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Kapamilya actress Bea Alonzo and K-Pop group Girls’ Generation Lim Yoona are among the recipients of the Asian Stars Up Next Awards at the International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) to be held on December 5 to 10, 2019. Highlighting the hottest upcoming Asian acting talent, IFFAM, which has teamed with Variety, will present the awards during the IFFAM Closing Ceremony on December 10 at the Macao Cultural Center. Joining Bea and Yoona are Indonesian actress Asmara Abigail, Indian Bollywood star Bhumi Pednekar, Thailand’s girl group BNK48 members Jennis Opraset and Praewa Suthampon, Vietnam’s rising star Liên Binh Phát…

Bea Alonzo and Angelica Panganiban topbill Unbreakable, the new Star Cinema film that tells about the friendship between two women as they go through good times and bad times. In real life, the Kapamilya stars are close friends. However, much like the journey of their characters in the movie, which opens in cinemas tomorrow, there was a time they drifted apart because of a falling-out. In an Instagram post on Monday, Angelica, 33, shared a video of the exact moment she became friends again with Bea, 32. “Babahagi ko lang yung isa sa pinaka masayang araw ng buhay ko. Yung…

Bea Alonzo takes a break from romance, saying there are more important things in life than being in a relationship. “Not now. ‘Wag muna ngayon,” the 32-year-old Kapamilya star said during a presscon on Wednesday for her new Star Cinema film Unbreakable with Angelica Panganiban and Richard Gutierrez. “Magpapahinga muna ako, parang di ko pa kaya.” To make it clear though, Bea has fully recovered from her very public breakup with actor Gerald Anderson.  That period in her life is done and over with, with Bea not the least bothered nor evasive with questions that touched on the personal issue that grabbed showbiz…

Hollywood star Vanessa Hudgens recently posted a birthday greeting for her Filipina mom Gina Guangco, calling her “my No. 1 fan and I’m hers.” “Happy birthday to @mamagh. My favorite fiery, passionate, joyous woman. She’s my No. 1 fan and I’m hers. Love you for everything you do and are mommy,” the 30-year-old singer-actress wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday. In an interview for The Philippine Star published Thursday, the 30-year-old singer-actress talked more about this Filipino side of hers while promoting her latest Christmas-themed film, titled The Knight Before Christmas, now streaming on Netflix. On the subject of…

She got it from her mama! Iana Bernardez proved she had inherited the acting genes of her mom Angel Aquino with her first-ever acting award. The relative newcomer won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in J.E. Tiglao’s coming-of-age tale Metamorphosis at the 2019 Cinema One Originals awards night on Friday at Dolphy Theater. She bested Yayo Aguila, Jasmine Curtis-Smith, Via Antonio, Dwein Baltazar and Frances Makil-Ignacio. During her speech, she thanked director J.E. for trusting her with the role of Onang and lead star Gold Azeron, who also went on to win Best Actor, for “being so easy to…

Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said that she has invited Marian Rivera to visit other tourist spots in the country, after the Kapuso star and her family recently went on a vacation to Bohol. “Pumunta sila sa Bohol. Mukhang nag-enjoy sila. So ini-invite ko si Marian na dapat umikot din sila in the other tourist spots. I mentioned to them the Cebu Safari, na mag-e-enjoy si Zia. Sabi niya, aayusin namin. Dapat kasi ang tourism, pam-pamilya talaga. Hindi na kailagan mag-abroad para mag-enjoy ang pamilya, dapat around the Philippines lang,” she said. Secretary Puyat also said that she wants to tap…

Films with LGBT themes emerged as big winners at the 15th Cinema One Originals awards event on Friday night at the Dolphy Theater. Giancarlo Abrahan’s Sila-Sila, a “ghosting” story involving a gay couple, was honored Best Picture on top of other awards, namely, Best Supporting Actor for Topper Fabregas, Best Screenplay for Daniel Saniana and the Audience Choice Award. “The film is really about connections. Paano ka nakakabuo ng mga relasyon, di lang sa minamahal mo kung di sa mga kaibigan mo. At kwento to higit sa lahat ng aking matalik na kaibigan, tatlong taon namin sinulat to, ang saya…

BY MARY PAULINE DEL ROSARIO Save the date… or should we say, start saving your allowance! The first-ever Filipino designed Vans is coming this Friday! For the first time, an artwork of a Filipino artist will be featured on a pair of Vans classic slip-ons after the design won in the 2018 Vans Asia Custom Culture Competition. Fascinating trivia: The artist behind the winning design is only 23 years old! University of the East College of Fine Arts grad Nikko Pelaez bested over 10,000 submissions across Asia and took home US$2,000 (around P100,000) for his winning design called “Along With…

Former Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach went makeup-free and shared a barefaced selfie as she joined the #AsSheIs challenge on Instagram. Contrary to what most people think, the 30-year-old beauty queen said she also struggles with being comfortable in her own skin. Nevertheless, she took a picture of herself without the usual styling and glam team hoping to inspire “others who need it”. “Every day, we all struggle to be comfortable with our imperfections. But today, I’m taking this picture to say hello ME,” she wrote in the caption. “Just me. No makeup. No glam team. No styling. And, I’m happy…

Hollywood star Willem Dafoe witnessed first-hand the EDSA People Power Revolution in 1986, while shooting the award-winning film Platoon in the Philippines. In a recent video interview with Vanity Fair, which broke down his career milestones and his most iconic film roles to date, the Oscar-winning actor, now 64, revealed that the war film directed by Oliver Stone was almost scrapped due to the political upheaval at that time. “Platoon was a movie that took a long time to get made. Oliver Stone saw lots of actors because he first just wanted to cast a group of actors and then…