{"id":33215,"date":"2018-08-18T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=33215"},"modified":"2018-08-17T17:41:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T09:41:23","slug":"brother-of-the-year-sibling-rivalry-at-its-finest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/08\/18\/brother-of-the-year-sibling-rivalry-at-its-finest\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother of the Year: Sibling Rivalry at Its Finest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it\u2019s true that no bond is greater than that of siblings, it\u2019s also true that a woman\u2019s greatest pain in the neck is her older brother.<\/p>\n<p>From the producer of <em>Bad Genius <\/em>and the director of <em>My Girl and The Little Comedian <\/em>comes a unique rom-com turned family drama Brother of the Year, starring Thai heartthrob Sunny Suwanmethanont, Nichkhun Horvejkul of Korean boy band 2PM, and TV actress Urassaya \u201cYaya\u201d Sperbund.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33216\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/brother-of-the-year-poster-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/brother-of-the-year-poster-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/brother-of-the-year-poster-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/brother-of-the-year-poster.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE Brother of the Year-Philippines Facebook page<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Audiences will not have a hard time relating to the film because it gives a realistic portrayal of sibling rivalry with an older brother endlessly meddling with his younger sister\u2019s (love) life.<\/p>\n<p>Brother of the Year made about 250 million Baht (or approximately US$ 7.8 million) in Thailand and is touted as the highest-grossing Thai movie that has been released across Asia. The film has hit number 1 on its opening week in every country where it was released including the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. After <em>Bad Genius <\/em>made US$4 million in China, studio GDH hopes to repeat the achievement with Brother of the Year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33217\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/brother-of-the-year-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/brother-of-the-year-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/brother-of-the-year-1-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/brother-of-the-year-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/brother-of-the-year-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">From L-R: Sunny Suwanmenthanot, Manasaporn Chanchalern, and Vithaya Thongyuyong at the press conference<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last August 16, 2018, the film\u2019s director Vithaya Thongyuyong, star Sunny Suwanmenthanot, and cast member Manasaporn Chanchalern met with members of the Philippine press at Vu\u2019s Bar and Lounge at Marco Polo Hotel Ortigas to promote Brother of the Year. The premiere followed at SM Megamall.<\/p>\n<p>On September 5, 2018, gather your siblings and set your squabbles aside for a few hours as you watch Brother of the Year together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sibling rivalry knows no bounds with the newest Thia rom-com: Brother of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-story"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/brother-of-the-year-poster.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33215","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=33215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33248,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33215\/revisions\/33248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}