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  • WATCH: Austin Butler’s Transformation Into the Legendary ‘Elvis’ Presley

    Elvis is an epic, big-screen spectacle from Warner Bros. Pictures and visionary, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Baz Luhrmann that explores the life and music of Elvis Presley, starring Austin Butler and Oscar winner Tom Hanks.

    A thoroughly cinematic drama, Elvis’s story is seen through the prism of his complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Hanks).  As told by Parker, the film delves into the complex dynamic between the two spanning over 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame to his unprecedented stardom, against the backdrop of the evolving cultural landscape and loss of innocence in America.  Central to that journey is one of the significant and influential people in Elvis’s life, Priscilla Presley (Olivia DeJonge).

    Baz Luhrmann offers, “Austin went on an extraordinary journey to play this role but, more importantly, to discover this human being, Elvis.  In the same way that Marilyn Monroe isn’t just another movie star—she embodies a time, a place, a sensibility, a symbology—Elvis as we came to know him happened in a flash.  One minute he’s a truck driver and the next minute he’s the most famous man in the world.  He becomes famous in the [American] South, and within a couple of years he’s on ‘Ed Sullivan’ and he’s the most talked about, most provocative, most famous young man in the world and a millionaire overnight.  Certainly, stars like Sinatra had made women swoon before Elvis, but Elvis’s popularity intersected with the emergence of teenagers as an insatiable market force, connecting directly with their idols through radio and television. The level of rapid celebrity and wealth had no precedent and Elvis was on his own.  As he said later in life, ‘It’s very hard to live up to an image.’”

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    And, despite the benefit of hindsight, a challenge to bring such a life to life for the screen.  “I was fortunate to have so many people to help me,” Butler says, “starting with Baz.  The brilliant thing about Baz is that, in the most gentle and caring way, he can take you to a place where you can do more than you ever thought possible.  He creates an environment where you’re free to make mistakes, and free to try things.”

    To internalize Elvis’s physicality, Butler says, “I worked with movement coach Polly Bennett prior to filming and then all the way through the shoot,” he tells.  “She helped me enormously not only to move the way he did, but to understand what makes a person move in the way they do.”

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    But to speak and sing in the icon’s distinct manner was the real key to the role, and the actor also worked with a number of different vocal coaches, Butler says, “because the voice is so important, and the dialect.  And Elvis’ voice really changed over the years.”

    “And in finding Austin we were so lucky because he was capable of actually singing so much like Elvis from that era, this kind of early, rough, rock and roll punk sound,” Luhrmann shares.  “At the same time, Austin’s job was to reveal the man not in the public light, but the man when he’s tinkering at a piano and he’s sad and he’s singing ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’  Reveal the private Elvis and most of all, reveal the humanity and the spirituality of the man.  While I really respect the craft of the ‘tribute artist,’ this is fundamentally different work; it’s acting through song as opposed to impersonating an icon.”

    Join the conversation online and use the hashtag #ElvisMovie

  • WATCH: Hunger Games Prequel ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ Unveils Teaser Trailer

    A quick teaser has been revealed for the much-awaited prequel film of Hunger Games. Titled The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the new film will also be helmed by Francis Lawrence who directed three films of the original movie saga.

    Watch the title teaser below, which features the songbird and the snake shedding layers of snow from their bodies and revealing golden feathers and scales underneath. The clip also teases: “The world will discover who is a songbird and who is a snake.”

    The film follows Coriolanus Snow years before he became the tyrannical president of Panem. The 18-year-old Snow finds an opportunity to change his fortune when he gets to mentor the District 12 female tribute,  Lucy Gray Baird.

    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and the Snakes stars Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth. It is set for release in US theaters on November 17, 2023.

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  • Film Facts: 5 Things to Know About ‘Jurassic World Dominion’

    ‘Jurassic World Dominion‘ is the sixth and final installment to the Jurassic era, uniting two generations. In this new adventure which takes place four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, the dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans.

    Whether you’re a fan of this popular franchise or just excited to catch a new action-packed adventure film on the big screen this week, here are some facts about ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ you should know about before you see it in the theaters!

