Skyfall is the title of the 23rd James Bond film, as announced during the press conference for the latest in the Bond franchise. Present in the London press conference were director Sam Mendes, producers Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Brocolli plus the cast: Daniel Craig (reprising his role as Bond), Javier Bardem (confirmed as the villain), [...]
25 year-old construction worker Amanda Colley Van Cooll was hailed as the sole survivor for the second season of reality TV show Survivor Philippines. She garnered 4 votes from the jury against 3 votes received by transsexual beauty queen Justine Ferrer. 3rd placer Jef Gaitan, a 22 year-old print and commercial model, didn’t receive any votes.
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After days of intense voting, the International Olympic Committee had finally picked a host for the 2016 Olympics last Friday, October 2. And the triumphant winner is Rio…after beating out Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago.
This is the first time for a South American City to host the Olympic Games and the Brazilians are absolutely thrilled. On Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach, nearly 50, 000 people roared when the winning city was announced by IOC president, Jacques Rogge. The celebrations on the streets of Rio headed into the night. Read More
The supposed Philippine concert of international pop star Katy Perry this coming October 3 was postponed due to Typhoon Ondoy.
Instead of the originally set Katy concert, MTV Philippines (producer of “Katy Perry Live in Manila”) is now planning to hold a benefit concert with American Idol runner-up David Archuleta and Boys Like Girls joining Katy.
The net proceeds of the benefit concert will go to the Philippine Red Cross, in support of the Ondoy victims. There are no final confirmation as of yet, Read More
In a parallel reality, lying or even the concept of lying, does not exist. Everyone speaks the truth no matter what consequences that truth may bring.
But when Mark (Ricky Gervais), a down-on-his-luck loser, suddenly develops the ability to lie, he seizes the opportunity to wield its power for personal gain.
Everything is going so well for Mark and he was able to easily lie his way to fame and fortune..until things got a little out of control…
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A remake of the original 1980 Oscar-winning hit film, Fame is about a talented group of actors, dancers, singers, and artists attending the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, where these diverse group of students from all walks of life, through their talent, dedication and hard work, are given a chance to live out their dreams and achieve fame.
As each student strives for his or her moment in the spotlight while dealing with everything else that goes along with high school, they’ll also discover who among them has the innate talent Read More
Apple has just added the new ‘PC Innovations Lab’ ad to their Get a Mac Ad Campaign yesterday. The new ad suggests ridiculous “innovations” that PC thinks will help bring people back to the world of Windows. Justin Long and John Hodgman reprise their roles as Mac and PC, respectively.
The American ad campaign started in 2006 and featured other celebrities like supermodel Gisele Bundchen, actresses Corinne Bohrer, Mary Chris Wall, Judy Greer, and actor Patrick Warburton, It also has British and Japanese versions. Read More
After his July 4 concert had been canceled due to the H1N1 scare, Akon is finally having his comeback concert on October 23, 2009. Billy Crawford will be joining Akon on this one-night concert and it will be held on Araneta Coliseum on a Friday night at 8:00 PM.
The Senegalese / American singer, who brought us hits like “Don’t Matter”, “Smack That”, “I Wanna Love You”, and “Sorry, Blame It on Me”, had a successful concert here in the Philippines last November 29, 2007. On his upcoming concert, he’s also gonna perform new hits from Read More
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone and machines roam & dominate the earth.
9 discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from these fearsome machines, and despite being the neophyte of the group, he convinces the others to get out of hiding and fight for their survival.
This group, also known as ‘stitchpunks’ must summon their individual strengths to defeat these beastly machines and salvage the legacy Read More
While hiking at Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park in Alberta, Twin Cities couple Melissa Brandts and her husband, Jackson, set their camera to a timer and posed for a holiday photo when a wide-eyed ground squirrel popped into the frame and stole the shot.
The camera’s focus locked onto the squirrel and the blurred-out couple seemed to have just become part of the background. Read More
The second season of Survivor Philippines, premiering August 17, 2009 on GMA, will feature the beautiful island of Peleliu, Palau wherein 16 castaways are going to stay for 39 days and compete for the title “Pinoy Sole Survivor”. Besides the title, the winner of Survivor Philippines will also take home P3,000,000, the largest ever cash prize in the history of Philippine reality game shows.
Paolo Bediones returns as the host of the show.
