"Born to Love You" Movie Poster, Trailer and Promotional Photos
Star Cinema and CineMedia released the official movie poster, trailer and promotional photos for the Coco Martin-Angeline Quinto romantic comedy movie “Born to Love You.”
Showing on May 30, 2012, “Born to Love You” also stars Albert Martinez, Kiray Celis and Ms. Eula Valdez.
Born to Love You - Trailer:
'The Born Expeditions: Tale of Two Whales' Finale on GMA-7's Born To Be Wild
For almost two weeks, Doc Nielsen Donato and his team have been documenting whales and dolphins in Bohol's seas for "The Born Expeditions: The Tale of Two Whales."
They filmed the behavior of spinner dolphins, melon-headed whales, and bottlenose dolphins. Until Doc's team spotted the biggest whale yet - a Bryde's whale. Along with other marine mammals and the biggest fish in the world, the whale shark, Bryde's whales were once hunted in Pamilacan. After what seemed like years of "absence" from Bohol's seas, a Bryde's whale sighting was finally reported by researchers in 2010. And as Born to be Wild's footage shows, the Bryde's whale is indeed back in Bohol.
But the question remains - where is the blue whale that the team documented a year ago? The blue whale is the largest creature to have ever existed on earth, and in the Philippines, it has only been formally documented a few times. Last year, Born to be Wild showed Philippine viewers what was then the most extensive footage of the blue whale in our own waters. This year, Doc Nielsen and the team wonder if the blue whale will surface again, for a more detailed observation.
Suddenly, they see a fluke or "tail" which appears to be the same size as their boat, if not bigger. A fluke this big can only mean one thing. Don't miss the awe-inspiring finale of The Born Expeditions' "Tale of Two Whales" this Wednesday night on GMA-7's Born to be Wild after Saksi.
Donald Duck Dunn Dead
Legendary bassist and Booker T. and the MGs member Donald “Duck” Dunn died this morning in Tokyo, Japan. He was 70.
“Today I lost my best friend, the world has lost the best guy and bass player to ever live. Duck Dunn died in his sleep Sunday morning May 13 in Tokyo Japan after finishing two shows at the Blue Note Night Club.” Steve Cropper, Dunn’s friend and fellow MG guitarist announced on his website.
Dunn was born in Memphis in November 1941 and was gifted the nickname “Duck” by his father when the pair were watching a Donald Duck cartoon on TV. The musician started playing bass at the age of 16.
Dunn and Cropper’s band The Mar-Keys scored a hit with “Last Night” in 1961. The pair subsequently became studio musicians at the label Stax, releasing records as members of Booker T. and the MGs and performing on an amazing array of seminal soul-pop hits. Tracks to benefit from Dunn’s firm yet fluid playing include Otis Redding’s “Dock of the Bay,” Wilson Pickett’s “In the Midnight Hour,” and Sam and Dave’s “Hold On, I’m Comin’.”
By the early ’70s, Dunn had established himself as a much in-demand session musician and would go on to back Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, and many others. He was also a key member of John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd’s Blues Brothers Band and appeared in John Landis’ 1980 movie The Blues Brothers.
Dunn played at both 1967′s Monterey Pop Festival (with Redding) and 1985′s Live Aid (with Clapton). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the rest of Booker T. and the MGs, in 1992.
Vice Ganda and Angeline Quinto Mentor PBB Teen Housemates for “Build a Big Dream Concert”
Comedian Vice Ganda and singer Angeline Quinto will train the teen housemates of “Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition 4” to prepare them for their weekly task and fund-raising event dubbed the “Build a Big Dream Concert” this Friday (May 18) at the PBB eviction hall.
The “It’s Showtime” host and Queen of Teleserye Theme Songs will give tips and inspiration to the housemates based on their experience performing for a live audience. Vice will pick out timid performers who have hidden talents and potential, while Angeline will coach those who will render song performances.
The charity concert will be for the benefit of a newly built elementary school in Masbate that’s in need of more classrooms and will open in June.
