EXCLUSIVE: Regal Entertainment producer Keith Monteverde is teaming with Singapore’s Mocha Chai Laboratories on coming-of-age drama One For The Road, directed by award-winning Filipino filmmaker Kip Oebanda (Bar Boys, Bar Boys: After School).

The cast is headed by Elijah Canlas, Gian Bernardino, Emilio Daez and JM Ibarra playing four high school best friends who begin to grow apart as they enter adulthood. They are joined by Nour Hooshmand, Sofia Trazona and Mika Reins, among other cast.

The project has been selected for the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP)’s International Co-Production Fund (ICOF), which supports international co-productions involving Filipino producers and filmmakers. The film is set to shoot entirely in the Philippines with a predominantly Filipino cast and crew.

Mocha Chai Laboratories will lead sound design for One For The Road. The company’s recent Singapore-Thailand co-production, Decalcomania, was nominated for Best Sound Design at the 2026 ContentAsia Awards.

Written by Kip Oebanda and Victor Villanueva (Patay na si Hesus), One For The Road follows four high school best friends entering their mid 20s who are finding that careers, relationships and the pressures of adulthood are pulling them in different directions.

When tragedy brings them back together, they embark on a road trip that tests their friendship and forces them to confront the grief they have long avoided. The film blends road-trip comedy with coming-of-age drama.

Mocha Chai Laboratories co-founder Michelle Chang said: “I’m absolutely thrilled to be working with Regal Entertainment, a company I’ve long wanted to partner with because of its extraordinary legacy in Philippine cinema. One For The Road is a universally resonant film and what better way to start this journey than bring together Regal’s deep connection with Filipino audiences and MCL’s experience in international co-production and post-production.”

For Monteverde and Oebanda, the material has a personal connection: “I am too familiar with what it feels like to be young, trying to ‘grow up,’ while the world around you keeps narrowing your options and closing doors,” Monteverde said. “One For The Road puts a spotlight on struggles that many young Filipino men carry quietly today.”

Oebanda added: “There seems to be a pervasive sense of loneliness and isolation in modern cities and in capitalist societies, and it is by design. This feeling of burnout and isolation is rarely addressed in our films. In the Philippines, men in particular are taught to suck it up and be strong or to not cry when they are emotional.

“I want to make a film that will reach the masses with the message that we need to support and check on each other and normalize talking about grief and our mental health struggles. We can make a hilarious, fun movie without skirting away or downplaying the issue at hand. After all, many people mask their grief through humor and adventures.”

One For The Road is currently in principal photography in the Philippines and is slated for release in the second quarter of 2027.

EXCLUSIVE: In addition to Casey Bloys and George Cheeks, the television/streaming structure of the combined Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery, recently named Skydance, would include expanded responsibilities for Channing Dungey who would be taking over the Paramount cable networks, I hear.

As Deadline revealed on Friday, Paramount’s Chair of TV Media Cheeks, who currently oversees CBS Studios, is poised to add oversight of Warner Bros Television and Paramount Television Studios, with Dungey, Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros Television Group and US Networks, and PTVS President Matt Thunell both reporting to him alongside CBS Studios President David Stapf.

Continuing the streamlining trend of Skydance putting the combined Paramount and WBD TV studios under Cheeks, film studios under Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg and streamers (HBO Max and Paramount+) under Bloys, the company would be doing the same for the large array of cable networks it will own under Dungey, sources said.

She would be adding oversight of the Paramount cable nets, which currently report to Cheeks, including the “core four,” MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and BET, as well as VH1, Paramount Network, TV Land, CMT, Pop TV, and Logo TV.

That would be in addition to her current cable portfolio as head of US Networks, which features WBD’s linear TV brands, including Discovery Channel, Food Network, HGTV, Investigation Discovery, TLC, Adult Swim, Animal Planet, Cartoon Network, HLN, OWN, TBS, TNT, Travel Channel, truTV, and Turner Classic Movies. Channing would be reporting to Cheeks on both the studio and cable network side.

Reps for Paramount and Warner Bros. TV declined comment.

With the move, Cheeks, whose domain is expanding to include two more TV studios and WBD’s cable portfolio as he takes charge of the combined company’s TV Studios and linear networks, including CBS and cable, is delegating day-to-day oversight of the cable brands, to Dungey, a highly respected veteran TV executive who had started executing her strategy for the WBD cable nets since adding the responsibility to her original job of running the Warner Bros. television studio almost two years ago.

The new studio structure reaffirms Paramount CEO David Ellison’s faith in former Skydance TV President Thunell who is put on the same level with two of the most decorated TV executives who have decades of experience in Channing and Stapf. Under the setup, Channing and Thunell, whose units both focus on development and production for streaming, are expected to work closely together.

Skydance is poised to unveil its official executive structure early next week, tied to Paramount’s acquisition of WBD closing Oct. 6.

Dungey added oversight of Warner Bros. Discovery’s basic cable networks at the end of 2024. She has led the unit through a period of uncertainty as WBD announced a plan to spin off its linear networks before Paramount emerged as a buyer for the entire portfolio. With her at the US Networks helm, Shark Week 2026 garnered its biggest ratings growth in over a decade, Puppy Bowl delivered its largest audience in eight years, Food Network achieved its first quarter of ratings growth in five years (in Q1 2026), and HGTV posted its strongest year-over-year gains this year in nearly two decades.

Among the programming synergies between the cable networks and WBTV under Dungey are a Bachelor Mansion crossover with HGTV and The Pitt season 1 getting a run on TNT.