Let’s meet the 16 castaways… Read More
Marian Rivera‘s Darna had a succesful pilot episode, garnering a 44.1 percent AGB Nielsen Mega Manila rating. Angel Locsin’s Darna in 2005 had a 47.1 percent on its pilot. Back then, Angel’s Darna was the undisputed winner in the ratings game unlike Marian’s Darna which is strongly challenged by two programs (May Bukas Pa & Tayong Dalawa) from GMA 7‘s rival network, ABS-CBN.
It is expected that ratings will escalate when Marian Rivera makes her first appearance as Darna, basing from the ratings Angel’s Darna Read More
In this sequel to 2007′s blockbuster film Transformers, Sam Witwicky learns the truth about the Transformers’ origins and their history on our planet, the Decepticons return to Earth to catch him and pick his brain.
On a mission to protect humankind, Optimus Prime together with other Autobots join forces with armies from nations all over the world for a second epic battle against the Decepticons.
Margaret Tate is a ruthless, selfish, driven and tactless executive editor-in-chief of a book publishing company. But when a problem with her Visa threatens to send her back to Canada and destroy her career, she needs to come up with a solution..fast. Desperate times call for desperate measures so Margaret forces her young assistant Andrew Paxton to marry her in order to avoid being deported. He grudgingly accepts the proposal with a condition that he can secure an editorial position within the company. Unfortunately, the government needs to investigate and so the two are forced to spend Read More
Set roughly 20 years before X-Men, this prequel focuses on Wolverine’s violent and romantic past, his complex relationship with Victor Creed, his early encounters with William Stryker, and his going through the clandestine mutant Weapon X program.
Along the way, Wolverine also meets other mutants, both familiar and new, including surprise appearances by several X-Men universe legends. Read More
Sharp and Japanese network KDDI Corp. had teamed up to develop the world’s first “eco-friendly” cellphone.
The yet-to-be-priced phone has a solar panel on top that can derive 80% of its charge in total from the sun. A 10-minute solar charge will be able to provide one minute of talk time or two hours of standby power.
The Sharp handset is due for release in Japan by June but there is no shedule for a U.S. or worldwide release yet. Read More
The rivalry between GMA and ABS-CBN, 2 giant TV networks in the Philippines, has always been intense…From ratings, to their stars, movie productions (ABS’ Star Cinema vs GMA’s GMA Films) and even their respective station IDs. For this summer, the station ID war continues with ABS-CBN‘s “Galaw-Galaw sa Tag-araw” performed by Kanto Boys (Vhong Navarro, Billy Crawford, Luis Manzano and John Lloyd Cruz), and GMA’s “Sabay Sabay Tayo” using a modified version of Marian Rivera‘s first recorded song and latest dance craze. Read More
In this upcoming sequel to the action film Crank, Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) is kidnapped by a mysterious Chinese mobster. Three months later, Chev wakes up and discovers that his nearly indestructible heart has been replaced with a battery-operated ticker that needs regular jolts of electricity in order to work. After managing to escape his captors, he then goes after the gang who has stolen his heart. At the same time, he must continue shocking himself with regular jolts of electricity in order to keep himself alive. Read More
Popular high school senior Mike O’Donnell (Zac Efron) is a star athlete headed straight for a college scholarship and has a bright future within his grasp when he decides to give it all up to share his life with his high school girlfriend Scarlet and the baby he just learned they are expecting.
Twenty years later, an adult Mike (Matthew Perry) finds his life is not exactly what he expected. He is separated from his wife, Scarlett (Leslie Mann), living with his best friend Ned Freedman (Thomas Lennon), passed over for Read More
GMA 7 bought the rights for the Philippine remake of Korea’s TV Hit Full House. The original version was aired in the Philippines on 2005 (also in GMA) and it became a huge hit, being the highest-rated Koreanovela with a peak of 52 % and an average of 42.3% during its entire run.
There have been a lot of petitions running in the net for who should portray the lead roles in this Pinoy remake and some of the names that came up for the male lead are Chris Tiu, Richard Gutierrez & Billy Crawford and Sheena Halili, Heart Evangelista & Marian Rivera for the female Read More
Globe Telecom just announced that their Globe WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) service is now commercially available, initially in South Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao and will reach other parts of the country soon.
WiMax is a standards-based technology designed to enable the deployment of wireless broadband access as a cost-efficient alternative to cable and wired Read More