    1. Jurassic World Dominion reunites the stars from the first Jurassic Park film in 1993

    Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum reunite in the upcoming film and join the ‘new generation’ Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. The OG Jurassic cast reprise their roles:  Sam Neil is Dr. Alan Grant, a famous paleontologist, Laura Dern is Dr. Ellie Sattler; a Palaeobotanist who formerly was in a relationship with Dr. Grant; and Jeff Goldblum is Dr. Ian Malcolm, a gifted mathematician specializing in chaos theory. In the 1993 film, the three doctors were hired to oversee the safety of a theme park that featured cloned dinosaurs in a tropical island.

    2. This is the longest film in the ‘Jurassic’ franchise, with a runtime of 146 minutes

    Film Facts: 5 Things to Know About 'Jurassic World Dominion'

    Get cozy in your cinema seats (and take that toilet break before entering the theater), as Jurassic World clocks in at nearly 2 and a half hours! According to this article, the upcoming movie runs for 2 hours and 26 minutes – and we’re guessing this is the case since it’s an epic conclusion to the Jurassic saga. Actor Chris Pratt explains in the interview below that it’s the sixth film in the franchise and thinks that it is the final story.

    3. There is a 5-minute prologue of the movie featuring new dinosaurs never before featured in any of the ‘Jurassic’ films.

    Entitled ‘The Prologue,’ the special preview takes us back 65 million years ago to the time

    humans were not yet existing on earth. This special peek of the Cretaceous period also seems to show us the iconic amber-cased mosquito’s origins. The prologue features a mosquito that drinks a T-rex’s blood, revealing how it was able to carry the dinosaur DNA. To refresh your memory, here’s a clip of the ‘Mr. DNA’ informational video from the 1993 film!

    4. ‘Jurassic Park’ is one of the highest-grossing film franchises in history

    Film Facts: 5 Things to Know About 'Jurassic World Dominion'

    With five films under its belt and one more coming up, the ‘Jurassic’ series is included in the lists of the greatest film franchises and highest-grossing film series of all time, along with franchises like Harry Potter/Wizarding World, Star Wars, and the MCU. According to this article, the 2015 installment of Jurassic World had the largest worldwide opening for a movie, and the only one to hit the $500 million mark for its first weekend!

    5. Director Colin Trevorrow shares that ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ is a ‘big globe-hopping adventure’

    Film Facts: 5 Things to Know About 'Jurassic World Dominion'

    In this interview, the director mentions they shot on location in Mata, the UK, and British Columbia, and that audiences can expect all different sorts of environments that make the film exciting to watch. In his words, Jurassic World Dominion is a ‘Spy movie, science thriller with dinosaurs.’ 

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    Jurassic World Dominion opens in cinemas nationwide this Wednesday, June 8, 2022.  Book your seats in advance and buy your tickets here.

  • See it in Cinemas: ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ to Take You Into a Pulse-Racing Adventure as Jurassic Era Ends

    Jurassic World Dominion, this year’s most thrilling spectacle for a multi-generation audience and highly-awaited film will finally open nationwide in local cinemas on June 8.

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    Directed by Colin Trevorrow and produced alongside with Steven Spielberg, Jurassic World Dominion brings together for the first time Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard along with original cast members Academy Award® winner Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum, that also  features an impressive international cast, including Mamoudou Athie, Scott Haze, Dichen Lachman, Daniella Pineda, Campbell Scott, Isabella Sermon, Justice Smith, Omar Sy, DeWanda Wise and BD Wong.

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    Intended for the most immersive movie viewing experience and welcoming moviegoers back into theaters, Jurassic World Dominion’s heart-pounding action and mind-blowing scenes are set to bring the viewers to a breathtaking world where dinosaurs can now co-exist with mankind.

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    “Ever since I was a kid, I have wanted to see dinosaurs in their natural habitat,” director Colin Trevorrow says. “It may have taken a few decades, but with a little help from ILM, Universal and Amblin, it has finally happened.  All over the world, we’ve recently started returning to theaters because movies bring us closer together,” Trevorrow says. “I think we need that shared experience right now … maybe more than we ever have.”

