2009 Metro Manila Film Festival

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grabe kaau ta ka racist... ayaw mo og bad comment sa mga pinoy movies bisag bati ang ila story line at least naa sila gipakita na movie og mga trabaho sa movie industry... mao dli gyud ma asenso ang pinas,... we RACIST & CRAB MENTALITY rules..... o_O V

BTW:
kita ko sa panday gahapon bisag way au ang storyline pero ako g tan-aw ang ilang SPX Kool napud xa sa cheap budgeted na film.. i give class B to that movie mura na hollywood na cheapbudgeted films... wala ko nag apas sa story ako lng g tan-aw ang improvement sa SPX sa mga pilipino movie... mura na og effects sa hollywood movie nga 300... keep it up pinoy SPX specialist...

..unsaon..crab mentality..yes..pero, racist?..i don't think so..

..not supporting them doesn't mean na racist na ka..there are also good Filipino movies na all time favorite nako..muro ami, rizal, tanging yaman, milan and some movies na nindot ang story and Filipino gyud dating! (maka relate ka sa storya)..this time, puro naman lang recycled and kinopya ilang mga movies na gi salida..

[slugonice]

Wala bay Cebu Film Festival?

kanang murag kita unta mu showcase sa mga indie films ba

[sharkey360]

Wala bay Cebu Film Festival?

kanang murag kita unta mu showcase sa mga indie films ba

The question here is - who would be willing to organize such a festival?

The local and provincial politicians are obviously not interested.

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Ric Camaligan, Metro Manila Film Festival executive committee member, disclosed the box-office figures of the seven official entries of the 35th MMFF.

He observed, "Everybody is picking up. Ang Panday started with very strong sales Metro Manila but now it also very strong in the provinces. I believe this will go on."

In an interview with GMA-7 aired tonight on 24 Oras, he reported the following box-office figures as of yesterday, December 30:

Ang Panday P55,977,000
Ang Darling Kong Aswang P55,010,000
Shake Rattle and Roll XI P51,781,000
I Love You Goodbye P51,759,000
Mano Po 6: A Mother's Love P25,239,000
Nobody Nobody but Juan P23,177,000
Wapakman P2,339,000

These figures amount to P265,282,000

Hailed as the Best Picture of the 35th MMFF, Ang Panday bagged six other trophies during the awards night held last December 28 at the SMX Convention Center. Co-produced by GMA Films and Imus Productions, this Bong Revilla Jr.-starrer earned for him Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor for Phillip Salvador, Best Child Performer for Robert "Buboy" Villar, Best Visual Effects, Best Production Design, and Best Theme Song ("Tanging Ikaw Lamang" by Ogie Alcasid).

Mr. Camaligan, who is also the Vice President of Operations for SM, is confident that earnings this year will reach their target of P500 million. "Last year, we reached P451 million. Ang target naman ngayon ay P500 million or half a billion. Sa tingin ko aabot tayo," he says.

The box-office earnings are earmarked for the following beneficiaries: the Movie Workers' Welfare Fund, Film Academy of the Philippines, Film Development Council of the Philippines, Optical Media Board, Motion Picture Anti-Film Piracy Council; and the President's Social Fund.

Source - PEP.ph: The Number One Site for Philippine Showbiz | Movies | MMFF 2009 entries grossed P265 million as of December 30

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Fantasy flicks continue to rule the tills, on the seventh day of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), according to official records obtained by the Inquirer from the fest’s executive committee.

As of Dec. 31, 2009, GMA Films’/Imus Productions’ fantasy action epic “Ang Panday,” the Best Picture winner in this year’s fest, posted P58 million.

First-placer “Panday” is headlined by actor-politician Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr.

Second place went to OctoArts/M-Zet/APT’s horror-comedy movie “Ang Darling Kong Aswang,” with P56.5 million.

“Darling” features Vic Sotto, a perennial topnotcher in the fest’s box-office derby.

In third place is Regal Entertainment’s horror franchise “Shake, Rattle & Roll XI,” with P53 million. The long-running thriller franchise consistently figures in the top three of the fest’s box-office race.

The drama films continue to trail behind the special-effects flicks.

