Hobbit,” “Lord of the Rings” and “Happy Feet” as Frodo Baggins and Mumble respectively lends his impressive talent anew in the latest epic adventure The Last Witch Hunter, where co-stars with Vin Diesel who takes on…
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Spanish actress Maribel Verdú graces 2015 Película filmfest
Within the framework of Instituto Cervantes’ PELíCULA–Spanish Film Festival, cinema-goers will have the opportunity to meet and chat with Y tu mamá también actress Maribel Verdú, who will be presenting her films Blancanieves and Felices 140 on October 9, at 4:30 and 7pm at Greenbelt 3 Cinema 1. After the 7pm screening, Verdú will hold…
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MOVIE REVIEW: The Walk: An IMAX 3D Experience (2015)
THE WALK by Robert Zemeckis Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale, Ben Schwartz, Steve Valentine Reviewed at the advance screening at the IMAX Theater of SM Megamall In 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit strung a tightrope rigged between the twin towers of what used to be the tallest skyscraper, the World Trade Center, for a morning…
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Korean Film Festival 2015-Manila leg runs from Oct 8 to 11
This year’s edition of Korean Film Festival, the flagship annual project of the Korean Cultural Center, will run from October 8 to 11 at SM Megamall Cinema 6.
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Cinema Rehiyon Reloaded 2015-Manila leg runs from Oct 12 to 13
The Manila leg of Cinema Rehiyon Reloaded 2015 will showcase 57 short films from different regions in the country on October 12 and 13 at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Auditorium and at Teatro in Fort Santiago, Intramuros.
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‘Felix Manalo’ breaks two Guinness world records for largest film audience
VIVA Films’ latest offering, the film bio Felix Manalo make a new chapter in the history of Philippine Cinema as it breaks two world records in the Guinness World Record feat for the largest audience attendance in a film premiere and the largest attendance in a film screening with its insurmountable 43,624 attendees on October 4.
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Director’s cut of ‘Ninja Party’ screens in UP Diliman
After its successful run at Sinag Maynila film festival last March 2015 where it won Audience Choice Award, Jim Libiran’s Ninja Party will have its special run at the UPFI Film Center in UP Diliman through the screening of its director’s cut.
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‘The Little Prince’ int’l posters speak beauty in every language
Captive Cinema is proud to share online the international posters of The Little Prince, the upcoming animated adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic children’s novel.
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Hugh Jackman meets HK fans, joins dragon parade for ‘Pan’
Global superstar Hugh Jackman, who plays the fearsome pirate Blackbeard in Warner Bros. Pictures’ upcoming action-adventure Pan, was in Hong Kong Sept. 28 to meet fans and spearhead the Asian launch of the highly-anticipated film.
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MMFF Cine International 2015 runs from October 9 to 13
Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) Cine International 2015 will run from October 9 to 13, 2015 at Cinema 1 of The Podium Mall, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong City. Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis.
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WATCH: ‘Spectre’ fires off final trailer
The explosive final trailer for Columbia Pictures’ SPECTRE has arrived and may be viewed here below. Careful not to reveal anything more than what was teased before, the last trailer instead reveals some breathtaking action sequences, plus a memorable face off between Daniel Craig and villain Christoph Waltz.
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Teen actress Odeya Rush takes on ghouls, zombies in ‘Goosebumps’
When Odeya Rush’s breakout movie “The Giver” opened last year, her brothers headed straight down to the cinema. They queued up and got their tickets and prepared for a night of fun. This might not sound all that surprising — until one considers the fact that they chose to watch “Let’s Be Cops,” a raucous…
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GUIDE: QCinema International Film Festival 2015
QCinema International Film Festival 2015 once again earns proof that Quezon City is the film festival capital of the country by exhibiting top-rank films and staging film discourses from October 22 to 31 at Trinoma, Gateway Mall, and Robinson’s Galleria cinemas. Ticket price is P150 each.
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Filming takes off on Clint Eastwood’s Tom Hanks-starrer ‘Sully’
Burbank, CA – September 30, 2015 – Production is underway on Warner Bros. Pictures’ drama Sully, starring Oscar winner Tom Hanks (upcoming “Bridge of Spies,” “Captain Phillips,” “Forrest Gump”) as Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, under the direction of Oscar winner Clint Eastwood (“American Sniper,” “Million Dollar Baby”).
