
Korea's Hottest K-Pop Group Performs Live in Manila; Watch Them for Free
K-Pop fans can start their year with a bang as Megaworld Lifestyle Malls and MCA Music bring Korea’s newest pop sensations Boys Republic for the first time in Manila this January.
The five-member boy group known for their 2013 smash hit ‘Party Rock’ will be performing live on January 10 at Lucky Chinatown at 2PM and on the same day, 7PM at Venice Piazza at McKinley Hill.
Boys Republic returns to stage to thrill music fans on January 11, at 3PM at the Eastwood Mall Open Park in Eastwood City.
Fans of Boys Republic can get admission to the group’s performances by buying a copy their latest album ‘Real Talk’ at the selling booth at the venue on event day. Those who will buy the record will also get a chance to have their CDs signed by Boys Republic members at the album signing session after the show.
Composed of members One Junn, Sun Woo, Sung Jun, Min Su, and Su Woong, Boys Republic is Universal Music’s first venture into the K-Pop genre. Since their debut in June 2013 under Universal Music Korea, the group has dazzled music fans across Japan and Korea, and is now slowly making waves among listeners in Southeast Asian countries.
Their debut single ‘Party Rock’ has reached No.1 on iTunes single charts in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines after its release in 2013. Boys Republic has also been gaining immense following in other countries such as Vietnam and Malaysia, where their song ‘You Are Special’ became a chart-topper and where they performed in front of 15,000 fans at the 6th MTV World Stage Live.
Aside from becoming one of Asia’s fast-rising boy groups, Boys Republic members are also spokesmodels for Michiko London Koshino since 2013. Boys Republic also became ambassadors for "Eye Camp Expedition," a charity campaign, joining other volunteers in Vietnam to help those visually impaired.
The group is currently promoting their latest album ‘Real Talk’, which was launched in 2014. The seven-track album includes popular singles such as ‘Video Game’ and ‘Dress Up’. Among other tracks to look forward to in the new record include ‘The Real One’, ‘Like A Doll’, ‘Pump’, ‘Round’ and ‘Somnambulance’, a song composed by Boys Republic leader One Junn.
For more information on Boys Republic Live at Megaworld Lifestyle Malls, please call the Concierge at 709-9888, 709-0888, 0917-8380111 or visit www.megaworldlifestylemalls.com.
By JED || Full Story @ Showbiznest
Computer Hacking "Blackhat" Arrives in Manila this January 21
Directed and produced by Michael Mann, the film stars Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei and Wang Leehom, and it is written by Morgan Davis Foehl and Mann. Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni produce alongside Mann, while Alex Garcia and Eric McLeod serve as the executive producers.
“Blackhat” arrives in theaters on the heels of an intense media attention focused on the recent disastrous computer hack perpetrated on Sony Pictures, resembling an uncanny life-imitates-art timing.
Director Michael Mann suggests the premise of the film is an eminently plausible one, given the number of high-profile former hackers who now work as government or private-sector consultants.
As Mann and co-screenwriter Morgan Davis Foehl researched the subject further, the director became fascinated by “the degree of how porous and vulnerable everything is” - the idea that a hacker could, with the right lines of code, burrow deep into the realms of corporate patents, defense-industry secrets and other intellectual property.
“We live in what we think is a compartmentalized world in which there is something called privacy,” Mann explains. “A better analogy is that we’re living in a house where all the doors and windows are open and we’re in a very dangerous neighborhood, but we don’t know it.”
The idea for the film was inspired by Stuxnet, the computer worm that was identified in 2010, after it had struck an Iranian nuclear facility. “Blackhat,” the term for a vicious hacker (“white hat” is a good guy), starts with a malware attack on a Chinese nuclear reactor. Wang Leehom plays the M.I.T.-trained Chinese military official tasked with finding the culprit; Chris Hemsworth plays his old programming-whiz college roommate, now incarcerated, whose prison sentence is commuted in exchange for helping solve the puzzle.
When he was first starting to work on “Blackhat” in 2011, Mann encountered a number of experts who were frustrated by their inability to convince multinational corporations and defense contractors to increase their digital security protocols. “Now it’s out in the open and it’s very apparent,” he says. “There’s no such thing as an electronic iron curtain. There’s no security consultant who’s going to show up and say, ‘Your home is completely secure. You have nothing to worry about.’ That’s not going to happen.”
Mann notes that the real-life hackers described the thrill of writing and executing computer code as “a kind of opiated positive feedback loop,” a zoning-out during which hours would seem to tick by in a matter of minutes. “Also, there’s the ability to manipulate something as abstract as code while causing a kinetic effect in the real, physical world,” he adds. “I understand the appeal to a hacker of that.”
Opening across the Philippines on January 21, “Blackhat” is distributed by United International Pictures through Columbia Pictures.
By JED || Full Story @ Showbiznest