{"id":2039932,"date":"2025-09-22T00:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2039932"},"modified":"2025-09-22T00:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:23:09","slug":"andrea-brillantes-to-star-in-rein-entertainments-laya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/andrea-brillantes-to-star-in-rein-entertainments-laya\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Brillantes To Star In Rein Entertainment&#8217;s \u2018Laya\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Philippines production outfit <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rein-entertainment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rein-entertainment\" data-tag=\"rein-entertainment\">Rein Entertainment<\/a> is gearing up to start production on drama thriller <em>Laya<\/em>, directed by Sigrid Andrea P . Bernardo and with child star turned Gen Z role model <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/andrea-brillantes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_andrea-brillantes\" data-tag=\"andrea-brillantes\">Andrea Brillantes<\/a> heading the cast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBrillantes is known for top-rated ABS-CBN show <em>Kadenang Ginto<\/em> and later headlined two of streaming platform iWantTFC\u2019S popular youth drama series \u2013 <em>Senior High <\/em>and its 2024 sequel <em>High Street<\/em>. She also appeared in Erik Matti\u2019s <em>On The Job: The Missing 8<\/em>, which premiered at\u00a0\u00a0Venice film festival in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith a massive worldwide social media following, including 21.4 million followers on TikTok and 14.3 million on Instagram, she has also made a mark as an entrepreneur with her own make-up line and a jewellery brand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDescribed as a redemption drama, <em>Laya <\/em>follows a young woman who drifts from place to place carrying an unresolved anger from the loss of her father at a young age, until her path crosses with a lonely ex-criminal, also haunted by shadows from the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSet against the coastal backdrop of Oslob, Cebu, known as a sanctuary for whale sharks, the film is scheduled to start shooting in the island province in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is written and directed by Sigrid Andrea P. Bernardo, whose credits include 2017 romantic drama <em>I See You<\/em> (<em>Kita Kita<\/em>), one of the highest-grossing Philippine independent films, who also scored a surprise hit last year with award-winning drama <em>Pushcart Tales<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRein Entertainment is launching <em>Laya <\/em>and other projects here at Asian Contents &amp; Film Market\u00a0\u00a0(<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/acfm\/\" id=\"auto-tag_acfm\" data-tag=\"acfm\">ACFM<\/a>), attending the market as part of the bustling Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) pavilion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLaunched in 2017 by writer-directors Shugo Praico, Lino Cayetano and Philip King, Rein is building a slate of Filipino and Southeast Asian stories with global appeal. The company is also in post-production on <em>Salvageland<\/em>, directed by Cayetano and starring Richard Gomez, Elijah Canlas, Mon Confiado and Cindy Miranda. Announced during last year\u2019s ACFM, the neo-western is is co-produced with the Philippines\u2019 Viva Films.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn the series side, Rein\u2019s Manila and Hong Kong-set crime drama <em>Dose <\/em>has been selected for the series section of this year\u2019s Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) Pitching. The series revolves around two women \u2013 a rising triad queenpin and a relentless international police agent \u2013 who form an unlikely alliance within a male-dominated criminal Asian underworld.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cRein\u00a0\u00a0Entertainment is committed to bringing stories that resonate with both Filipino and global audiences,\u201d said Rein Entertainment President and CEO Lino Cayetano. \u201cWe want to be part of bringing Philippine and Southeast Asian content to the world stage \u2013 stories that travel, spark conversations, and connect cultures.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRein Entertainment\u2019s managing producer Charm Guzman, who has been selected to participate in the Producer\u2019s Hub at this year\u2019s ACFM, while the company\u2019s Shaira Gertos has been selected for the Platform Busan initiative for emerging producers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Philippines production outfit Rein Entertainment is gearing up to start production on drama thriller Laya, directed by Sigrid Andrea P . Bernardo and with child star turned Gen Z role model Andrea Brillantes heading the cast.\u00a0 Brillantes is known for top-rated ABS-CBN show Kadenang Ginto and later headlined two of streaming platform iWantTFC\u2019S popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2039933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[375808,377287,374360,377288],"class_list":["post-2039932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-acfm","tag-andrea-brillantes","tag-busan-international-film-festival","tag-rein-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Brillantes-To-Star-In-Rein-Entertainments-\u2018Laya.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2039933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}