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Emmy-winning host Anthony Bourdain dead at age 61

I was watching the second season of The Layover on Netflix, when news of Anthony Bourdain’s death filled my twitter and facebook feed. The cause of death was suicide, Anthony Bourdain is the second celebrity to have committed suicide in less than a week.

Guns N’ Roses is coming to Manila on November 11

They’re coming!!!!

Tickets will go on sale June 9 with the following prices:

  • Platinum – ₱14,850
  • Lower Box A Premium – ₱12,750
  • Lower Box A Regular – ₱9,600
  • Lower Box B Premium – ₱7,500
  • Lower Box B Regular – ₱5,400
  • Upper Box A – ₱2,250
  • Upper Box B Premium – ₱1,500
  • UB B Regular – ₱1,000
  • UB B Sides – ₱800

Marvel Studios releases Official Trailer of Ant-Man and The Wasp

This trailer is more of an introduction of Ghost, the villain in the film and Ant-Man’s budding relationship with the Wasp. The movie happened right after Capt. American; Civil War and sometime before Avengers: Infinity War, so no spoilers, but may be a couple of Easter egg for eagle eye movie goers.

Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and The Wasp is In theaters July 6.

The Avengers Infinity Wars was spoiled by Mark Ruffalo more than six months ago

Watch at your own risk!

If people only took Mark Ruffalo answer and Don Cheadle’s reaction seriously. We have to remember that this was almost 10 months before the release Avengers Infinity Wars.

First trailer of Venom

I’m not sure if this is excitement or what, but judging from the trailer, Venom lies outside Marvel Cinematic Universe and as if Spiderman does not exist in this “Venom-verse.”

Starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock/Venom. The film is directed by Ruben Fleischer, Venom will be in theaters in October 5, 2018.

Deadpool 2 Final Trailer

The film is directed by David Leitch with script by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Ryan Reynolds, who plays Wade Wilson / Deadpool with Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller, Brianna Hildebrand, Jack Kesy, and Stefan Kapičić.

Deadpool 2 hits theaters on May 18th.

Here’s the second trailer of Solo: A Star Wars Story

For a film that had 3 director changes, this one is looking good!

Starring Alden Ehrenreich as Solo, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover as a young Lando Calrissian, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joonas Suotamo, and Paul Bettany.

Directed by Ron Howard, the film will be in theaters 25th of May.

Ogie Alcasid crashes wedding with a love song

It was during the wedding reception of Ryan Lucila and Noreen Ojastro when veteran singer-songwriter Ogie Alcasid showed up and serenaded the newlyweds and their guests.

Even though its obvious that Ogie Alcasid’s appearance is staged, of course with the help of Ian Celis Productions, both Ryan Lucila and Noreen Ojastro, and their guests are not informed of Alcasid’s surprise visit.

The video was posted on Ian Celis Productions’ FB page, it’s part of the six-and-a-half minute same-day edit video of the wedding.

Source: CNN Philippines

Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan passed away at 46

Sad news today!

Cranberries’ lead singer Dolores O’Riordan died suddenly in London. The news of her passing was posted on the band’s official Facebook page and requesting privacy for her family.

Cranberries and Dolores O’Riordan hits includes 90’s hit songs “Linger”, “Zombie”, “Ode to My Family”, “Free to Decide”, and many more.

Cranberries recently released a new acoustic album titled Something Else last 28 April 2017.

Full list of 2017 Metro Manila Film Fest (MMFF) Gabi ng Parangal Winners

Here are the winners for this year’s Metro Manila Film Fest (MMFF) Gabi ng Parangal.

  • Best Picture: Ang Larawan (trailer is embedded above)
  • Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Award: Ang Larawan
  • Fernando Poe Jr. Memorial Award: Ang Panday
  • Best Director: Paul Soriano (Siargao)
  • Best Actor in a Leading Role: Derek Ramsay (All of You)
  • Best Actress in a Leading Role: Joanna Ampil (Ang Larawan)
  • Special Jury Prize: Nick Joaquin and Coco Martin
  • Best Screenplay: All of You
  • Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Edgar Allan Guzman (Deadma Walking)
  • Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Jasmine Curtis-Smith (Siargao)
  • Best Child Performer: Baby Baste (Meant to Beh)
  • Best Cinematography: Siargao
  • Best Sound: Siargao
  • Best Theme Song: “Alon” by Hale (Siargao)
  • Best Editing: Siargao
  • Best Visual Effects: Ang Panday
  • Best Musical Score: Ang Larawan
  • Best Production Design: Ang Larawan
  • Best Float: Deadma Walking
  • Children’s Choice Award: And Panday
  • People’s Choice Award: Gandarrapiddo: The Revenger Squad
  • Star of the Night (Male): Derek Ramsay
  • Star of the Night (Female): Erich Gonzales
  • Short Film Awards People’s Choice Award: Noel
  • Short Film Awards Best Picture: Anong Nangyari kay Nicanor Dante?

The Gabi ng Parangal of the 2017 Metro Manila Film Festival was held in at the Kia Theatre in Quezon City.

