New Shows on TV5!

TV5’s Late Night Trip Season 2 launches new shows Sabado Boys and URCC TV; Urban Tribe Season 2

Now onto its second season, TV5’s Late Night Trip gets stronger and tougher as it hikes up its dynamic programming this November with fresher offerings and two new shows that will surely pique the interest of both men and women—Sabado Boys, hosted by the country’s top male pop artists, and the explosive world of fighting in URCC TV, both airing at 11:30pm starting this week.

Harmonizing with their new hit program airing on the radio, Sabado Boys is a variety show of music and smooth-flowing act that now finds its new home on TV5, hosted by top musicians Luke Mijares, Mike Chan, DJ Myke, Paolo Santos, Top Suzara, and Jimmy Bondoc. Although it airs on a Tuesday evening, the show exudes great relaxation mood with its musical features, performances, and album reviews matched with the beach location that gives off the perfect chill out Saturday getaway.

Dominantly an acoustic show, Sabado Boys promises to offer the kind of relaxing, calming, attractive, and soothing music that’s coupled with segments and live repartee that display the humorous side of life, as perceived by the creative eyes and minds of a Pinoy musician.

Thursday evening features the explosive show on the fastest-rising full-contact combat sport, Universal Reality Combat Championship TV (URCC TV) hosted by URCC Founder, President, and MMA expert Alvin Aguilar.

Featuring the local Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) community, specifically URCC, and its high-caliber fighting events and activities, URCC TV will showcase regional MMA activities, tournaments that allow martial artists of different backgrounds to compete, as well as champion fighters who will share their intelligent, perceptive and insightful analysis focused on the disciplines of different mixed martial arts that Pinoys all over the world love.

Urban Tribe Season 2

Successfully finishing off its first season with the country’s leading fiesta house band Tribomanila, Season 2 of Urban Tribe pushes more energy to the scene as it is now hosted by four of the most popular bands in the country composed of Sugarfree, Up Dharma Down, Delara (formerly Mojofly), and journalist-musician Lourd de Veyra of Radioactive Sago Project and TV5’s The Evening News (TEN).

The show features different segments that fit the urban Pinoy with Sugarfree’s “Noypi Know How,” focusing on Pinoy businesses – big and small – their operations, and their products, while promoting Pinoy entrepreneurship and invention; Up Dharma Down on “F.T.,” featuring restaurants, chefs, dishes and everything that comes with a great dining experience that satisfies the “food trip” of Pinoys.

Highlighting Filipino movers and shakers and delving into the minds of the country’s visionaries in search of insights and inspiration is Lourd de Veyra of Radioactive Sago Project on “Piling Pinoy,” followed by the showcasing of sporting-related events and activities, as well as highlighting the benefits of having a healthy lifestyle in “Crunchtime,” by Delara, with singer-host Lougee Basabas.

Watch out for these new offerings of Late Night Trip with Urban Tribe Season 2 every Monday starting November 9, Sabado Boys every Tuesday starting November 10, Stoplight TV Season 2 on Wednesdays, URCC TV on Thursdays starting November 12, and MOG (More on Gaming) TV second season every Friday, 11:30pm on TV5.

TV5 5MAX Movies for November

TV5’s 5MAX Movies offers special screening of 2012, Ninja Assassin and more blockbuster movies

Another ‘Friday the 13th’ is coming this weekend, which is believed to mean ‘bad luck’. But on TV5, all loyal viewers are lucky because the channel just can’t get enough of offering blockbuster movies both in your living rooms and on the big screen as it gives to its viewers the special screening of the most-awaited upcoming movies 2012 and Ninja Assassin this November, as well as thriller and comedy movies Thirteen Ghosts, The Crew, and Liar Liar this weekend on 5MAX Movies.

Aptly showing on Friday (November 13), Thirteen Ghosts is the remake of the 1960 film of the same name, following the horror story of a very rich collector of unique things who leaves all his possessions to his family, including his malicious collection of ghosts.

Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home on Saturday (November 14) in the action-comedy movie The Crew, starring Burt Reynolds, Richard Dreyfuss, Dan Hedaya, Seymour Cassel, and Carrie-Ann Moss

Jim Carrey stars as a fast track lawyer who can’t lie for 24 hours due to his son’s birthday wish in the award-winning and Golden Globe nominee movie, Liar Liar, showing on Sunday (November 15).

With the Mayan calendar ending in 2012, a large group of people must deal with natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, typhoons and glaciers in the drama thriller film 2012, showing this Friday (November 13) at Glorietta 4 Cinema 1 at 7:30pm, to be attended by the lucky winners of 2012 promo winners who won by simply texting “5MAX ON” and “5MAX<space>Name” to 2256.

For those who missed the 2012 5MAX Movies texting promo, you can still join the online contest for winning VIP passes for the special screening of the upcoming martial arts film Ninja Assassin, starring Korean pop artist, Rain. Interested contestants will simply have to tune in to TV5 and watch out for the question to be flashed onscreen and log on to TV5 website to answer the promo question.

Winners will get to win two VIP tickets to the Ninja Assassin special screening, as well as a chance to take home Ninja Assassin premium items during the movie screening on November 24, 7:30pm at Glorietta 4 Cinema 2.

