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Khalil Ramos and Ian Pangilinan cross two eras of Filipino BL cinema in “Patay Gutom” — a live-action/animation ghost romance, and Pangilinan’s directing debut.
Xyriel Manabat and River Joseph turned a Pinoy Big Brother friendship into “Stuck on You” — a rom-com with a hitman’s job at its center, at CinePanalo 2026.
John Arcilla’s first film since his historic Venice win is a magic-realist road trip with a singing carabao — and CinePanalo 2026’s strangest, boldest bet yet.
If Tyrone Tan hadn’t spent 2025 becoming Mister Chinatown Philippines, he says he’d probably be somewhere doing math. “My language is numbers,” he tells ElysPlanet. “My mind works better when I’m working with numbers than words, which is probably why math has always been my favorite subject. In fact, if I weren’t in the entertainment industry, I think I’d probably be an accountant.” It’s an unusual detail from a guy who, less than two months after winning a national pageant and signing with one of the country’s top talent agencies, is already talking about wanting to play a villain instead of a leading man — with only a few months left before he has to hand his title to a successor. The Slot He Almost Skipped Twice Tan’s route into Mister and Ms. Chinatown Philippines (MMCP) didn’t start with the wildcard slot that opened up for him in August 2025. It started three years earlier, when he tried out, got a callback, and didn’t show up. “I made an excuse and didn’t attend because I …
Will Ashley turns 24 the same week his debut album, “Liham,” drops — and it’s coming out on ABS-CBN’s StarPop, not his own network’s label.
Moira Dela Torre headlines SM MOA Arena for the first time on Oct. 4. What “Where It All Started” refers to, and who’s joining her onstage.
Pee Mak PH opens October 14 without a Mario Maurer in its cast. Whether Wilbert Ross and Bea Binene’s star power can carry it is the real test ahead. Wilbert Ross and Bea Binene arrived at the grand mediacon for “Pee Mak PH” this week, the film’s cast lined up together to confirm what had been the project’s missing piece since April: a release date. Viva Films has set the Philippine adaptation’s theatrical release for October 14, nationwide. When “Pee Mak” opened in Philippine cinemas in 2013, Filipino audiences weren’t discovering Mario Maurer. They already loved him. “Love of Siam” had made him a cult favorite here since 2007; “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” aired on ABS-CBN in 2010, turned him into a mainstream phenomenon with a Penshoppe endorsement deal and fan conferences that drew thousands; Star Cinema had already cast him opposite Erich Gonzales by 2012. By the time “Pee Mak” arrived, Maurer didn’t need the film to introduce him — he flew in that August specifically to meet fans who already knew his …
VR Relosa slept under an MRT station at 17. A decade later, the “Vivamax King” is doing Cinemalaya, theater, and an indie shot years before any of it.
The 39th Awit Awards handed out its three biggest trophies tonight, and the act with the most nominations in the building didn’t win a single one of them. SB19 led the ceremony — organized annually by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI) — with 12 nods across grand, performance, and technical categories. By the end of the night at SM Mall of Asia Arena, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year had all gone somewhere else. The Comeback Wins the Marquee IV of Spades took Album of the Year for Andalucia and Song of the Year for “Aura” — the same single that marked the rock band’s return after nearly five years on hiatus, released as a surprise drop in mid-2025 alongside the comeback of lead vocalist Blaster Salonga. Winning the two biggest creative-output awards in the same year the band came back from a multi-year gap isn’t a small distinction; it’s PARI’s industry peers reading Andalucia less as a solid follow-up and more as a genuine …
ABS-CBN’s 200-job cut this week is its third retrenchment since 2020 — the second with nothing to do with Congress, a pattern NUJP already called out in 2024.
