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Filipino stars shine in U.S. red carpet premiere of The Road
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(Left) The Road director Yam Laranas; (right) Manny Pacquiao joins cast members Rhian Ramos, Marvin Agustin, Derrick Monasterio, and Alden Richards at the film's U.S. premiere.

Photo By: Courtesy of GMA Films

At 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 9 (U.S. time), the stars of GMA Films’ 2011 horror film The Road walked down the red carpet and posed for the foreign media covering the film’s Hollywood Red Carpet Premiere held at the majestic Arclight Theater in Los Angeles, California. 

The Yam Laranas film, which received rave reviews from both the local and foreign press and even caught the attention of the New York Times, is set to be commercially released in the U.S. and Canada beginning May 11 (May 12 in the Philippines) through a distribution deal between GMA Films and US-based film distribution company Freestyle Releasing.

Among those in attendance were cast members Marvin Agustin, Rhian Ramos, Alden Richards, and Derrick Monasterio together with GMA Films President Anna Teresa Gozon-Abrogar, Freestyle Presidents Susan Jackson and Mark Borde, GMA Films Project Director Joey Abacan, and the film’s director Yam Laranas.

Also present were Congressman and  Boxing's “Pound-for-Pound" King Manny Pacquiao, MTRCB Chair Grace Poe-Llamanzares,  GMA Entertainment TV Vice President Marivin Arayata, GMA Entertainment TV Asst. Vice President Redgie Magno, GMA Corporate Communications Asst. Vice President Angel Javier-Cruz, and host Tim Yap.  

After the premiere screening of The Road, an after party was held at The Lure, a club beside Arclight Theater.

Prior to the red carpet premiere, GMA Films and Freestyle Releasing held a press conference on May 8 at the Barrio Fiesta Restaurant in Glendale, Los Angeles. It was attended by representatives from US-based Filipino media outfits.

Apart from the U.S., The Road will also be shown in selected theaters in Singapore beginning May 15.

Talks between GMA Films and other film releasing companies are also underway for possible distribution of The Road in other countries.

The Road premiered in the Philippines in November 2011. This horror-suspense film is currently being screened in select SM cinemas. 

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  • 31  meganontalaga

    05/19/2012 | 02:53 PM
    congratulations gme pilms! sobrang success ng DA RUD sa US. ang lakas sa takilya. imaginin mo 600K pesos! yes as in 600K pesoses as in pesoses ang kinita nito sa US hahaha! sobrang successful na yan sa kamuning hahaha! parang U T O T lang ang kita hahaha
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  • 30  gibraltar

    05/19/2012 | 03:38 AM
    Como ba red carpet premiere world class na? Saan ba Arclight Theater sa LA? Kahit sino puedeng mag rent ng hall and roll a red carpet. KUng red carpet bakit isa lang naka tux sa mga artista? Pati director, si Marvin and Pacman ni walang suot na tie.
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  • 29  gibraltar

    05/19/2012 | 02:55 AM
    Ano, sa mobile van lang palabas ang mga SC movies? Mobile van ba ang United Artists Cinema sa Horton Plaza dito sa San Diego? At sa iba't ibang states dito sa US sa mga malalaking movie theaters pinapalabas ang mga SC movies.
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  • 28  cinelamour

    05/14/2012 | 06:44 PM
    actually, magpasalamat kayo ng malaki at hindi nangi-alam si annette gozon-abrogar sa creatives ng pelikula. dahil kung ginawa niya yun. naku, maghahalo ang balat sa tinalupan. LOL.
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  • 27  hototguy

    05/14/2012 | 05:29 PM
    congrats GMA Films and The Road... yes!
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  • 26  Stantiel

    05/13/2012 | 03:18 PM
    Congratulations, GMA. ... the best!!
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  • 25  keen

    05/13/2012 | 03:11 PM
    This is a milestone in the PHILIPPINE MOVIE INDUSTRY! Imagine, ilang dekada na ang Pelikulang Pilipino, at ngayon lang talaga napansin ng HOLLYWOOD at WORLD audience... isang malaking karangalan sa lahat ng kapuso, at kababayan natin here and abroad. Congrats GMA Network! Congrats Philippines!
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  • 24  keen

    05/13/2012 | 03:06 PM
    Congratulations GMA Films! GMA Kapuso Network ang talagang world class!
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  • 23  Einstein_1

