Fresh off her first headliner movie in six years, Anne Curtis is already setting the stage for her next batch of films including a couple of reunions.
The host-actress will team up with Mikhail Red for the first time in the director’s upcoming contemporary thriller “Remote.”
This marks a return to the genre for Anne whose last thriller movies were 2018’s “Aurora” and 2014’s “Blood Ransom.”
According to information obtained by entertainment outlet Variety, Anne will portray an investigative journalist who goes undercover looking into killings linked to a shadowy international outsourcing company that recruits remote workers across the Philippines.”
Viva Films will produce the movie with Red’s Evolve Studios, which confirmed the news on social by sharing the outlet’s article. Production is expected to start later this year.
The director told the outlet “Remote” is inspired by his own proximity to remote work which became a norm during and after the pandemic, noting the rise of online digital nomads “displaced in their own timezones working graveyard shifts.”
“Most are virtual assistants for western companies, who do odd tasks for high pay due to the exchange rate but at the same time may be vulnerable to exploitation because of legal gray zones,” he continued. “The film also poses the question of who or what really controls us? It is the colonization of consciousness itself and the weaponization of fear.” Anne, who just marked 29 years in the entertainment business, hosted a media conference last June 18 where she confirmed two other movies in development she’d participate in.
One was with Irene Villamor who just directed her in “The Loved One” earlier this year opposite Jericho Rosales, which was a reunion for the two actors after working on the 2008 film “Baler” and the 2011 series “Green Rose” together.
The two women are still discussing what genre they will tackle, their other collaboration being another romance drama “Sid and Aya: Not a Love Story” from 2018.
The “It’s Showtime” host will reunite with filmmaker Ruel S. Bayani, who directed her in 2011’s “No Other Woman” alongside Derek Ramsay and Cristine Reyes.
Anne teased Bayani’s plans carried a good, signature concept that was slightly camp, also praising the screenwriter he tapped.
Bayani, who served time as an ABS-CBN executive after his extensive television experience, has not directed since 2018’s “Kasal” which also starred Derek but with Bea Alonzo and Paulo Avelino.
The actress is currently in the final shooting days of “BuyBust: The Undesirables,” the sequel spin-off series to Erik Matti’s 2018 movie.