Cinema 76 Film Society San Juan is shutting down operations
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Published July 3, 2021, 9:00 AM
ABS-CBN Corporation’s Star Cinema has partnered with the country’s biggest live streaming and social entertainment platform, kumu, to provide more entertainment content online.
In a statement, ABS-CBN said the partnership between Star Cinema and kumu will soon bear fruit and produce a movie that will soon be in production. This will be a romantic-comedy movie.
“The one-of-a-kind partnership between a film production company, Star Cinema and streaming and social entertainment platform kumu, hopes to bring the audience a different kind of entertainment viewing,” the firm said.
It explained that, “Film production has been put on hold for the first few months of our lockdown but ABS-CBN Films found creative ways to keep telling stories. And as we move to a better normal they continue to tell our story.” kumu is a powerful social media platform that brings the voices of Filipinos from all over the globe at the forefront.
âMidnight In A Perfect Worldâ director Dodo Dayao: âGenre films give you aesthetic wiggle room to literalise impossible ideasâ
The Filipino filmmaker talks putting a different spin on stale horror tropes, not spoon-feeding the viewer and more
Jasmine Curtis Smith in Midnight In A Perfect World. Credit: Geric Cruz
Heâs the toast of Manilaâs independent horror cinema, but for Dodo Dayao, the dreaded sophomore slump was as debilitating as the unspeakable spooks heâs projected to the screen. After the critical success of his 2014 debut feature
Violator â which won Best Film at Cinema One Originals â the filmmaker set out to do something âas far away from it as possibleâ. And when an attempt at such started fizzling out, he says, âI was in a mild state of panic.â