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Taking a break from holiday movies, Un/Happy For You, a Filipino Netflix Original, tells the story of an ex-couple who run into each other under extraordinary circumstances and discuss their relationship and eventual breakup. Un/Happy For You is an ideal mix of 500 Days of Summer, the Hollywood cult film, and the recently released Tamil film Lover, which was about toxic relationships and breakups.

Where did Zy and Juancho meet?

Un/Happy For You began with Zy and Juancho meeting in Bicol, a province in the Philippines known for its spicy food. They enter a spicy food eating contest as partners and win the contest. Since their first meeting and owing to their shared interest in Bicol cuisine, which Juancho was good at, both fell in love eventually. He was an aspiring chef from then on, Juancho and Zy were together.

Why did Juancho want to talk to Zy many years later?...

Petersen Vargas’ latest feature “Some Nights I Feel Like Walking” has released a trailer ahead of its world premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival this November.

The film follows a group of young street hustlers navigating Manila’s nocturnal underbelly as they embark on a journey to fulfill their friend’s dying wish. Vargas, known for his commercially successful Filipino features, shifts gears with this indie project that explores queer desires and found families.

Vargas’ previous credits include “2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten” (2016), “An Inconvenient Love” (2022), “A Very Good Girl” (2023), and “Un/Happy for You” (2024).

“Some Nights I Feel Like Walking” stars Jomari Angeles (“Ma’Rosa”), Tommy Alejandrino (“GomBurZa”), Gold Aceron (“Metamorphosis”), alongside newcomers Miguel Odron and Argel Saycon. The narrative traces the bonds formed between these characters against the backdrop of Manila’s nighttime streets and the open roads of the Philippines.

Vargas said: “What I want is to offer...

After notching box office successes with Rewind and A Very Good Girl, Abs-cbn has produced another hit: Un/Happy For You.

In its opening five days, the romance film has grossed 150M Philippine pesos ($2.65M), with over 450,000 admissions.

The film will open across the U.S. and Canada on August 23 and in Australia on August 22. Un/Happy For You has also secured theatrical releases in New Zealand, the U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Italy, Cambodia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Malta.

Produced by Abs-cbn Studios, Star Cinema and Viva Films, the film stars Joshua Garcia and Julia Barretto in the leading roles. They last acted together in 2020 action film Block Z.

The three production companies have made some of the highest-grossing films since the pandemic with hits like Deleter (2022) and A Very Good Girl (2023). Star Cinema, the film arm of Abs-cbn, produced the top-grossing Philippine film of all time with Rewind last year,...