British filmmaker Sean Ellis’ “Metro Manila” wins the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award at the Sundance film fest which ends in Utah Saturday (Sunday Manila time), according to Filipino actor John Arcilla who attended the event.
Tony Gilroy’s “The Bourne Legacy,” the Hollywood action thriller filmed in the country early this year, will have its grand Philippine premiere at the Resorts World Newport Performing Arts Theater tonight. Some of the Filipino actors who are in the film’s cast have been invited to grace the event.
Stage and movie thespian John Arcilla couldn’t contain his excitement when he learned that Hollywood director Tony Gilroy had praised him and other local actors cast in the action thriller, “The Bourne Legacy.” Arcilla told the Philippine Daily Inquirer that he received good feedback from Gilroy right on the set when the movie was [...]
John Arcilla, one of the few Filipino actors in the cast of “The Bourne Legacy,” said he came to the set of the Tony Gilroy spy-thriller expecting to be star-struck and intimidated by lead actors Rachel Weisz and Jeremy Renner. He was surprised that he felt neither.
The children of San Andres in Malate, Manila, will remember Rachel Weisz not only for spending time in their neighborhood to shoot the film “Bourne Legacy,” but also for an act of generosity seen to make their days happier. The actress donated funds for the renovation of a playground at the San Andres Sports Complex, [...]
John Arcilla could barely contain his excitement after he made it to the cast of “Bourne Legacy.”
