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Production has wrapped on “Asian Persuasion,” a New York Asian tale of a down-on-his-luck chef who cooks up a scheme to marry off his ex-wife in an attempt to escape substantial alimony and child support obligations, before realizing that he wants a second chance. Featured actors include Black Eyed Peas’ Apl.de.Ap, Yam Concepcion (“Nightshift”), Janice Sonia Lee (“Emily the Criminal”), Ami Sheth (“Most Beautiful Island”), Rachel Alejandro (“Ang Larawan”), Fe Delos Reyes (“Lumpia with a Vengeance”), Joyce Keokham (“Denture Adventure”), comedian Rex Navarrete (“Badass Madapaka”), Imani Hanson (“An Angry Boy”), Devin Ilaw, Renee Rogoff (“Carma”), Mairin Lee (“Marcy”), Hamilton’s Marc delaCruz, Raw founder Josh Kesselman, CaliStar, and Tony Labrusca. It was directed by Jhett Tolentino from a script by Mike Ang and is now being edited by Aacharee Ungsriwong. Production is by Jhett Tolentino Productions banner in association with Brooklyn-based Planet X Studios.
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Production has wrapped on “Asian Persuasion,” a New York Asian tale of a down-on-his-luck chef who cooks up a scheme to marry off his ex-wife in an attempt to escape substantial alimony and child support obligations, before realizing that he wants a second chance. Featured actors include Black Eyed Peas’ Apl.de.Ap, Yam Concepcion (“Nightshift”), Janice Sonia Lee (“Emily the Criminal”), Ami Sheth (“Most Beautiful Island”), Rachel Alejandro (“Ang Larawan”), Fe Delos Reyes (“Lumpia with a Vengeance”), Joyce Keokham (“Denture Adventure”), comedian Rex Navarrete (“Badass Madapaka”), Imani Hanson (“An Angry Boy”), Devin Ilaw, Renee Rogoff (“Carma”), Mairin Lee (“Marcy”), Hamilton’s Marc delaCruz, Raw founder Josh Kesselman, CaliStar, and Tony Labrusca. It was directed by Jhett Tolentino from a script by Mike Ang and is now being edited by Aacharee Ungsriwong. Production is by Jhett Tolentino Productions banner in association with Brooklyn-based Planet X Studios.
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- 6/15/2022
- by Patrick Frater and Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The animated series adaptation of “The Supernatural Academy” books by Jaymin Eve has been ordered at Peacock, Variety has learned exclusively.
Variety originally reported the series was in the works from 41 Entertainment back in October 2019. The half-hour series will debut on Peacock on Jan. 20, 2022. The first season will consist of 16 episodes.
Like the books, the show chronicles an otherworldly adventure of sisters marked at birth. One twin sister was raised in the Supernatural world, confident and popular. The other was raised in the human world, an offbeat outsider. Now they’re about to be reunited at the Supernatural Academy, and neither one of them is thrilled about it. These adversarial twins will have to learn to get over their differences and trust each other in order to save themselves and save the world.
“It is so incredible to see my original story come to life in this high-quality animation project,...
Variety originally reported the series was in the works from 41 Entertainment back in October 2019. The half-hour series will debut on Peacock on Jan. 20, 2022. The first season will consist of 16 episodes.
Like the books, the show chronicles an otherworldly adventure of sisters marked at birth. One twin sister was raised in the Supernatural world, confident and popular. The other was raised in the human world, an offbeat outsider. Now they’re about to be reunited at the Supernatural Academy, and neither one of them is thrilled about it. These adversarial twins will have to learn to get over their differences and trust each other in order to save themselves and save the world.
“It is so incredible to see my original story come to life in this high-quality animation project,...
- 12/3/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Director/writer: Michael Stokes.
Every Halloween this reviewer needs to see a horror film everyday or every other day. Satisfying this horror fix is Michael Stokes' A Haunting at the Beacon aka The Beacon. This is a film released on DVD September 13th and starring are Teri Polo (Meet the Parents), David Rees Snell ("The Shield") and Michael Ironside. Haunting at the Beacon is perfect for this holiday of souls because the writing is tense, the characters are interesting and the climax made this reviewer look twice. It is hard not to look twice when you see Ironside snarling in icky green face paint.
