Amid the excitement for the upcoming Percy Jackson TV series on Disney+, Netflix is also set to release a new show for Greek mythology fans out there!
Titled Kaos, Netflix’s new TV series will also feature famous Greek gods living in the modern world. The streaming platform teases Kaos as a “genre-bending” series that will explore themes of gender politics, power, and life in the underworld.
According to Deadline, Hugh Grant will play the seemingly all-powerful but desperately insecure and vengeful Zeus. One morning, Zeus discovers that he has a wrinkle on his forehead. Convinced that his fall is coming, the King of the Gods sets off on a dangerous, paranoid path.
Meanwhile, Hera exercises her own dominion on Earth, which threatens Zeus; Hades is losing grip over the Underworld; Zeus’ son Dionysius is set on a collision course with his father; and Poseidon is more concerned about partying. To make things even more complicated for the King of the Gods, the mortals Riddy, Orpheus, Caneus, and Ari are also cosmically destined to fight him.
Also starring alongside Grant are Janet McTeer, Cliff Curtis, David Thewlis, Killian Scott, Misia Butler, Leila Farzad, Nabhaan Rizwan, Rakie Ayola, and Stanley Townsend. Kaos is helmed by Charlie Covell, known for her TV adaptation of The End of the F***ing World.
More details about the show’s release are yet to be revealed.
Catch your favorite singers and live streamers in “The Lounge: Live” happening on July 16, 2022, Saturday 8PM at Teatrino, Promenade, Greenhills featuring performances by Lucky Robles, Jeff Cifra, Princess Sevillena-Cabatu, James Reyes, Keng Bañez-Soto, JM Dumaran, Lester Tonga, Kazzle Delbo, Ralph Cabatu, Emman Chua, Rainier Caballero, and The Boxers Band.
Life is indeed full of surprises, and this includes unexpected expenses – from the sudden ticket selling of your fave musician to fixing your vehicle and taking your pet to the vet.
Having a ‘rainy-day’ fund, which is money specifically saved for unplanned expenses, gives you a safety net so unplanned expenses won’t disrupt your budget or force you into debt.
The ideal rainy-day or emergency fund is usually at least three months’ worth of your expenses. This may seem like a lot of money, but here are small and practical ways to get started:
· Track your expenses
A key step towards having your finances sorted out is keeping track of your spending so you would know how much you can save and where to cut down. Don’t be intimidated by keeping a record; figure out what works for you whether it’s a spreadsheet, a free expense tracking app or even your trusty planner.
· Begin with a small goal or regular contribution
Three times the usual monthly budgetmay be an overwhelming amount for some. Start with a smaller goal like PHP 50 a week toward your rainy-day fund so you can manage your cash and prevent you from giving up altogether.
· Automate your payments and transfers
If you have an ATM or a payroll account, set up an auto-debit feature that automatically transfers a certain amount from your paycheck to a savings account, with the option of choosing how much and how often. You could also set up the same for your bills and recurring payment, so you could avoid overdue payment penalties.
· Invest in your household items
Choosing the cheaper option might be tempting, but some household items are worth investing in when you’re sure about the quality. Good appliances and kitchen equipment may have a higher one-off cost but won’t break down or even cause household accidents that will surely wipe out your savings. Quality products mean you don’t need to shell out money for repairs, replacements, or refills.
During times when household fires caused by LPG leakages are becoming more common, being sure about the quality of your kitchen fuel makes all the difference. Substandard and fake LPG cylinders may only be short-lived and lead to more refills. They also run the risk of causing explosions and fires, which is a threat not only to your property but to you and your loved ones.
Make sure your LPG tank delivers value for money by lasting as long as it should. Having a safe and trusted kitchen fuel like Solane LPG guarantees you having the exact amount of content as promised, as only verified Solane LPGs go through the Timbang Challenge. Solane’s 7-point Safety Check, an exclusive service provided to all Solane LPG home delivery customers nationwide, also ensures that your burner produces a blue flame to maintain the quality of your gas appliance.
To order Verified Solane LPG, customers may call the Hatid Bahay Hotline – (632) 8887-5555, send a message to 0918-887-5555 (Smart) / 0917 8977555 (Globe) or the Solane Facebook page, or place their orders through the Solane app. Customers may also place an order through the Web Ordering Platform.
Since its arrival here in the Philippines, Netflix has been continuously bringing us great content to stream on our favorite devices. Whether it’s a compelling drama with interesting characters, a thrilling title that keeps us at the edge of our seats, comedies that give us our much-needed dose of laughter, or just anything that keeps us entertained on the couch or on the go, we surely can count on the streaming service’s rich library of shows and movies.
If you’re always on the lookout for Netflix’s latest releases, then look no further! We’ve listed down ten shows and films to anticipate and add to your watchlist this month of July!
Claire and Aidan have made the pact to break up before college. During their final date, the soon-to-be-exes retrace their history together, making them question if they should continue what they have or just forget the past.
