It’s official: It Takes a Man and a Woman is the highest-grossing Filipino film of all time

After earning more than P4o1 million at the tills, the John Lloyd Cruz-Sarah Geronimo starrer romantic-comedy is now the most successful Filipino film to date in terms of box office revenues.  Continue reading »

Will there ever be a Pinoy movie on IMAX?

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? Continue reading »

End of movies in film

Soon the 35 mm movie format will be a thing of the past, at least in commercial movie exhibition and this might sound both good and bad news for local film producers. Continue reading »

Piolo Pascual and Angelica Panganiban’s Every Breath U Take earns P42.82 million in 2 weeks

Star Cinema’s romantic comedy film Every Breath U Take top-billed by Piolo Pascual and Angelica Panganiban grossed P42.82 million pesos after two weeks at the tills. The film helmed by Mae Czarina Cruz, released domestically on May 16, was Graded B by the Cinema Evaluation Board and rated PG-13 by the Movie and Television Review … Continue reading »

The dying industry’s elusive dream

by Nickie Wang Filipino audiences have become much more discerning today than they were in the previous decades. No wonder, our local multiplexes are teeming with foreign films, mostly from Hollywood, because they are the only moving pictures that can, so far, match what audiences look for in a film. Continue reading »

Movies you loved but snubbed

by Nickie Wang A swarm of local films hit all movie theaters last month due to the annual Metro Manila Film Festival. That gave us an additional eight mainstream movies and five additional independent films to the 74 full-length features previously released in 2010. Twelve of these 87 movie titles now are from Star Cinema … Continue reading »

Intensifying campaign against film piracy

by Nickie Wang A film pirate that records the movie you are watching might be just sitting next to you. This line sounds familiar, you always see this whenever you watch a movie in theaters. In many years that I have been in and out of the major multiplexes, I have not seen any film … Continue reading »

Top-grossing Pinoy films of 2009

As of October 4, 2009, the top-grossing  film in the Philippines is Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Cruz starrer, You Changed My Life. Based on the data released by Box Office Mojo, the movie has earned more than 4.7 million US dollars in Metro Manila alone. Here is the list of top-grossing local films of … Continue reading »

Cinemanila: Haven for young filmmakers

By Nickie Wang Independently-produced films do not earn much, most of the time they are not even close to breaking even. But why is that” indies” still proliferate in the country? Are we really trying to prove or profile the Philippine cinema as the new mecca of independent films? Producing “indies” is not about business. … Continue reading »

Top-grossing Pinoy Movies of 2008

Nix top 12 lists down the twelve top-grossing flicks of 2008. Two entries in the 34th Metro Manila Film Festival are already included based on their box  office performance from Dec. 25 to 31, 2008. 1. A VERY SPECIAL LOVE – P179.23 million (Star Cinema/Viva Films) Romantic-comedy film featuring the first team-up of Sarah Geronimo … Continue reading »

Baler wins most of filmfest awards

By NICKIE WANG/ Manila Standard Today What can a moving tale of forbidden love in the middle of a war do to change the landscape of Philippine Cinema? The awards and the accolades are just frosting on the cake, what is more important is for a film to highlight social issues and promote cinematic excellence … Continue reading »

Baler: 34th MMFF’s best

If you chose to watch this film among the MMFF entries this year, you made the right decision, or if you didn’t watch it, you missed the festival’s best movie. Baler is definitely the only movie in the festival that gives importance to Filipino culture and history. In short, watching Baler in the most expensive … Continue reading »

12 top-grossing pinoy movies of 2008

Philippine Cinema used to be the world’s fourth largest movie producer. The local industry produced almost a hundred films in 1999, but due to crisis and other factors, production has decreased over the years. Movie producers have released more than 30 films as of November (including indies or digital flicks). Last year, 50 films were … Continue reading »