    05/13/2012 | 10:38 AM
    OO nga ang cheap ng GMA.. pang HOLLYWOOD ang ka cheapan.Kahit ilang beses pa sabihin ng iba jn na hindi maganda ang The Road. Critically acclaimed siya.Iba pa rin ang opinion ng mga critics na mas may alam sa pagjudge ng quality ng movie. Para sa kanila pang INTERNATIONAL ang The Road e kayo anong bearing ng mga opinion nyo? kaya nga nasa HOLLYWOOD siya ngayon pinapalabas. kahit itaga nyo pa sa bato na ubod ng ganda mga sine ng SC kayo kayo din lang naman nag uutuhan,,dedma pa rin mga INTERNATIONAL film outfits. nyahaha. buti nga.
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  • 22  mariankimfan1

    05/12/2012 | 08:28 PM
    those in the dc area, it's at AMC HOFFMAN THEATER 22- ALEXANDRIA, VA. you can take the metro to eisenhower station.
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  • 21  kapamskoo

    05/12/2012 | 06:45 PM
    napanood ko sa Startalk ang Red Carpet Premiere ng The Road sa America, ang daming press people na dumalo sa premiere, dami ding nanood sa premiere ng pelikulang The Road. Milya milya na talagang napag iwan ang dos ma international awards at recognition ng isang pelikula sa america. Todo sourgraping na naman dito sina pedro, buwangwang, dmdaisy, ashsss etc. nakaka awa kayo.
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  • 20  Geresh7

    05/12/2012 | 05:50 PM
    daiguro01 05/12/2012 | 02:45 AM milya milya??? patawa ka, ang tagal ng nagrerelease ng movies ang star cinema sa US, Europe, Middle East, Asia. Mag google mo bwahaha!================ Eh sino naman nanood? mga pantard lang din ng abscbn na tulad mo heheheh
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  • 19  kapamskoo

    05/12/2012 | 03:26 PM
    si foreverbuwangwang nagsa sourgraping ng todo dahil channel nyang da ho walang pumapansin sa america. ha ha
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  • 18  ginger2007

    05/12/2012 | 03:17 PM
    The AV Club’s Sam Adams gave The Road a grade of B in his review He described it as “a movie made to be seen after midnight, preferably in a mildly dilapidated theater with a full house-enough for an equal mixture of giggles and gasps when a terrified young woman goes to step on the gas and finds a bloody head staring up at her from the floorboards.” He ended the piece by saying “There's a fine line between simple and crude, and The Road weaves back and forth over it like a rattletrap with a sudden flat, but Laranas makes a virtue of his limited means, steering clear of distraction and into the heart of darkness.”
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  • 17  ginger2007

    05/12/2012 | 03:15 PM
    A premier source of entertainment news since 1905, Variety also posted a review of The Road on its website Written by Rob Nelson, the review claims that the movie “indeed leads to horror, as co-written and directed by Filipino filmmaker Yam Laranas, but it takes a while.”
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  • 16  ginger2007

    05/12/2012 | 03:15 PM
    Catsoulis further describes the movie as “tightly written and spookily shot” and that “each chapter has a distinct look and narrative arc” thus connecting with one another “with stretches of dread-filled silence.” She goes on to say that “A fleeting encounter in the woods, filmed at medium range and with only a single, shocking sound effect, delivers a more effective jolt than any number of ax-wielding maniacs.”
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  • 15  ginger2007

    05/12/2012 | 03:14 PM
    The horror film made it to the New York Times once again, this time as a Critic’s Pick by the publication’s film reviewers. Entitled ‘Crawling Backward in Time Into Haunted Real Estate’, the NYT review written by Jeannette Catsoulis mentions that “this enormously assured movie sucks you in like quicksand."
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  • 14  ginger2007

    05/12/2012 | 03:14 PM
    A review by Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Time says that the film “takes its own sweet time drawing you into its world of frightened teenagers, bloody apparitions and buried secrets.” He describes Direk Yam as someone who “prefers protracted enigmas to quick-and-easy shocks, making for some slow going early on.” He even points out that “the film's three-pronged narrative does a fair job of laying a spooky groundwork for the revelatory emotional sadism that lies behind most acts of evil; it just takes a bit of clunky exposition to get there.”es
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  • 13  ginger2007

    05/12/2012 | 03:12 PM
    wooohoo!! Proud to be Kapuso! nganga mga pantards ng dos!! sayang si Carmina, nainggit siguro at d invited..hehe
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  • 12  pinay123

    05/12/2012 | 10:42 AM
    congratulations to the director. now this is an international release, di tulad ng mga pinoy movies na pinapalabas sa abroad para sa mga homesick na pinoy. the road was reviewed by american movie critics, and got an 83 rating in rotten tomatoes.
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