r/FilmClubPH

i just watched roofman on netflix and it’s weighing heavily on me especially after knowing it’s a true story. i prefer to watch more movies that are like this over sunday movies

other examples: 12 years a slave, parasite, mother, a time to kill, hateful eight, triangle of sadness, apocalypto, american history x

please recommend any good ones you know :)

Hi everyone. The Cinemalaya festival is over, so I counted everything: every screening, every seat, across all 12 days and all 7 branches that carried it. That comes out to 448 screenings, 13 films, and 61,806 seats filled out of 126,267 offered, or 48.9% full.

Did the Filipinos show up? Partly. In those same 7 buildings over those same 12 days, every other film on those screens averaged just 24.6% full across 1,184 screenings. In other words, roughly two Cinemalaya seats were filled for every one filled by the commercial titles playing beside them.

Cinemalaya accounted for 27.5% of all screenings in these cinemas, yet took 43.8% of all seats filled. The films also grew their audience as the festival went on, going from 21.9% full on the first Sunday to 62.5% by Thursday.

What was unfortunate was how few showtimes were available. Each of the five Ayala branches carried only 41 to 43 screenings across the entire 12-day run, and anyone who wanted to see these films had to work around that. More cinemas carrying them would likely have changed these numbers.

A few notes before the decks below: a festival is nothing like a wide release. There are fewer showtimes, audiences often travel specifically to see these films, and scarcity itself can help fill rooms. So none of this proves that these films would perform the same way in a normal commercial release. The weather may also have played a role, especially given the flooding and generally severe conditions throughout August, which likely affected attendance.

What I can say is that, in the rooms these films were given, people chose them at roughly twice the rate they chose what was playing on the next screen, and they kept choosing them more as the festival went on.

Cinemalaya 22 gave us good films made by people who worked hard on them. It would have been nice to give them more visibility by giving Filipino films wider releases, so more Filipinos could appreciate them.

Below are some of the analytics I collected across the 12 days. Hope you find them interesting!

Every film, ranked by how full its rooms ran. 2 Valid IDs led at 86.8 percent across 55 screenings and all twelve days, so a sustained run rather than one lucky gala. Filipinana closed the festival with two sold-out 8:30pm screenings at Shangri-La on 16 August, 692 seats. 58TH sold out its single screening, 346 of 346.

The same films at all seven branches, with the average audience beside each figure. Red Carpet 67.6 percent, Glorietta 55.4, Gateway 54.6, down to Market! Market! at 23.4. Nine of the eleven films seen at more than one branch ran fullest at Red Carpet, and 2 Valid IDs hit 98.9 percent at Circuit Makati. Room size drives some of this: Glorietta filled 55.4 percent of a 172-seat room, 95 people a show, while Manila Bay filled 32.3 percent of a 383-seat room, 124 people a show.

The festival against everything else showing in those same seven buildings, day by day. The dashed line is 27.5 percent, Cinemalaya's share of the screenings there. Above it, the festival drew a bigger share of the audience than of the schedule, and eleven of the twelve days are above it. Midweek the commercial films fell to 10 or 11 percent full while Cinemalaya held between 32 and 44.

How this was counted, and what is missing. Gateway is the hardest venue to capture and I hold 129 of its 196 shows.

And to plug my website that made all of this data possible: takilya.ph has showtimes from every major cinema chain in one place, along with reviews of the cinemas themselves. If you watched something recently, you can leave a review of the room, including the screen, sound, and seats. It helps the next person decide where to watch a film, or where not to! Feedback and cinema reviews are welcome!

How was your Cinemalaya 22 experience? Which film do you think deserves a wider release?

Nag sstart na sila mag shooting ng film.
Sara Duterte story. LoL. I wonder kung isasama nila yung pag sapak sa sheriff at kung paano ginastos yung 125M sa 11days. Daryl Yak direktor. Imagine from Maid in Malacañang tapos ngayon Duterte story. Tae tae

Not sure if i can ask this here, mods pls let me know if bawal.

First off, this is from a very deep memory of mine. Was 6/7 years old when i watched this ata, but this pops in my mind every time I’m looking for something to watch tas di ko siya mahanap. Blurry memories, I’m sorry. I can only also remember i think one scene or like the rough plot.

• bata na girl na pinadala sa lolo niya like fields/desert type to live with him bungalow lang bahay.
• one scene goes adventure siya, gala ganun tas yung lolo niya naka-upo sa lumba lumba sa deck/patio tas every day siya nag papa-alam na aalis siya ganun.
• one day umuwi siya tas parang binati niya lolo na “huh andito ka parin?” tas may langaw na lumabas sa bibig ng lolo yun pala deads na. HANGGANG DITO NALANG NAAALALA KO. 😩😩

It’s an english movie btw, pls help me gusto kong irewatch pero di ko talaga mahanap 😭

I started analyzing seat occupancy in the Philippines during The Odyssey's run. After five weeks of showtimes, one thing is clear: people want to see this film on the biggest screen.

The film has grossed $1.3 billion worldwide, an incredible box office run that is still going. In the Philippines, it filled more than 650,000 seats in its first 33 days. But the more interesting story is how strongly audiences preferred IMAX.

The same film, in the same chain, on the same days. Eight IMAX rooms at 50.8 percent full against 296 ordinary rooms at 11.3. IMAX leads in every single week of the run, and all eight of those rooms are laser.

For 28 days no other film played a single IMAX show anywhere I can measure. When it finally shared them on 12 August, the two films that took the slots ran at 4.5 and 2.7 percent full. SM Mall of Asia's IMAX carried the run at 82.8 percent.

The film is currently scheduled to run until August 25, and it may continue further if more schedules are added. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend watching it on the big screen!

Find a showtime here:
https://takilya.ph/movies/the-odyssey?date=2026-08-20&fmt=IMAX

Have you watched The Odyssey? Do you think it's worth the IMAX experience?

Hi guys! May nagbabalak ba dito na groups of marvel fans na manonood in Manila? I'm going with my friends and we wanted to watch sa sinehan na puro marvel fans din para ok lang na magingay lalo na sa mga super hype moments! HAHAHAHA iykyk

Curious lang kung san kayo manonood or if may fb grp/subreddit for this.

I think tix selling ay next month pa (correct me if im wrong, want to know din as to when advance selling).

See y'all on doomsday 💚

Not sure if this is ok, but I'd like your thoughts on Mr. Koreeda's films. Have you seen some? Does he have a specific style or not really? Can you recommend name of films that we can start with, and if possible, where? Any PH films that takes inspiration from him? Thank you in advance for your insights!

Hello! I havent been able to find posts sa redditph about it. To the ones who caught it while it was showing in PH, how scary was it? How would you rate it from 1-10?

For my tolerance level: hindi ako mahilig sa horror kasi madali ako matakot. And nagruruminate sa utak ko yung takot 😭 pero I really enjoyed watching Backrooms (2026) and Exit 8 (2025). Hangang doon lang kaya ko.

What I CANNOT watch and am very scared of: Insidious-like movies, Incantation (2022), any religious horror, and movies about curses getting transferred, etc.

Lalo na yung sa Incantation (2022)! Potek ayoko nun! >!yung matatransfer sa nagbasa/sabi yung curse daw!<

Let me know what you thought of it! Im okay with minor spoilers.