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Entertainment, Film and TV

FILIPINO AMERICAN SAM MILBY WILL PLAY THE ROLE OF THE HULK IN NEW HOLLYWOOD MOVIE

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HOLLYWOOD, California  (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Move over, Bruce Banner. Marvel Comics revealed Friday that the Hulk in its new Totally Awesome Hulk comic is teen genius Amadeus Cho.

Marvel teased the identify of the character over the past month, though speculation about Cho being the new Hulk started much earlier in the summer. But Marvel has now officially confirmed this, and in doing so, makes history: this is the first Marvel series with an Asian-American lead character.

Amadeus Cho, also known as Mastermind Excello, is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Greg Pak and artist Takeshi Miyazawa, the character first appeared in Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #15 (January 2006). He usually appears as a supporting character or sidekick in books featuring The Avengers, or individual members of that group, such as Hulk or Hercules.

So the next big question is, who will  play the role of The Hulk in the new film version that Marvel Pictures and Universal Studios will be filming starting this fall? Someone to replace Edward Norton who played The Hulk in the previous film.

Of course, it has to be someone who’s Asian or Asian American.

Several names have been floated around including John Cho (Star Trek), Harry Shum, Jr. (Glee) and Randall Park (Fresh Off The Boat).  But Universal and Marvel thought none of them have the muscular build required of the Hulk character.

So it was decided that Filipino actor Sam Milby be given the role.

Milby has been making films in the Philippines and has been trying to break the ice in Hollywood to no avail.  Well, his time has come. He will definitely make all Filipinos proud.

Film and TV, Politics

HOLLYWOOD WEIGHS IN ON DONALD TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL BID

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cherHOLLYWOOD, California (The Adobo Chronicles®) – On her Twitter account today, singer Cher said that if Donald Trump were elected president of the United States, she would move to Jupiter.

Like Cher, many other Hollywood celebrities weighed in on the recent announcement by the business mogul that he was running for president in 2016.  Some were showing him love while others have threatened to alter their image or lifestyle.

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  • Justin Bieber – a fan of The Donald — will renounce his Canadian citizenship and become a full-fledged American
  • Kim Kardashian will go full frontal on the cover of Variety magazine
  • Zac Efron will shave his head, permanently
  • Caitlyn Jenner will transition back to being a man
  • Neil Patrick Harris will undergo gay conversion therapy in Texas
  • Emma Stone, star of the film, “Aloha,” will join the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement
  • Meryl Streep will donate all her Oscar trophies to the Smithsonian National Museum
  • Steven Spielberg  will direct a new animation movie titled “Donald Duck Comes to Washington.”

Seeing as how Hollywood greatly influences politics, there is some talk that in a Trump presidency, the South Lawn of the White House would be renamed Jurrasic Park while the United Nations Headquarters in New York would be renamed Jurrasic World.

In addition Cirque du Soleil and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will permanently close shop since there would be enough circus going on in the White House.

Film and TV

HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR CAMERON CROWE APOLOGIZES, ANNOUNCES SEQUEL TO ‘ALOHA’

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HOLLYWOOD, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – “Thank you so much for all the impassioned comments regarding the casting of the wonderful Emma Stone in the part of Allison Ng. I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.”

With those words, ‘Aloha’ director Cameron Crowe appealed to everyone to move on from their disappointment that the Ng character in his film wasn’t played by an Asian American actress.

To prove that his apology was sincere, Cameron announced that a sequel to ‘Aloha’ will start filming in Hawaii next month. It will be titled ‘Kilauea.’ The story of the sequel picks up from where ‘Aloha’ left off.

Brian Gilcrest (Bradley Cooper) and Allison Ng (Stone) get married and spend their honeymoon in Hawaii’s Big Island. On the second day of their honeymoon, a major eruption of Kilauea volcano happens, burying the entire resort in which the newly-weds were staying. Only three people in the resort manage to survive the extreme lava flow and fires that ensue: Gilcrest, Ng and Aloha Yamamoto, a half-Japanese and half-Hawaiian who was in Kilauea taking a short vacation from her job as a paramedic in Honolulu.

The events that follow lead to a complicated romantic triage among the film’s main characters.

Cameron expressed confidence that none of the casting controversy in ‘Aloha’ will haunt ‘Kilauea.’

The role of Yamamoto will be played by Korean American film and television actress Sandra Oh.

All’s well that ends well.