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Marian Rivera will try to outshine Angel Locsin once again as she is crowned as television’s new Darna.
Rivera’s forthcoming role was officially announced by GMA-7 on April 23rd at the GMA Network Center. She was the lead star in Marimar and Dyesebel. Both stories were supposed to be for Angel Locsin, but she moved over to ABS-CBN 2.
Darna and Dyesebel are originally made for komiks by Mars Ravelo, but eventually became hit movies. Previously, only Vilma Santos was able to play both Darna and Dyesebel (in separate shows, naturally).
Brillante Mendoza’s second movie in Cannes got him the best director award.
Kinatay is a movie about 24 hours of a policeman’s life. He gets married in the morning then gets to help the older policemen in raping and hacking a prostitute to pieces then spreading the body parts around Manila.
His last year’s movie was Serbis, a movie about a porn theater in where else but Manila.
Previous Cannes entries from the Philippines
1978 Insiang (Lino Brocka)
1980 Jaguar (Lino Brocka)
1981 Bona (Lino Brocka)
1984 Bayan Ko: Kapit Sa Patalim (Lino Brocka)
Mendoza also directed
Tirador …
Are they building a political party with the youth as their base? Are they building a database which they can sell later to electoral advertisers? How far is PLDT involved here? How spammed is akomismo.org wall of commitmemt so far?
62nd Cannes International Film Festival
May 13 to 24, 2009
Short Film Corner
Janice Y. Perez’s “Sabongero”
Aissa Peñafiel and Miguel Ocampo’s “Manong Maong” –animated short
Un Certen Regard (URC)
special section in the Main Competition
Raya Martin’s “Indepedencia”
Special screening
Bing Lao’s “Biyaheng Lupa” — soliloquy
Raymond Red’s “Himpapawid”
Adolfo Alix, Jr. and Raya Martin’s “Manila”
Palme d’Or (in Competition)
Brillante (Dante) Mendoza’s “Kinatay” (”Chop Chop”)
Complete List of Finalists:
“Los Abrazos Rotos” (Broken Embraces) by Pedro Almodovar (Spain)
“Fish Tank” by Andrea Arnold (Britain)
“Un Prophete” (A Prophet) by Jacques Audiard (France)
“Vincere” (To Conquer) by Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
“Bright Star” by Jane Campion (New Zealand)
“Map …
The second season audition dates for and locations Survivor Philippines have been released:
February 26 and 27, 2009 — CSI, the City Mall, Lucao, Dagupan
March 3 and 4, 2009 — SM City Baguio
March 9 and 10, 2009 — LCC Mall Naga
March 12 to 13, 2009 — SM Iloilo
March 15 and 16, 2009 — SM City Cebu
March 18 to 19, 2009 — SM Davao
March 23 to 24, 2009 — SM Lipa, Batangas
March 27 to 28, 2009 — SM North EDSA, Quezon City
March 29 to 30, 2009 — SM Mall of Asia
If you …
Three new shows of ABS-CBN started yesterday night, namely Kung Fu Kids, Lobo and Palos. although the three shows weren’t able to defeat their counterparts on their pilot episodes, at least the ratings weren’t that bad.
Kung Fu Kids 26.6% vs. Zaido 28.9%
Lobo 27.7% vs. Kamandag 33.1%
Palos 23.6% vs. Marimar 36.8%
Lobo: Piolo Pascual and Angel Locsin
– Werewolves
Palos: Cesar Montano and Jake Cuenca
– Detectives
Kamandag: Richard Gutierrez and Mark Anthony Fernandez
– Snake Men
Marimar: Marian Rivera and Ding Dong Dantes
– Barrio simpleton turned rich heiress