Meanwhile, Clodet, Karen, Kit, and Mariz are nominated to exit the house in the eviction night on Saturday (May 19). Who will leave the house and follow Claire, the edition’s latest evictee, in the outside world?
Watch “PBB Teen Edition 4” with Toni Gonzaga after “Dahil sa Pag-ibig” in Primetime Bida and “PBB Teen Edition 4 Uber 2012” hosted by Bianca, Robi, and John after “Kung Ako’y Iiwan Mo” in Kapamilya Gold and after “Showbiz Inside Report” on Saturdays, and “PBB Teen Edition 4 Updates” with Robi during “Kung Ako’y Iiwan Mo” and “Princess and I” on ABS-CBN. For updates on the program, follow @OfficialPBB4 on Twitter and like www.facebook.com/OfficialBigBrother.
Dale Hunter Quits His Post as Washington Capitals Coach
The Washington Capitals have announced that Dale Hunter leaves his post as head coach due to some private family reasons.
"It was a tough decision, but it was the right thing for me and my family," Hunter said.
Kim Dotcom Wife Mona Dotcom to NZ Police: "Give me back my $155,000 Mercedes!"
Mona Dotcom, the wife of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, has filed legal papers demanding the return of a G55 Mercedes SUV seized by New Zealand police after a raid on their mansion in January. The vehicle, appraised at $155,000, has yet to be driven legally by Mrs. Dotcom, as the papers reveal she has not yet earned a driver's license.
Throughout their five-year romance, Kim showered his bride with trinkets of his affections - Rolex and diamond-encrusted Chanel watches, a pink iPhone, laptops, etc. - but it's that Mercedes, plus a pair of high-priced sculptures, that are the main focus of Mrs. Dotcom's recovery efforts.
"Many of my personal belongings were taken by the police, including artwork, jewelry and watches, a laptop computer and mobile phone and my car," she said in papers filed with a New Zealand court, the New Zealand Herald reports. The court documents state the couple met in November 2007 and married in July 2009, shortly after Mona had turned 21. Her wedding gift? A pair of fiberglass sculptures of faces created by Christian Colin, valued at over $78,000. She wants those back, too.
Kim Dotcom is free on bail while awaiting a hearing on his extradition to the U.S. to face piracy charges but has been granted a $15,500-per-month allowance for living expenses. Mrs. Dotcom, who maintains she had no involvement in Megaupload, lists in her filing the costs of raising five children under the roof of the couple's 25,000-square-foot Dotcom Mansion near Auckland.
They include:
* $5 million in modifications to the house.
* $780,000 a year for rent.
* $467,000 a year to keep the house going.
* Six staff at about $22,500 a month.
* $5,500 a month on groceries.
* Gas for heating and cooking, $2,500 a month.
* $2,700 a month for electricity.
* Landline phone calls budgeted at $3,900.
* $1,440 a week for lawn mowing.
* $3,300 a week for three full-time gardeners.
In her appeal to the court, Mona Dotcom said, "I have always believed my husband's businesses are entirely lawful, and I still believe this to be true," the New Zealand Herald reports. "I am simply asking the courts to return my own property and make reasonable provision for our family's ongoing maintenance and care."
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Horst Faas Dies, His Accomplishments Remembered
Horst Faas, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer who later was editor of The Associated Press (AP) staff in Saigon that produced some of the most haunting photographs of the Vietnam War, died Thursday in Munich. He was 79.
His death was confirmed by The A.P.
Mr. Faas covered wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Algeria in the late 1950s before being sent to Vietnam in 1962. Though seriously wounded in a jungle rocket attack in 1967, he remained in what he called “this little bloodstained country” until 1973, shortly before the American military withdrawal.
Mr. Faas earned Pulitzers in 1965 for combat photographs from Vietnam and in 1972 for his coverage of the conflict in Bangladesh.
