THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2017
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MA Network’s Bubble Gang, the country’s longest-running and multi-awarded gag show, continues to offer non-stop entertainment to Filipino viewers as they celebrate their 22nd anniversary.
"Bubble Gang" senior cast member and Creative Director Michael V
Because of their unique, amusing and extraordinary parodies, sketches and gags about television commercials, famous personalities and current events, the Kapuso program is still the Filipinos’ favorite comedy program. For this year, the cast of the well-loved comedy show offers a two-part TV special – the first part was aired on Nov. 17 and the second part tomorrow night 24 featuring a musical show entitled “Parokya Bente Dos: A Laugh Story”. It is the story of a simple guy named Buloy (Michael V.), V a die-hard fan who has built his dreams around an actress, Birdie Aguila (Kim ( Domingo) Domingo and the countless adventures he had to go through in order to fulfill his life-long dream to be her leading man on and off screen.
The show features songs from one of the country’s favorite OPM bands, Parokya Ni Edgar. Together with Bubble Gang’s Creative Director Michael V., the anniversary show features, apart from Domingo, Chariz Solomon, Valeen Montenegro, Antonio Aquitania, Boy 2 Quizon, Paolo Contis, Jackie Rice, Denise Barbacena, Lovely Abella, Sef Cadayona, Betong Sumaya, Mikael Daez, Arra San Agustin, Jak Roberto, Archie Alemana, Arny Ross, Mikoy Morales, Ashley Rivera, Analyn Barro, Juancho Trivino, Jan Manual, James Macasero, Rodfil Obeso, Myka Flores, and Diego Llorico playing multiple characters in this anniversary special.
‘BUBBLE GANG’s’
one-of-a-kind special presentation
Knowledge Channel, ABSCBN TVplus’ YEY win at Sinebata 2017
‘Magpakailanman’ counts 5 years on air GMA Network’s awardwinning drama anthology Magpakailanman, hosted by multi-awarded broadcast journalist Mel Tiangco, celebrates its 5th anniversary this November. Throughout its 5-year run, the show has been touching the lives of many Filipinos and promoting good family values to its viewers. Magpakailanman continues to showcase “the real story behind the story” making each episode not only inspiring and uplifting but also informative and interesting. The month-long special opened with the touching story of the Lagdamat sisters—four orphaned children who had no one else but each other to lean on. The episode ,“BSF: Best Sisters Forever: The Lagdamat Sisters Story,” was featured Sunshine Dizon, Diana Zubiri, Sheena Halili and Sanya
Lopez. It aired on Nov.4. On Nov. 11, Magpakailanman presented the love story between an American sailor and his maid. Directed by Joel Lamangan, the episode,
“My Heart Belongs to You: The Bud and Gloria Brown Story,” featured Ivan Dorschner and Denise Barbacena. Last Saturday, Magpakailanman shared
"Magpakailanman" host Mel Tiangco
AFTER competing in the Wide Angle category of the Busan International Film Festival in October, Carlo Fajarda’s short film, Suerte, will vie for awards next in the Southeast Asian short film competition of the 28th Singapore International Film Festival from today till Dec. 3. Suerte, which literally means luck in Filipino and was used as a name of a street in the film, follows two amateur filmmakers (played by Fajarda himself and the film’s director of photography and editor Phillipe Quintos) shooting a documentary about the drug trade. While they go along with their subjects, brothers Betong (Karl Medina) and Roel (Dan Medrana), they slowly get involved until the point of no return. As the night wears on, their dangerous obsession with their project forces them to cross the line between observer and creator. Fajarda’s thesis film at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde joins three other Filipino films competing for the Silver Screen Awards in the festival. They are Carlo Francisco Manatad’s Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee of the Month, Margarita Mina’s Puppy Love, and Andrew Stephen Lee’s The Sound of Coins Hitting Brass.
the real-life stories of Azramie “Ramram” Cabugatan and Marawi Suicide Squad soldier PFC Jomille Pavia. The “Isang Bata, Dalawang Ina” episode is about a young boy who was taken away from his parents but later on reunited with his biological mother Rohaniza “Hani” Abdul Jabbar Cabugatan after seven long years. This episode stars Yasmien Kurdi and Sharmaine Arnaiz and will be directed by Gina Alajar. The “Kuwentong Marawi sa Mata ng Isang Sundalo” episode is about a brave soldier who was deployed in Marawi and was able to survive and save a number of civilians especially an old woman trapped in her own home. The episode features Alden Richards. The last part of the two-part episode airs this Saturday on GMA7 after Pepito Mananloto.
