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Next month, Tyla will hit the road in Asia for a string of headlining dates starting with Tokyo on Nov. 11. The “Chanel” singer will perform live in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Manila and Singapore during the brief trek, which will run until December 5. Tickets information is available here. She will also be performing at this year’s annual Global Citizen Festival in NYC, beside some of the biggest names in music, including The Weeknd and Shakira.

On Wednesday, Tyla was announced as one of GLAMOUR Magazine’s Women Of The Year honorees. The coveted award also showcases Tyla on the cover of the November GLAMOUR Magazine in multiple global markets including US, UK, Spain, Germany and Mexico/Latin America.

Tyla has continued to climb the ranks of stardom. She has illuminated Vogue and AdWeek headlines with her multi-faceted dominance, including scene-stealing appearances at the Met Gala, and a viral Coca-Cola campaign. She’s become a renowned brand ambassador, including an extensive relationship with Pandora that produced a limited-edition charm earlier this month, the “Tyla Tyger," named after her beloved fanbase. The charm, etched with Tyla’s trademark “tiger” insignia, is available exclusively via Pandora online retailers in North America.

Tyla has also been a reliable source of iconic pop culture moments, including her recent victory at the MTV VMAs, where she took home the award for “Best Afrobeats” for the second year in a row. This time for her critically acclaimed single “PUSH 2 START” and accepted the award draped in vintage Chanel and adorned with layers of Pandora medallions and necklaces.

The precision of her creative vision makes the arrival of “Chanel” even more urgent. Stream and watch Tyla’s latest single today.

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A Familiar Story That Feels Real

Meet, Greet & Bye follows the Facundo family, led by Mama Baby (Maricel Soriano), who faces cancer for the second time. This time, however, she refuses to undergo chemotherapy, losing hope after years of battling her illness. Her four children — Tupe (Piolo Pascual), Brad (Joshua Garcia), Leo (Juan Karlos), and Geri (Belle Mariano) — must come together to search for an alternative treatment before time runs out.

The story feels familiar because it’s the kind of struggle many Filipino families know all too well — facing sickness, financial challenges, and emotional strain, yet never losing love for one another. Beneath the film’s simplicity lies a truth that reflects countless Filipino homes: we may not always have much, but we have each other.

Its trailer, released on October 8, showcases moments of joy and tears — the kind of mix that defines the Filipino family experience. Viewers can expect to laugh, cry, and reflect as they see bits of their own family stories unfold on screen.

“A Film Made for You”

During the film’s media conference, Maricel Soriano proudly expressed her excitement for the project.

“Talagang pinagmamalaki namin ang pelikulang ginawa namin para po sa inyo na handog ng Star Cinema at ABS-CBN. Sana panoorin nyo, hinding-hindi kayo magsisisi,” she said.

Belle Mariano hopes the film’s message resonates deeply with audiences. “Sana yung mensahe umabot sa manonood natin. It will give so much importance to the people you love in your life,” she shared.

Meanwhile, both Piolo Pascual and Juan Karlos admitted that making the movie was emotionally difficult because of how relatable it was.

“It was really hard to do because, I don’t wanna say personally, but it hits close to home, especially for Filipino families, and it’s something we have to face inevitably no matter who we lose as long as he’s part of the family,” said Piolo.

“Especially with what I personally went through in life, it’s also way too close,” added Juan Karlos, echoing the emotional weight of the story.

A Love Letter to Parents

According to writers Jumbo Albano and Patrick Valencia, Meet, Greet & Bye was inspired by a universal truth — the fear of losing one’s parents.

“What really pushed us to tell this story is that this is our love letter to our parents, the same way kung paano siya naging love letter din ni Direk [Cathy] sa kanyang mga anak,” explained Albano.

“It’s a universal fear for everyone to lose yung mahal nila sa buhay so yun ang naging focus namin while writing this story na sana maraming tao ang maka-relate. Gusto naming ikwento ‘to kasi kwento natin itong lahat,” added Valencia.