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New trailer of final ‘Paranormal Activity’ spooks
Paramount Pictures has revealed the new trailer of the final Paranormal Activity film, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension which may be viewed below.
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Academy Award winner Benicio del Toro plays hitman in ‘Sicario’
Heinous crimes traverse the jagged line of the U.S. and Mexican border in an alarmingly escalating tempo that the intense thrilling action Sicario (meaning hitman) deals with, starring an impressive roster of actors including Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Josh Brolin.
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Bradley Cooper plays rockstar chef in ‘Burnt’
Four-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper once again displays his acting chops in this year’s mouth-watering and delectable movie Burnt where he stars as Chef Adam Jones who was once a rock star chef, had it all yet lost it along the way. Awarded as a two-star Michelin talent with bad habits to match, the former…
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James Wan starts shooting ‘The Conjuring 2’
Burbank, CA, September 28, 2015 – Principal photography has begun in Los Angeles on New Line Cinema’s The Conjuring 2, with James Wan (“Fast & Furious 7”) once again at the helm, following the record-breaking success of “The Conjuring.” The supernatural thriller brings to the screen another real case from the files of renowned demonologists…
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Sam Smith releases ‘Spectre’ theme song
Multi-platinum selling British artist Sam Smith has become the latest musician to record a James Bond theme song, for the forthcoming SPECTRE. “Writing’s On The Wall” was released Sept. 25 via Capitol Records and is available to purchase and stream now.
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‘The Walk’ reaches for the clouds in IMAX 3D theaters
Columbia Pictures’s The Walk, the new motion picture event from Academy Award® winner Robert Zemeckis, will be shown in IMAX 3D cinemas in the Philippines starting October 14, simultaneous with big-screen digital 3D and 2D theaters across the country.
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Keanu Reeves opens door to temptation in ‘Knock Knock’
Keanu Reeves stars in his latest sexy thrilling starrer in Knock Knock as a blissfully married man with two children who was lured by two very attractive women (played by Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas) when they came knocking at his door when he was left alone at home.
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Fil-Am cinematographer shoots acclaimed ‘Straight Outta Compton’
Don’t look now, but a Filipino-American contributed to the enormous critical and commercial success of Universal Pictures’ Straight Outta Compton, which traces the rise of influential (and notorious) rap group N.W.A. The film’s Director of Photography is none other than Oscar-nominated Fil-Am cinematographer Matthew Libatique, himself a life-long fan of hip-hop music.
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Emma Watson reveals family’s crime in ‘Regression’
Emma Watson, best known for her role in the highly successful film franchise “Harry Potter” playing Hermione Granger expands her range as an actress as she stars her most challenging role to-date in the psychological thriller Regression along with Ethan Hawke and “Harry Potter” alumnus David Thewlis helmed by Academy Award Winner director Alejandro Amenábar…
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Mia Wasikowska, from ‘Alice in Wonderland’ to ‘Crimson Peak’
Universal Pictures’ new gothic thriller Crimson Peak is confidently carried by the inquisitive naïveté of its protagonist Edith Cushing, played by Polish-Australian actress Mia Wasikowska, whose breakthrough role came in Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland.”
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Chris Pine stars as enigmatic Caleb in ‘Z for Zachariah’
Chris Pine stars as the enigmatic Caleb in Z for Zachariah. Best known for his portrayal of James Kirk in J.J. Abrams’ reboot of the popular Star Trek film series, Pine has also appeared in a wide variety of comedies and dramas – Unstoppable (2010), This Means War (2012) and Into the Woods (2014), to name but…
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Ice Cube’s son plays dad in ‘Straight Outta Compton’
Casting for the key roles of a complex, emotional, real-life street drama like Universal Pictures’ Straight Outta Compton was highly personal and took an immense effort by director F. Gary Gray. Of course, their goal when casting the five coveted roles was the full package of triple-threat performers—who could act, look the part and perform…
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QC Int’l Pink Film Festival 2015 runs from Oct 6 to 11
QC International Pink Film Festival 2015 will run from October 6 to 11 at Gateway Cineplex of Gateway Mall, Quezon City. Tickets are priced at 100 pesos apiece.
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WATCH: First trailer of ‘The Angry Birds Movie’
The highly anticipated first trailer of Columbia Pictures’ The Angry Birds Movie has just been released and may be viewed below. In the 3D animated comedy, “The Angry Birds Movie,” we’ll finally find out why the birds are so angry.
