Two Sundays ago, Anne Curtis belted a Regine Velasquez hit on Asap stage. The audience cheered and gave her a round of applause not for her singing though but because of her overwhelming confidence performing a rather difficult piece.
The annual Metro Manila Film Festival is a unique film event that runs from the 25th of December until the first week of the succeeding month. It is one-of-a-kind because it features movies produced mainly by Star Cinema, Viva Films, GMA Films, Regal Films and some fledgling film outfits, which are homes to formula films.
Watching high-octane action and animated movies in Imax makes us wonder. Will there ever be a Filipino film that can be shown in Imax theaters?
At the Manila Peninsula, during the launch of Italian travelling film festival called Moviemov: Italian Cinema Now, senior scribes became more inquisitive when they learned the lineup of Filipino films included in the second edition of film event that will run for five days at Greenbelt 3 cinemas.
Local cinema has been having a phenomenal year. As of this writing, a total of five films have breached the elusive 100-million-peso mark in terms of box office revenues and at least two or more movies are expected to join the elite list.
Two years ago a group of individuals headed by Marnie Manicad had a project in mind. It would put the Philippines at the center of world’s attention. Manicad, who is wife of GMA News reporter Jiggy Manicad, has a documentary on Malacañang Palace, She thought of this even before President Benigno Aquino III was voted …
Not so long ago, Willie Revillame said he would never compete against the country’s longest- running noontime show ever again, Fast-forward to Jan. 26. TV5’s Wowowillie debuted in a nearly five-hour spectacle beginning at quarter to 12 noon. Continue reading »
Concert promoters confirmed only a few numbers of shows to be staged in local performance venues from February to April, which is also known as the Manila concert season. Continue reading »
Fasten your seat belts! Repertory Philippines proudly presents its 76th theater season with the opening salvo of BOEING BOEING, the classic ’60s sex comedy hit of errors that won the 2008 Tony Awards and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Play Revival. Continue reading »
Paraphrasing what former Twitter communications director Matt Graves said, the list of trending topics is a reflection of what people are talking about. Similarly, computer scientist and Google’s Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton Cerf asserted that the Internet is a mirror of the population that uses it. Continue reading »
The Kapuso’s A-list star finally agreed to grace the cover of FHM Philippines. Marian Rivera looks sultry in a red and black bikini top on the cover of FHM’s January 2013 edition which also serves as the men’s magazine’s 150th issue. Continue reading »
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 420,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 8 years for that many people to see it. My blog had more visits than … Continue reading »
TV5’s environment-focused and acclaimed primetime fantasy series Enchanted Garden leads GMA’s primetime drama series in the country’s regional media markets such as Dagupan, Cebu, Davao, Cagayan de Oro and General Santos City in the TV ratings (September 16 to November 30) based on Nielsen Media Research’s Metro City TV Audience Measurement (MCTAM). Continue reading »