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    “With the franchise, I’m sharing the next few chapters of a story we’ve been telling around the campfire for thirty years,” Colin Trevorrow says. “This is a world that Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton created together, and I have been fortunate enough to be a custodian of it for three films—in collaboration with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom director J.A. Bayona, the writers and everyone who’s worked to make this what it is. I’m so grateful to Steven for allowing a new generation to continue telling the story that he and his collaborators began.”

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    Truly a trailblazer from the beginning, the Jurassic franchise once again has set the bar high with its epic conclusion within the movie industry by creating a safe space for everyone involved during the pandemic when the film was produced.  With Dominion, it became the first major studio production to begin filming again due to the unprecedented COVID-protocol plan created by the filmmakers. The protocols they created soon become the industry gold-standard, allowing productions across the industry to get back to work.

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    Pratt commends Universal and the film’s crew for creating and abiding by the strict COVID protocols that were put in place for the production. “It was expensive and arduous, and it required a whole new department being added to the production,” Pratt says. “At the time, I talked to people who would say, ‘Really? You’re going back into production? Are you sure that’s safe?’ And I would say, ‘Listen, if there’s an industry that’s cut out to handle this, it’s the film industry.’ If anyone has the resources, the will, the passion and the necessity to get something done, it’s a film crew. I think it’s a feat of human ingenuity that we were able to be one of the first film productions to put all of the protocols in place and keep everyone safe.”

    Presented by Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, catch Jurassic World Dominion on June 8 in cinemas nationwide. Also available in select 2D and 3D IMAX screens.   #JurassicWorldDominionPH

  • WATCH: Disney’s Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’ Starring Tom Hanks Unveils Trailer

    Disney’s live-action adaptation of their classic animated film Pinocchio has dropped its teaser trailer!

    After Beauty and The Beast, Lion King, Mulan, and Aladdin, Disney’s beloved film about a puppet wishing to become a real boy is up next on its roster of classics getting the live-action treatment. While we barely get a good look at Pinocchio in the trailer, the clips still tease an epic adventure involving the puppet’s father Gepetto, as well as Jiminy Cricket.

    Watch the teaser trailer for Pinocchio below:

    Tom Hanks stars as Gepetto, while Pinocchio is voiced by The Haunting of Bly Manor star Benjamin Evan Ainsworth. Also part of the cast are Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jiminy Cricket, Lorraine Bracco as Sofia the Seagull, Cynthia Erivo as the Blue Fairy, Keegan Michael-Key as Honest John, and Luke Evans as the Coachman.

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    The film is set for release on Disney Plus this September 8. It is yet to be announced if the film will be available in Philippine theaters.

    Back in January, Netflix also shared a teaser trailer for its Pinocchio movie, a stop-motion animated film directed by Guillermo del Toro, who is expected to inject dark themes into the story first written by Italian writer Carlo Collodi in 1883.

  • New Movies This Week: Motherly and The Other Side

    Plan your week ahead and choose which among these movie openings this June 1, 2022 you’ll see on the big screen first.

    Motherly

    Horror, Thriller | 1hr 20mins

    Directed by Craig David Wallace, it follows Kate, a woman who lives in an isolated cabin with her daughter Beth after her husband is sent to prison for the death of a young girl. One day, the dead girl’s parents show up demanding answers because they believe Kate was the real killer. It stars Lora Burke, Tessa Kozma, Kristen MacCulloch, Nick Smyth, Colin Paradine, and Angel Gallego.

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    The Other Side

    Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 1hr 27mins

    Directed by Oskar Mellander and Tord Danielsson, it centers on a dad who moves into a new house with his son and girlfriend. While he’s on a business trip out of town, the son makes a new friend next door. It stars Dilan Gwyn, Eddie Eriksson Dominguez, Linus Wahlgren, Henrik Norlén, and more.

