INDIE FILM: BIG TIME by ArkeoFilms: OPENS JANUARY 25 LOLZ

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Making it Big :
About the Production

Originally, Big Time’s story was to be pitched to Fil-Am actor Ernie Reyes Jr. (The Rundown, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) at the time the Hollywood actor was in Manila looking for materials. But nothing had come of it.

Later, when the 1st Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival was announced and made its first call of entries, director Mario Cornejo, filed the storyline on a whim. Ten full-length scripts will be awarded a seed grant to finance the film. Big Time made it into the semi-finals. At this point Cornejo and good friend Monster Jimenez began writing the screenplay. Big Time made it into the final ten and was one of the grantees.

Arkeofilms, a young production outfit co-owned by Jimenez, joined as co-producer with Cornejo.

Casting Big Time was the first big task for the filmmakers. Casting files added up to two inches thick of paper. “I think it paid off,� muses Cornejo. “Our actors were first and foremost amazingly talented. But more than that, they were so easy to get along with and amazingly fun to work with.� Jimenez, who supervised the casting, agrees. “Shooting Big Time was such great fun that many of the actors have become our good friends.�

For the entire production, the thirteen-day shoot was easily the most fun everyone had. Filming began and ended in December 2004, with only two pick-up days in January 2005. Almost everything went according to plan in those days, but not without some glitches.

On the first day of shoot, Metro Manila was drenched at the height of a tropical storm. The second day was threatened to be cancelled. But by midnight of the first day, the storm had subsided, and the weather was friendlier after that.

Midway into the shoot, one of the cameras stopped functioning, forcing the production to find a new camera and pushing the schedule back five hours. Despite everything, the production continued to beat the festival’s deadline.

By February 2005, all the elements of the movie were in. Overall, Big Time took around six months of preparation and production – an ordinary schedule by industry standards, but quite a feat for the young production team.

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saw the triller in colon, nindot cguro ang story ani, hehee very imaginative ang storyline, good casting (mas dili pa sikat -cheap pero mas practical diba! )

cant w8Â* to see this in DBD

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It's showing na! Go na SM cinema!
putting that digital projector to good use...

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i wanna watch this...

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watch na!

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Big Time, Dilim, atbp.
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Joey Fernandez
July 13, 2005
How does one write about a movie you love? I’ve seen Big Time twice and I absolutely adored it both times. Mario Cornejo and Monster Jimenez may have come out with what probably will be one of the funnest movies of the year. Big Time is about two criminals who want to make it… well, big. Danny and Jonas have been partners in crime since their grade school days and they feel they have to move on to larger things. I don’t want to spoil anything for you about the movie, but it was a riotous romp that just about everyone can enjoy.

One of the biggest peeves I have about Filipino film and art in general, is that it doesn’t capture something about our culture. Ferdinand Marcos ingrained in us that Filipino culture has something to do with people in bahags and nose flutes. Elitists lionized the alibata and the bahay kubo as our only true Filipino culture, while other educated ones bemoaned our lack of it. But whether you like it or not, Pinoy pop culture is our Filipino culture. We are a mish-mash of Spanish, American, Malay culture, that sometimes we don’t know who we are. That, however, is exactly what we are, a mixture. I was recently posting on twitchfilm, a website about movies, about Filipino cult movies and surprisingly I was able to find out a lot about it. On internationalhero.co.uk,, I quote, “Not the most obvious country to have created enough superhumans to warrant it's own page, the Philippines nonetheless has produced a large number of suitable characters, and has a strong tradition of ‘Pinoy Komiks’ stretching back more than fifty years.� This is our culture, it may not be glamorous, but it sure is fun.

So, I say, stop aiming for the highfalutin and the esoteric, pop culture is where it’s at. And eventually the big bucks roll in. *grin*

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