As celebrated as his own work was, the photographs that came to be most closely associated with Mr. Faas were two that he selected, as an editor, for transmission around the world. Because of their graphic nature and the unwritten rules of conventional journalism, neither might have ever been more than a dot on a contact sheet in a drawer. Instead, they became emblematic images of the tragedy of the American involvement in Vietnam.
The first, taken by the celebrated photographer Eddie Adams during a surprise insurgent attack on Saigon in 1968, showed a South Vietnamese official, his pistol at arm’s length, executing a captured Vietcong soldier at point-blank range. The second, taken in 1972 by the South Vietnamese photographer Huynh Cong Ut, known professionally as Nick, showed the aftermath of one of the thousands of bombings in the countryside by American planes: a group of terror-stricken children fleeing the scene, a girl in the middle of the group screaming and naked, her clothes incinerated by burning napalm.
“The girl was obviously nude, and one of the rules was we don’t — at The A.P. — we don’t present nude pictures, especially of girls in puberty age,” Mr. Faas said in an oral history recorded in 1997 for The A.P.’s corporate archive. Nevertheless, he set his mind on “getting the thing published and out.” The photograph won a Pulitzer.
In that interview and others, Mr. Faas avoided grand statements about the power of photography to change public opinion. He was at times adamantly fatalistic on the issue.
“I don’t think we influenced the war at any time,” he said in 1997. “I don’t think we helped to win it or helped to lose it. We didn’t work on the outcome of the war.” Making photographs about the suffering and horror of war, he said, is simply better than not making them.
Horst Faas was born in Berlin on April 28, 1933, and like other young men of his generation, he told interviewers, was forced to join the Hitler Youth organization in his neighborhood. He said his overarching childhood memories were of food shortages, evacuations and “the fascinating spectacle of antiaircraft action in the sky” as Allied planes dropped bombs.
His interest in photography was accidental, he said. There were few opportunities for education in postwar West Germany. He landed a job in the library of a local photo agency. The agency eventually “needed cheap help to take pictures,” so he started taking them, he told The A.P.’s archive. He joined The A.P. in 1956.
Mr. Faas was known at The A.P. for his role as a teacher and mentor. During the Vietnam War, he trained a cadre of young South Vietnamese men to take photographs, supplying them with cameras, film and daily marching orders. Some of them became successful professionals, including Nick Ut, who now works in Los Angeles.
Mr. Faas’s survivors include his wife, Ursula, and his daughter, Clare Faas.
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‘The X Factor Philippines’ Begins Search for Next Singing Superstar
“The X Factor Philippines” brings together four of the country’s biggest names in the recording industry across generations, Concert King Martin Nievera, Mr. Pure Energy Gary Valenciano, international singing sensation Charice, and Asia’s Queen of Songs Pilita Corrales, as celebrity judge-mentors who will start touring the country this week and begin the search for the next Pinoy singing superstar.
“It’s such an honor to be part of the show. I’ve been there. I joined singing contests and I know how they feel. So, as a judge-mentor, I’m just going to be kind but honest to them,” said Charice who is the youngest ‘The X Factor’ judge-mentor in the history of the international franchise.
Martin also expressed his excitement to work with his fellow “The X Factor Philippines” judge-mentors.
“Gary and I have a great working relationship. Tita Pilita is my mentor. Not too many people know it though, but she was the one who discovered me and said that I have a future in the industry. Charice is the youngest with most experience so I’m sure she has a lot to bring so I am just excited to work with all of them,” he explained.
Gary, on the other hand, is just as excited as Martin to start the show especially on mentoring the contestants. He also shared his stand on the possible competition that may happen among the judge-mentors.
“I am that kind of guy that if I challenge anyone - it’ll be myself. It will not be for the other judges because the other judges have their own idea on who’s going to be the next big thing. Whether I get to mentor the Boys, the Girls, the Over 30s, or the Groups, I hope that in the end it’ll be one from my group who will win. But knowing the judges we have, it will not be a challenge to put down anybody but rather bringing out the best in whomever the contestant is,” said Gary.
