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After the success of horror film “Deleter,” actor Nadine Lustre and filmmaker Mikhail Red have teamed again on genre film “Nokturno.”

“Nokturno” revolves around a curse brought on by Filipino folklore characters known as Kumakatok, who are tall, thin and have long, pale fingers. They wear veils that obscure their faces and come knocking in the dead of the night. Those who answer the door are cursed to die or lose a loved one in three days.

Lustre plays Jamie, an overseas Filipina worker who returns to her isolated home province when rumors of mysterious killings brought about by a primal curse begin to circulate. She must reunite with her estranged mother Lilet, played by Eula Valdez (the lead in Red’s 2018 Rotterdam title “Neomanila”), and face her family’s troubled past in order to survive the curse of the Kumakatok.

The cast also includes Bea Binene, Wilbert Ross, J.J. Quilantang...

After sweeping Metro Manila Film Festival awards with 7 wins, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress, “Deleter”, Mikhail Red's first collaboration with Viva, went on to become one of the highest grossing films during the run of the festival.

Lyra works for an online content moderation company, where employees, known as deleters, deal with graphic content before it reaches online platforms, usually in an effort to prevent extreme sex and violence from getting to the screens of users. It seems, however, that the company is shady on a number of levels, as we watch employees staying in a bunkhouse, and Lyra receiving “calming pills” from her boss Simon, which justify how unfazed she is by the content she has to watch everyday. Things take a turn for the much worse when Eileen, a colleague of hers commits suicide, which gradually starts bringing up both Lyra's traumatic past and the actual nature of Simon,...

Top Filipino director Mikhail Red (“Deleter”) will commence esports based film “Friendly Fire” imminently.

Red is currently serving on the international jury at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema and will commence the film as soon as he returns to the Philippines from France.

“Friendly Fire” stars Loisa Andalio (“The Goodbye Girl”) and Coleen Garcia (“Kaluskos”). The film will follow Sonya (Garcia), a visionary female CEO who wants to put Philippine esports on the map. She scouts a young female player Hazel (Andalio) from a random internet cafe, sees the potential in her and trains her.

“It’s not your usual crime thriller that most of my films are, it’s something fresh for me and exciting. I like to think of it as my most wholesome project, because it’s more inspirational and it’s a genre I’ve always wanted to try – the sports movie and the underdog sports story,...

Deleter Trailer — Mikhail Red‘s Deleter (2022) movie trailer has been released by Viva Films. The Deleter trailer stars Nadine Lustre, Louise Delos Reyes, McCoy De Leon, and Jeffrey Hidalgo. Crew Nikolas Red and Mikhail Red wrote the screenplay for Deleter. Myka Magsaysay and Paul Sigua created the music for the film. Ian Alexander Guevara crafted [...]

Continue reading: Deleter (2022) Movie Trailer: Content Moderator Nadine Lustre deletes a Suicide Video but not a Vengeful Presence...

On the way from Philippines director Mikhail Red is a horror movie titled Deleter, and Variety has shared the official teaser trailer along with additional information this week.

Nadine Lustre and Mccoy Deleon star in Deleter, which sounds a little bit similar to Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor (2021), only with a social media twist to the proceedings.

“The film follows Lyra, who works shifts at a shadowy online content moderation office where employees, known as deleters, are tasked with the process of filtering graphic uploads from reaching social media platforms. The responsibility of censorship proves bearable for Lyra, whom her co-workers, as well as her boss Simon, observe as a cold person unfazed by the disturbing imagery she sees on a daily basis.

“What they do not know is that Lyra hides a deep trauma. Lyra’s attempt to erase and forget her past has forced her to don an apathetic...

Actor-singer-influencer Nadine Lustre, Louise delos Reyes and film and TV actor Mccoy Deleon are the leads in rising star Philippines director Mikhail Red’s “Deleter.”

A first teaser has been released for the film that straddles the techno-horror and psychological thriller genres.

Based on a script by Mikhail and Nikolas Red, the film follows Lyra, who works shifts at a shadowy online content moderation office where employees, known as deleters, are tasked with the process of filtering graphic uploads from reaching social media platforms. The responsibility of censorship proves bearable for Lyra, whom her co-workers, as well as her boss Simon, observe as a cold person unfazed by the disturbing imagery she sees on a daily basis. What they do not know is that Lyra hides a deep trauma. Lyra’s attempt to erase and forget her past has forced her to don an apathetic face to the horrors of the world.

Rising-star Philippines director Mikhail Red is poised to begin shooting of “Deleter,” a film that straddles the techno-horror and psychological thriller genres.

The story involves an online content moderator who deletes a suicide video made by her co-worker. But the otherwise desensitized woman cannot escape from either her own troubled past or from a mysterious vengeful presence.

The film is scripted by Red and younger brother Nikolas Red. It is set to star actor-singer-influencer Nadine Lustre, Louise delos Reyes and film and TV actor Mccoy Deleon.

Production is by Viva Films, an established production house which has credits including Erik Matti’s action thriller “Buy Bust.” Location shooting will run through August and September and a completed version is intended to be completed by the end of the year ahead of a launch at key festivals.

Red’s most recent completed film “Arisaka” launched at festivals late last year and...

In today’s TV news roundup, HBO released the premiere date of its film “Black Art: In the Absence of Light” and Netflix unveiled the trailer for its live-action adaptation of “Winx Club,” “Fate: The Winx Saga.”

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Tiffany Haddish’s “They Ready” will return for Season 2 on Feb. 2, Netflix announced. The Emmy-nominated stand-up comedy series features comedians personally chosen by Haddish performing a 15 to 20-minute sets and reminiscing over their time in the business with Haddish. This season will feature Dean Edwards, Kimberly Clark, Tony Woods, Barbara Carlyle, Godfrey and Erin Jackson. Watch the a below.

Netflix’s “Behind Her Eyes,” a British psychological thriller based on Sarah Pinborough’s novel of the same name, will premiere Feb. 17. Created by Steve Lightfoot, the limited series follows Louise, a single mom working at a psychiatrist’s office who begins an affair with her boss and strikes up a secret friendship with his wife.

Movies from the Philippines are set to reach a wider audience in the Middle East following the launch of new distributor Gulf Asia Entertainment. The company aims to give theatrical releases to up to a dozen Filipino titles per year through an arrangement with Front Row Filmed Entertainment.

First out is “Never Not Love You, which will be released on 19 April. Starring Nadine Lustre and James Reid, the romantic drama released last week in The Philippines and enjoyed a $500,000 opening weekend. In May, Gulf Asia will release another romance “Sid & Aya,” starring Anne Curtis and Ding Dong Dantes.

Gulf Asia is a joint effort of a quintet of film industry veterans. They include former Evp of 20th Century Fox in the Asia-Pacific Sunder Kimatrai, and Anish Wadhwa, CEO of Home Screen Entertainment, a U.A.E.-based company releasing Indian films in the Middle East. Also involved are Sharavan Shroff,...

Consortium of industry veterans including former Fox exec will release 10-12 Filipino titles a year.

A consortium of industry veterans, including former Fox Asia executive Sunder Kimatrai and Front Row Filmed Entertainment’s Gianluca Chakra, are launching Gulf Asia Entertainment to distribute Filipino and Southeast Asian content in the Middle East.

Also partners in the consortium are Vicente Del Rosario Jr, CEO of the Philippines Viva Entertainment; Shravan Shroff, former managing director of Indian exhibitor Fame India; and Anish Wadhwa, CEO of UAE-based distributor Home Screen Entertainment, which specialises in South Indian content.

Kimatrai was formerly executive vice president,...