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  • ‘Elvis’ Gets 12-Minute Standing Ovation at Cannes

    The stars (led by Austin Butler and Tom Hanks) and filmmakers (led by director Baz Luhrmann) of Warner Bros.’ Elvis were out in full force at the movie’s gala premiere in Cannes Film Festival, where the film received a 12-minute standing ovation — the longest at this year’s event.  

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    Check out the images below from the daytime photocall and evening red carpet events for “Elvis” in Cannes. Don’t miss the film only in theaters across the Philippines starting June 22.

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    About “Elvis”

    ELVIS is an epic, big-screen spectacle from Warner Bros. Pictures and visionary, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Baz Luhrmann that explores the life and music of Elvis Presley, starring Austin Butler and Oscar winner Tom Hanks.

    A thoroughly cinematic drama, Elvis’s (Butler) story is seen through the prism of his complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Hanks).  As told by Parker, the film delves into the complex dynamic between the two spanning over 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame to his unprecedented stardom, against the backdrop of the evolving cultural landscape and loss of innocence in America.  Central to that journey is one of the significant and influential people in Elvis’s life, Priscilla Presley (Olivia DeJonge).

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    Starring alongside Butler and Hanks, award-winning theatre actress Helen Thomson plays Elvis’s mother, Gladys, Richard Roxburgh portrays Elvis’s father, Vernon, and DeJonge plays Priscilla.  Luke Bracey plays Jerry Schilling, Natasha Bassett plays Dixie Locke, David Wenham plays Hank Snow, Kelvin Harrison Jr.  plays B.B. King, Xavier Samuel plays Scotty Moore, and Kodi Smit-McPhee plays Jimmie Rodgers Snow.

    Also in the cast, Dacre Montgomery plays TV director Steve Binder, alongside Australian actors Leon Ford as Tom Diskin, Kate Mulvany as Marion Keisker, Gareth Davies as Bones Howe, Charles Grounds as Billy Smith, Josh McConville as Sam Phillips, and Adam Dunn as Bill Black.

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    To play additional iconic musical artists in the film, Luhrmann cast singer/songwriter Yola as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, model Alton Mason as Little Richard, Austin, Texas native Gary Clark Jr. as Arthur Crudup, and artist Shonka Dukureh as Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton.

    Oscar nominee Luhrmann (“The Great Gatsby,” “Moulin Rouge!”) directed from a screenplay by Baz Luhrmann & Sam Bromell and Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce and Jeremy Doner, story by Baz Luhrmann and Jeremy Doner.  The film’s producers are Luhrmann, Oscar winner Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss.  Toby Emmerich, Courtenay Valenti and Kevin McCormick executive produced.

    A Warner Bros. Pictures Presentation, A Bazmark Production, A Jackal Group Production, A Baz Luhrmann Film, “Elvis” will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.  It is set to release in theaters in the Philipines beginning 22 June 2022.

    Join the conversation online and use the hashtag #ElvisMovie

  • ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Mounts Life-Size Dinos on Display at SM North EDSA

    In time for the highly awaited opening of “Jurassic World Dominion” in the Philippine cinemas on June 8, Universal Pictures International, SM Malls and Pacific Licensing Studios replicate the world of dinosaurs which is currently on display at SM North Edsa – The Block Atrium, featuring life-size statues of dinosaurs Blue and Beta featured in the film.  

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    The recent launch of the dinosaur world on display allows kids and adults alike to take photos with the dinosaur replicas, put on an archaeologist’s hat in search of dinosaur fossils, and purchase movie-inspired shirts, socks, and toys to name a few from the numerous items available.  The display also includes a booth where the public can easily book and purchase tickets for the movie ahead of its opening day. 

    Jurassic World Dominion Display at SM North EDSA

    A multi-generational movie, Jurassic World Dominion brings together original and new-gen cast members (Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, BD Wong, Isabella Sermon, and Omar Sy)  for an unforgettable experience of the epic conclusion meant to be seen and made only for cinemas.

