Jake Cuenca in full monty?

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Salviejo. Playing support are Diego Loyzaga, Cindy Miranda, Kyle Velino, and Franki Russell.

ACCORDING to Jake Cuenca, it would depend on the audience if he will do frontal nudity in the controversial stage play DickTalk, which will run from April 15 to 23, at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium in Makati City.

“I have the freedom to do it if I want to,” he avers. “Let’s see. I’ll cross the bridge when I get here. Let’s see how I’ll feel on that day!”

The competent actor explains that doing a full monty should not be the main selling point in the forthcoming stage play.

“For me, the main reason why I want to go back to theater is not because I want to do a skin or peep show. What I want to showcase is how I do theater. My main purpose here is to show that I’m different in films, television, and the legitimate stage.”

Interestingly, what does he love about theater?

“Well, for one, it’s dangerous – you don’t know what’s going to happen once you stepped foot on stage. You’re also in control. As I’ve said earlier, you can do whatever you want.”

MGM’s boxing drama Creed III scored an opening-round knockout this weekend, taking in an estimated $58.7 million to top North America’s box office in one of the biggest debuts ever for a sports film.

That made first-time director Michael B. Jordan – who again plays rock-hard boxer Apollo Creed – the “undefeated box office champion,” said industry analyst Exhibitor Relations.

In this ninth film in the Rocky franchise – the first without Sylvester Stallone in the Rocky Balboa role he created – Creed comes out of retirement for a dramatic showdown against an old friend played by Jonathan Majors

That makes this a pretty good weekend for Majors, the villain in Marvel and Disney’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which placed second for the Friday-through-Sunday period at $12.5 million. Paul Rudd stars as the title ant; Evangeline Lilly is the Wasp.

In third place was Universal’s Cocaine Bear at $11 million. The horror comedy is based loosely on the true story of a black bear that wreaks havoc in the Tennessee woods after consuming a cache of lost cocaine.

Keri Russell plays one of the locals caught up in the crazy.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba –

To the Swordsmith Village, an anime sequel from Crunchyroll, placed fourth at $10.1 million. The previous Demon Slayer film in 2021 had a record debut for a non-English language feature, taking in $19.5 million, Variety reported.

And in fifth was Lionsgate’s Christian drama Jesus Revolution, a story of a 1960s religious movement in California. It took in $8.7 million. AFP

For Jake, the audience is a huge factor.

“If I feel that they want it, or the anticipation is there and this is the cherry on top of a good performance, then I might give it. Definitely, I won’t take that away from the audience.

“It’s not a very satisfying experience to go full monty in a theater without an audience, right? So, you have to feel it out. At the end of the day, it’s still a performance. I will just feel it from the connection that I built with the audience,” he ends.

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Viva Films proudly presents its sequel to the mega-blockbuster Maid in Malacañang. Titled Martyr or Murderer, it is directed by the controversial Darryl Yap and is the second of his trilogy.

The movie boasts of a stellar cast led by Cesar Montano, Ruffa Gutierrez, Cristine Reyes, Isko Moreno, Ella

According to Cesar who plays the late President Ferdinand Marcos in the movie, he enjoys the story and script which gets deeper and deeper. He admits that the film brought him new discoveries. On Ruffa’s part who breathes life into Imelda Marcos she found it challenging to portray the former First Lady but is thankful for their director’s guidance. She believes that the cast is in good hands.

Meanwhile, Cristine reveals that it was challenging also to portray Senator Imee Marcos in the movie because she has a huge role in the family. For the pretty actress, the more challenging the role is, the more excited and game she becomes to portray it.

As an ender, Direk Darryl reiterates that his trilogy is not about politics but more of a family story. It would make the viewers think and assess their own family setting. While doing Martyr or Murderer , the acclaimed megger admits that he was not really thinking of breaking another box-office record but just simply to offer the viewers the continuation of the story.

Jake Cuenca is a competent actor who now enjoys performing in the theater

DonBelle leads ABS-CBN’s ‘Made for YouTube’ content lineup

As the leading YouTube channel in the media and entertainment category in Southeast Asia with over 42.7 million subscribers, ABS-CBN Entertainment houses Kapamilya Online Live, which offers on-demand streaming with a seven-day unlireplay of its shows, where fans continue to tune in to the thrilling and action-packed episodes of FPJ’s Batang Quiapo, The Iron Heart, and Dirty Linen. These three programs dominate primetime and amassed a combined total of 189,106,381 digital views for February 2023. Aside from the primetime shows,

ABS-CBN’s various YouTube channels will also have all-new “Made for YouTube” shows such as Pampered Pets where celebrity guests such as Catriona Gray, Sam Milby, Karen Davila, and Tim Yap talk about their fur babies, and Black Sheep’s latest offering Sparks Camp The Star Magic family also has exciting and exclusive YouTube shows in store for viewers with the “Star Magical Prom,” the talent agency’s first-ever prom night, and “Tatak Star Magic Celebrity Conversations” where viewers get up close and personal with Kapamilya stars Donny Pangilinan and Belle Mariano (DonBelle), Andrea Brillantes, KD Estrada, and more in one-on-one interviews.

Other “Made for YouTube” shows launching this year are fun Pinoy challenges in Paano Two, while viewers can go on a behind-the-scenes virtual tour in Metro’s Most Beautiful Homes and BGYO x BINI US Tour Meanwhile, viewers can continue to feel the ‘kilig’ in new episodes of Love Bites Season 2 Teen Clash Extras, and Dear MOR: Celebrity

Specials. Additionally, viewers can still watch episodes of GG-Han on CineMo’s YouTube channel where Joshua Garcia, Jane de Leon, Janella Salvador, and Macoy Dubs give their hot takes on trending topics.

On ABS-CBN Superview, viewers are treated every month to new titles of wellloved movies and series that are available for free. Movies available for binge-watching this month are To Love Somebuddy Just The Way You Are, Can’t Help Falling in Love, Always Be My Maybe, and more which are available on ABS-CBN’s various YouTube channels for a limited time only.

ABS-CBN’s efforts to continue to serve with entertaining and inspiring stories boosts the company’s transition into being an agile digital company where audiences on its YouTube channels can watch “Made for YouTube” exclusive shows, regularly updated titles of movies and series for free streaming via Superview, and on Kapamilya Online Live’s livestreaming and on-demand viewing of Kapamilya shows.