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Regine Velasquez has sold more than 8.5 million certified albums regionally making her the Philippines' best-selling artist of all time. [7] Nina holds the record for best-selling live album with Nina Live!, which received a Diamond certification.
LVN Pictures was formed by the De Leon ["L"], Villongco ["V"], and Navoa ["N"] families before the onset of World War II in 1938. [1] At that time, the American-occupied Philippines was a ready market for American films, which further influenced various filmmakers like Jose Nepomuceno (the Father of Philippine Movies) to set up various film production companies to produce Tagalog movies.
Ravaged is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game featuring vehicular combat. Developed by American studio 2 Dawn Games, the game was partly funded through Kickstarter , raising $38,767 on the platform in May 2012.
Even in the Philippines, the 1945 battle by American and Filipino forces to liberate Manila is largely forgotten. Researchers and historians are trying to change that. This city was ravaged in WWII.
The film premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) on June 29, 2018, had a wide Philippine release on August 1 and a limited North American release on August 10. Critical reception to the film was generally favorable, attaining praise for its action scenes, theme, technical aspects and Curtis' against-type performance, but was often ...
The combined death toll of civilians for the Battle of Manila was about 100,000, most of which was attributed to massacres by Japanese forces. [10] [11] [2] Some historians, citing a higher civilian casualty rate for the entire battle, suggest that 100,000 to 500,000 died as a result of the Manila massacre on its own, exclusive of other causes.
El Presidente, along with seven other Metro Manila Film Festival entries, was released on December 25, 2012, in 54 theaters, [9] although it was premiered on December 18, 2012, at the SMX Convention Center at the SM Mall of Asia. [6] It went on to gross PhP4.2 million in Metro Manila, the sixth most among MMFF films.
A Manila Times editorial emphasized the victories of the Liga Popular Nacional against the regular Nacionalista Party; the latter was seen as being dominated by aristocrats, who are mostly mestizos. The election results were announced at the junction of the Puente de España and Escolta Street in Binondo , on a screen set up in front of the La ...