Exclusive: Filipino producer-distributor CreaZion Studios is unveiling a slate of film and TV productions here in Cannes, including Severino: The First Serial Killer, which has Dolly De Leon joining Dennis Trillo in the cast.
Scheduled to start shooting in September, the series tells the true story of Catholic priest Severino Mallari, who predated Jack The Ripper by killing 57 people during the Spanish colonial era of the Philippines.
Trillo is playing Severino, while De Leon will play his mother, in what looks set to be one of her darkest roles yet. Severino believed his mother was bewitched and that he could cure her condition by killing people.
Yam Laranas, known for horror films The Echo and The Road, is directing the series, which has been scripted by Dodo Dayao (Cattleya Killer), Rona Co and Rody Vera (Die Beautiful).
De Leon has been working between the US and the...
Scheduled to start shooting in September, the series tells the true story of Catholic priest Severino Mallari, who predated Jack The Ripper by killing 57 people during the Spanish colonial era of the Philippines.
Trillo is playing Severino, while De Leon will play his mother, in what looks set to be one of her darkest roles yet. Severino believed his mother was bewitched and that he could cure her condition by killing people.
Yam Laranas, known for horror films The Echo and The Road, is directing the series, which has been scripted by Dodo Dayao (Cattleya Killer), Rona Co and Rody Vera (Die Beautiful).
De Leon has been working between the US and the...
- 5/21/2024
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
In celebration of the 100 Years of Philippine Cinema, “Habambuhay” is a new, insightfully entertaining documentary series that commemorates the lives and efforts of the people behind and in front of the camera who helped shape the Philippine Movie Industry for a very long time.
It features exclusive interviews, rare archival footages, clips and photos that will help illuminate the fascinating stories behind the industry’s most significant contributors and biggest names in Philippine Cinema.
“Habambuhay” boasts a star-studded list that includes screen legends like Anita Linda, Luis Nepomuceno, Eddie Mesa, Rosemarie Gil, Gloria Romero, and Eddie Garcia, in the actor’s last in-depth interview before his untimely passing, as well as industry pillars such as Mother Lily Monteverde (Regal Entertainment), Charo Santos-Concio (Star Cinema), and Marichu Vera-Perez (Sampaguita Pictures).
Renowned filmmakers Peque Gallaga, Laurice Guillen, Lav Diaz, Brillante Mendoza, Jerrold Tarog, screenwriters Ricky Lee, Raquel Villavicencio, Rody Vera, and Philippine...
It features exclusive interviews, rare archival footages, clips and photos that will help illuminate the fascinating stories behind the industry’s most significant contributors and biggest names in Philippine Cinema.
“Habambuhay” boasts a star-studded list that includes screen legends like Anita Linda, Luis Nepomuceno, Eddie Mesa, Rosemarie Gil, Gloria Romero, and Eddie Garcia, in the actor’s last in-depth interview before his untimely passing, as well as industry pillars such as Mother Lily Monteverde (Regal Entertainment), Charo Santos-Concio (Star Cinema), and Marichu Vera-Perez (Sampaguita Pictures).
Renowned filmmakers Peque Gallaga, Laurice Guillen, Lav Diaz, Brillante Mendoza, Jerrold Tarog, screenwriters Ricky Lee, Raquel Villavicencio, Rody Vera, and Philippine...
- 7/9/2020
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Folklore, mythology, and fairy tales share a lot in common with horror, namely in how monsters or creatures can be representative of humans’ darker nature, and also in how the fantastical contains a morality lesson within. Such is the case with Adolfo Alix Jr.’s Mystery of the Night, a slow-burn fable set in a 1900s Spanish-ruled Philippine village—a period when aristocracy and clergymen tried to cover up their misdeeds, and their corruption begets inconceivable horrors.
An adaptation of Rody Vera’s stage play Ang Unang Aswang, Alix Jr. uses a theatrical, shadow puppet style title sequence to introduce some of the folkloric elements of the film. The colonized village sits adjacent to an enchanted forest, where those who enter rarely come back alive. If they do, they’re irrevocably changed, as the forest is protected by animalistic spirits. When a village woman is raped and left pregnant and raving mad,...
An adaptation of Rody Vera’s stage play Ang Unang Aswang, Alix Jr. uses a theatrical, shadow puppet style title sequence to introduce some of the folkloric elements of the film. The colonized village sits adjacent to an enchanted forest, where those who enter rarely come back alive. If they do, they’re irrevocably changed, as the forest is protected by animalistic spirits. When a village woman is raped and left pregnant and raving mad,...
