“I’ve known Denzel for a big part of my life,” says Fanning. “One of his daughters is one of my closest friends, so I’ve always been in the loop on what he’s up to.”
Fanning is reuniting with Washington in The Equalizer 3, where she plays a CIA analyst that Washington’s Robert McCall reaches out to for help as he begins his fight against the mafia.
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/inN061MtPOg
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“He's going through an internal battle,” says Antoine Fuqua, who returns to direct the third film in the trilogy and fifth overall with Washington. “He’s helping those who can't help themselves, handing out justice his way to evil people. But he’s questioning himself. Has he gone too far? Is he enjoying it too much? Is he still doing it for the right reasons?”
Producers Todd Black and Jason Blumenthal say that the reason that The Equalizer franchise has resonated so strongly with audiences is that it echoes with who Washington is in real life – minus the violence. “Robert McCall is able to take care of good people who can’t take care of themselves,” they say. “Denzel, as a human being, really believes in mission-oriented goals... I think it’s the same thing here with Robert McCall – he uses his powers to serve good. He, as both Denzel and as Robert McCall, are going to make sure that the good people are protected. The fun of it is tracking them down – he gives them all an opportunity to stop what they’re doing, and they don’t, and so he has to become the Equalizer.”
The real Jann Mardenborough agrees. “I hope it shows kids that look like me that they can trust themselves and can go after what they love,” he says.
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/sM8xVZp2aKs
Like the character he plays, Madekwe had one hiccup when he began racing cars: he didn’t know how to drive. While working on another production, before Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story began shooting, he would shoot his scenes during the day, then sneak in a driving lesson in his evenings.
Concrete Utopia, a thrilling disaster film starring an ensemble of A-list Korean actors including Lee Byung-hun, Park Seo-jun, Park Bo-young, Park Ji-hu, Kim Do-yoon and Kim Sun-young, will be released in the Philippines by Columbia Pictures.
The film, which opened #1 in Korea, will open in local cinemas September 20.
Directed by Um Tae-hwa, Concrete Utopia is loosely based on Part 2 of the hit webtoon “Joyful Outcast” (“Pleasant Neighbors”). Concrete Utopia is a disaster thriller about the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. The film will follow the story that begins when the survivors gather at Hwang Gung Apartments, the only building left standing in an earthquake-ravaged Seoul.
As the trailer and poster speaks for themselves, the survivors will have to go through mind-boggling thought processes, revealing the kind and dark side of human nature. Find out with us in the cinemas who will be the final survivors.
“I knew Neill would bring a visceral, blood pumping feel to the movie,” says David Harbour, who plays Jack, a washed-up driver who becomes Jann Mardenborough’s chief engineer and teaches him the ins and outs of a real racecar. “What I didn’t really know was how much we were going to be working with actual cars, actual drivers, actual tracks. We’re in the cars, we’re doing pit tire changes and gassing up the cars in real-time with other drivers blazing around the track at 200mph. It’s really me in a helicopter flying 30 feet above racecars. It all plays into the intensity of the experience – which is critical to making a film about people having a very intense experience, risking everything for what they love.”
“Gran Turismo has all the qualities of a great underdog sports story,” says producer Doug Belgrad of the film based on the true story of Jann Mardenborough, one of the unlikeliest racecar drivers of all time.
Director Neill Blomkamp, whose credits include District 9 and Elysium, says that Jann makes a compelling character because his real-life story is an unbelievable series of dreams coming true. Like a lot of young adults, Jann seems more interested in playing videogames than with making something of his life, until he’s given a chance to play for real. “Jann is playing ‘Gran Turismo’ in his parents’ house when all of a sudden – after years – he sees the option for GT Academy,” Blomkamp explains. “Only then did he learn how to drive proper cars – how to hit an apex and exit a corner – everything he’d done intuitively inside the game, but had never been taught.”
Being a fan of space movies, Doh Kyung-soo had a dream of “someday being able to work on a film set in space,” shares the actor, who stars in the upcoming film The Moon.
Doh, who debuted as a member of the K-pop group EXO, is also known for his acting work, such as in the films My Annoying Brother and Along with the Gods, and the popular TV series 100 Days My Prince.
In The Moon, a gripping, epic action adventure and one of the most highly anticipated films in Korea this year, Doh expands his acting spectrum by playing a lone Korean astronaut stranded on the moon. His character, Sun-woo, is a former SEAL member and molecular physics major who joins the Narae-ho space program in Korea. He boards the spacecraft in pursuit of his father's unrealized dream but unexpectedly becomes the sole survivor of the expedition due to an unforeseen accident.
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About Napoleon
Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar®-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film captures Bonaparte's relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.
