FDCP gets ownership rights of Lino Brocka’s ‘Insiang’
Ruby Tiong Tan, producer of Lino Brocka’s “Insiang,” has turned over the rights of the classic Filipino film, “Insiang,” to the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP).
Ruby Tiong Tan, producer of Lino Brocka’s “Insiang,” has turned over the rights of the classic Filipino film, “Insiang,” to the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP).
Oscar-winninig director Clint Eastwood tackles the life of US Navy Seal sharpshooter Chris Kyle—self-proclaimed most lethal sniper in US military history—in his latest film “American Sniper.”
To kick off its 87th anniversary celebration, Far Eastern University will mount a recital by the celebrated blind pianist tenor Carlos “Chuckie” Ibay on Jan. 20 at FEU Auditorium.
Room accommodations in luxury and boutique hotels lining the so-called “golden mile” of Roxas Boulevard that stretches 4.6 kilometers, from Manila to the border of Pasay City, are sold out in time for Pope Francis’ visit to the country later this week.
American R&B/hip hop singer-songwriter Chris Brown is “willing to refund his talent fee” for failing to show up at the New Year’s Eve countdown concert at the Philippine Arena last Dec. 31, Mike Pio Roda, the talent agent who negotiated the artist’s contract, told Inquirer Lifestyle.
Despite their initial impressions of each other (he found her “grumpy,” she thought he was “serious”), David Zuellig and Dr. Hazel Paragua ended their blind date dinner 10 years ago on a promising note. They spent the evening talking till the restaurant closed for the night.
Apart from the visit of Pope Francis this week, people are talking about the surprise hit movie “English Only, Please” starring Derek Ramsay and Jennylyn Mercado, and Vice Ganda’s one-on-one with President Aquino. When you hear the staff of the hair salon small-talk about it, then you know people are really interested in the subject.
As 2014 came to an end, balletomanes had a beautiful surprise when beauty queen-turned-culture advocate Margie Moran Floirendo and Isabelle Garachon, the wife of the French Ambassador to the Philippines Gilles Garachon, alternated as the stepmother in Ballet Philippines’ “Cinderella.”
The millions of people who will attend Pope Francis’ concluding Mass at Rizal Park on Jan. 18 will hear, for the first time, a Eucharistic celebration using the Philippines’ seven major languages apart from English.
The “Vatican official” who is helping Pope Francis practice and polish his English for his apostolic visit to Sri Lanka and the Philippines next week is American Greg Burke, a former Time magazine and Fox News journalist who has been working with the Vatican State Secretariat as communications adviser since 2012 during the papacy of Benedict XVI.
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