‘Suerte’ in Singapore
The cast and crew of the digital short film, "Suerte"
SGIFF will feature over 100 films from 42 countries. It is the longest-running and leading international film platform in Southeast Asia for independent cinema. Also part of the Philippine contingent in the official selection are Salvage: Malay Wild by Sherad Anthony Sanchez, The One Armed Executioner by Bobby A. Suarez. and In the Claws of A Century
Wanting by Jewel Maranan. Founded in 1987, the festival focuses on independent films, particularly those from Asia. The Silver Screen Awards is divided into the Asian feature film competition and the Southeast Asian short film competition. The awards night will be held at the Grand Theatre of Marina Bay Sands on Dec. 2.
Lionsgate's "Wonder," is an inspiring drama film about a young boy born with a facial difference who has been in and out of hospitals for years
‘Wonder’ in cinemas next week BASED on the New York Times bestseller by R.J. Palacio, Wonder is an inspiring and heartwarming story of 10-year-old August Pullman. Born with facial differences that, up until now, have prevented him from going to a mainstream school, Auggie becomes the most unlikely of heroes when he enters the local fifth grade. As his family, his new classmates, and the larger community all struggle to find their compassion and acceptance, Auggie’s extraordinary journey will unite them all and prove you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out. Directed by Stephen Chbosky, Wonder stars Academy Award® winner Julia Roberts. Academy Award® nominee Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay. Also starring are Izabela Vidovic, Mandy Patinkin, Daveed Diggs, Sonia Braga, Danielle Rose Russell, Nadji Jeter, Noah Jupe, Bryce Gheisar, Millie Davis, and newcomer Elle McKinnon. Golden Globe nominee Jacob Tremblay tackles the one-of-a-kind role of Auggie Pullman, whose birth defects and multiple surgeries have kept him out of school -- until now. Jettisoned into what is for him the brave new world of the 5th grade, Auggie steps into an unexpected journey.
All Auggie ever wanted was to be an ordinary kid, but as his sister keeps telling him, you can’t be ordinary when you were born to stand out. Though he once found solace inside a space helmet, suddenly he must face a whole universe of gawking kids who don’t yet know how to face him back. Now, in a year by turns funny, tough and beautiful -- Auggie and all around him are transformed by the things that count most: friendship, courage and the everyday choice to be kind to everyone in your path. From the start, the filmmakers wanted to bring the facial difference community into the inner fabric of the production – and to make sure their voices were heard. They began collaborating closely with several organizations including MyFace and the Children’s Craniofacial Association (CCA). Both organizations had taken the popularity of the book as a chance to raise much greater awareness of craniofacial differences and bust through some of the social stigmas. For author Palacio, the love so many “real-life Auggies” have for her book has been as gratifying as its success. “The friendships I’ve formed with kids who have craniofacial differences have been incredibly special to me,”
she says. “It’s been moving to see how Wonder has positively impacted their lives.” To learn more, the entire Tremblay family attended CCA’s annual family retreat, a tradition started by CCA’s national spokesperson, Cher. Jacob had a blast. “I made friends with many kids there, which I thought was wonderful.” laughs Tremblay. “And while I was having fun, I learned a lot about kids with craniofacial syndromes and it really helped me to do this role the right way.” One family in particular would come to influence the film project: that of 12-year-old Nathaniel Newman, who has become close with Palacio. “A couple months after the book came out, Nathaniel’s parents reached out to me and we had lunch. Although I didn’t know him while I was writing, I discovered that Nathaniel was Auggie come-to-life,” says Palacio. “Nathaniel has TreacherCollins syndrome and looks a lot the way I imagined Auggie, and speaks the way I hear Auggie. He has great parents and a brother who doesn’t have a craniofacial difference. Nathaniel has had to endure many surgeries and deal with a lot of the issues Auggie has. And like Auggie, he’s loving, funny and brave beyond words.”