Author: Team Orange

Ruffa Gutierrez is now preparing for an upcoming movie and a new TV reality show, but despite never really leaving the public eye, she makes sure that she gets to spend enough of this summer break with her two daughters, Lorin and Venice. In the latest issue of Working Mom, Ruffa talks about what it’s like to be a single mom raising two children, and how her mom Anabelle’s tough love is something that she wants to eventually pass on to her daughters. “I don’t have a father figure to help me raise my children, so I have to be…

Right from the start, the filmmakers of TriStar Pictures’ new mystery drama “Heaven is for Real” knew if they were going to bring the best-seller of the same title to contemporary audiences they would need a crack cast to truly bring the Burpo family’s true story and their unusual predicament to life. Todd Burpo would be especially challenging to cast, as a devoted but down-to-earth family man sent reeling by a riveting mystery when his son begins to talk of his trip to heaven. Director Randall Wallace says that the first name that came to mind was Greg Kinnear. Kinnear…

On May 13, Epic Records, in conjunction with the Estate of Michael Jackson, will release XSCAPE, an album of new music by the internationally beloved music icon and King of Pop, Michael Jackson.  The project features eight new tracks, which the world will be hearing for the very first time on the new album.  For the ultimate fan experience, XSCAPE will also be available in a Deluxe Edition, which includes all of the sourced Michael Jackson recordings in their original form. The XSCAPE standard and Deluxe Edition’s are available for pre-order beginning April 1 on iTunes.com/MichaelJackson and elsewhere, and available…

Academy Award Winner Anne Hathaway reprises her role as the voice of Jewel in “Rio 2.”   Separated from her family after a massive fire where they nested, she finally reunites with her family in the second outing of Blue Sky’s worldwide hit (“Rio”) where she and Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) finally get to live with their own Blue Macaw species. Jewel, along with the reluctant Blu and their three chicks named Bia, Tiago and Carla fly to the Amazon when Linda and Tulio, now married, discovered a single blue feather swung past them after a dangerous fall from the Amazon’s rivers. …

The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) and The Filipino Channel (TFC) renew their ties today at formal ceremonies at the Eugenio Lopez Jr. Communications Center in Quezon City, Philippines to address the information and welfare needs of the estimated 10.5 million Filipinos all over the world. CFO Secretary Imelda Nicolas said: “This is a synergistic partnership which I described last year as a ‘love affair’ and I am happy to say that it continues to be a ‘love fest’ for both out companies as shown by today’s events.  Last year and this year, CFO and TFC have looked at several…

The love for celebrations is very evident in the culture and traditions of Filipinos. While every town, big or small, has its own fiestas, most often we look for grand reasons to celebrate so that we can get together with important people in our lives. But we don’t always need grandiose events to gather and celebrate. We can find reasons to be joyful even in everyday things. A completed task at work that made the boss very happy and excited you to come home and share the good story with your spouse, being early in an important presentation and nailing…

Spotify has also teamed up with Globe Telecom as its exclusive telecommunications partner in the Philippines to offer all 38 million Globe Postpaid, Globe Prepaid and Tattoo-on-the-go Prepaid subscribers free access to Spotify through the telco’s new data plan, GoSURF. GoSURF gives customers mobile internet access together with Spotify for as low as Php 10.00 a day. Even better, streaming music on Spotify won’t touch your default data allowance across all GoSurf plans! Rolling out on April 13, Globe Telecom Prepaid subscribers can register to GoSURF10, which gives access to both 10MB of dataplus Spotify for 24 hours. Postpaid subscribers…

The ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) takes a closer and more intimate look at the different issues that confront the country by highlighting the fascinating people and stories behind the bigger picture in its new 30-minute documentary program “Mukha.” “Mukha,” which premiered on Thursday (April 3), goes beyond the statistics by putting a face on pressing social concerns, extraordinary tales of struggles and survival, and feel-good stories that inspire. Each documentary, narrated by an ANC anchor, follows the journey of characters with a goal to make viewers understand where the subjects are coming from, feel what they are going through, and…

No one else can give that youthful and go-getter techie vibe more than KC Montero, VJ, TV host, DJ, and actor. And for KC, nothing else can match the energy he has – when it comes to doing the things he loves -better than Lenovo.michael ngan Being a techie, KC was recently chosen as the first-ever local brand influencer for Lenovo’s smartphone products —a smart choice considering the kind of smartphones that the brand touts its technology for. Not only is his appeal to the Millennial Pinoy generation a major pull—400,000 Twitter followers and counting, as well as his long-standing…

Columbia Pictures brings to the screen The Amazing Spider-Man 2™ after launching a new chapter in the hero’s story in 2012 with The Amazing Spider-Man™, a global blockbuster that went on to take in over $750 million at the worldwide box office. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Campbell Scott, Embeth Davidtz, Colm Feore, with Paul Giamatti and Sally Field, the film is directed by Marc Webb and Produced by Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach. Screenplay by Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci & Jeff Pinkner. Screen Story by Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci & Jeff Pinkner and James Vanderbilt.…

Green groups and civil society organizations gathered today at the Canadian Embassy to call for the “re-exportation” of their toxic wastes which were discovered by the Enforcement Department of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) headed by Deputy Commissioner Ariel Nepomuceno last January and initially intended as plastic scraps supposedly for recycling.  The groups delivered a petition letter to Canadian Ambassador Neil Reeder to ask for the immediate return of the 50 container vans of toxic wastes back to its Canadian port of origin. Composed of ANG NARS Party-List, Greenpeace, Ecowaste Coalition, Mother Earth Foundation, Green Convergence, Ban Toxics, Public Services…