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    Filmed during the pandemic, director Colin Trevorrow’s ambition was to take the story to places never-before-seen in a Jurassic film. Each setting—the Pacific Northwest, West Texas, Utah, San Francisco, Malta and the Dolomite Mountains—has its own style and look. Taking advantage of the natural environment, the film was also shot in the Pacific Northwest during  winter so they did not have to fake the cold and snow.

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    Following the debut of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park in 1993, paleontology would never again be the same. “Jurassic Park was the most important thing that’s happened to paleontology in the last several decades, because that film brought dinosaurs back to life for a new generation, and it showed dinosaurs in a way they had never been shown before,” says Stepen Brusatte, Professor of Palaeontology and Evolution at University of Edinburgh, who served as the film’s paleontology consultant.

    “It led to a public reawakening of dinosaurs, and that led to so many more young people going into paleontology. It led to more money going into the field, it led to more universities putting on dinosaur courses, it caused museums to put on dinosaur exhibits, and we’re still reaping the benefits of that. We are in the golden age of paleontology where somebody somewhere around the world is finding a new species of dinosaur once a week on average, and that’s been going on for over a decade now because this is the Jurassic Park generation of paleontologists.”

    Jurassic World Dominion opens in Philippine cinemas nationwide on June 8 – also available on select 3D and 2D IMAX screens.

  • Miles Teller, Glen Powell at the Top of Their Game in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

    Miles Teller and Glen Powell break from the pack as navy fighter pilots Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw and Lt. Jake “Hangman” Seresin in Paramount Pictures’ Top Gun: Maverick, now playing cinemas across the Philippines.

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    In the 1986 Top Gun, a training accident killed Goose (Anthony Edwards), one of the most adored characters in movie history, the father of the young boy we will now meet as a man. “And I’ve got to say,” says lead star Tom Cruise of Teller’s performance as Rooster, “that guy showed up.”

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    There aren’t many men who could step into Goose’s shoes. Then again, Miles Teller isn’t just anyone. “I feel fortunate to carry on the Bradshaw name,” the acclaimed young star says of his beloved on-screen old man.

    Going toe to toe with Cruise is a tantalizing prospect for Teller. Two actors at the peak of their powers with three decades of water under the bridge and old scores to settle. “My character, Bradley [aka Rooster], when the first movie came out, he was just a little kid,” says Teller. “And now, of course, you’re seeing him over 30 years later, so there were a lot of blanks to fill in.” And even though that meant some incredibly heavy emotional lifting at incredibly high speeds and heights, for Teller, he wouldn’t have had his time on Top Gun: Maverick any other way. “They knew how much pressure there was on what we were trying to accomplish,” he says of shooting sequences the likes of which audiences have never seen. “But we all knew that we were trying to make something really special, and that doesn’t come easy.”

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    From topless montages to landing his own pilot’s license, no-one has embraced the joys of Top Gun more than Glen Powell. “This,” he says, “was sort of written in the stars.”

    Powell was born in 1988, two years after the original Top Gun was released. But the adventures of Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell have always captivated him, to the point that he has modelled his own entire professional arc after that of its leading man. “I’ve studied Tom’s early work to navigate my own career,” Powell says. “And now that we’re friends, I don’t have to make assumptions on WWTCD (What Would Tom Cruise Do.) As a young actor in a business where everyone says the movie star is dead… I’ve been fortunate enough to work alongside a guy who has been able to prove that theory wrong for three or four decades running.”

    Miles Teller, Glen Powell at the Top of Their Game in 'Top Gun: Maverick'

    Famously pipped at the post to the role of Rooster in the movie, after Miles Teller landed the role of Goose’s son, Cruise was determined to keep Powell in the picture, working with him to create the brand-new role of Hangman. “[Tom would] say, ‘I’ve had this idea… Watch this movie and we’ll talk about it tomorrow.’ So, I started watching movies the way Tom watches movies,” says Powell. “It wasn’t just getting to work with my hero but getting to truly collaborate with my hero.” If that wasn’t enough, the star of everything from Everybody Wants Some!! to Scream Queens also came away from this movie with a bonus: his own private pilot’s license.