New Black Panther Trailer

It looks like its going to be one of those movies that will be bigger than expected!

Starring Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa / Black Panther, Michael B. Jordan as the main bad guy Erik Killmonger and Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia as an undercover operative of the Dora Milaje, the all-female special forces of Wakanda.

Black Panther is directed by Ryan Coogler and will be in theaters in February 16, 2018.

Shows that will come and leave Netflix this January 2018

Here’s somethings to look forward this January, well at least for Netflix subscribers.

Coming to Netflix

January 1st

  • 10,000 B.C.
  • 30 Days of Night
  • Age Of Shadows
  • AlphaGo
  • America’s Sweethearts
  • Apollo 13
  • Batman
  • Batman & Robin
  • Batman Begins
  • Batman Forever
  • Batman Returns
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  • Bring It On
  • Bring It On Again
  • Bring It On: All or Nothing
  • Bring It On: Fight to the Finish
  • Bring It On: In It to Win It
  • Caddyshack
  • Chef & My Fridge: 2017
  • Defiance
  • Definitely, Maybe
  • Eastsiders, season 3
  • Furry Vengeance
  • Glacé, season 1
  • How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
  • Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
  • King Kong
  • Lethal Weapon
  • Lethal Weapon 2
  • Lethal Weapon 3
  • Lethal Weapon 4
  • License to Wed
  • Like Water for Chocolate
  • Love Actually
  • Lovesick, season 3
  • Maddman: The Steve Madden Story
  • Marie Antoinette
  • Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World
  • Midnight in Paris
  • Monsters vs. Aliens
  • National Treasure
  • Sharknado 5: Global Swarming
  • Stardust
  • Strictly Ballroom
  • The Dukes of Hazzard
  • The Exorcism of Emily Rose
  • The First Time
  • The Godfather
  • The Godfather: Part II
  • The Godfather: Part III
  • The Italian Job
  • The Lovely Bones
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • The Truman Show
  • The Vault
  • Training Day
  • Treasures From The Wreck Of The Unbelievable
  • Troy
  • Wedding Crashers
  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

January 2nd

  • Mustang Island
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
  • Rent

January 5th

  • Before I Wake
  • Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
  • Devilman Crybaby, season 1
  • Rotten

January 6th

  • Episodes, seasons 1-5

January 8th

  • The Conjuring

January 10th

  • 47 Meters Down
  • Alejandro Riaño Especial de stand up
  • Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
  • In The Deep

January 12th

  • Colony, season 2
  • Disjointed: Part 2
  • Somebody Feed Phil
  • The Man Who Would Be Polka King
  • The Polka King
  • Tom Segura: Disgraceful

January 14th

  • Wild Hogs

January 15th

  • 2018 Olympic Winter Games Preview: Meet Team USA & Go for the Gold
  • Rehenes
  • Unrest

January 16th

  • Dallas Buyers Club
  • Katt Williams: Great America
  • Rita, season 4

January 17th

  • Arango y Sanint: Ríase El Show
  • Friday Night Tykes, season 4

January 18th

  • Bad Day for the Cut
  • Tiempos de guerra, season 1

January 19th

  • Drug Lords, season 1
  • Grace and Frankie, season 4
  • The Open House
  • Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, season 1

January 23rd

  • Todd Glass: Act Happy

January 24th

  • Ricardo Quevedo: Hay gente así

January 25th

  • Acts of Vengeance

January 26th

  • A Futile and Stupid Gesture
  • Dirty Money
  • Kavin Jay: Everybody Calm Down!
  • Llama Llama, season 1
  • One Day at a Time, season 2
  • Sebastián Marcelo Wainraich
  • The Adventures of Puss in Boots, season 6
  • Mau Nieto: Viviendo sobrio… desde el bar

January 28th

  • El Ministerio del Tiempo, seasons 1-3

January 29th

  • The Force

January 30th

  • Babylon Berlin, seasons 1-2
  • Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
  • Retribution, season 1

January 31st

  • Cars 3

Leaving Netflix

January 1st

  • Chicago
  • Daddy Day Care
  • Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
  • Dressed to Kill
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  • Forrest Gump
  • Four Brothers
  • Free Willy
  • Grease
  • Gremlins
  • I Am Sam
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Fifteenth Year
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Fourteenth Year
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Seventeenth Year
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Sixteenth Year
  • License to Drive
  • Made of Honor
  • Mean Girls
  • Miss Congeniality
  • Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
  • Mona Lisa Smile
  • Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction
  • Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages
  • Pokémon: Indigo League, season 1
  • Pokémon: XY, seasons 1-2
  • Police Academy
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Saw
  • Saw II
  • Saw III
  • Saw IV
  • Saw V
  • Saw VI
  • Saw: The Final Chapter
  • Someone Like You
  • The Addams Family
  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
  • The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
  • The Man with One Red Shoe
  • The Manhattan Project
  • The Mighty Ducks
  • The Parent Trap
  • The Secret Garden
  • The Switch
  • Three Coins in the Fountain
  • White Chicks
  • Young Mr. Lincoln

January 3rd

  • VHS

January 4th

  • Lost, seasons 1-6

January 5th

  • Fantasia
  • Fantasia 2000
  • The Host

January 15th

  • Sirens, seasons 1-2

January 30th

  • Futurama, seasons 7-10

 

Disney acquires 21st Century Fox for $52.4 Billion in stock

Disney just acquired 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion in stocks, the reported actual value the deal is approximately $66.1 billion. Once the transaction is close, shareholders of 21st Century Fox will receive 0.2745 Disney shares for each 21st Century Fox share they hold, this will give the Murdoch family trading control of 21st Century Fox for a 4.25% stake in Disney.

