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Erik Matti's ON THE JOB Gets A New Trailer

This weekend we have a brand new trailer for the Tagalog/English dual-language Filipino crime thriller, On The Job. The film is the latest feature-length film from writer/director Erik Matti and co-writer Michiko Yamamoto, based on real-life events involving recent stories of political corruption, with politicians tied to mobsters, and organized hits using day-release prisoners as assassins. The film has been making the film festival rounds all summer so far since its world premiere at the 66th Cannes Film Festival back in May where it was acquired by Well Go USA for North American distribution. On The Job has earned several upbeat reviews online ever since, and also won two major awards at the Pichon International Film Festival in South Korea last month, including an award to co-star Joel Torre for Best Actor. The film is currently scheduled to premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin this September, leading into its limited theatrical North American […]

'2 GUNS' Director To Helm Filipino Drama ON THE JOB

Lee B. Golden III

Sources indicated this week that filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur is being tapped to bring co-writer and director Erik Matti‘s Filipino crime drama, On The Job, to North American audiences for a remake. The announcement originally came in about a week prior to today’s news, but we now know that XYZ Films, the people backing The Raid 2 and action star Joe Taslim‘s upcoming role in The Night Comes For Us, will be producing along with Kormakur. The news comes just less than a month after Matti’s film successfully caught the attention of North American movie distributor, Well Go USA. Erik Matti’s film, co-written by Michiko Yamamoto, stars Gerald Anderson, Joel Torre, Piolo Pascual, and Joey Marquez, based on real-life events involving recent stories of political corruption, with politicians tied to mobsters, and organized hits using day-release prisoners as assassins. Star Cinema is releasing the film in the Philippines this July, with Well Go USA […]