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Master of Horror Stephen King praises ‘The Green Inferno’
The master of horror Stephen King has spoken… and he loved the Green Inferno!
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MMFF 2015 Summer Student filmfest runs from Oct 2 to 6
Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) Summer Student Film Festival 2015 will run from October 2 to 6, 2015 at Cinema 1, The Podium Mall, Mandaluyong City. Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis.
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‘Goosebumps’ star Dylan Minnette, from reader to actor
For Dylan Minnette, landing a leading role in Columbia Pictures’ Goosebumps movie was a dream come true. The 18-year-old actor grew up an avid reader of the Goosebumps books, written by best-selling children’s author R.L. Stine, and now features as the young male lead in the big-screen adaptation, starring opposite Jack Black.
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Dakota Johnson leads the women of ‘Black Mass’
Though, in the context of the time, the FBI and the mob were each something of a boys’ club, there are women in the story Warner Bros. Pictures’ new thriller Black Mass who have a distinct impact on what transpires. Portraying them are Dakota Johnson (“Fifty Shades of Grey”), Juno Temple (“Maleficent”) and Julianne Nicholson…
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Visionary director Guillermo del Toro on ‘Crimson Peak’
From the imagination of director Guillermo del Toro comes Universal Pictures’ gothic romance Crimson Peak starring Mia Wasikowska (“Alice in Wonderland”), two-time Academy Award® nominee Jessica Chastain (“Interstellar”), Tom Hiddleston (“Thor” series) and Charlie Hunnam (“Pacific Rim”).
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Anne Hathaway plays self-made fashion mogul in ‘The Intern’
Anne Hathaway stars opposite De Niro as Jules Ostin, the founder of an e-commerce site, About the Fit, in Warner Bros. Pictures’ new drama comedy The Intern.
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Top comedians voice monsters in ‘Hotel Transylvania 2’
Dracula, Frankenstein, the Werewolf, the Invisible Man and the Mummy return for their full reinvention as cool monsters in Sony Pictures Animation’s new animated comedy Hotel Transylvania 2. Providing their voices are top comedians Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Steve Buscemi, David Spade and Keegan-Michael Key.
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‘Resident Evil: The Final Chapter’ starts production
Sony Pictures’ Screen Gems has just announced that the sixth installment of the Sci-Fi, action horror film series, Resident Evil, has commenced principal photography in South Africa.
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‘Straight Outta Compton’ now highest-grossing music biopic
The filmed story of N.W.A. (Niggaz Wit Attitudes) is straight outta record books. Thanks to consecutive weeks atop the US box-office, Universal Pictures’ Straight Outta Compton has earned its place in history as the highest-grossing music biopic ever, with a smash box-office haul of #157 million (as of September 17, 2015). The previous champ, “Walk…
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‘The Walk’ sets new bar in 3D viewing experience
An impossible, but true story, the new film from Robert Zemeckis, The Walk is a live-action, PG-rated entertainment for all audiences, ages 8 to 80. A love letter to the World Trade Center, the film is a 3D and IMAX® visual experience, unlike anything audiences have seen.
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FULL LIST: FAMAS Awards 2015 winners
The Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) has announced the winners and awardees for this year’s competition in the awards night held on Sunday, September 20, 2015 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater, Resorts World in Pasay City.
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New ‘Creed’ trailer looks at action-packed underdog story
Ringside action and an emotional underdog story get highlighted in the new trailer of Warner Bros. Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ new boxing film, Creed.
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Pine, Robbie, Ejiofor make love triangle in ‘Z for Zachariah’
In a world devastated by a catastrophic nuclear event, a single idyllic valley remains spared from the radioactive fallout. Here, a solitary figure, Ann Burden (Margot Robbie), thrives on the farm she once shared with her family, bolstered by her wits, hard work and indomitable faith. Living on her own for some time, her fears…
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‘Spectre’ world premiere set as CTBF’s Royal Film Performance 2015
Albert R. Broccoli’s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment announced today that the 24th James Bond adventure, Spectre, has been selected for The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund’s Royal Film Performance 2015.
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Rise of gangster amidst FBI aid explored in ‘Black Mass’
For more than a decade—until his capture in 2011—Boston’s most infamous crime lord, James “Whitey” Bulger, was hunted by the FBI, surpassed only by Osama Bin Laden at the top of the Bureau’s Most Wanted List. But the ironic fact is that Bulger might never have risen to the level of power he achieved were…
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Selena Gomez voices Dracula’s kid anew in ‘Hotel Transylvania 2’
Pop music and screen sensation Selena Gomez is back to breathe life again to Dracula’s 125-year-old daughter, Mavis, in Sony Pictures Animation’s comedy adventure Hotel Transylvania 2.
