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Gagamboy
''Gagamboy'' is a 2004 Filipino superhero comedy film directed by Erik Matti and starring Vhong Navarro. It is similar to the ''Spider-Man'' films, with a mutated spider that causes Gagamboy to gain his superpowers. Plot Junie (Navarro), is an ice cream vendor, who sells ice cream to children and adults alike. After his shift, he is in a predicament with a rival vendor, Dodoy (Jay Manalo). Their manager, angered by their actions, demotes Junie to a warehouse guard. Dodoy celebrates, only to be demoted too, working a different shift to Junie. Junie goes home in a bad mood, until he sees the love of his life, Liana (Aubrey Miles). After dinner, Junie is ready to sleep, to start a new job the next day. While working, Junie accidentally swallows a spider which has been exposed to a chemical spill, thus giving him web slinging abilities, and becoming "Gagamboy"(Spiderboy). After his shift, Dodoy comes in to work and leaves a sandwich unprotected. A cockroach exposed to the same spill a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubrey Miles
Aubrey Santos Sandel-Miller (born March 16, 1982), known professionally as Aubrey Miles, is a Filipino television host, singer, model, and actress. Early life Aubrey Sandel was born on March 16, 1980 in Caloocan to Victorino Sandel and Maria Perla Santos. She was the third child of the couple's four children. She was named after the song "Aubrey" by Bread. Her parents separated when she was fifteen years old, and she stayed with her mother. At nineteen years old, Miles starred in GMA sitcoms ''Beh Bote Nga'' and German Moreno's ''Best Friends''. Between show business assignments, Miles joined beauty pageants which provided her with a steady income. She finished her secondary education at La Consolacion College – Caloocan. She then majored in voice and minored in piano at the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music. She dropped out during her second year when film producer Dondon Monteverde signed her up to a three-year, eight-film contract with Regal Films. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vhong Navarro
Ferdinand Hipolito Navarro (born January 4, 1977), known professionally as Vhong Navarro, is a Filipino comedian, actor, dancer, recording artist and television host. He is a regular host on ABS-CBN's noontime variety show '' It's Showtime''. He is also part of the dance group Streetboys alongside fellow ''It's Showtime'' host Jhong Hilario. Assault incident On January 22, 2014, Navarro was attacked and severely beaten by a group of men inside a condominium unit in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, according to his manager, Chito S. Roño. Roño said Navarro was invited by a female friend named Deniece Cornejo to visit her condominium unit, where he was tied up and blindfolded by several men, threatened and then beaten up. The perpetrator was identified as Cedric Lee, who was also accompanied by several other men during the time of the incident. Following this, it was stated that Navarro would temporarily not be appearing on '' It's Showtime'' and other television projects while he contin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Manalo
Jay Manalo (born Jay Lan Manalo on 30 January 1976 in Saigon, South Vietnam) is a Filipino-Vietnamese singer, model, rapper, and actor. He was born in South Vietnam but raised in Tondo, Manila. He was born to a Filipino father and Vietnamese mother. Early life Manalo was born in Saigon, South Vietnam but raised in Tondo, Manila. He was born to a Filipino father and Vietnamese mother. His father is Estaquio Manalo Jr. Career After he won as 1st runner-up of SM Man of the Year he became a model/endorser of Blowing Bubbles. Movies His film debut was through the action movie ''Brat Pack'' in 1994. He became a lead in his second film, ''Paracale Gang'', which was released in 1996 and followed by the movie ''Urban Rangers''. That same year, he did a switch from action to sexy roles when he starred in the movie ''Gayuma'' opposite Amanda Page. Possessing boyish looks and an oozing sex appeal, he became a staple of sexy movies in the Philippines, with the film ''Totoy Mola'' pushing hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Metro Manila Film Festival
The 29th Metro Manila Film Festival was held in the Philippine International Convention Center, Pasay, Philippines, from December 25, 2003 to January 8, 2004. Maricel Soriano and Eric Quizon were chosen the Best Actress and Best Actor respectively in the 2003 Metro Manila Film Festival for playing the eldest child roles in two different films. Soriano plays the oldest of six children in Viva Films' ''Filipinas'', while Quizon plays the eldest son who, in keeping with Chinese tradition, hires professional mourners to weep at his father's funeral, in Unitel Pictures' ''Crying Ladies''. Hilda Koronel, cast as a 1970s bit player whose career is on the wane in ''Crying Ladies ''Crying Ladies'' is a 2003 Filipino comedy-drama film directed by Mark Meily based on his Palanca-winning screenplay ''Bayad Luha''. The film stars Sharon Cuneta as Stella, Hilda Koronel as Aling Doray, and Angel Aquino as Choleng, who are hired ...'', was named the Best Supporting Actress, while Victor Neri w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Matti