Their words reflect what makes the movie special — it’s not about grandeur or fantasy, but about reality. It’s a quiet, powerful story that mirrors our fears and celebrates our love for family, no matter how imperfect it may be.

A Story That Feels Like Home

Meet, Greet & Bye stands out because of its honesty. It’s a simple story, yet it captures the depth of Filipino family life — the laughter at the dining table, the silent sacrifices, and the shared pain when one member falls ill. Every character feels real, every scene feels lived-in, and that’s what makes it so easy to relate to.

It’s not just a movie about saying goodbye; it’s a story about holding on — to love, to family, and to hope. Because even when life brings hardship, the Filipino spirit endures.

With its strong cast, heartfelt storytelling, and emotional truth, Meet, Greet & Bye has all the makings of a blockbuster hit. It’s the kind of movie that stays with you long after the credits roll.

The film also revealed its official poster last weekend, lighting up ABS-CBN’s ELJ Building with the letters MGB, a symbol of the touching story it represents.

Where to Watch

Meet, Greet & Bye opens in cinemas worldwide on November 12. Visit meetgreetandbye.com to get tickets and learn more about the movie.

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During the media launch, creative producer Arah Badayos and head writer Benson Logronio shared that the series explores the moral gray areas of injustice, delving into how choices made in desperation can change lives forever.

“It’s clear in the trailer that there was an injustice done,” Arah shared. “Pero mapapakita rin na it was not simple — the people who caused the injustice are victims of injustice themselves.”

The lead stars also opened up about portraying emotionally demanding roles that balance fragility and resilience. Janella, Sue, Kaila, and Charlie revealed how their characters are pushed to their limits as they confront both external threats and their own inner demons.

Joining the ensemble are Jake Cuenca and JM de Guzman, who expressed excitement over portraying roles that challenge their previous screen personas, alongside Yves Flores, Race Matthias, and Jameson Blake. The series is directed by Froy Allan Leonardo and Dado Lumibao.

"What Lies Beneath" premieres October 17 on Netflix, followed by October 18 on iWantTFC, and October 20 on Kapamilya Channel, Kapamilya Online Live, A2Z, and TV5.

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The “JANE DOE” music video features the two artists, dressed entirely in black, sitting apart on benches on a train station platform. It depicts a station platform where passengers heading in different directions briefly cross paths only during boarding and getting off. While waiting for the next train, two passengers who happen to sit on the same bench exert a light gravitational pull on each other, like invisible, large circles. Directed by Tomokazu Yamada, known for music videos including Kenshi Yonezu's “Lemon,” “Uma to Shika,” and “Sayonara, Mata Itsuka! – Sayonara.” Hikaru Utada’s “Mine or Yours,” “A Flower of No Color,” and “Gold -Mata Au Hi Made-,” as well as directing last year’s “SCIENCE FICTION TOUR 2024.”

“IRIS OUT” is already setting another record on the Spotify Japan Daily Chart, achieving the “highest daily play count ever recorded” for six days in a row. “IRIS OUT” debuted on Spotify's Top Songs Debut Global Chart at #2, is also currently at #3 on Apple Music's Global Daily Top 100 chart. The music video for “IRIS OUT” was also released on September 15 and has already surpassed 10 million views on YouTube, generating significant buzz as earning #4 on the Global YouTube Daily Music Videos Charts. Available to watch now.



CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC will be hitting theatres in United States on October 24, 2025 from Sony Pictures Entertainment, who has acquired the worldwide distribution rights for the film. The theatrical release of CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC opened on Friday, September 19th in Japan. Rocket started with a huge hit, topping the weekend box office rankings exceeding the sales of the smash-hit Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle.

