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ABS-CBN Corporation announced the appointment of Cory Vidanes as its chief operating officer (COO) of broadcast, effective February 1, 2016. Vidanes will continue to lead and oversee the total channel programming, artist development, on-air operations, events management, and overall revenue and profit delivery of Channel 2. Together with the Content Development Council headed by chief content officer Charo Santos-Concio, Vidanes will manage the development of new concepts for Channel 2 and the ABS-CBN TVplus channels Yey, CineMo, and Knowledge Channel.

It has been a fruitful 20 years for Jericho Rosales in the entertainment industry and today, we celebrate his success and significant contribution to the world of showbiz.

Guilty pleasure smash hit The Millionaire Matchmaker is on its 8 th season. The show follows Patty Stanger, the owner of “Millionaire’s Club,’ an upscale dating service that operates out of Beverly Hills.

Enter the world of Gabriel Barredo’s acclaimed creation in Ballet Philippines’ season ender, “Opera”. This production brings a synergy between artists and art forms, with French choreographer Redha transforming the groundbreaking installation into a contemporary ballet premiering at the CCP Main Theater on February 13 & 14, with a Fundraising Gala on February 16 at 8:00PM.

Chatting with Jericho Rosales is like you’re talking with your best buddy, who happened to be a sought-after actor in Philippine Showbiz Industry. He’s both jolly and serious, and cool with a deep soul that’s why you would keep on asking about his views and opinions. Interestingly, he's going to celebrate his 20th career anniversary in local entertainment. So to spice up your “Echo knowhow” here are the 10 Interesting facts that possibly you didn’t know about him. 1. Echo likes auditioning and he actually vied for the role of Heneral Luna Now we know that Heneral Luna, starring John Arcilla, is the highest grossing Filipino historical film. But did you know that auditioned for the titular role of Antonio Luna? He revealed it during the blogcon and admitted that he loves auditioning. Back to Hen. Luna, Echo shared that he was asked to gain 30 pounds and go back for the second call. Echo believed John is really the perfect actor for Luna.

Finally after a year we gonna host the FIBA Olympic. In the recent twitter post of Manny V. Pangilinan also known as MVP, he announced that  Philippine will gonna host the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Here the official twitter post of MVP Aside from the Philippine, Italy & Serbia will host the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments on July 4-10 2016.

Things to Love in Lakbay2Love Romance, nature, finding oneself, family and reality rolled into one. Lakbay2Love is an advocacy film that is far from the usual on-top-of-our-heads kind of films that might sound preachy; this one is made personal. With romance as a jump-off point to tell a story of one’s struggles and emotional baggage, delivering a clear advocacy for environmental awareness and biking as a community than just a hobby, while falling in love with nature, Lakbay2Love surely hit the criteria for a feel-good movie that Filipinos go gaga for lately. What is interesting is that, this feel-good movie made the audience immerse in the world of nature and biking with the all-time favorite spice of romance. This is a feature film of Love – for nature, for the other, for oneself and for family.

Wish 107.5 pays homage to the best and finest performances in the Philippine music industry on its first ever Wish 107.5 Music Awards: The Coolest Musical Experience on January 26, 2016, 7:30 p.m. at the SMART Araneta Coliseum. The awards has 19 categories whose winners will be determined via online poll vis-à-vis a set of respected judges from different fields of expertise and profession.

British actor Alan Rickman, a veteran of film and stage known for roles in "Die Hard," "Love Actually" and the "Harry Potter" films, has died. Alan Rickman has died aged 69 after suffering from cancer.

Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter mugshot CNN News Feed -  Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter was arrested Wednesday night in Key West, Florida, after he allegedly punched a bouncer. Carter and a friend were denied service at Hog's Breath Saloon in Key West after appearing "highly intoxicated," police say.

The Peanuts Movie (known in some countries as Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie) is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox, based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.

The nominations for the 88th Academy Awards were presented Thursday, 8:30 AM ET. Directors Guillermo del Torro and Ang Lee announced the first batch of nominees, then eight minutes past, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs and actor John Krasinski announced the nominees for the remaining categories.

Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis (A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery) will be 8-hours long and will have its world premiere on February 18 at theBerlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) 2016. Described as “a marriage of history, literature and mythology,” the film’s drumbeaters say “Hele” is about the history of Filipinos that interconnects narrative threads on the Philippine Revolution of 1896-1897 against the Spanish colonizers.

Fresh off the success of their critically heralded hit 33 VARIATIONS and the launch of their “0.5 Series” with their hyperkinetic staging of THIS IS OUR YOUTH, Red Turnip presents the Asian premiere of Nick Payne’s romantic odyssey CONSTELLATIONS. The New Yorker calls it “a singular astonishment”. CONSTELLATIONS breaks the conventions of your usual boy-meets-girl story by presenting a “multiverse” where “several outcomes can co-exist momentarily”; different variations of a singular love story play out over the course of this playful and intelligent piece.  An explosive and unusual play about love and its infinite possibilities, CONSTELLATIONS begs the question – “Can one word alter the course of your life?” CONSTELLATIONS first premiered in London to rave reviews back in 2012, winning Best Play at the Evening Standard Theater Awards. It premiered on Broadway early this year with a star-studded, sold-out run featuring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson. It received Drama League Aw...

When the world is crumbling around you, love may just find you a new trail. Starring: Solenn Heussaff, Dennis Trillo, Kit Thompson

Virgin LabFest 9 photo The Virgin Labfest YEAR 12 is now open for script submissions. The Virgin Labfest is an annual festival of unpublished, unstaged, untried and untested works for the theater held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Mabining Mandirigma 2015 With the overwhelming success of its initial run last July 2015 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Tanghalang Pilipino, the resident theater company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, with the support of the National Commission for the Culture and Arts, brings back the hit musical play, Mabining Mandirigma to cap off its 29th theatre season. Written by Dr. Nicanor Tiongson, this musical play foregrounds the legal and diplomatic heroism of Apolinario Mabini.

Taking ultra-modern times into a whole new level is Robot Combat League, a one-of-a-kind game of wits and brute force. By combining tremendous human will and the super strength of machines, this is an ultimate showcase of first-class action. With 12 equally deserving teams, each composed of a “robo-jockey”- the fighter, and a “robo-tech” – the robotics engineer.

All roads lead to the SMART Araneta Coliseum for the much-awaited 1st Wish 107.5 Music Awards. One of the fastest rising radio stations in the metro, WISH 107.5 FM will launch its 1st music awards with a concert on January 26, 2016 at the SMART Araneta Coliseum.

Nilalang (Creature) , n. An animal or a person. Or in other cases an entity--a creature not classified as an animal nor a person such as fairies, ghouls, dwarves, elves, werewolves, and other fictional entities (or are they really fictional?) Nilalang (The Entity) is a suspense, thriller, horror, action film featured in this year's Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF). This film features the Zahagur, an entity that originated from Japan. It kills beautiful women to remain the most beautiful entity. Its like a beauty contest where Zahagur wants to keep its crown, only in a brutal way. It was initially set in Japan where Zahagur was introduced. After the prologue, the set was placed in Manila, showing Tony (Cesar Montano) and his team raiding Zahagur's location. Perhaps the entity followed Miyuki (Maria Ozawa), her target, that led it in the Philippines. While in pursuit of its target, it goes on a killing spree of beautiful women. One of these is the ex-girlfriend of Tony and...