Erik Matti (born December 21, 1970) is a Filipino filmmaker. He is known for directing '' On the Job'' (2013), ''Honor Thy Father'' (2015), ''Seklusyon'' (2016), ''BuyBust'' (2018), and '' On the Job: The Missing 8'' (2021). Matti co-founded the production company Reality Entertainment with Dondon Monteverde, son of film producer Lily Monteverde. Matti and Monteverde also co-founded the streaming service Upstream. Early life and education Matti hails from Bacolod. He is the sixth (and youngest) children of Enrique, an atheist and custom's agent, and Julieta, a government employee raised in a family "considered to be gangsters". Of his deceased father, Matti reminisced that he was "an intellectual and never really saw work as something to devote himself into. He was a dreamer and a debater." Matti graduated from elementary and high school at Colegio San Agustin-Bacolod. He studied college at the University of St. La Salle initially as a biology major but eventually shifted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bearwin Meily
Bearwin Meily (born April 4, 1976) is a Filipino comedian actor, TV host and a recent vlogger. Early career He started his career as an extra ''Palibhasa Lalake'' in ABS-CBN and eventually became regular. Current career But later on he moved to ABS-CBN's rival network GMA 7. When his showbiz career eventually slowed down, Bearwin turned his attention to magic and is now a professional magician. In 2011, Bearwin moved to TV5. In 2014, Bearwin returned to ABS-CBN 2 for his current sitcom, ''Home Sweetie Home''. On March 23, 2015, Bearwin was part of the "Lucky Stars" of ''Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal'' and won P1,000,000, making Bearwin as first millionaire of the season five. In 2019, Bearwin returned to GMA 7 with his two programs, a drama anthology, "Tadhana", and a comedy anthology, "Dear Uge". In 2020, Bearwin also guested "Mars Pa More" as a cooking guy on the set and aired also on Kapuso Network GMA 7. Politics He ran for councilor of Taytay, Rizal in 2019, but lost, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mon Confiado
Ramon Veroy Confiado (born March 19, 1968), professionally known as Mon Confiado, is a Filipino character actor, theater actor and businessman who has appeared in both mainstream and independent films. He is the son of late veteran actor Ángel Confiado from a second family. Confiado graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering at the Mapúa Institute of Technology. He practices method acting Method acting, informally known as The Method, is a range of training and rehearsal techniques, as formulated by a number of different theatre practitioners, that seeks to encourage sincere and expressive performances through identifying with, u ... and had also starred in a handful of international films.Mon_Confiado_continues_to_take_the_right_steps._BusinessMirror./ref>_Having_started_his_acting_career_in_the_early_1990s,_Confiado_has_been_Mon_Confiado#Awards_and_nominations.html" ;"title="BusinessMirror..html" ;"title="BusinessMirror">Mon Confiado continues to take the right steps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rene Facunla
Renee Hampshire (born March 10, 1981) better known by her stage name Ate Glow is a Filipino comedian and actress who is known for her impersonation of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Early life Glow was born Rene Boy Facunla on March 10, 1981. She was the third youngest among four children of the Facunla family. Presenting as gay (''bakla'') earlier in her life, Glow says that there was never any problem for her parents, including her police officer father, regarding her gender identity. She began to learn about her gender identity when she was three or four years old realizing that she isn't a straight male. She was said by her father to be feminine but Glow has stated that she wasn't the "typical gay" during her childhood who likes to play Barbie dolls and prefers tumbang preso and luksong baka which she describes as games for boys.Macapendeg (2014) Glow was an honor student and joined extra-curricular activities during her elementary and high school years. She descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filipino Language
Filipino (; , ) is an Austronesian language. It is the national language ( / ) of the Philippines, and one of the two official languages of the country, with English. It is a standardized variety of Tagalog based on the native dialect, spoken and written, in Metro Manila, the National Capital Region, and in other urban centers of the archipelago. The 1987 Constitution mandates that Filipino be further enriched and developed by the other languages of the Philippines. Filipino is only used as a tertiary language in the Philippine public sphere. Filipino, like other Austronesian languages, commonly uses verb-subject-object order, but can also use subject-verb-object order as well. Filipino follows the trigger system of morphosyntactic alignment that is also common among Austronesian languages. It has head-initial directionality. It is an agglutinative language but can also display inflection. It is not a tonal language and can be considered a pitch-accent language and a sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese People
The Chinese people or simply Chinese, are people or ethnic groups identified with China, usually through ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, or other affiliation. Chinese people are known as Zhongguoren () or as Huaren () by speakers of standard Chinese, including those living in Greater China as well as overseas Chinese. Although both terms both refer to Chinese people, their usage depends on the person and context. The former term is commonly used to refer to the citizens of the People's Republic of China - especially mainland China. The term Huaren is used to refer to ethnic Chinese, and is more often used for those who reside overseas or are non-citizens of China. The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in China, comprising approximately 92% of its Mainland population.CIA Factbook "Han Chinese 91.6%" out of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Science Fiction Films
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