ABOUT CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC

The film version of CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC is set after the final episode of the Chainsaw Man TV anime series. It depicts the main character, Denji, who is thrown into an unpredictable destiny by a girl he meets by chance, Reze, alongside the fast-paced action scenes for which MAPPA studio is renowned. The film will be released in more than 50 countries and regions, beginning with Japan on Friday, September 19. CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC will be hitting theatres in United States on Oct 24, 2025. Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the worldwide distribution rights for the film and will be releasing it in the country.

The original CHAINSAW MAN series has sold more than 30 million copies and is currently being serialized in the popular Shonen Jump+ magazines. The author is Tatsuki Fujimoto, a genius manga artist who has created a series of high-profile works including Fire Punch, Look Back, and Sayonara Eri. In 2022, the anime series was broadcast by the animation production studio MAPPA (Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan: The Final Season, etc.), and high acclaim was won not only in Japan but also around the world. The anime series has been streamed in over 200 countries and regions.

ABOUT KENSHI YONEZU

After gaining success with Vocaloid music under the stage name HACHI, Kenshi Yonezu began producing under his real name in 2012. In addition to music, he has attracted attention for his album cover illustrations and video productions. The video for his hit single “Lemon”, the long-running theme song for the TV series Unnatural, is the most-viewed music video in Japan, and topped Billboard Japan’s year-end charts for two consecutive years, leaving a mark on music history both in Japan and abroad.

His 2020 album STRAY SHEEP set a record of 1.9 million copies sold with the highest-placing Japanese artist ever to appear on the IFPI year-end global ranking chart. He continued to work tirelessly during the COVID-19 pandemic, including performing as the first Asian in a virtual concert hosted by the online game Fortnite. Collaborated globally with UNIQLO on their UT collection with the storefront collaboration displays in NY and other 8 UNIQLO stores worldwide. He was awarded an AAC Award, listed in Forbes’ 100 Asian Digital Stars, and received the Minister of NEWS RELEASE Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists.

In 2022, he released “M87” as the theme song for the film Shin Ultraman, and “POP SONG” as the theme song for a PlayStation commercial. His single “KICK BACK,” the opening theme for the TV anime CHAINSAW MAN, made Spotify’s Global Top 50, and became the first Japanese-language song certified Gold by RIAA®. He was also selected as the first and only Japanese artist to be a part of the “RIAA Class of 2023”, with which the association summarized the artists who had flourished in the year.

In 2023, Yonezu released “Tsuki Wo Miteita - Moongazing” as the theme song for the RPG game Final Fantasy XVI, and “Chikyugi - Spinning Globe” – the theme song Studio Ghibli’s animated film The Boy and the Heron (Academy Award Winner for Best Animated Feature, 2024), directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

In August 2024, Yonezu wrote “Garakuta – JUNK”, the theme song of the movie LAST MILE, and released his sixth studio album, LOST CORNER. In September, Yonezu released an exclusive line of graphic tees in collaboration with Uniqlo, as part of their ongoing UT series celebrating pop culture from around the world. After 11 years, Hachi (Kenshi Yonezu) himself created a new illustration for the VOCALOID song “Donut Hole”, and a fully animated music video based on the illustration. Original chocolate was also released from Godiva Japan as the “GODIVA x HACHI Donut Hole Collection” from October as the first time for Godiva worldwide to create a chocolate collection lineup in collaboration with an artist. In November Yonezu released “Azalea”, a song written as the theme song for the global Netflix series Beyond Goodbye. For the first time in 6 years, appeared at Kohaku Uta Gassen.

In 2025, Yonezu released “Plazma”, a theme to the film Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- and also the theme to its anime series Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-. He then released the theme to the anime series Medalist with a collaboration music video between Kenshi Yonezu and the Winter Olympics gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu. Yonezu kicked off his largest-scaled world tour, KENSHI YONEZU 2025 WORLD TOUR / JUNK after performing domes in Japan, toured Asia, Europe, and the U.S., drew a total of 440,000 people. Kenshi Yonezu has just recently announced his new tour, KENSHI YONEZU 2026 TOUR / GHOST— a 6-city, 14-show arena headliner across Japan. The tour will kick off in Nagano on November 6, 2026, and will travel through Osaka, Aichi, Fukuoka, Miyagi, and Kanagawa, concluding on December 17. In September, he dropped his latest track, “IRIS OUT”, the official theme for the new film CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC, and its ending theme "JANE DOE" on 9/22.