Meanwhile, Pilita, who is not new in judging talent searches, admitted she is quite challenged because the show is entirely different from the past shows or judging she did.
“There is mentoring involved here. We are not just looking for the voice. We are looking for a personality you can sell worldwide. If we are looking for someone who sings well, there are thousands in this country, on every corner of the street but they need to have that ‘x factor.’ We can’t even define it but once we see it on someone, we would know,” said Pilita.
The celebrity judge-mentors will soon tour the country together with host KC Concepcion. KC joined “The X Factor Philippines” team during the first round of auditions and shared how she was blown away by the contestants.
“They are really good. You will be surprised to see all of them. It is true that we have the best performers. For example, there is one carenderia vendor, wearing a simple duster, whom you wont believe can sing like Whitney Houston,” KC shared.
KC and the judge-mentors will first go to Cebu on Wednesday (May 16) and on Thursday (May 17) for the Visayas leg of auditions to be held in Hoops Dome, Cebu City.
They will then go to Davao Del Sur Coliseum in Davao on May 23 and 24 to see if Mindanao hopefuls have the ‘x factor.’
Manilenos and auditionees from the rest of Luzon will be adjudged last as the team goes to its final stop at the PAGCOR Theater this May 30, 31, and June 1.
Live auditions are open to the public. Keep tuning in on ABS-CBN to know how to claim free tickets.
If you want to watch auditions in Davao, get your tickets at ABS-CBN Davao on May 19, 1 PM on on May 21 at the audition venue at the same time.
For tickets to auditions in PAGCOR Theater, just line up at the ABS-CBN audience entrance on Saturday (May 26) at 1 PM.
“The X Factor” is a world-renowned musical franchise by Simon Cowell that started in the UK. ABS-CBN bagged the exclusive rights to localize the program with KC Concepcion as host. The show will also give away P4 million in prizes - the biggest prize for a talent search in the history of Philippine TV.
Watch out for biggest musical event of the year, “The X Factor Philippines,” with host KC Concepcion, airing soon on ABS-CBN.
Big time Korean Dramas Premiere on TV5
Three of the biggest dramas in Korea are set to captivate televiewers in different stories about love, relationships and betrayal.
White Lies is a riveting story of a young mother who was abandoned by her lover for a richer woman during her pregnancy. Alone to raise a child, she’s troubled by a decision that can change her life forever.
Love You A Thousand Times tackles the sensitive issue of surrogacy. When young couple Harold and Sandra fails to conceive a child, Sandra feels helpless and hires a surrogate mother. This affects not only their lives, but the lives of their loved ones as well.
In Pink Lipstick, Andrea carefully plots her revenge after being betrayed by her husband, Aldwin, and her best friend, Marivic for having an affair.
Catch these bigtime Korean dramas on weekdays beginning with White Lies at 2:45pm, followed by Love You A Thousand Times at 3:15pm and Pink Lipstick at 3:45pm on TV5.
9/11 Takes Centerstage in CSI: NY Season 8
Brace yourself for an emotionally powerful premiere episode this May when CSI: NY Season 8 returns to AXN every Wednesday 10PM starting May 16. The premiere will touch on a global catastrophe close to the hearts of viewers and especially so for Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) – the 9/11 attacks which took place in New York in 2001.
For the first time in eight years, fans will get to see Mac’s wife, Claire, (Jaime Ray Newman/ General Hospital, Eastwick) appear in the series through flashbacks in the Season 8 premiere, which honours the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Mac lost Claire on that fateful day as the planes crashed into the Twin Towers where she worked and her body was never found again. With Mac considering retirement in last season’s finale, the tragedy has prompted him to leave the crime lab for the DNA lab, where he pitches in to identify the remains of 9/11 victims. He also sets up a memorial that honours the first responders that were killed - the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance.
