We wanted great, truly great and grounded actors. We wanted actors who would feel real and not make the audience go, ‘Oh, that’s movie star so-and-so in a Godzilla movie,’” said “Godzilla” producer Thomas Tull.
Despite being a young and new director, Gareth Edwards was asked to work on the project because of his independent film “Monsters,” which he finished with a relatively low budget, multitasking as writer, director, cinematographer, while also working on creature design and visual effects. Asked if he said yes to doing “Godzilla” right away, Gareth said, “I thought about it for two seconds. It was scary but I was more afraid of being an old man and telling my kids one day, “Oh, I was offered Godzilla.”
It was the kind of screaming you’d normally hear at a concert, where teenage girls fall all over themselves to let their musical heroes know how much they love them.
“The Fault in Our Stars” almost didn’t become the “sick” and beautiful love story we all know and love today. Author John Green originally intended for the story to revolve around two male narrators: one a chaplain, loosely based on his own experiences as one, and the other a teenage boy with cancer.
Comic book movies now regularly dominate the box office, but this wasn’t always the case. Many may forget now, but director Bryan Singer’s “X-Men,” released in 2000 and based on the wildly popular Marvel Comics property about a heroic band of super-powered mutants, helped pave the way for the phalanx of super-hero flicks which came after it.
You can’t not know Kurtwood Smith. You may not remember him by name, but his stern features are ever-present in numerous TV shows and movies.
Before us, 14 groups tried but failed to escape from Runtertainment Inc.’s latest game, Breakout Philippines. That was the idea constantly running in our head as Runtertainment managing director Angelo Cruz directed us toward Adarna’s Lair—one of two theme rooms inspired by the room escape concept game “Takagism.”
It is clear just by looking at the promo materials that Resorts World Manila’s (RWM) ongoing production of “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” is energetic, transgressively comical, and very, very, very gay.
It doesn’t pay to be nice and polite at Actor’s Studio East (ASE). The school, which is dedicated purely to acting, encourages students to check their niceness at the door if they are to progress in class.
When the urban traveler embarks on a trip, any claims of wanting to detach completely from reality must be taken with a grain of salt. Chances are, even as the urbanite may want to briefly escape the madding rush, he or she will still crave for connectivity and the familiar comforts of the daily grind—say, that Starbucks run or the oh-so-crucial Facebook and Instagram fix.
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