Pacman, Goma to be honored at URCC Hall of Fame awards

The country’s top celebrity athletes will be honored at the first Universal Reality Combat Championship (URCC) Hall of Fame Awards, to be held today 31 July at the Samsung Hall of SM Aura, Bonifacio Global City. Among the awardees are Ormoc City Mayor Richard Gomez (Fencing), Makati 1st District Rep. Monsour del Rosario (Taekwondo), Senator Miguel Zubiri (Arnis) and eleven-time world boxing champion Senator Manny Pacquiao (Boxing). Baron Geisler and Kiko Matos, who made headlines with their impromptu cage match last 25 June 2016, also earned a citation as the URCC’s first celebrity fight. Expected VIP guests include former UFC legend Frank Shamrock and International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) president Kerrith Brown.

It’s a good thing Bruce Willis can take a hit! Comedy Central unveiled an all-star roster of Roasters who will join Roast Master Joseph Gordon-Levitt for the Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis. Those names include Willis co-stars from Moonlighting and Motherless Brooklyn, life-long friends and comedians all armed and ready to throw barbs. Confirmed “Roasters” include Nikki Glaser, Lil Rel Howery, Dom Irrera, Edward Norton, Kevin Pollak, Jeff Ross and Cybill Shepherd. The event (#BruceWillisRoast) was taped at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on 14 July and will air 48 hours after the United States telecast on Comedy Central Asia on 31 July at 9 p.m. (WIB) and 10 p.m. (SG/MY/PH/TW/HK).

It’s Jennifer Garner’s year. After channeling the femme fatale that catapulted her to TV stardom in early 2000s with the spy show Alias, Garner is back with another treat after the success of last month’s showing of Peppermint.

Garner’s TV stint, the HBO show Camping gets the greenlight as it premieres on 14 October in HBO. Don’t expect a Sidney Bristow-like portrayal though. Garner stars as the obsessively organized and aggressively controlling wife of David Tennant’s Walt. The HBO show is an adaptation of the British series with the same title.

Kristen Stewart completes trio of ‘Charlie’s Angels’

Elizabeth Banks has finally cast the last of the Angels to her Bosley. Twilight star Kristen Stewart is cast in the reboot of Charlie’s Angels alongside British actresses Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska.

Banks will direct the show as well as star as Bosley, the face of the detective agency owned by a man named Charlie. Banks has earlier casted her Power Rangers co-star Scott as one of the ‘Angels’. Balinska, meanwhile, has appeared in A Modern Tale.

Charlie’s Angels had a movie trilogy reboot shown in 2000s that starred Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore. Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, Shelley Hack, Tanya Roberts and Cheryl Ladd were the original Angels when the TV show aired from 1976 to 1981.

Action thriller BuyBust will open the 14th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival on 3 August at the CCP Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater). The opening film will be screened at 7 p.m., following the opening program at 6 p.m.

Directed by Erik Matti, the film follows rookie police officer Nina Manigan who joins the anti-narcotic elite squad. Soon, two teams are deployed to conduct a buy-bust operation in the slums of Manila. Realizing that the mission is poorly executed, the anti-narcotic squad finds themselves trapped by a gang of slum settlers and needs to fight their way out to escape.

The film is directed by Erik Matti and stars Anne Curtis, Victor Neri, Arjo Atayde, Nonie Buencamino, Lao Rodriguez, Alex Calleja, Levi Ignacio, Ricky Pascua, Joross Gamboa, Sheenly Gener, Mara Lopez, AJ Muhlach, Tarek El Tayech, Maddie Martinez, Nafa Hilario, Ian Ignacio, and Mikey Alcaraz. It is co-produced by Reality Entertainment and Viva Films.