- 7/17/2019
- by Meagan Navarro
- DailyDead
Following the announcement of their first wave of programming, the final wave of screenings and events for the 23rd annual Fantasia International Film Festival has now been revealed before the festival kicks off in July, including Sadako, Ready or Not, and Shudder Presents Joe Bob Briggs Live: How Rednecks Saved Hollywood.
Check out Fantasia's final wave of programming below, visit their website for more information, and stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on the festival!
Press Release: 27 June 2019, Montreal, Canada – With today’s final wave of programming, the 2019 edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival has now released its full lineup, featuring over 130 incredible features from across the globe. Of note, the festival will host the World Premieres of Mystery Of The Night, Blood On Her Name, Stare, 1Br, The Deeper You Dig, and Homewrecker; the North American Premieres of Vivarium, Dreadout, and Les Particules; and the Canadian Premieres of The Lodge,...
Check out Fantasia's final wave of programming below, visit their website for more information, and stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on the festival!
Press Release: 27 June 2019, Montreal, Canada – With today’s final wave of programming, the 2019 edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival has now released its full lineup, featuring over 130 incredible features from across the globe. Of note, the festival will host the World Premieres of Mystery Of The Night, Blood On Her Name, Stare, 1Br, The Deeper You Dig, and Homewrecker; the North American Premieres of Vivarium, Dreadout, and Les Particules; and the Canadian Premieres of The Lodge,...
- 6/27/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: UK distributor acquires rights to Lav Diaz’s Un Certain Regard entry.
UK distributor New Wave Films has acquired Lav Diaz’s epic drama Norte, the End of History.
The festival favourite, which debuted in Un Certain Regard at Cannes and has also played at Karlovy Vary, Locarno and Toronto among other festivals, begins as a riff on Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment but also alludes to Philippino class and politics, the country’s intelligentsia and its foreign-worker phenomenon.
New Wave, which acquired the film from producer is Raymond Lee after its screening at the London Film Festival, plans a spring 2014 release.
Cinema Guild had already acquired Us rights.
Screenplay is from Lav Diaz and Rody Vera. Cast includes Sid Lucero, Angeli Bayani, Archie Alemania, Angelina Kanapi and Soliman Cruz.
Philippine New Wave director Diaz won Venice’s Orrizonti Award in 2008 for drama Melancholia.
UK distributor New Wave Films has acquired Lav Diaz’s epic drama Norte, the End of History.
The festival favourite, which debuted in Un Certain Regard at Cannes and has also played at Karlovy Vary, Locarno and Toronto among other festivals, begins as a riff on Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment but also alludes to Philippino class and politics, the country’s intelligentsia and its foreign-worker phenomenon.
New Wave, which acquired the film from producer is Raymond Lee after its screening at the London Film Festival, plans a spring 2014 release.
Cinema Guild had already acquired Us rights.
Screenplay is from Lav Diaz and Rody Vera. Cast includes Sid Lucero, Angeli Bayani, Archie Alemania, Angelina Kanapi and Soliman Cruz.
Philippine New Wave director Diaz won Venice’s Orrizonti Award in 2008 for drama Melancholia.
- 11/28/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
An actress working mainly in theater for several years, Mae Paner landed her greatest role when she, along with a ragtag team of advocate artists including esteemed playwright Rody Vera and other theater performers, uploaded a video on YouTube in 2008. The video features Juana Change, a full-bodied woman played with such infectious rabidity by Paner, playfully lampooning issues hounding Philippine society then. Paner has the look of the great Filipino comediennes of old, the Zoraida Sanchezes and the Nanette Inventors, who proudly parade their unusual beauty and trademark heft, to turn themselves into actual jokes instead of just deliverers of jokes. Paner understands the value of attention she gets. She mesmerizes with the curves she utilizes mostly for laughs, but earns much respect...
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- 6/7/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Like Loy Arcenas, Maribel Legarda has several years' worth of theater experience to guide her first foray into filmmaking. Unlike Arcenas, whose first film is from an original screenplay by Rody Vera, Legarda chose to adapt for the screen an award-winning stageplay by Allan Lopez. Interestingly, Nino, Arcenas' first film embraces theatricality, limiting most of its moments within the striking dialogues spewed by the characters with such exaggerated extravagance. Legarda's Melodrama Negra, on the other hand, abandons theatricality in favor of gloss, spectacle and other cinematic excesses. Remnants of the material and Legarda's stage roots linger, creating an uneasy mix of both theatrical and cinematic excesses. Melodrama Negra opens with three wandering ghosts (Gee Canlas, Gerald Napoles and Bong Cabrera), wondering what they need...
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- 12/26/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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