{"id":26914,"date":"2018-03-19T10:35:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T02:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=26914"},"modified":"2018-03-19T18:59:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T10:59:53","slug":"coming-of-age-movie-love-simon-premieres-on-may-9-in-ph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/03\/19\/coming-of-age-movie-love-simon-premieres-on-may-9-in-ph\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming-of-age movie &#8216;Love, Simon&#8217; premieres on May 9 in PH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed filmmaker Greg Berlanti, the force behind the most inventive and acclaimed works in film and television who has been credited with being at the forefront of introducing gay characters and storylines into mainstream entertainment helms the upcoming funny and heartfelt coming-of-age story about the thrilling ride of finding yourself and falling in love in <strong>\u201cLove, Simon.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26915\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/nick-robinson-in-LOVE-SIMON.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1227\" height=\"2039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/nick-robinson-in-LOVE-SIMON.jpg 1227w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/nick-robinson-in-LOVE-SIMON-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/nick-robinson-in-LOVE-SIMON-768x1276.jpg 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/nick-robinson-in-LOVE-SIMON-616x1024.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1227px) 100vw, 1227px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Berlanti is best known for his work in The CW\u2019s Arrow, The Flash, DC\u2019s Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl, collectively referred to as The CW\u2019s Arrowverse. Additionally, Berlanti serves as executive producer on The CW\u2019s Riverdale, Black Lightning, and NBC\u2019s Blindspot. He started in television as a staff writer on the hit show Dawson\u2019s Creek where he was promoted to showrunner by his second year on the series.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26916\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/alexandra-shipp-nick-robinson-katherine-langford-LOVE-SIMON.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1311\" height=\"875\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>\u201cLove, Simon\u201d was adapted from Becky Albertalli\u2019s young adult novel Simon vs The Homo Sapien\u2019s Agenda. Published in January 2012, the book won the William C. Morris Award for Best Young Adult Debut of the Year and was included in the National Book Award Longlist.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Love, Simon | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ykHeGtN4m94?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The movie stars today\u2019s up and coming exciting young actors Nick Robinson (Everything, Everything), Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why), Alexandra Shipp (X-Men: Apocalypse), Logan Miller (Before I Fall), Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (Alita: Battle Angel) and Keiynan Lonsdale (The Flash) along with award-winning Jennifer Garner and versatile actor Josh Duhamel.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Berlanti, with a screenplay by Elizabeth Berger &amp; Isaac Aptaker, \u201cLove, Simon\u201d finds seventeen-year old Simon Spier in a love story that is a little more complicated than the ordinary teen: he\u2019s yet to tell his family or friends he\u2019s gay and he doesn\u2019t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he\u2019s fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life-changing not just for him but also those around him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove, Simon\u201d opens May 9 in Philippine cinemas from 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century Fox.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This is a press release. Minor edits were made.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed filmmaker Greg Berlanti is back with a movie that will warm your heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[4796,131],"class_list":["post-26914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-love-simon","tag-movie"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/alexandra-shipp-nick-robinson-katherine-langford-LOVE-SIMON-e1521456782960.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26918,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914\/revisions\/26918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}