Looks like the latest Hollywood Films premiering on Xmas day will have to wait until after New Year.
It's that jolly time once again when surviving local Mainstream industry players roam free for 1-2 weeks without fear of losing to Mainstream Foreign productions costing millions to make and billions to market and promote.
This year, here are some of the entries:
Dayo - a locally produced Animated film for a local audience featuring Aswangs and Tikbalangs
Iskul Bukol da Reunion - Tito Vic and Joey combine crass college humor and Indiana Jones swashbuckling (a Crocodile Jones remake)
Baler- A Spanish Soldier (Echo Rosales) and a Filipina (Anne Curtis?!?) fall in love amidst the backdrop of the Phil Revolution
Tanging Ina Niyo Lahat- (i Ai de las Alas plays single Mom turned President and spoofs almost every major RP movie and TV series in this Star Cinema franchise
I wonder which of the entries are worth watching or avoiding
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I don't get it how a Fil-Aussie mestisa like Anne Curtis gets cast as a pureblood pinay when there are other actresses who look the part and can do a better job?
This gives me the impression this was the result of wheeling, dealing and neck-wringing by Viva Corpos, talent managers and entertainment journalists
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weird nga rin.. reverse si anne at jericho.. does jericho look like a spanish person to you? unless mixed na sya.. if you can get past that.. okay naman sya..
shake rattle and roll is good. i know. i've seen it (read my review sa www.beerkada.net)
dayo is a must watch din..
iskul bukol.. no need to waste your money unless rich ka talaga.. and they show shots of cambodia so okay na rin...
Supposedly that Star Cinema Franchise has the highest box office gross among the entries. =========================================================== BTW, I think I know why Anne, Echo, Nikki Bacolod and Mark Bautista got cast in those roles in Baler because they are talents managed by Viva Entertainment, which prodcued the film.
Even the movie themesong was sung by another Viva-managed Talent - Sarah Geronimo.
One of the of the Spanish officers is played by Ryan Eigenmann. One of the priests is played by Michael de Mesa, another Eigenmann.
Is it just me or when you sign an Eigenmann as part of the cast, you get another as part of the package?
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I watched Tanging Ina nyong lahat. I liked the beginning but as it dragged on I was like forced to finish it. I didn't like the story development at all. Oh well, it is a comedy after all which is after MONEY.
Anyway, I also watched Shake, Rattle and Roll 10. Blegh, it wasn't scary at all coz I was laughing while watching it. The second story, "Class picture" was the only one worth of being called a horror film. The rest, "Emergency" and "nieves" were so corny they don't deserve to be in a horror film at all.
Tanging Ina Niyong Lahat (TINL) and Iskul Bukol 20 Yrs After Bagged 2nd & 3rd Best Picture awards.
Dayo bags 4 awards
For more details see below:
Baler wins big in 2008 MMFF awards
By Marinel Cruz Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 22:04:00 12/27/2008
Filed Under: Metro Manila Film Festival
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE 3) A period film that depicts the last stand of Spanish forces amid the fall of colonization by the end of the 19th century bagged the most number of creative, acting and technical awards in the Metro Manila Film Festival awards night on Saturday.
Viva Films Baler won ten awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Anne Curtis, Best Director for Mark Meily, Best Screenplay for Roy Iglesias, Best Supporting Actor for Phillip Salvador, Best Cinematography for Lee Meily, Best Production Design for Aped Santos, Best Editing for Danny Anonuevo, and the Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Award.
Curtis won her first-ever acting award for her portrayal of Baler lass Feliza Reyes in love with a Spanish-Filipino trooper Carlos Resurreccion (Jericho Rosales) in the historic siege.
This is Meilys second MMFF Best Director award after winning the same plum for Crying Ladies in 2003. His wife Lee also took home her first MMFF award.
Christopher de Leon, meanwhile, received his eighth festival Best Actor award, the most by any artist in its 34-year history, for a role inspired by the late Rudy Fernandez in the Maverick Films drama Magkaibigan opposite last years awardee Jinggoy Estrada.
Manilyn Reynes was named Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal as a lesbian talent coordinator in the sex comedy One Night Only, which also won Best Original Story for its director Jose Javier Reyes.
Newcomer Robert Villar, better known in the fantasy series Dyesebel as the mermaids trusted child friend Buboy, won Best Child Performer in Regal Films horror franchise Shake, Rattle and Roll X. Regals other festival entry, Desperadas 2, on the other hand, also won one awardBest Make-Up for Noli Villalobos.
The entry with the second most number of awards was the festivals first-ever animated film, Dayo Sa Mundo ng Elementalia, which won four awardsBest Visual Effects (Robert Quilao), Best Musical Score (Jessie Lasaten), Best Theme Song (Lipad written by Jessie Lasaten and Artemio Abad Jr. and performed by Lea Salonga), and Best Sound (Albert Idioma and Wally Dellosa).
Box office top grossers Tanging Ina Nyong Lahat and Iskul Bukol: 20 Years After won second and third festival Best Picture awards respectively.
