Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant face-to-face at the Santa Clarita Diet Bloody Carpet Premiere

It was a happy Monday for me when I got to see Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant last night at SM Mega Fashion Hall. Fans, including I, were ecstatic to see Sheila and Joel Hammond in the flesh, for the bloody carpet premiere of the Netflix Original series, Santa Clarita Diet.

While waiting for Drew and Tim, Netflix gave away merch notebook and free Netflix subscriptions to lucky fans who can answer Gelli Victor's questions in a short Q&A game.

As they arrived, everybody was shouting in happiness and they were very accommodating to sign autographs and get selfies with the fans. Unfortunately they didn't pass in front of me but I was in front of the audience so I am a few feet away from the two actors. Drew and Tim were very thankful to everyone who made the time to attend the red carpet and have a moment with them.
Did you know that they were not first-timers in the Philippines? Drew Barrymore is in her second time here and two years ago, she was already in talks with SM to launch her company in the Philippines that promotes empowerment of women. So we're expecting to see her again in the future when the business talks are in place. Timothy Olyphant, on the other hand, spent a short of his younger years in Davao where his father worked in Del Monte Company and his great grandfather was also an engineer at the University of the Philippines.

As a warm welcome, they were offered Strawberry ice cream with gore candies like eyeballs and teeth to still be in the theme of flesh-eating show.

We were lucky to watch the first episode of season 2 of Santa Clarita Diet and I must say that I love the character developments and excited on how things will turn out in the next episodes. There is also one character which we've just been laughing or ignoring about in the past season but now we're not sure if the person will be on the Hammond's side or not.

Here's an invitation from Drew and Timothy and thanking everyone for the support to Santa Clarita Diet. Drew is aware of the traffic in the Philippines!



Santa Clarita Diet also stars Liv Hewson as Abby, Skyler Gisondo as Eric and more. Starts streaming on Netflix on March 23.

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6 Things you didn't know about RAK OF AEGIS

If you're a super fan like I am, there are details that really caught your attention and be ready to catch these bits during the rerun of Rak of Aegis this December 5-14 at PETA Theater Center.

1. The Footwear - Since Villa Venizia supposedly gets their income in the shoe industry before the flood happened, you'll see Jewel's well-adorned designer boots. From the play to the curtain call, you'll have a fiesta of colors and style made by Maco Custodio who is a trained shoe engineer with a degree in Industrial Design from University of Sto. Tomas.
2. What is Baha Jos? Remember some impromptu moments when the cast gets random people from the audience? (I wish I was one of them) A sip from the bottle of Baha Jos adds more excitement when people assumed that it came from the flood water. It is absolutely clean and even QC Mayor Herbert Bautista gets to drink from it.
   
3. The cast is frequently seen at the lobby waiting for their cue. Take a short break in between acts and you'll see the cast roaming around. Sometimes, even Kenny grabs a bite at the food stalls.
4. Musical Director and Kenny, Myke Salomon voices these lines before the play and during break time.
   

   This is to remind you that EATING, SMOKING, and DRINKING are three RHYMING WORDS.

   The musical is not a sing-along dahil baka mas alam mo pa ang lyrics kesa sa cast. Edi sana, NAG-AUDITION ka nalang.

   Ang sino mang mahuhuli na lalabag ay ipupullout sa upuan at papakantahin ng HALIK o LUHA ng 3 OCTAVES HIGHER mula sa original key.

5. The flood water is clean. No worries about dengue outbreak after the show because the water is treated with chlorine to avoid mosquito breeding. PETA also set up a citronella garden adding a refreshing smell and protects us audience too.
   
6. No two shows are the same. Director Maribel Legarda gives the cast the liberty to give their own adlibs without compromising the story, to punch a funny line. This can be noticed by people who watched the show more than once.
   

Catch Rak of Aegis at the PETA Phinma Theater as your Christmas treat this December 5-14, 2014. For ticket reservations go to www.ticketworld.com.ph, or call TicketWorld at 891-9999. You may also contact PETA at 725-6244 or 0917-5765400 or email petatheater@gmail.com.

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FUN FACTS from the SORCERER’S APPRENTICE

The cast and filmmakers of Walt Disney Studios’ THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE had a blast creating the fantasy adventure about Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage), a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan who recruits Dave Stutler (Jay Baruchel), a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protégé.
Get a load of these fun trivia about the newest Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster:

• The Phantom. Balthazar Blake’s vehicle of choice is very rare 1935 Rolls-Royce Phantom. Its engine, appropriately known as the “Merlin,” helped propel Spitfire aircraft for Britain, which helped win World War II. An exact replica of the real Phantom was created for stunt sequences. During filming in the streets of New York City, the Phantom proved to be a huge tourist attraction.

• The Chrysler Eagle gargoyle comes to life in two varieties: the full-size, motion-base, computer-controlled version constructed by Academy Award®-winning special-effects coordinator John Frazier, and a CG version from visual-effects supervisor John Nelson and Asylum Visual Effects.

• Chinatown. The colorful Chinese festival sequence in which a parade dragon comes to life was filmed over the course of two weeks on Eldridge Street, in the heart of New York’s Chinatown. More than 2,000 people from the local Chinese communities showed up for an extras casting call for 500 available spots.

• Nikola Tesla. The inventions, philosophy and spirit of controversial and brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla hung over the entire movie, and by an amazing coincidence, the last day of filming fell on what would have been his 153rd birthday. And the company also filmed at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Manhattan’s 110th Street, where Tesla received a state funeral attended by more than 2000 people.

• The Encantus, the film’s book of spells, weighed a mighty 75 pounds. But there were other versions created, including a 10-pound duplicate and a waterproofed floating version for the so-called “Fantasia” sequence.

• Every single page of the enormous Encantus had to be aged by experts in medieval bookbinding, with methods ranging from sanding the papers to wetting them with tea.

• The seven domains in the Merlin Circle include Space-Time, Motion, Matter, Elements, Transformation, Mind, and in the center, the Forbidden domain—Love. The multi-colored flames that shoot out of the Merlin Circle in the underground lab were created by the special effects team like a gigantic stove-top burner, with fire rods six inches below the deck in a water tank.

• The Coat. Costume designer Michael Kaplan and his team created 10 exact copies of Balthazar Blake’s long leather coat, and all of Balthazar’s rings were custom made as well.

• Arcana Cabana. Set decorator George DeTitta Jr. collected no fewer than half a million objects of escalating weirdness for production designer Naomi Shohan’s Arcana Cabana set, including a prosthetic leg, disembodied doll’s heads, shrunken heads, skeletons and a “unicorn skull.”

(Opening across the Philippines on Thursday, July 15, THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International.)

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