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MARIA: Production Is Underway For Pedring Lopez’s Assassin Thriller

The recent surge of excitement from Erik Matti’s new crime thriller, BuyBust, has done well in gracing the action genre a much needed spotlight in the Philippines. It’s an effort continued with the ongoing work of filmmaker Pedring Lopez who took hold of the festival scene a few years ago for cult action horror, Nilalang, with Cesar Montano, Meg Imperial and Maria Ozawa starring and now he’s back at it with the current production of assassin revenge thriller, Maria, featuring actress Christine Reyes in the title role. When former cartel assassin, LILY, deliberately betrays her organization, she is brutally executed and left for dead. Unbeknownst to her former crime family, she has faked her own death and begun her new life life in seclusion as MARIA – a life suddenly cut short when the cartel learns of her whereabouts. Soon, the hunter becomes the hunted and a new fight wages […]

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MARIA: ‘Nilalang’ Director Teases Female-Centric Action Thriller With A Sultry New Poster

Look forward to official extra details later this month as market news arises. For now, we can assert that while Nilalang director Pedring Lopez isn’t touching on Dacascos/Southworth vehicle, Breach anytime soon, instead, he’s switching gears and readying female-centric actioner, Maria, with actress Cristine Reyes who appeared in the Metro Manila Film Festival favorite of 2012, El Presidente. A highly trained cartel assassin. She was a former special forces member trusts into the life of crime due to the generals she works for. She was supposed to do one last job, but when she deliberately missed her target, a wife, and child of a senator that is causing problems for the cartels she became the target. Now the hunter becomes the hunted. she was eventually captured and brought to a boat where she was beaten RAPED and tortured, she managed to fight her way out to escape from her captors […]

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