The deal is expected to complete in 12 to 18 months, once closed, Disney will acquire entertainment properties like the Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox 2000, it also include movies like Avatar, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool, as well as The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hidden Figures, Gone Girl, The Shape of Water and The Martian, and its television creative units, Twentieth Century Fox Television, FX Productions and Fox21, which is the home of popular tv series The Americans, This Is Us, Modern Family, The Simpsons. Disney will also acquire FX Networks, National Geographic Partners, Fox Sports Regional Networks, Fox Networks Group International, Star India and Fox’s interests in Hulu, Sky plc, Tata Sky and Endemol Shine Group.

Not included in the deal are Fox Broadcasting network and stations, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, FS1, FS2 and Big Ten Network, these will spun off into a new company called “New Fox”. Disney will also inherit an approximately $13.7 billion of net debt of 21st Century Fox.

Once completed, the deal will bring X-men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool back into the fold of Marvel, also owned by Disney, and possibilities of Avengers, X-men, Fantastic Four and even Deadpool doing a movie together is very high.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Official Trailer, features volcanos, a dinosaurs stampede and a rescue mission

After releasing the teaser, we now have the official trailer of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

In the video (above), the film continue right after the 2015 Jurassic World but this time rather than the dinos being the threat its volcanoes and practically the whole island becomes a threat to the giant lizard species.

We can also see Jeff Goldblum reprising his role as Dr. Ian Malcolm, from the 1993 and 1997 Jurassic Park films. In front of a government committee that “these creatures were here before us, and if we’re not careful, they’re gonna be here after us.” Then later in the trailer, we can hear Jeff Goldblum say, “Life cannot be contained, life breaks free life finds a way.” the same line that he utter from the original Jurassic Park movie.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will be in cinema on the 22nd of June 2018.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Teaser Trailer

Universal Pictures jsut A 15 second teaser trailer of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (below) before they release the official trailer on Thursday, December 7, 2017.

The video didn’t provide much details about the movie but at least we know that Claire Dearing, played by Bryce Howard, won’t be running in heels.

Chris Pratt and Bryce Howard will reprise their role as Owen Grady and Claire Dearing, respectively. Jeff Goldblum will also join them as Dr. Ian Malcolm.

Directed by J. A. Bayona, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens on June 22, 2018.

Marvel releases official trailer for Avengers: Infinity War

Marvel Studios official release the trailer of Avengers: Infinity War, embedded below, which is schedule for release on May 4, 2018.

Stars will reprise the character from their respective movie.

  • Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man
  • Josh Brolin as Thanos
  • Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / Hulk
  • Chris Evans as Steve Rogers
  • Chris Hemsworth as Thor
  • Chris Pratt as Peter Quill / Star-Lord
  • Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch
  • Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange
  • Zoe Saldana as Gamora
  • Karen Gillan as Nebula
  • Vin Diesel as Groot
  • Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer
  • Bradley Cooper as Rocket
  • Pom Klementieff as Mantis
  • Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
  • Benicio del Toro as Taneleer Tivan / The Collector
  • Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
  • Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / Falcon
  • Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa / Black Panther
  • Danai Gurira as Okoye: The head of the Dora Milaje
  • Don Cheadle as James “Rhodey” Rhodes / War Machine
  • Letitia Wright as Shuri
  • Winston Duke as M’Baku

Marvel releases teaser poster for its coming Avengers: Infinity War

Here’s the poster “leaked” by Tom Holland, though it looks like this was staged!

Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War will be in theaters on May 4, 2018.

Fans’ reaction to Maine’s Open Letter

As expected, fans reacted to Maine Mendoza emotional “Open Letter” and all of the fans that reacted gave an overwhelming position response.

Even Carlo Ople of Unbox.ph;

Maine Mendoza publish “Open Letter to her Fans”

Maine Mendoza just published an “Open Letter to her Fans” on her website and then on her twitter account. The gist of of the letter is that she’s “no longer happy anymore”.

In just 5 hours after tweeting the “Open Letter”, fans reacted and it went viral. As of this posting, Maine’s tweet got more than 33k likes, 9.3k retweets and more than 4.8k replies.

Unless you’re living under a rock or a cave, you probably know who Maine Mendoza is, she’s the second half of the AlDub love team, Alden Richards is the other and become a social media sensation with her dubsmash earning her the title Dubsmash Queen of the Philippines.

You can read the full text of her Open letter on her website.