As for Yonezu’s music videos, “Lemon” has surpassed 930 million views, continuing to break the records of Japanese artists. It is one of the 16 music videos of his songs that garnered him a commanding record of surpassing 100 million views each (“Lemon,” “Eine Kleine,” “LOSER,” “Peace Sign,” “Haiirotoao (+Masaki Suda),” “orion,” “Flamingo,” “Kanden,” “Fireworks,” “Paprika,” “Shunrai,” “Uma to Shika,” “Spirits of the Sea,” “KICK BACK,” Foorin’s “Paprika” and Masaki Suda’s “Machigaisagashi”). He has over 7.89 million subscribers on his official YouTube channel.


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ABOUT HIKARU UTADA

A Japanese singer-songwriter and producer Hikaru Utada debuted with the single ‘Automatic/time will tell’ on December 9, 1998. Their first album First Love remains the best-selling Japanese album of all time. In 2024, they released their first greatest hits album SCIENCE FICTION to commemorate their 25th anniversary of their debut, followed by their first tour in six years ―the nationwide HIKARU UTADA SCIENCE FICTION TOUR 2024. In 2025, continuing a dynamic run of creative output, Utada’s latest digital single “Mine or Yours” has captured attention as the theme for the Ayataka green tea commercial, marking the second consecutive year of Utada’s collaboration with the brand. Electricity Remixes, a limited-edition vinyl released on July 9 featuring three remixes by internationally recognized artists Karen Nyame KG, Arca and salute, has already generated excitement among music fans in Japan and around the world following the earlier digital releases.

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Why Season 2 Could Be Even Better

While plot details are still under wraps, there are plenty of reasons to be excited. For one, the surviving characters are expected to return to a world still grappling with the aftermath of the outbreak. Season 1 ended with some of the infected developing unusual abilities — a hint that the zombie virus might have evolved.

With a bigger budget, a fresh storyline, and new characters, fans are hoping for more action, suspense, and perhaps even a deeper dive into the origins of the virus. Rumors suggest that Season 2 may explore how the government handles the outbreak long-term — and what happens when the infection spreads beyond Hyosan.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, director Lee Jae-kyoo hinted that the next season would focus more on the “survivors and the evolved zombies,” giving the story a darker and more action-packed tone.

A Korean ‘High School of the Dead’?

All of Us Are Dead has often been compared to the Japanese anime High School of the Dead — and for good reason. Both series revolve around high school students trying to survive a zombie apocalypse while society collapses around them. The similarities in tone, pacing, and setting have led some fans to call the Korean series a live-action, spiritual cousin of the anime.

In a feature by Collider, critics noted that while All of Us Are Dead drew inspiration from its anime predecessor, it brought a uniquely Korean perspective — one focused more on social dynamics, bullying, and youth resilience.


Sure, it’s been a long wait — and yes, fans have every right to be skeptical after three and a half years of anticipation. But with Netflix officially confirming production and teasing a fresh batch of chaos, Season 2 is shaping up to be one worth waiting for.

Whether you're in it for the thrills, the emotional drama, or just the zombies, it looks like All of Us Are Dead is finally coming back from the dead — and this time, it’s going to bite even harder.

Sources:
Netflix Table Read Video Announcement (YouTube, July 2025)
The Hollywood Reporter - “All of Us Are Dead Director Talks Season 2 Ideas”
Collider - “Korean Zombie Thriller All of Us Are Dead Compared to High School of the Dead”
Fan Comments from X (formerly Twitter) and Reddit threads on r/KDRAMA and r/netflix