Top Pinoy actor Piolo Pascual seems to be doing anything and everything these days to help ensure that his first horror movie, Mallari, an entry to the fast-approaching 2023 Metro Manila Film. Festival, makes it…
If a new movie company finds it difficult to get its product booked by theater circuits in the period it believes is most ideal for the film’s release, it can resort to so-called “block screening”…
In the last quarter of 2023, Viva Communications, Inc. seems bent on making people remember that Viva Films is very much alive and has not been replaced by its hit streaming platform Vivamax. The film-churning…
Is it too soon to think of actor Dolly de Leon as a National Artist for Film and Theater? No, not necessarily next year when it’s time again to bestow the Order of National Artist honors,…
If Maricel Soriano is known as the “Diamond Star,” singer Nina was once labeled “Asia’s Diamond Soul Siren.” Both “Diamond” idols are glittering anew these days with busy showbiz projects. Soriano’s appearances in the drama…
Viva Films has a movie that’s been showing in the theaters since 20 November: the horror film Marita topbilled by Louise de los Reyes, though the title role is portrayed by another actor, Rhen Escaño.…
“Dalamhati” is the title of the latest album of the Los Angeles-based Filipino-American music artist Troy Laureta. It’s the Tagalog word for “grief” or “grieving” — though that’s not how Laureta, 33, feels these days.…
The Kapuso network might as well be starting a trend with its new primetime series that premieres on 20 November, at 9:30 p.m.: Lovers/Liars, headlined by the comebacking Claudine Barretto. It’s a cougar story. And it…
Diamond Star Maricel Soriano admitted that she allowed very close friend Roderick Paulate to slap her twice as they portray twins in the film that they topbill under the direction of FM Reyes. Soriano spilled…
We had better believe it: South Koreans and Japanese go for Vivamax movies. At the recent Busan International Film Festival held in Busan, South Korea, South Korean distribution outfits Lumixmedia, WithLion and Jaye Entertainment acquired more than…