Star Cinema’s romantic drama “I Love You, Goodbye” earned P51 million, landing in the fourth spot.

Regal Entertainment’s Chinese-Filipino family drama “Mano Po 6: A Mother’s Love,” which won a number of trophies (including the Gender Sensitive honor and the Gatpuno Antonio Villegas Cultural award) is in fifth place, with P25 million.

Regal’s drama entry, which stars Sharon Cuneta, was also graded A by the Cinema Evaluation Board, which is under the auspices of the Film Development Council of the Philippines.

The comedy-drama film “Nobody, Nobody But . . . Juan,” top-billed by Comedy King Dolphy, is in sixth place, with P23 million.

In the last spot is “Wapakman,” a superhero flick starring boxing champ Manny Pacquiao. It earned only P2.1 million after seven days—the only MMFF fest entry that failed to break the double-digit mark.

From all indications, this year’s fest earnings can beat previous years’ P400 million mark, said Ric Camaligan, an MMFF executive committee member. “The sales are okay,” said Camaligan.

Camaligan expressed the hope that this year’s earnings would reach the fest’s target of P.5 billion.

Last year, the fest earned P248.5 million in five days. This year, it earned an aggregate of P268.6—a somewhat smaller figure as expected, but it still didn’t include the New Year grosses.

Source - Fantasy continues to rule filmfest box office - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

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There are ancient Chinese customs and relatively newer, but already time-tested, Filipino traditions still observed to this day. And then there is the merging of Chinese and Filipino practices so common among Tsinoys today.

Too bad for a Tsinoy like this writer who is only one-eighth Chinese (I really look more Chinese than I really am — the only one in the family, in fact, who physically bears our Amoy, China origins), I am totally ignorant about how the Fil-Chinese celebrate the holiday season.

Without meaning to desecrate Tsinoy culture, the only Filipino-Chinese Christmas ritual that I do is to watch annually Regal Films’ presentation of Mano Po since its first installment in 2002.

The Mano Po film series, unfortunately, can be a hit and miss affair. There are years when these are way off from the standard set by the first one, which is still considered to be the best of the series. The good news is: Mano Po 6 is just as outstanding as the first one. It’s different, but it’s just as finely-crafted.

More at Why was Mano Po 6 snubbed at MMFF awards rites? - STAR BYTES By Butch Francisco | The Philippine Star >> News >> Entertainment

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“Ang Panday” continues to top the MMFF’s box-office race for raking in P69.7 million as of January 1, 2010.

The Star Cinema entry “I Love You, Goodbye” is now running third nudging Shake, Rattle and Roll XI down to no. 4.

According to Mr. Ric Camaligan of the Metro Manila Film Festival Executive Committee, here are the official box office results of the 7 entries after 8 days:

1. Ang Panday – P69.7M
2. Ang Darling Kong Aswang – P66.7M
3. I Love You Goodbye – P60.8M
4. Shake, Rattle and Roll XI – P59.8M
5. Mano Po 6: A Mother’s Love – P29.9M
6. Noboby Nobody but Juan – P26M
7. Wapakman – P2.4M

Source - MMFF Official Box Office Results as of January 1, 2010 : Starmometer.com

With the way things are going, the Top 3 could each reach the P100,000,000 level by the end of the festival. Shake, Rattle and Roll XI is on track to exceed Shake, Rattle and Roll X's P68,000,000.

As for Mano Po 6, the only film entitled to 100% earnings on its sales, I really doubt the film could recover its P70,000,000 budget.

Meanwhile, check out this news.

?Panday? guns for global release | Manila Bulletin

[gatsby]

if i dont watch MMF movies, does it mean i have a crab mentality or racist ko? people who are throwing those accusations are narrow minded. i have the freedom of choice, no one will dictate me what movies to watch, it seems that pinoy movies doesn't fit my standards. thats my opnion, u have urs.

[nirdle_phogi]

OT: @jaypol Maybe crab mo.igo pa., pero racist?? Waah. Para knsa man na na adjective oie puro rman ta pinoy ngari?

OnT: luoyang pacquiao oie, kulelat na sad. Pag.boxing na lang lage.. Haha. nindot daw mga special effects sa panday. Pang.hollywood na daw? Tinuod?

