Warner Bros' $3B and announcing their 2015 films

A great hats off to Warner Brothers Pictures for surpassing $3-billion mark in earnings from their 2014 lineup of movies and also raking in great reviews and movie-after-movie box office as announced by Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures. See the estimated earnings of the following movies:

The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies - $400 million
Interstellar - $467 million
Godzilla - $327 million
Edge of Tomorrow - over $200 million
The LEGO Movie - over $200 million
300: Rise of an Empire - over $200 million
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - over $200 million
Annabelle - $171 million

Total earnings include Into the Storm, The Judge and movie adaptations of Japanese manga Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno and The Legend Ends.

For the new year, Warner will roll-out another batch of potential blockbusters led by “Jupiter Ascending” (Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis), “In the Heart of the Sea” (Chris Hemsworth), “Mad Max: Fury Road” (Tom Hardy, Charlieze Theron), “San Andreas” (Dwayne Johnson), “Pan” (Hugh Jackman) and “Man from U.N.C.L.E.” (Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer).

“American Sniper” (Bradley Cooper) headlines the studio's dramatic and thriller offerings for 2015, followed by “Focus” (Will Smith), “Magic Mike XXL” (Channing Tatum), “Black Mass” (Johnny Depp), “Midnight Special” (Joel Edgerton), “Run All Night” (Liam Neeson) and the horror suspense “The Gallows.”
The comedy genre in Warner's 2015 slate is reprented by “Get Hard” (Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart), “Don't Mess with Texas” (Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara), “Entourage” (Adrian Grenier, Jeremy Piven), “The Intern” (Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro), “Vacation” (Ed Helms, Chris Hemsworth) and “Arms & the Dudes” (Jonah Hill, Miles Teller).

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MAD MAX: Fury Road action-packed trailer

Watch the highly-anticipated trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth in the film franchise.

Haunted by his turbulent past, Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa (Charlize Theron).

They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord marshals all his gangs and pursues the rebels ruthlessly in the high-octane Road War that follows.

“Mad Max: Fury Road”—the fourth in the franchise’s history—stars Tom Hardy (“The Dark Knight Rises”) in the title role, alongside Oscar winner Charlize Theron (“Monster,” “Prometheus”) as the Imperator, Furiosa. The film also stars Nicholas Hoult (“X-Men: Days of Future Past”) as Nux; Hugh Keays-Byrne (“Mad Max”, “Sleeping Beauty”) as Immortan Joe; and Nathan Jones (“Conan the Barbarian”) as Rictus Erectus. Collectively known as The Wives, Zoë Kravitz (“Divergent”) plays Toast, Riley Keough (“Magic Mike”) is Capable, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”) is Splendid.
They are joined by supermodel Abbey Lee as The Dag and Courtney Eaton as Fragile, both of whom are making their big screen debuts. Also featured in the movie are Josh Helman as Slit, Jennifer Hagan as Miss Giddy, and singer/songwriter/performer iOTA as Coma-Doof Warrior. The cast is rounded out by well-known Australian actors John Howard and Richard Carter, supermodel Megan Gale, Angus Sampson, Joy Smithers, Gillian Jones, Melissa Jaffer and Melita Jurisic.

Opening across the Philippines in 2D and 3D theaters on May 2015, “Mad Max: Fury Road” is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

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SPECTRE started filming in Austria

Daniel Craig's latest Bond film seem to have a ski chases set in Austria.

ON Productions, MGM and Sony Pictures have released official cast images of Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux and Dave Bautista in the Austrian alps during filming of scenes there for "Spectre," the 24th entry in the James Bond franchise.

Filming took place over the weekend on the cold waters of Lake Altaussee where Craig was seen filming a scene standing alone on a long wooden boat on a lake, surrounded by a snowy forest.

These shots were snapped in Solden, Austria - a place known for its skiing, especially around the Rettenbach glacier. The production is expected to film scenes along the glacier road and tunnel, along with making use of a cable car system.

“Spectre” is directed by Sam Mendes and is set for global release on November 6, 2015. The film also stars Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Christoph Waltz, Monica Bellucci and Andrew Scott.

