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Ten Little Mistresses
''Ten Little Mistresses'' (released locally as ''Sampung Mga Kerida'') is a 2023 Philippine black comedy mystery film. The film was produced by The IdeaFirst Company in association with Quantum Productions and is the first Filipino-produced film to be launched on Amazon Prime Video. The film stars Eugene Domingo and John Arcilla, with the 10 "mistresses" portrayed by Pokwang, Carmi Martin, Agot Isidro, Kris Bernal, Arci Muñoz, Christian Bables, Sharlene San Pedro, Iana Bernardez, Kate Alejandrino, and Adrianna So. The title of the film is a reference to the American nursery rhyme Ten Little Indians and Filipino's ''"Sampung mga Daliri."'' The film debuted at number one in the Amazon Top Prime Videos in the Philippines. Synopsis The film follows the story of a widowed billionaire, Valentin Esposo, and his ten mistresses who want to become his new legal wife. After Esposo gathers his mistresses together and apologizes for mistreating them, he dies at the gathering. All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Lana
Rodolfo R. Lana Jr. (born October 10, 1972), known professionally as Jun Robles Lana, is a Filipino filmmaker. The winner of 11 Palanca Awards for Literature, he became the youngest member of the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2006. In 2015, he directed the actual one-shot film, ''Shadow Behind The Moon'', which won the Best Director, NETPAC and FIPRESCI awards at the 13th Pacific Meridian Film Festival. At the 20th International Film Festival of Kerala, he won the Best Director award for the same film. Writing career He was born Rodolfo Lana Jr. in Makati, and attended local schools. Interested in writing from an early age, he began to write and submit plays in Filipino language to competitions. He has adopted Jun Lana as his pen name. At age 19, he received an "Honorable Mention" citation in the 1991 Palanca Awards in the category ''Dulang May Isang Yugto'' (One-Act Play in Filipino), for his play ''Eksodo''. The following year, Lana won Third Prize in the same category for ''Churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten Little Indians
"Ten Little Indians" is a traditional American children's counting out rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 12976. The term "Indians" in this sense refers to Indigenous North American peoples. In 1868, songwriter Septimus Winner adapted it as a song, then called "Ten Little Injuns", for a minstrel show. Lyrics The modern lyrics for the children's rhyme are: \relative c' \addlyrics Minstrel song Songwriter Septimus Winner created an elaborated version of the children's song, called "Ten Little Injuns", in 1868 for a minstrel show. Derivative songs and books It is generally thought that this song was adapted, possibly by Frank J. Green in 1869, as "Ten Little Niggers", though it is possible that the influence was the other way around, with "Ten Little Niggers" being a close reflection of the text that became "Ten Little Indians". Either way, "Ten Little Niggers" became a standard of the blackface minstrel shows. It was sung by Christy's Minstrels and became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABS-CBN News
ABS-CBN Integrated News and Current Affairs, known on-air as ABS-CBN News (formerly known as ''ABS-CBN News and Public Affairs'' and later ''ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs''), is the news and current affairs Production company, production and distribution company, distribution division of ABS-CBN Corporation. It is responsible for the daily news and information gathering and Broadcast syndication, syndication of its news programs. The division is the Philippines largest news gathering and broadcast organisation and broadcasts on cable television, as well as online news through News.ABS-CBN.com, news.abs-cbn.com, which is the top news website in the country, as of November 2021. They are also the largest Filipino news organization internationally. It also maintains different foreign news bureaus and offices through ABS-CBN International, such as in North America, primarily in the United States and Canada; Europe, primarily in the United Kingdom, Hungary, and the Netherlands; Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knives Out
''Knives Out'' is a 2019 American mystery film written, directed, and co-produced by Rian Johnson. It follows a master detective, Benoit Blanc, investigating the death of the patriarch of a wealthy, dysfunctional family. The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Daniel Craig as Blanc, alongside Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, and Christopher Plummer. Johnson conceived ''Knives Out'' in 2005 and decided to make the film after completing '' Looper'' in 2012. However, due to his involvement in '' Star Wars: The Last Jedi'', he did not write the screenplay until 2017. The project was officially announced in 2018, and sold to distributors during the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Filming ran from October to December 2018. ''Knives Out'' premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019 and was theatrically released in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery ''The Mousetrap'', which has been performed in the West End theatre, West End since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. ''Guinness World Records'' lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. Christie was born into a wealthy upper middle class family in Torquay, Devon, and was largely home-schooled. She was initially an unsuccessful w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Philippine Star
