OPENING this week at the theaters of Gaisano Mall of Davao are Chappie, Unfinished Business, Kidnapping Freddy Heineken, the Lazarus Effect, Haunting at Cellblock, The Rewrite, Serena and Kasal.
Chappie
In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanized police force. But now, the people are fighting back. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself. As powerful, destructive forces start to see Chappie as a danger to mankind and order, they will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo and ensure that Chappie is the last of his kind.
Unfinished Business
Daniel Trunkman (Vince Vaughn), a hard-working small business owner, and his two associates (Tom Wilkinson and Dave Franco) travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every imaginable - and unimaginable - way, including unplanned stops at a massive sex fetish event and a global economic summit.
Kidnapping Freddy Heineken
The inside story of the planning, execution, rousing aftermath and ultimate downfall of the kidnappers of beer tycoon Alfred "Freddy" Heineken (Anthony Hopkins), which resulted in the largest ransom ever paid for an individual. In 1983, one of the most famous kidnapping cases of all took place in the Netherlands involving a ransom payment of $21 million dollars, requiring the bad guys to use all their muscle to lift four huge bags full of money.
The Lazarus Effect
An underground experiment by re-animation researchers goes terribly wrong and one of their own, Zoe, is killed. Fueled by terror and grief, group leader Frank pushes them to do the unthinkable: attempt to resurrect their first human test subject. Initially, the procedure appears a success, but the team soon realizes something is wrong with Zoe. As her strange new persona reveals itself, the team quickly becomes stuck in a gruesome reality. They are no longer faced with the question.
Haunting at Cellblock
A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
The Rewrite
Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) is an Oscar-winning writer, but divorce and a string of unsuccessful films have left him with nothing but bad debts and blank pages. When his agent arranges a job as screenwriting professor at a New York university, Keith agrees. Initially hoping to give minimal effort to actual teaching so he can focus on his next script, Keith finds himself becoming invested in his students lives, including Holly (Marisa Tomei), a single mom looking to start her own new chapter.
Serena
Newlyweds George (Bradley Cooper) and Serena Pemberton (Jennifer Lawrence) travel from Boston to the mountains of North Carolina where they begin to build a timber empire in 1929. Serena learns that she can never bear a child, she sets out to murder the woman who bore George a son. And when she starts to suspect that George is protecting his illegitimate family, the Pembertons' intense, passionate marriage begins to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning.
Kasal
The story revolves around a gay couple -- Paolo (Mhyco Aquino), a film director, and Sherwin (Arnold Reyes), a lawyer -- whose relationship becomes complicated when one of them sounds off about wanting to get married. They are accepted as a couple in Paolo's family, but in Sherwin's, they are not. Their troubles begin when they attend a wedding of one of Sherwin's relatives.