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Testing my own LOUDBASSTARD amplifier

It is a great way to end 2014 winning some promos I joined online. It was a very musical December when I saw Ely Buendia's concert in Antipolo and to cap off, I won Manila Concert Junkies' online giveaway with a Loudbasstard Bamboo amplifier! I claimed it last night and tried my new gadget baby to the test.

Enclosed in a bio case that is just smaller than a shoe box, I cannot imagine that this thing is huge, about a foot in length. All natural and very unique, I also like its blue green paint. Kudos to the people of Cebu for making this  unique accessory for all music lovers like me.

Testing, the difference from playing music straight from the phone and with a Loudbasstard is quite noticeable. The sound is louder and more pleasant. I can't wait to listen with it with nature sounds via Spotify.

For more info about Loudbasstard, you can check their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/loudbasstardTM. Again, thank you Manila Concert Junkies for this New Year gift.

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Marvel releases first full teaser for Ant-Man

After the miniature and human-sized trailers, Marvel releases the full teaser of Ant-Man.

A new addition to Marvel's cinematic universe is the original founder of The Avengers. Paul Rudd plays Scott Lang and Ant-Man!

Armed with a super-suit that has an ability to make the wearer shrink and increase in strength, Scott Lang helps his mentor Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world. Directed by Peyton Reed and will open in theaters July 22 2015. Watch the trailer here:
Also stars Michael Douglas as Dr. Hank Pym,Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne, Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, Corey Stoll as Dareen Cross / Yellowjacket and more.

Marvel also released the minute Ant-Man in this incredible poster.

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Prepare for the upcoming disaster: SAN ANDREAS

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson faces new danger in a magnitude 9 earthquake in new film "San Andreas" by New Line Cinema and Village Roadshow Pictures.

The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 810 miles (1,300 km) through California in the United States (Wiki). And a pilot (Johnson) and his estranged wife are on their way to save their only daughter from the place where the earthquake hits. They would think that the danger may be over but it just had started. Watch the trailer here:
The film reunites Dwayne Johnson and director Brad Peyton and producer Beau Flynn, following their collaboration on the global hit “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.” The film also stars Carla Gugino (“Night at the Museum”), Alexandra Daddario (“Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters”), Ioan Gruffudd (“Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”), Archie Panjabi (TV’s “The Good Wife”), Hugo Johnstone-Burt (Australian TV’s “Home and Away”), Art Parkinson (TV’s “Game of Thrones”) and Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti (“Cinderella Man”).

Opening across the Philippines in both 3D and 2D format in May 2015, “San Andreas” is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

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ENGLISH ONLY, PLEASE movie review

Thanks to the power of Facebook, English Only, Please has effectively marketed itself and gained applause for both moviegoers and critics alike. I also congratulate the MMFF entry for bagging 7 major awards, a great achievement to the actors, director and production team that some people wouldn't think that a romcom may get. Call me biased but EOP is just one of the movies that I really look forward to at the festival along with Kubot which I have yet to see.

Playing Tere Madlansacay is Jennylyn Mercado, a self-supporting woman through her earnings in tutoring foreigners to learn the English language. Who also gets her money raked in by her sex fling (played by Kean Cipriano) who also gets me irritated by the nerves. She gets hired by a Fil-Am businessman Julian Parker (Derek Ramsay) to translate his anger letter for effective delivery to her ex (Isabel Oli) which left him years ago. Comforting Tere is her bestie Cai Cortez, a single mother taking her chances on love through Tinder and Facebook but usually fails. The story revolves in the reality of our time where people check each other out then gone.

Whether romantic or not, the movie affects many kinds of people. The phrase "Traffic sa EDSA" has become a trend to poke people of becoming late. Teaching us to be professional and respect other people's times which you wouldn't know might be our future. Tere also raises the points of the bread winners and the working class, that sometimes they get tired of giving but they do it because of love. Derek's character also mirror those people who keep their secrets, thus "Don't ask" also became a powerful line in the movie.

We all know that the jeepney bay scene is one of the memorable scenes and that giving a resbak to the barker served all recently-attached people out there. Jennylyn's viral scene will surely plant in our heads and would stay forever. I also liked the inserts of vocabulary giving a funny twists to the meanings of each word or phrase.

English Only, Please I would say really deserves the MMFF awards it has received. If you haven't seen it yet, let's hope that the cinemas continue to screen it.

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