    “At any given moment, the full wrath of aeronautical physics is trying to pull the blood from your head and black you out,” Powell says of shooting Top Gun: Maverick’s aerial scenes. “I will never take acting on the surface of the Earth for granted again.”

    Top Gun: Maverick is distributed in the Philippines by Paramount Pictures through Columbia Pictures.  Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/paramountpicsph/; Instagram at www.instagram.com/paramountpicsph/  and YouTube at  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsZ7igjHZB-5k8DDM7ilVJw. Connect with #TopGunMaverick and tag paramountpicsph

  • TV Guide: Movies Showing From May 30 to June 5, 2022

    Isn’t it a bummer when you see your favorite movie already playing halfway through when you turn on the TV? Fret not! From rom-com and action to horror and thriller, we’re giving you a heads up on all the must-watch movies on TV from May 30 to June 5, 2022.

    May 30, Monday

    James & Pat & Dave
    (5pm, PBO)
    Pat Reyes is a hardworking hostel manager and online vegetable seller who trains her boss’s hardheaded and exiled grandson as a hostel employee.

    Blade Runner 2049
    (7:25pm, HBO)
    Officer K, a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former blade runner who’s been missing for 30 years.

    Gone Girl
    (10pm, Cinemax)
    In Carthage, Mo., former New York-based writer Nick Dunne and his glamorous wife Amy present a portrait of a blissful marriage to the public. However, when Amy goes missing on the couple’s fifth wedding anniversary, Nick becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance. The resulting police pressure and media frenzy cause the Dunnes’ image of a happy union to crumble, leading to tantalizing questions about who Nick and Amy truly are.

    May 31, Tuesday

    Between Maybes
    (5pm, Cinema One)
    A man lives as a recluse in Japan until a washed-up actress arrives. As he checks up on her, the two lost souls find comfort in each other.

    Ex with Benefits
    (7:30pm, PBO)
    Ten years ago, Adam and Arki both dreamed of becoming doctors, but then the couple get into their first major fight, causing Arki to suddenly disappear.

    World War Z
    (11pm, HBO)
    When former U.N. investigator Gerry Lane and his family get stuck in urban gridlock, he senses that it’s no ordinary traffic jam. His suspicions are confirmed when, suddenly, the city erupts into chaos. A lethal virus, spread through a single bite, is turning healthy people into something vicious, unthinking and feral. As the pandemic threatens to consume humanity, Gerry leads a worldwide search to find the source of the infection and, with luck, a way to halt its spread.

    June 1, Wednesday

    The Mall, The Merrier
    (5:15pm, PBO)
    Two siblings fight for ownership of their parents’ mall.

    17 Again
    (6:20pm, Cinemax)
    Mike O’Donnell was a high-school basketball star with a bright future, but he threw it all away to marry his girlfriend and raise their child. Almost 20 years later, Mike’s marriage has failed, his kids think he’s a loser, and his job is going nowhere. He gets a chance to correct the mistakes of his past and change his life when he is miraculously transformed into a teenager, but in trying to fix his past, Mike may be jeopardizing his present and future.

    A Quiet Place II
    (9pm, HBO)
    Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

    June 2, Thursday

    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    (3:30pm, HBO)
    It’s been nearly two years since Superman’s colossal battle with Zod devastated the city of Metropolis. The loss of life and collateral damage left many feeling angry and helpless, including crime-fighting billionaire Bruce Wayne. Convinced that Superman is now a threat to humanity, Batman embarks on a personal vendetta to end his reign on Earth, while the conniving Lex Luthor launches his own crusade against the Man of Steel.

    Coach Carter
    (6:20pm, Cinemax)
    In 1999, Ken Carter returns to his old high school in Richmond, California, to get the basketball team into shape. With tough rules and academic discipline, he succeeds in setting the players on a winning streak. But when their grades start to suffer, Carter locks them out of the gym and shuts down their championship season. When he is criticized by the players and their parents, he sticks to his guns, determined that they excel in class as well as on the court.

    Die Beautiful
    (11pm, Cinema One)
    A Filipino transgender woman’s last wish is to be presented as a different celebrity on each night of her wake.