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My cousin Joanne and I didn’t think the lines to the movie theater would be long on Christmas Day, but they were, at least to some of the Metro Manila Film Festival movies that were a tad bit more interesting than others, like I Love You, Goodbye and Shake, Rattle and Roll XI. We had to rush to another more upper-class mall to catch the last full show of Shake, Rattle and Roll, but even that was crowded. Thank goodness for guaranteed seating—even if it meant forking over a few more pesos than we had intended to spend.

Well, actually, outside of getting to continue a tradition my cousin and I had started years back, before she even moved to America for 10 years, I’m not really happy about the spending extra money on Shake, Rattle and Roll. Not even her screaming out loud once or twice in the small cinema we were in made up for the fact that all the short films in the franchise were bad this year.

None of them were original; none of them were ambitious. Even “Ukay-Ukay,” the campy segment starring former controversial sweethearts Ruffa Gutierrez and Zoren Legaspi, while funny in many places and my definite favorite among the three, failed to do what 2008’s “Nieves” did, which was save the entire film festival entry.

The first segment, “Diablo,” started out creepy enough. New local horror films seldom tackle the concept of demonic possession, so I was really looking forward to it. Claire (Maja Salvador), a young barrio doctor, is possessed by demons. Her ultra-religious aunt (Gina Alajar) brings her to Father Ronnie (Mark Anthony Fernandez), who turns out to be Claire’s former boyfriend. The film ends in typical “WTF?” fashion, with Father Ronnie confessing to still having feelings for Claire, dying for her, and rescuing her in the process. For what reason is beyond me.

“Diablo” would be downright scary if “The Exorcist” and “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” hadn’t already been so embedded in the movie-goers’ consciousness. Most everything in this segment had been done already—and better. Still, props to Maja for her acting chops. I just wish they had done a better job at the prosthetic makeup of her alternate.

That, and I wonder what happened to Mark Anthony’s voice? I had no idea we were still dubbing. Seriously.

The second film,“Ukay-Ukay,” was the horror-comedy third of the trilogy. I am of the opinion that Ruffa is better off doing comedies or romantic comedies instead of drama and I’m happy to be proven right. She was a capable lead as the bride-to-be Kayla despite the less than stellar script and her oftentimes less than stellar delivery. She managed to be deliberately hilarious in some scenes—like when she fights off the haunted vintage wedding gown when it accosts her as she walks down the aisle and battles it out for her dream wedding.

I also enjoyed this film because of the cinematography. The locations were rather interesting and I was glad to see the photogenic Cubao X again used as a location in a film. I think the special effects were also better this time around.

I’ve come to anticipate John Lapuz’s Shake, Rattle and Roll roles because he almost always dies fabulous deaths. This time is no different. As the fashion designer Basty who tries to refashion the vintage gown for Kayla’s wedding, he meets his bloody demise after a daring battle with the gown.

The most realistic of the three, “Lamang Lupa,” relies heavily on prosthetic makeup and no special effects to tell its classic barkada story. City friends who go on a camping trip, Shiela (Jennica Garcia), Archie (Rayver Cruz), Lianne (Iya Villania), Ryan (Mart Escudero), Bong (Dominic Roco), Kiko (Felix Roco), and Chari (Bangs Garcia), have to deal with elementals living in the woods that they disturbed after being disrespectful to their homes. It’s a thriller—but nothing new either. What’s most interesting about this is that it probably casts the new Regal Babies, the most exciting of whom are the Roco brothers.

What did pick me up in watching Shake, Rattle and Roll were the Easter eggs hidden in it, like Janice de Belen’s cameo role, in which she poses before an open refrigerator, and the Cubao X cinema marquee reading “RIP Alexis and Nika” in tribute to the film critics who would have had so much to contribute to Filipino cinema.

I hear Shake, Rattle and Roll would be airing its final trilogy next year. Sorry to have to say this, but I hope it would be the end of the MMFF as we know it as well.

We can do better. The New Year brings new hope!

Source - The MMFF tradition - CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo | The Freeman >> The Freeman Sections >> Cebu Entertainment