Starring Lana Condor and Zoe Colletti, this new show follows a girl who tries to become more adventurous before graduating from high school, but is instead turned into a ghost.
Years after the Umbrella Corporation unleashed the T-Virus to the world, causing the zombie apocalypse, Jade Wesker tries to get back on the people responsible for the end of the world.
CIA operative Court Gentry, a former agency-sanctioned mercenary, is now being hunted by the psychopathic assassin Lloyd Hansen, who will stop at nothing to take him out.
An aspiring musician and a soon-to-be marine agree to marry solely for military benefits, but when tragedy strikes, their pretend relationship slowly turns into reality.
Disney+ has dropped the official teaser trailer for Hocus Pocus 2, the much-awaited sequel of Disney’s Halloween classic.
The trailer gives us a good look at Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as they return to their iconic roles, the wicked Sanderson Sisters. Check it out below:
The upcoming movie picks up 29 years after the events of the first film. When the devilish witches from the 17th century are once again resurrected using the Black Flame Cande, it is up to three high-school students to put a stop to them before they wreak a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow’s Eve.
— Walt Disney Studios (@DisneyStudios) June 28, 2022
The film also stars Doug Jones, Whitney Peak, Lilia Buckingham, Belisa Escobedo, Hannah Waddingham, Tony Hale, and Sam Richardson. The film is directed by Anne Fletcher from a script by Jen D’Angelo.
The movie will premiere on Disney+ on September 30. It is yet to be announced if the film will also be screened in cinemas for countries without access to the streaming platform.
Marriott Hotel Manila’s all-day dining restaurant Marriott Café recently launched a new dinner buffet with an exciting selection that goes beyond the usual cuts. “Nose To Tail” is a celebration of flavors that highlights the whole hog from the innards to the extremities.
More than innovation, it is Manila Marriott’s chefs’ tribute to product sustainability. “We wanted to introduce something new to our guests, make interesting dishes out of the lesser-known cuts while helping minimize waste of meat products” says Marriott Manila Hotel Executive Chef Meik Brammer, chair of the sustainable culinary committee of I Love Earth—a concerted initiative of all hotels and operating units within Resorts World Manila toward sustainable operations.
Guests who would like to try their new dinner buffet can dine in on Fridays from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and enjoy whole roasted pig, crispy pork tail croquettes, German roast pork hock, pork sisig carbonara—a medley of pork face, ears, shoulder, liver, and brain, pork tongue teppan, pork knuckle chowder, pork diniguan paired with a bottle of Crazy Carabao Craft Beer. Mud crab, whole red snapper, salmon and tuna sashimi, dim sum, a wide selection of desserts, and gelato are also offered in the buffet spread for diners to indulge in.
Marriott Café’s Nose To Tail buffet is available from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m for P3,188 nett. For inquiries and reservations, call 0917 584 9560 or visit the website, and social media accounts on FB, IG, and Twitter @ManilaMarriott. Be updated and join their Viber Community at Make it Marriott.
Written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, it follows a Chinese-American woman being audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and discovers she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from causing the destruction of the multiverse. It stars Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong, and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Directed by Kyle Balda, it is the sequel to the spin-off prequel Minions and the fifth entry to the Despicable Me franchise. The film is set in the 1970s as young Gru tries to join a group of supervillains called the Vicious 6 after they oust their leader Wild Knuckles. When the interview turns disastrous, Gru and his Minions go on the run with the Vicious 6 hot on their tails. It features the voices of Steve Carell, Pierre Coffin, Taraji P. Henson, Michelle Yeoh, RZA, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and more.
Netflix has picked up The Electric State, the upcoming film from Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo starring Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown.
The Electric State will be the third film under the partnership between Netflix and the Russo Brothers’ production company AGBO, their first film being the Chris Hemsworth starrer Extraction, followed by the upcoming movie The Gray Man starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans.
The new film starring Brown is based on the illustrated sci-fi book of the same name from Simon Stålenhag. It is set in a retro-futuristic past where an orphaned teenager, played by Brown, travels across the American West with a mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter to find her younger brother.
Deadline also reports that Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World star Chris Pratt is also in talks to join the cast. The Electric State is set to start production this fall, according to Netflix.
Based on the award-winning short story by (legendary horror author) Stephen King’s son, Joe Hill from his New York Times bestseller 20th Century Ghosts, The Black Phone follows 13-year-old Finney (Thames), who is abducted by an infamous child abductor and serial killer known as The Grabber (Hawke) in a small town in northern Denver. Locked in the killer’s basement, Finney discovers that he can hear the killer’s previous victims through a disconnected black rotary phone on the wall.
Director Scott Derrickson shares on how the film came about, reminiscing on how he learned about the story. “I happened to stumble into a bookstore around the time the book came out. At the time, I didn’t know who Joe was, let alone that he was Stephen King’s son. I stood in the bookstore and read this short story and thought, ‘Wow, this guy is great.’ It was only about 20 pages long, but I thought the concept was fantastic and such a good idea for a movie. I never forgot about it.”
