Daily TribuneOn opening day, 25 December, ABS-CBN reporter MJ Felipe posted photos on Twitter with the caption: ‘As of 3:15 here at SM MoA cinemas, two screenings of ‘Partners in Crime’ are already sold out. Long queue of moviegoers is back compared to last year’
'Nanahimik ang Gabi,' ' My Teacher,' 'Family Matters,' 'Labyu with an Accent.'
'Deleter,' 'My Father, Myself,' 'Partners in Crime,''Mamasapano.'
There's no official report yet on the early top grossers among the eight entries in the 2022 Metro Manila Film Festival.
On opening day, 25 December, ABS-CBN reporter MJ Felipe posted photos on Twitter with the caption: "As of 3:15 here at SM MoA cinemas, two screenings of Partners in Crime are already sold out.
Long queue of moviegoers is back compared to last year."
On another Twitter post, a video on 26 December, Felipe said: These moviegoers are queued to watch Labyu with an Accent and Family Matters at cinemas 1 and 2 of SM Mall of Asia."
A third post, also on 26 December: "Compared to our coverage last year, the long lines of moviegoers are also back here at Glorietta 4; patiently waiting for their turn to buy tickets for the MMFF 2022 movies."
Some tabloid columnists loosely reported (no stats, just hearsay) that the Top 4 box office grossers on opening day were Vice Ganda-Ivana Alawi's Partners in Crime, Coco Martin-Jodie Sta. Maria's Labyu with an Accent, Liza Lorena-Noel Trinidad's Family Matters, and Nadine Lustre's Deleter.
The Jake Cuenca-Sean de Guzman starrer My Father, Myself is not mentioned at all, notwithstanding its prominent media coverage and controversial photos of Cuenca and De Guzman kissing.
If Cuenca's starring role isn't attracting the crowd despite the movie being directed by the award-winning Joel Lamangan, does it mean he would make good on his threat to disrobe fully in an erotic play in April at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium at RCBC Plaza in Makati?
The play, Dick Talk, to be directed by Phil Noble, stars Gold Aceron and Mickoy Morales, and produced by two sons of the late filmmaker Edgardo "Boy" Vinarao.
Speaking of stage plays, the Philippine Educational Theater Association musical Walang Aray, which topbills ABS-CBN talents KD Estrada and Alexa Ilacad, will run from February till May.
Tickets are now available.
