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Filipina actress Dolly De Leon burst onto the international scene in 2022 when she appeared in the Palme d’Or-winning, Best Picture-nominated satire Triangle of Sadness. Although her career on stage and screen has spanned several decades, the lauded turn has earned De Leon an incredible amount of work in both independent and mainstream projects.

FandomWire got the opportunity to speak with De Leon about her latest role in the indie drama Ghostlight.

Ghostlight Interview

FandomWire: Ever since your incredible turn in Triangle of Sadness, you’ve been in massive demand. I’ve already seen you in two films this year, and there’s a third on the way. Do you find it exciting to have this much work coming in? Tiring?

Dolly De Leon: Both. I can’t complain. I mean, if I’m tired, that’s part of it. It’s better to be tired working than to be tired not doing anything.

Dolly De Leon in Ghostlight Photo: Courtesy of Luke Dyra Fresh off her Golden Globe-nominated performance in Ruben Östlund’s Triangle Of Sadness, Dolly De Leon is leading her own troupe of actors in Ghostlight. The new movie from co-directors Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson (Saint Frances) was acquired by...

Dolly De Leon in GhostlightPhoto: Courtesy of Luke Dyra

Fresh off her Golden Globe-nominated performance in Ruben Östlund’s Triangle Of Sadness, Dolly De Leon is leading her own troupe of actors in Ghostlight. The new movie from co-directors Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson (Saint Frances) was acquired by IFC Films...

Dolly De Leon, who rocked the Cannes Film Festival two years ago in “Triangle of Sadness,” has joined the cast of “Severino: The First Serial Killer,” an upcoming series from Philippines outfit CreaZion Studios.

While “Severino” is the highest profile project, the producer is building a larger slate of feature films.

“Severino” De Leon is a large-scale period thriller series, chronicling the tale of Catholic priest Severino Mallari, who killed 57 people during the Spanish colonization era of the country. Producers Rj Agustin and Real Florido have tapped Yam Laranas known for his horror films “The Echo” and “The Road” as series director. The cast also includes Dennis Trillo as Severino and Chai Fonacier. Production is scheduled for August.

Florido is set as director and working with producer Kristine De Leon on development of “The Fantabulous Badingger-z,” a rotoscope animation movie adapted from the comic book “Badingger-z and the Accla Assassin.

Exclusive negotiations are underway to relocate this year’s edition of Ventana Sur to Uruguay, marking the first time in 16 years the premier Latin American market would not take place in Argentina as the country wrestles with an arts funding crisis.

Ventana Sur director Bernardo Bergeret, Marché du Film executive director Guillaume Esmiol, and Facundo Ponce de Leon of Uruguay Audiovisual made the announcement at a reception in Cannes on Monday evening (May 20).

The parties expect an official agreement to be finalised by the end of June, when further details are expected to emerge around the event in Montevideo, the...

Is there a more exhaustively, and exhaustingly, tackled theme in American independent film than grief?

Festival lineups and arthouses are littered with stories — some somber, some quirk-laden — of loss and trauma, mourning and memory, learning to live and love again after the passing of a child, a spouse, a sibling, a parent. Despite sublime exceptions like Manchester by the Sea and Rachel Getting Married, a dispiriting majority are basically cinematic white noise; there’s a numbing, rinse-and-repeat sameness to all the emotional repression, breakthroughs and release. Trying to take a shortcut to our most painful feelings, these films have the contrary effect of activating our defenses or, worse, our indifference.

Luckily, there are portraits of grief that bulldoze past our resistance, and their own shortcomings, thanks to the sheer force of their sincerity. Ghostlight, from Chicago-based writing-directing team Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, is one of them. A dramedy about...

Their jobs were never easy — buy they’re certainly never boring, either. Meet THR’s Power Business Managers, the financial minds tasked with keeping things calm amid the chaos.

Profiles written by Winston Cho, Kirsten Chuba, Aaron Couch, Mia Galuppo, Erik Hayden, Caitlin Huston, Katie Kilkenny, Sydney Odman Etan Vlessing and Alex Weprin.

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“The strikes have taught our clients significantly more than the Covid-19 pandemic,” Anakwenze — whose clients include Insecure’s Jay Ellis and Entertainment Tonight’s Kevin Frazier — says of the past five months, explaining that back then, “the government provided large safety nets to bolster businesses and keep individuals flush with cash.” Without such relief, she says, “Planning for a rainy day is more than just having cash reserves. It is essential to have assets available for sale and lines of credit open.”

It’s never too late to … “Choose yourself.

“A Very Good Girl,” the drama starring “Triangle of Sadness” breakout Dolly De Leon and Kathryn Bernardo, has updated its U.S. release date.

Abs-cbn, the largest global studio for Filipino content, announced Tuesday that the film, directed by Petersen Vargas and written by Marianne Mancol, Daniel Saniana and Jumbo Albano, will now be released in select theaters Oct. 6 — a week earlier than previously announced.

The new date was announced with an accompany poster of the two stars, which you can see below:

Dolly De Leon and Kathryn Bernardo in “A Very Good Girl” (Star Cinema)

The film’s official logline reads: “After a heartless firing triggers a chain of unfortunate events, Philo (Bernardo) plots a meticulous revenge against retail mogul, Mother Molly (De Leon), aiming to dismantle her empire and seize the ultimate payback. This time, there is no mercy.”

The film marks Abs-cbn’s continued commitment to making...