“We’re taking all of our characters back to that day,” executive producer Pam Veasy explained. “You will get to see them together. You see why Claire loved Mac, and why Mac loved her.” Indeed, the premiere episode brings us back to a very different Mac Taylor, from a hardened detective who has seen the world; to a man who had much more joy and hope, a man who was in love. Viewers get a glimpse into where the sentimental Mac came from, the one who could not bear to get rid of a beach ball his late wife had blown up, simply because ‘her breath is still in there’.
There is an interesting crossover between reel and real in this tribute episode, as Gary Sinise (a recipient of the Presidential Citizen’s Medal who has been involved in several 9/11 charities) had a personal involvement in setting up the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance. His band, Lieutenant Dan Band, raised money to complete the memorial back in 2006. Sinise, like millions of people all over the world, had his life changed by the tragedy in a profound way.
In the aftermath of the attacks, Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Don Flack (Eddie Cahill) meet for the first time amidst the rubble, while Jo Danville (Sela Ward) shows her perspective from the FBI office in Washington D.C.
Beyond the premiere, Jo will have to face demons from her past in Washington. A former crime lab agent Frank (Michael Weston, House) reappears in her life again, following their fallout over the rape case of a US senator’s daughter. This was Jo’s last case before she moved to New York, and Frank’s mistake in processing the evidence resulted in the serial rapist going scot-free.
Danny and Lindsay (Anna Belknap) also face new trials in their relationship as Danny’s promotion to Sergeant puts him back on the streets, as well as some extra distance between them. And who knows, Mac might be ready to love once again, for it is New York, the land of new seasons and new beginnings…
“Evil Dead” Remake Lensing Underway in New Zealand
Principal photography has begun on “Evil Dead,” in Auckland, New Zealand and will wrap in early July 2012.
Ghost House Pictures is producing the much anticipated remake of Sam Raimi's 1981 cult-hit horror film “The Evil Dead”; the film that effectively launched the careers of Sam Raimi (“Spider-Man” franchise); RobTapert (“30 Days of Night”) and Bruce Campbell who played the Ash character and was Co-Producer of the original, now brings them back to produce an “Evil Dead” for today's audience that's high on the horror, gore, plot twists and more from a screenplay written by Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues. Executive Producers are J.R. Young, Nathan Kahane, Joseph Drake and Peter Schlessel.
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) and FilmDistrict have partnered with Ghost House Pictures on a worldwide deal - excluding U.K. and France - for Sony Pictures to distribute the remake of “Evil Dead.”
In the film, five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin where they discover a Book Of The Dead and unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival.
A core cast of young, fresh talent includes Jane Levy (“Suburgatory”) as Mia; Shiloh Fernandez (“Deadgirl,” “Red Riding Hood”) as David; Lou Taylor Pucci (“Carriers”) as Eric; Jessica Lucas (“Cloverfield”) as Olivia and Elizabeth Blackmore (“Legend of the Seeker”) as Natalie.
“This cast of burgeoning talent share the same spirit we had when creating the original,” says Tapert. “The desire to deliver an unexpected and outrageously scary movie experience for the audience.”
“Evil Dead” marks director Fede Alvarez' feature debut. Originally from Uruguay, Alvarez studied filmmaking and communications, later opening his own production and post production company. In 2005 he won a scholarship to complete a masters in screenwriting in Amsterdam. In November 2009, he posted his four-minute short “Panic Attack!,” which became an instant viral internet phenomenon prompting intense interest from Hollywood and Ghost House Pictures in particular.
“We found a brilliant artist in Fede Alvarez. As a director, he understands what makes a story work and how to put the pieces together,” says Raimi. “I'm really excited to see this story, that I care deeply about, retold by such a fine storyteller.”
Opening across the Philippines in 2013, “Evil Dead” will be distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International. Visit www.sonypictures.com.ph to see the latest trailers, get free downloads and play free movie games.
Mitchell Guist Dies After Falling Off His Boat
Mitchell Guist, an alligator hunter featured on the reality show "Swamp People" died after suffering from an apparent seizure after falling off his boat at Belle River in St. Martin Parish at around 9 a.m. on Monday, May 14.