THIS. ACTUALLY. HAPPENED. See the INSANE TRUE STORY of Gran Turismo, in cinemas August 30. Watch the new trailer:
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Archie Madekwe in Gran Turismo
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| EXO’s Doh Kyung-soo is astronaut Sun-woo in The Moon. |
The Moon, directed by Kim Yong-hwa, is a gripping, emotional, epic-action, and one of Korea’s highly anticipated films of the year. It will open across the Philippines on AUGUST 16.
Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/n3XFeKvn3yk
Mark your calendars!
The Moon, a gripping, emotional, epic-action, and one of Korea’s highly anticipated films of the year, will open across the Philippines on AUGUST 16. Watch the teaser trailer now.
YouTube Trailer Link: https://youtu.be/n3XFeKvn3yk
The film is directed by Kim Yong-hwa, one of the most prominent genre directors in Korean cinema. It stars veteran actor Sul Kyung-gu (Phantom, The Book of Fish, Man of Men, Birthday) and EXO member Doh Kyung-soo (Underdog, Swingkids, Along With The Gods series) as an astronaut stranded in space. The cast also includes award-winning actress Kim Hee-ae (The World of the Married).
He dreamed the impossible to become an elite racer – experience the inspiring true story in Gran Turismo, exclusively in cinemas August 2023. Watch “The True Story” vignette:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/CuZjzfLo5Mc
About Gran Turismo
Based on the true story of Jann Mardenborough, the film is the ultimate wish fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.
Directed by Neill Blomkamp, screenplay by Jason Hall and Zach Baylin, based on the PLAYSTATION STUDIOS video game.
Produced by Doug Belgrad, Asad Qizilbash, Carter Swan, Dana Brunetti. The executive producers are Kazunori Yamauchi, Herman Hulst, Jason Hall, Matthew Hirsch.
When is the most terrifyingly good time to watch a horror movie?
At midnight… in an empty mall… with friends! Due to popular demand, Insidious: The Red Door will hold midnight screenings this weekend, July 15 and 16, on even more screens than on the film’s opening day and opening weekend.
As more and more people post about their screaming good time watching the film during the witching hour, audiences have found that midnight screenings are a unique experience not to be missed. A popular social post of a cinema chain inviting moviegoers “to fulfill their empty mall chase nightmare” has also excited and challenged many to experience the terror of Insidious: The Red Door at midnight.
Watch the film’s final trailer at https://youtu.be/3NOce4Ky6PQ
Like an unexpected twist of a horror film, the blockbuster performance of The Red Door delighted local Philippine audiences. “The film was poised to open well, but we were just blown away by how much the horror fans embraced this, the franchise’s final chapter,” said Christopher Sy, managing director of Columbia Pictures. “It’s like the biggest, most enthusiastic send-off party to a beloved friend.”
This is the biggest opening day box office take for a theatrical release so far this year, remarkably outgrossing the first-day numbers of superhero blockbusters and epic action adventures, such as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, John Wick: Chapter 4, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Fast X, The Little Mermaid, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
The opening day performance of Insidious: The Red Door, the latest and final installment in the fan-favorite franchise, also broke the record for biggest horror opening day of all time in the Philippines, besting the Day 1 numbers of the previously released Insidious films, as well as The Conjuring, IT and The Orphan movies, The Nun, Annabelle: Creation and local titles Deleter and Feng Shui.
Says Patrick Wilson, who returns as Josh Lambert in his directorial debut Insidious: The Red Door, which brings the Lambert family’s terrifying saga to an epic conclusion. The final chapter of the blockbuster horror franchise opens exclusively in cinemas July 5.
Watch the film’s trailer at https://youtu.be/rIslMRneXlM
In the film, the horror franchise’s original cast, including Wilson, Ty Simpkins and Rose Byrne, returns. To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh (Wilson) and a college-aged Dalton (Simpkins) must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family’s dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.
Enter No Hard Feelings.
For Lawrence, it was a pleasure to do “something totally different… a totally different genre, with fun scenes and ridiculous dialogue that got me excited! Shooting this movie, alongside a brilliant and hilarious cast, was so much fun.”
One of those castmates is Andrew Barth Feldman, who plays the socially awkward Percy, whose wealthy helicopter parents post a job listing looking for someone to “date” their introverted son before he leaves for college. This is the job listing that Lawrence’s Maddie responds to so she can save her childhood home.
Midnight is the witching hour! Be among the first to see Insidious: The Red Door by booking tickets for July 5, at 12:01 am, in these participating cinemas:
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Get ready to see the Oscar-winning Lawrence like you’ve never seen her before in No Hard Feelings, opening across Philippine cinemas June 21.
(Left photo, from left) Andrew Feldman, Jennifer Lawrence, and director Gene Stupnitsky at the London premiere for No Hard Feelings on June 12.