The inspiration for the tale came from a specific memory from Hill’s childhood. “I grew up in Bangor, Maine, in a very old house,” Hill says. “There was a phone in the basement that wasn’t connected to anything, and I found that phone creepy and unsettling. It didn’t make sense for a phone to be in a basement with a dirt floor and crumbling concrete walls. As a kid, the worst thing I could imagine was that phone ringing.”
The Black Phone also delves into the traumas and dangers of being a kid growing up in the ’70s and ’80s. Kids had a lot more freedom back then, which made them a lot more susceptible to danger, but also kept kids on their toes. For Hill, the recreation of that era in the film proved particularly vivid and personal. For Gen Xers, children of the ’70s, this was a time without anti-bullying initiatives, where, for boys in particular, learning to defend oneself against mean kids was considered a normal rite of passage. “My earliest memory up until high school was the violence of the neighborhood that I lived in,” Derrickson says. “The primary feeling that I remember having as a child was fear. I was the youngest kid on the street full of bullies.”
Released by Universal Pictures International, set your alarms and watch The Black Phone in local cinemas nationwide starting July 20. Rated R13 by the MTRCB (only 13 years old above can watch in cinemas).
Catch it earlier on July 11 and 12 with its sneak previews in select cinemas nationwide.
Nowadays, there are mobile apps for just about everything, even for activities like shopping or making financial transactions that we previously could not do online. With thousands of apps available for our use, it’s best to choose one with different features so you don’t have to constantly switch between apps. Are you looking for versatility and convenience? Then ShopeePay is for you. To get started, simply download the Shopee app, activate and verify your ShopeePay Wallet. From paying for items on Shopee to sending money, there’s a lot you can accomplish with Shopee’s integrated mobile wallet.
Here’s a quick rundown of the things you can do with ShopeePay so you won’t miss out:
1. Avoid bank fees when you cash in via InstaPay or link your bank account
There are plenty of ShopeePay cash in channels to choose from like payment centers, e-wallets, online banking, debit cards, and more. Aside from these convenient options, did you know that you can also avoid admin fees and cash in for free? One way is to link your BPI or UnionBank account to cash in for free. For those with a different bank, cashing in is also free when you use InstaPay on your bank’s online app—get up to P25 cashback on your first two InstaPay transactions per month.
To make the experience even more rewarding, you can join the ‘Cash In and Win with InstaPay’ promo and stand a chance to win P100,000 worth of prizes when you cash in at least P1,000 via InstaPay from June 27 to 30. Cash in as many times as you can to earn more raffle entries.
2. Send money to any bank, e-wallet, or Shopee user for free
Need to send money to your friends or family? No need to worry about paying additional fees. The best thing about sending money with ShopeePay is that it’s free, no hidden fees. Choose from different ways to instantly send money— to bank account, e-wallet, scan to send via QR, or try the new Ang Pao feature. You can use ShopeePay Ang Pao to surprise your friends and family during special occasions or to send money to multiple people at the same time without incurring additional charges. Here’s a short video on how to use Ang Pao:
On top of zero fees, you can also earn money when you participate in ShopeePay’s send money promos until June 30.
ShopeePay Mission – From June 23 to 30, send at least P50 to any ShopeePay user or bank/e-wallet account, and earn raffle entries for every transaction. Eligible users can get a chance to win up to P1,000,000.
Double Ang Pao promo – Get double the amount you sent when you send at least P50 to 40 friends from June 27 to 29 (capped at P200) and to 100 friends on June 30 (capped at P500).
3. Buy discounted load and data for your mobile phone
We’re used to purchasing prepaid load from reloading stations that usually add extra costs on top of the load. Why pay full price or more when you can call, text, and surf the net with discounted load and data promos from ShopeePay? Get up to 10% discount for mobile load and data from the country’s major networks when you top up your prepaid SIM. Tip: Check out ShopeePay’s flash deals and payday discounts for more offers.
4. Get cashback when you pay your bills
Whether you need to pay for daily utilities like electricity, water, and internet or personal expenses like loans, insurance, or government contributions, ShopeePay is a one-stop shop for your bills payment needs. Get the most out of your monthly budget with cashback vouchers when you use ShopeePay to pay over 60 partner billers—new users can get up to 100% bills cashback (minimum spend P180, capped at 180 coins).
5. Access amazing deals in-store and online shopping perks
Check out ‘ShopeePay Near Me’ on the Shopee app to discover deals for as low as P1 from popular food & beverage outlets, retail brands, and more. Avid online shoppers can get more value for money when you pay Shopee purchases with ShopeePay’s exclusive shipping discounts and cashback vouchers. This June 30 Payday Sale, enjoy even more rewards such as sitewide shipping discount vouchers w/ P0 min. spend, up to P1000 off on bills and 10% off vouchers when shopping.
Activate ShopeePay now and start enjoying its benefits. To learn more about ShopeePay, visit https://shopee.ph/m/shopee-pay. Follow ShopeePay’s Instagram and Facebook pages to be updated with the latest promos.
