Metro Manila Film Festival Articles

Carlo Caparas‘ Ang Panday, a special effects-laden fantasy-adventure starring actor-politician Bong Revilla, remains the biggest box-office hit at the 35th Metro Manila Film Festival up to Jan. 2, according to a Manila Bulletin report. Ang Panday has earned P80.8 million (US$1.75m) since Dec. 25. The runners-up are the vampire comedy Ang Darling Kong Aswang, starring Vic Sotto and Cristine Reyes as a sort of female [...]

Tony Y. Reyes‘ Ang Darling Kong Aswang, starring comedian Vic Sotto, is the 2009 Metro Manila Film Festival’s #2 hit. Apparently Filipinos, like movie audiences elsewhere, have been craving for stories featuring vampires. But unlike the worldwide megahits Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon, in which the vampire is a sexy male (Robert Pattinson), in Ang Darling Kong Aswang the undead is a sexy [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5v-7hoZ0BA[/youtube] Starring a Filipino politician, senator Ramon ‘Bong’ Revilla Jr, the adventure tale Ang Panday ("The Blacksmith") was the big winner at the 2009 edition of the Metro Manila Film Festival, it was announced Monday evening. According to reports on the festival’s awards, a film’s grosses represents about 40% of its merits, so it should be no surprise that Ang Panday was chosen the best [...]

Avatar, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and 2012 may be the movies currently at the top of most box-office charts the world over. But one place where James Cameron, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Roland Emmerich, and John Cusack don’t stand a chance is Manila. At least not in the next week or so. The capital of the Philippines is now hosting the 2009 Metro Manila [...]