Keep on texting 5MAX ON to 2256 to join and experience all these great and exciting promos offered only by TV5, and enjoy watching all the best blockbusters every evening at 9pm on 5MAX Movies.

Sex and the City 2: Filming Begins

For the ladies…

NEW LINE CINEMA’S “SEX AND THE CITY 2” BEGINS FILMING IN NEW YORK

Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda take another bite out of The Big Apple

BURBANK, CA, September 14, 2009 – “Sex and the City 2,” the sequel to the 2008 summer blockbuster, has begun principal photography in—where else?—New York City.  Returning in their starring roles as the four great friends are Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.  “It’s a great privilege to be spending time again with this beloved cast and crew and to be filming in New York City,” says Parker.  “We look forward to the next few months of this adventure.”

Of course, where would these women be without their men?  Also back for the much-anticipated sequel are Chris Noth as Mr. Big, David Eigenberg as Steve, Evan Handler as Harry, Jason Lewis as Smith, Mario Cantone as Anthony and Willie Garson as Stanford Blatch.

“Sex and the City 2” also reunites the original creative team from the series and the first feature.  Michael Patrick King is once again directing from his own screenplay.  States King, “We are thrilled to have the luxury to continue to tell the story of these four iconic women characters: Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha.  We will do our best to entertain the loyal fans who were so supportive of the first movie.”

King is also producing with John Melfi, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Darren Star.  The executive producers are Toby Emmerich, Richard Brener and Marcus Viscidi.  Also returning will be director of photography John Thomas, production designer Jeremy Conway, composer Aaron Zigman and costume designer Patricia Field.

Set to be released in theaters June next year, “Sex and the City 2” is the follow-up to the first film, which pulled in more than $415 million worldwide.  The original film was inspired by the phenomenally popular, award-winning HBO series based on the writings of Candace Bushnell.

The majority of filming will take place in and around the city of New York.

New Line Cinema presents “Sex and the City 2.”  The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

Warner Bros. Leads RP Box-Office Race, No. 1 in Gross Sales

MANILA, Aug. 4 — Warner Bros. Philippines announces today its blockbuster gross sales of a whopping P629.67-million from January 8 to Aug. 2, 2009, making it the current box-office leader among distributors (local or foreign). This according to Francis Soliven, general manager of Warner Bros.

“Warner is on track for another record-breaking year, and we’d like to thank the Filipino moviegoers for this remarkable feat,” said Soliven. The studio has been the No. 1 distributor in the country for three consecutive years, from 2005 to 2007, with an annual average gross receipts of P1.2-billion.

The jewel in Warner’s crown remains to be the latest “Harry Potter” installment, “Half-Blood Prince” which has so far grossed an astounding P178.45-million. “Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” released by Twentieth Century Fox through Warner, comes in second with a smash P112-million.

Outstanding grosses were also performed by franchise films “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (P96.45-million) and “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” (P86-million).

The distributor’s other recent notable hits were “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Yes Man,” “Bride Wars,” “Australia,” “Marley & Me,” “Valkyrie” and “Dragonball: Evolution.”

Still to come from Warner for the rest of the year are potential winners “The Hangover” (already the biggest-grossing R-Rated comedy ever in the U.S.), “Ninja Assassin” (an action-thriller from the Wachowski Brothers), “Whiteout” (an Antarctica-set thriller starring Kate Beckinsale) and children-friendly fares “Shorts” and “Where the Wild Things Are.”

For its part, Fox will release “Jennifer’s Body” (starring current screen sensation Megan Fox), “All About Steve” (a Sandra Bullock romantic comedy), comedies “Aliens in the Attic” and “I Love You, Beth Cooper” and perhaps the most anticipated film in years, the groundbreaking “Avatar” – director James Cameron’s first movie since “Titanic.”

X-Men Origins: Wolverine showing on May 1!

X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, the first chapter in the X-Men saga, unites Wolverine with several other legends of the X-Men universe, in an epic revolution that pits the mutants against powerful forces determined to eliminate them.

Hugh Jackman reprises the role that made him a superstar, as the fierce fighting machine who possesses amazing healing powers, adamantium claws, and a primal fury known as berserker rage. X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE stays true to the tone of the X-Men motion picture franchise, continuing the films’ balance between spectacle and reality, while heightening the emotions and relationships.

The film also introduces a team of mutants, including several whose appearances in the movie series have been long anticipated. Movie audiences will meet Team X, a covert military cadre comprised entirely of mutants. Its members are: Wolverine; his brother Victor Creed, aka Sabretooth, a feral being of unimaginable power; Wade Wilson, later to be known as Deadpool, a high-tech mercenary skilled at swordplay; Agent Zero, an expert tracker and lethal marksman; Wraith, a teleporter; Fred J. Dukes, also known as The Blob, a morbidly obese and super-strong behemoth; and Bradley, who can manipulate electricity. Leading them is William Stryker, a figure introduced in “X2” but whose origins and motives are now fully explored, for it is Stryker’s complex relationship with Wolverine that defines much of Logan’s past …and future.

Taken movie showing in Manila, Philippines on March 11, 2009 —

— a.k.a. Liam Neeson kicks our teeth in with this Luc Besson-written/produced bad-assery. 

I’ll let the official Press Release take it from here: