Three films centering on families from Universal Pictures will be shown in Philippine cinemas in August: “Beast,” “Nope” and “Easter Sunday.”

“Beast,” which will open in Philippine cinemas on Aug. 10, is a new thriller about a father and his two teenage daughters who find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion as the jungle’s predator.

Idris Elba stars as the recently widowed Dr. Nate Daniels who returns and brings his daughters to South Africa where he first met his wife.

Their journey takes them to a game reserve managed by an old family friend and wildlife biologist, Martin Battles played by Sharlto Copley.

But it turns into a fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of blood-thirsty poachers which now sees all humans as the enemy, begins stalking them.

Iyana Halley plays Daniels’ 18-year-old daughter Meredith, and Leah Sava Jeffries plays his 13-year-old Norah.

On the other hand, the new horror film “Nope” opens in cinemas on Aug. 17. In the movie, siblings Oj (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald (Keke Palmer) find themselves unwittingly drawn into a mysterious realm once they start taking over the horse ranch of their industry-legend father.

Carrying the torch of their father’s craft as animal wranglers for film and television, OJ and Emerald face financial challenges and the heartbreak inherent to a trade where livestock is the talent.

OJ and Emerald begin observing unexplained phenomena on their vast ranch that leads them down an obsessive rabbit hole—plotting attempts to capture the mystery on camera. The hijinks of their quest for documentation, through increasingly elaborate and dangerous set-ups, puts at risk the only thing they truly have: the hard-earned business of their late father, who has left them in his long shadow.

Things escalate as the siblings enlist the expert help of Fry’s Electronics store employee Angel Torres and acclaimed cinematographer Antlers Holst, who is on the brink of retirement. As their efforts, and hubris, cross a point-of-no-return, ratcheting the stakes to terrifying consequences, our heroes are drawn straight into the eye of an irreversible storm. The result is an expansive horror-spectacle with an intimate and emotionally complex core.

“Easter Sunday” opens on Aug. 31 and stars stand-up comedy sensation Jo Koy, a man returning home for an Easter celebration with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family, in this love letter to his Filipino-American community.

The film features Jimmy O. Yang, Tia Carrere, Brandon Wardell, Eva Noblezada, Lydia Gaston, Asif Ali, Rodney To, Eugene Cordero, Jay Chandrasekhar, Tiffany Haddish and Lou Diamond Phillips.