PINOYISTICS: Dawn Zulueta

Monday, February 1, 2016

The Revenge of the Beautiful Faces in 2015: More, More, More This 2016

All the Top 10 Pinoy movies last year surpassed the PHP 100 million mark, not to mention the top-grossing local film of all time (A Second Chance, PHP566 million) was registered the same year. It could easily be the finest box-office performance of the local showbiz industry after the long doldrums. One thing glaring was the beauty of the faces that lorded over the box-office.

This is a new audience. The economy has been growing for the past few years and surely there was more disposable income available. But PHP200 is PHP200, it is still big for a big part of the Philippine population. You really won't expect the lower classes to stay away much from their free teleserye or the PHP30 pirate DVD (unless they have their bonus & 13th month pay come MMFF). But there were more people who had more money to spare and I bet they won't waste their money chasing on films with artists whose faces they won't bother watching for 2 hours. They have self-respect too, y'know.

It was not a coincidence that Pinoy movies boomed when beautiful faces grabbed the baton. It's a prerequisite for the renaissance.

Last year I watched the most Pinoy movies in my life. Last year was also the first time I watched a local movie in a cinemahouse. I was lucky, I liked all my choices. I have to admit the only reason I wanted to watch Ex with Benefits was to see how Coleen Garcia would register on the big screen and she did looked great. It turned out I liked the movie as well (read my sort-of-review in this blog). The gloss and the MTV-like editing & scoring of director Gino Santos were perfect counterpoint to two hours of drama and I found it suited the mood of the movie. I was looking forward to his future works, so while skimming over the entertainment news today, I kinda got a kick from reading he has an upcoming project. With Coleen again at that. A bonus is Dawn Zulueta. I also liked her in The Love Affair, another hit last year, also featuring another beauty, Bea Alonzo.

NB. Good news, even the so-called lower classes who subsist on free teleseryes & PHP30 pirate DVD's welcome the revenge of the beautiful faces, the beautiful Lizquen, etc. flew high in 2015 with Forevermore, etc. Beauty is really back everywhere in Pinoy showbiz!

Sunday, July 26, 2015

MOVIE TRAILER: The Love Affair

I've been researching on the love teams of the Philippine cinema & the pair of Richard Gomez and Dawn Zulueta is definitely the sexiest. Well, they are getting mature quite nicely and they return to the silver screen in a love story featuring the equally alluring Bea Alonzo. Beautiful stars, very Pinoy. The way things should be.