Polo plays Bryn Shaw a woman dealing with grief and the loss of her son. Unfortunately, she picks a haunted apartment building to find solace. A young boy appears in a black and white photograph as a ghostly figure. Later, he sneers with devilish eyes.
Every Halloween this reviewer needs to see a horror film everyday or every other day. Satisfying this horror fix is Michael Stokes' A Haunting at the Beacon aka The Beacon. This is a film released on DVD September 13th and starring are Teri Polo (Meet the Parents), David Rees Snell ("The Shield") and Michael Ironside. Haunting at the Beacon is perfect for this holiday of souls because the writing is tense, the characters are interesting and the climax made this reviewer look twice. It is hard not to look twice when you see Ironside snarling in icky green face paint.
Polo plays Bryn Shaw a woman dealing with grief and the loss of her son. Unfortunately, she picks a haunted apartment building to find solace. A young boy appears in a black and white photograph as a ghostly figure. Later, he sneers with devilish eyes.
- 10/7/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
The Flick:
Paul and Bryn Shaw (David Rees Snell and Teri Polo) move into an apartment building called the Beacon close to the college where Paul is starting an associate professor job. Bryn is in the process of recovering from a nervous break down that lead to a suicide attempt after the disappearance of their young son, Danny, three years before. While still settling into their new home, Bryn keeps spotting a little boy around the building, and hearing violent arguments coming from the apartment next door. Having reason to believe that the boy lives in said apartment, Bryn calls the police. This is when she discovers that the boy, Ronny, died in the building due to an apparent accident. And the next door apartment where the boy did actually live has been empty for months. Bryn’s husband, Paul, and her sister, Christina (Marnette Patterson), believe that she is...
Paul and Bryn Shaw (David Rees Snell and Teri Polo) move into an apartment building called the Beacon close to the college where Paul is starting an associate professor job. Bryn is in the process of recovering from a nervous break down that lead to a suicide attempt after the disappearance of their young son, Danny, three years before. While still settling into their new home, Bryn keeps spotting a little boy around the building, and hearing violent arguments coming from the apartment next door. Having reason to believe that the boy lives in said apartment, Bryn calls the police. This is when she discovers that the boy, Ronny, died in the building due to an apparent accident. And the next door apartment where the boy did actually live has been empty for months. Bryn’s husband, Paul, and her sister, Christina (Marnette Patterson), believe that she is...
- 9/29/2011
- by Charles Cochran
- Killer Films
Producer Sally Helppie and writer/director Michael Stokes gave Fango an exclusive trailer and first photo from their new fright feature The Beacon; check ’em both out below. It’s the second feature from Helppie’s Texas-based Sabbatical Pictures, which previously made the Stokes-scripted violent actioner Exit Speed (coming on Peace Arch DVD March 3).
The Beacon stars Teri Polo (also soon to be seen in Joe Dante’s The Hole) and David Rees Snell as Bryn and Paul Shaw, who are trying to put their life back together following the death of their child. After they move into the Beacon Apartments, Bryn starts experiencing visions of a little boy who died there, and comes to believe that freeing his spirit will allow her to contact her own dead son through him. “I love mayhem movies like Exit Speed,” Stokes tells Fango, “but The Beacon is intentionally old-school, with a character-driven story,...
The Beacon stars Teri Polo (also soon to be seen in Joe Dante’s The Hole) and David Rees Snell as Bryn and Paul Shaw, who are trying to put their life back together following the death of their child. After they move into the Beacon Apartments, Bryn starts experiencing visions of a little boy who died there, and comes to believe that freeing his spirit will allow her to contact her own dead son through him. “I love mayhem movies like Exit Speed,” Stokes tells Fango, “but The Beacon is intentionally old-school, with a character-driven story,...
- 1/7/2009
- Fangoria
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