People Magazine reports:
"Mitchell passed on the swamp, doing what he loved. We appreciate your respect for the Guist family's privacy and hope you join us in sending our thoughts and prayers to his brother, Glenn, and the rest of the Guist family," The History Channel said in a statement.
Britney Spears and Demi Lovato Sign as the Next "X Factor" Judges
It’s official!
Disney stars Britney Spears and Demi Lovato have secured their seats as the next judges of "The X-Factor."
On May 14, during the FOX's annual Up Front event in New York City, Britney and Demi were both officially introduced as the next well-accomplished celebrities to join the judging panel of the hit singing reality show.
Cancelled Shows 2012 and New Shows to Premiere on US TV
Some of my personal favorites like "The Desperate Housewives," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "CSI," "One Tree Hill," "The Secret Circle" - cancelled, while some like
Here is our report on which TV favorites are returning for yet another season and which shows have been cancelled by the networks.
Did yours make the cut?
Cancelled:
ABC
Charlie’s Angels
Desperate Housewives
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
GCB
Man Up
Missing
Pan Am
The River
Work It
CBS
A Gifted Man
CSI: Miami
How To Be A Gentleman
Unforgettable
FOX
Alcatraz
Allen Gregory
Breaking In
The Finder
House
I Hate My Teenage Daughter
Terra Nova
NBC
Are You There, Chelsea?
Awake
Bent
Best Friends Forever
Chuck
Free Agents
Harry’s Law
The Playboy Club
The Prime Suspect
The Firm
THE CW
H8R
One Tree Hill
Ringer
The Secret Circle
New Series:
The CW has picked up 5 new series for the Fall:
The Carrie Diaries (Sex and the City prequel)
Beauty and the Beast
Arrow
Cult
First Cut
ABC has also picked up eight new shows for their own lineup. Probably half of these will be cancelled.
Nashville (a musical soap)
Zero Hour
Red Window
Last Resort (Max Adler of Glee is in this!!)
666 Park Avenue
The Neighbors
Family Tools
How To Live With Your Parents
Renewed:
ABC
Apartment 23
The Bachelor
The Bachelorette
Body of Proof
Castle
Cougar Town (Note: Cougar Town has been picked up by TBS)
Dancing With The Stars
Grey’s Anatomy
Happy Endings
Last Man Standing
The Middle
Modern Family
Once Upon A Time (Woohoo! We love this show)
Private Practice
Revenge
Scandal
Shark Tank
Suburgatory
CBS
2 Broke Girls
The Amazing Race
The Big Bang Theory
Blue Bloods (I keep expecting this to get cancelled. I don’t know why.)
Criminal Minds
CSI
The Good Wife
Hawaii Five-0 (We love this show! Amazing cast!)
How I Met Your Mother
The Mentalist
Mike & Molly
NCIS
NCIS:LA
Person of Interest (This is our new favorite show of the season! Great cast, great story, fantastic acting. I love it!)
Survivor
Two and a Half Men
Undercover Boss
While looking at this list, it’s become apparent to me that CBS is on point this season with a great selection of successful shows and genres.
FOX
American Dad
Bones
The Cleveland Show
Family Guy
Fringe (Final season)
Glee (Be sure to check out and stay updated with our Glee coverage)
Kitchen Nightmares
New Girl
Raising Hope
The Simpsons
Touch
The X Factor
NBC
30 Rock (Renewed for a shortened final season)
Community (Renewed for a shortened season)
Fashion Star
Grimm
Law and Order: SVU
Parenthood
Parks and Recreation
Smash
Up All Night (Renewed for a shortened season)
Whitney
The CW
90210
Gossip Girl (Renewed for a shortened final season)
Hart of Dixie
Nikita
Supernatural
The Vampire Diaries
Pretty Little Liars, True Blood, Psych, Switched at Birth, and The Lying Game have also been renewed while favorites like Make It Or Break It will not be returning.