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Jessica Chastain in command in ‘The Martian’
Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, who’s also considered as one of the most sought after actresses of her generation who gave memorable portrayals in groundbreaking movies such as “Interstellar,” “Zero Dark 30” and “Tree of Life” stars in Ridley Scott’s space adventure The Martian with Matt Damon, Kate Mara, Chiwetel Ejiofor,…
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Robert De Niro plays ‘The Intern’ of Anne Hathaway
Robert De Niro plays a 70-year-old widower and retiree who gets the chance to begin again as an intern at a local Brooklyn start-up, in Warner Bros. Pictures’ new drama comedy The Intern.
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Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ enchants with trailer
Walt Disney Pictures has just launched the teaser trailer of its new, imaginative take on the classic children’s adventure The Jungle Book. The new film blends live-action with photorealistic CGI animals and environments, using up-to-the-minute technology and storytelling techniques to immerse audiences in an enchanting and lush world.
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Elwood Perez’s ‘Esoterika: Maynila’ to screen at Shang
Hailed as his new masterpiece, Elwood Perez’s Esoterika: Maynila will have a limited commercial run from September 23 – 29, 2015 at the Shang Cineplex. The film, fresh, enchanting, and seductively bizarre all at once, is an eclectic mix of satire, comedy, and experimental cinema. Esoterika: Maynila is the recipient of the Film Critics’ Choice…
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‘Straight Outta Compton’ goes straight to PH
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music.
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Ethan Hawke uncovers family crime in ‘Regression’
Regression, which means an act of going back, stars Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson at the backdrop of Minnesota, 1990. The film follows detective Bruce Kenner (Hawke) investigating the case of young Angela (Watson), who accuses her father, John Gray (David Dencik), of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned…
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Sineng Pambansa awards scriptwriting tilt winners
The winners of the Sineng Pambansa Climate Change Scriptwriting Contest were awarded at the Film Development Council of the Philippines on September 17, 2015. The top participants of the Full Length Documentary category and the Short Fiction feature category received their Certificates of Award and claimed their prize earnings.
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‘Pan’ gears up to bring to life Neverland around the world
Gearing up for the release of the big screen, family adventure Pan, Warner Bros. Pictures has been bringing the film’s magical world to life with exciting and unique events across the globe. Global superstar Hugh Jackman, who plays the fearsome pirate Blackbeard, along with Levi Miller, who brings the iconic title character of Peter Pan…
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Película Spanish Film Festival 2015 runs Oct 8-18 at Greenbelt 3
From October 8 to 18, PELÍCULA-PELIKULA, the Spanish Film Festival, will be featuring the best of contemporary Spanish cinema at the Greenbelt 3 Cinemas. Presented by Instituto Cervantes, the Embassy of Spain-AECID, the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) and Intramuros Administration, the 2015 edition of the Spanish Film Festival will screen around 30…
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‘The Green Inferno’ finally gets green light in PH
After more than a year of waiting, horror movie fans will finally get to see perhaps the most disturbing, and controversial films of the year—The Green Inferno.
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MOVIE REVIEW: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
The part where an awkward guy meets a lovely girl diagnosed with cancer. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl could be a love story but this is rather a story of mismatched friendship. The premise could simply sound familiar until one finally sees the beauty, wit and charm in watching through and through. Apologies to…
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Vin Diesel is ‘The Last Witch Hunter’
The action adventure The Last Witch Hunter starring Fast and the Furious’ Vin Diesel takes on the legendary titular character of Kaulder, a guardian for an endless age, is all that stands between humanity and the combined forces of the most horrifying witches in history.
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‘In the Heart of the Sea’ sails with new trailer
Warner Bros. Pictures has just launched the latest trailer of In the Heart of the Sea, director Ron Howard’s real-life ocean adventure starring Chris Hemsworth. The trailer may be viewed below.
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MOVIE REVIEW: Everest (2015)
In Everest, it is all throughout about the concept of “man versus nature”. The competition is not between people; the last word always belongs to the mountain. And so as the story unfolds and we take a good look at the tragic reality of the May 1996 expedition in which eight climbers died, the experience is dizzyingly…
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