''The Philippine Star'' (self-styled ''The Philippine STAR'') is an English-language newspaper in the Philippines and the flagship brand of the Philstar Media Group. First published on July 28, 1986, by veteran journalists Betty Go-Belmonte, Max Soliven and Art Borjal, it is one of several Philippine newspapers founded after the 1986 People Power Revolution. The newspaper is owned and published by Philstar Daily Inc., which also publishes the monthly magazine ''People Asia'' and the Sunday magazines ''Starweek'' and ''Let's Eat''. As part of the Philstar Media Group, its sister publications include business newspaper '' BusinessWorld''; Cebu-based, English-language broadsheet ''The Freeman''; Filipino-language tabloids ''Pilipino Star Ngayon'' and ''Pang-Masa''; Cebuano-language tabloid ''Banat'', online news portals Interaksyon (formerly with News5), LatestChika.com, Philstar Life and Wheels.ph, and TV/digital production unit Philstar TV. In March 2014, the newspaper wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shangri-La Hotels And Resorts
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts () is a multinational hospitality company. Founded in 1971 by tycoon Robert Kuok in Malaysia, the company now has over 100 luxury hotels and resorts with over 40,000 rooms in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and Australia. Shangri-La has 4 brands across different market segments: Shangri-La, Traders Hotels, Kerry Hotels and Hotel Jen. The company's head office is in (嘉里中心), Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. Address in Simplified Chinese "香港鰂鱼涌英皇道683号嘉里中心28楼" The current chairman is Kuok Hui-kwong. History The first hotel of the luxury Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Group was the Shangri-La Hotel Singapore, opened on 23 April 1971. The name derives from the mythical place Shangri-La, described in the 1933 novel ''Lost Horizon'' by British author James Hilton. The Shangri-La Hotel Singapore was managed by Westin Hotels & Resorts, until Shangri-La International Hotel Management Limited was founded i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of Romance (love), romance and love in many regions of the world. There are a number of martyrdom stories associated with various Valentines connected to February 14, including an account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to Christians Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, persecuted under the Roman Empire in the third century. According to an early tradition, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his jailer. Numerous later additions to the legend have better related it to the theme of love: an 18th-century embellishment to the legend claims he wrote the jailer's daughter a letter signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subic, Zambales
Subic, officially the Municipality of Subic ( ilo, Ili ti Subic; tl, Bayan ng Subic), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Zambales, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 111,912 people. It is located along the northern coast of Subic Bay. Portions of the town also form part of the Subic Freeport Zone. Subic is from Iba, from Olongapo, and from Manila. Etymology The native Zambales inhabitants called the area ''Hubek'', which means "head of a plough"; Spanish missionary priests mispronounced the name as ''Subiq''. By the time of the American occupation, "Subiq" was mispronounced as ''Subig''. Eventually the name reverted to "Subiq", but the letter 'q' was replaced with 'c'. History In 1572, Juan de Salcedo, the Mexico-born Spanish conquistador and grandson of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, founded Zambales during his exploration of northern Luzon. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republika sang Filipinas * ibg, Republika nat Filipinas * ilo, Republika ti Filipinas * ivv, Republika nu Filipinas * pam, Republika ning Filipinas * krj, Republika kang Pilipinas * mdh, Republika nu Pilipinas * mrw, Republika a Pilipinas * pag, Republika na Filipinas * xsb, Republika nin Pilipinas * sgd, Republika nan Pilipinas * tgl, Republika ng Pilipinas * tsg, Republika sin Pilipinas * war, Republika han Pilipinas * yka, Republika si Pilipinas In the recognized optional languages of the Philippines: * es, República de las Filipinas * ar, جمهورية الفلبين, Jumhūriyyat al-Filibbīn is an archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alitagtag, Batangas
Alitagtag, officially the Municipality of Alitagtag ( tgl, Bayan ng Alitagtag), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 26,819 people. Geography According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the municipality has a land area of constituting of the total area of Batangas. It is bordered on the north by Taal Lake, east by Cuenca and San Jose, west by Santa Teresita and San Luis, and south by Bauan and San Pascual. Barangays Alitagtag is politically subdivided into 19 barangays. In 1957, the following ''barrio''s were created: Pingas, composed of ''Sitios'' Pingas and Corral; Tadlak, composed of sitios Tadlak and Malukan; and Sambi composed of the sitio of Sambi. Climate Demographics In the 2020 census, Alitagtag had a population of 26,819. The population density was . Economy Tourism The town is notable for being the original location where a replic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherry Pie Picache
Cherry Pie Sison Picache (born May 27, 1970) is a Filipino actress who has starred television and in mainstream and independent films and has worked as a print and TV commercial model for Palmolive, Camay, and Eskinol. Cherry Pie is notable for her antagonist roles in '' Hiram na Mukha'' as Rose Ponce, the evil and avaricious cousin of Alicia, '' Pangarap na Bituin'' as the scheming and domineering Alberta Tuazon and '' Iisa Pa Lamang'' as Isadora, the wicked and greedy wife of Victor Castellejos who kills many characters in that series. So far, Picache's Isadora character become one of the most iconic villains in the Philippine history due to her schemes, heartless and murderous attitude. After that, she played many kind-hearted mother roles in several television series. Biography She was born in 1970 to Ceferino M. Picache and Zenaida Vidor (née Sison) Picache. She attended St. Mary's College, Mo. Ignacia, Quezon City, St. Paul University Quezon City, and took up dentis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