    June 3, Friday

    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
    (12:40pm, HBO)
    Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling’s popular children’s novels about Harry Potter, a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique magical powers of his own. He is summoned from his life as an unwanted child to become a student at Hogwarts, an English boarding school for wizards. There, he meets several friends who become his closest allies and help him discover the truth about his parents’ mysterious deaths.

    Harry Potter and the Chambers of Secrets
    (3:10pm, HBO)
    The second installment of boy wizard Harry Potter’s adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is based on the novel by JK Rowling. A mysterious elf tells Harry to expect trouble during his second year at Hogwarts, but nothing can prepare him for trees that fight back, flying cars, spiders that talk, and deadly warnings written in blood on the walls of the school.

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    (5:45pm, HBO)
    Harry Potter’s third year at Hogwarts starts off badly when he learns deranged killer Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban prison and is bent on murdering the teenage wizard. While Hermione’s cat torments Ron’s sickly rat, causing a rift among the trio, a swarm of nasty Dementors is sent to protect the school from Black. A mysterious new teacher helps Harry learn to defend himself, but what is his secret tie to Sirius Black?

    Maybe This Time
    (7pm, Cinema One)
    Steph learns to be tough and sets her sights on bigger dreams after Tonio ends their relationship without saying goodbye.

    June 4, Saturday

    100 Tula Para Kay Stella
    (6:15am, PBO)
    A stuttering student tries to make 100 poems dedicated to winning a rock star’s heart.

    A Very Special Love
    (4pm, Cinema One)
    Editorial assistant Laida Magtalas finds herself working for the man of her dreams, Miguel Montenegro, but remains blind to some hard facts.

    Jurassic World
    (6:55pm, HBO)
    Located off the coast of Costa Rica, the Jurassic World luxury resort provides a habitat for an array of genetically engineered dinosaurs, including the vicious and intelligent Indominus rex. When the massive creature escapes, it sets off a chain reaction that causes the other dinos to run amok. Now, it’s up to a former military man and animal expert to use his special skills to save two young brothers and the rest of the tourists from an all-out, prehistoric assault.

    The Purge: Anarchy
    (11:45pm, Cinemax)
    One night per year, the government sanctions a 12-hour period in which citizens can commit any crime they wish — including murder — without fear of punishment or imprisonment. Leo, a sergeant who lost his son, plans a vigilante mission of revenge during the mayhem. However, instead of a death-dealing avenger, he becomes the unexpected protector of four innocent strangers who desperately need his help if they are to survive the night.

    June 5, Sunday

    Catch Me I’m In Love
    (1pm, Cinema One)
    An advocate for the poor begins a rocky romance with the president’s spoiled son while accompanying him on an immersion trip to a rural community.

    Top Gun
    (4:40pm, HBO)
    The Top Gun Naval Fighter Weapons School is where the best of the best train to refine their elite flying skills. When hotshot fighter pilot Maverick is sent to the school, his reckless attitude and cocky demeanor put him at odds with the other pilots, especially the cool and collected Iceman. But Maverick isn’t only competing to be the top fighter pilot, he’s also fighting for the attention of his beautiful flight instructor, Charlotte Blackwood.

    Unforgettable
    (5:15pm, PBO)
    Barely coping with the end of her marriage, Tessa Connover learns that her ex-husband, David, is now happily engaged to Julia. Trying to settle into her new life, Julia believes she has finally met the man of her dreams, the man who can help her forget her troubled past. Soon, Tessa’s jealousy starts to consume her, and she will stop at nothing to turn Julia’s paradise into the ultimate nightmare.

    Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life
    (6:25pm, Cinemax)
    Fearless explorer Lara Croft tries to locate Pandora’s box before criminals Jonathan Reiss and Chen Lo use it for evil. According to myth, the box holds deadly organisms that could kill millions of people. With her old partner, Terry, Croft goes on a hunt that takes her from Europe to Asia to Africa, where pal Kosa (Djimon Hounsou) helps her. Along the way, Croft rappels down cliffs, scuba dives, and decimates many male opponents.