In a 20-page decision on Monday (27 January) Presiding Judge Liezel Aquiatan of the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 205 ordered the removal of the teaser for Darryl Yap’s film, The Rapists of Pepsi Paloma, which mention actor-TV host-producer Vic Sotto’s as the rapist of the late 1980s sexy star Pepsi Paloma.

“Respondent Darryl Ray Spyke B. Yap and any person or entity acting on his behalf, including the production team of VinCentiments, are ordered to delete, take down, and remove the 26-second teaser video from online platforms, social media, or any other medium for having misused the collected data/information by presenting a conversation between two deceased individuals, which cannot be verified as having actually occurred,” the order stated.

Following the Muntinlupa court’s order, Yap’s lawyer, Raymond Fortun, said in a text message to print media that Yap will not appeal the decision as it still allowed the director-screenwriter to release the movie in theaters.

Yap earlier announced that the movie is scheduled to open in cinemas nationwide on 5 February.

However, as of this writing, Yap has not announced the film’s approval and rating by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) headed by Ciara Sotto-Antonio, a niece of Vic Sotto as her father is former senator Tito Sotto. We do not think that the Muntinlupa court’s statement that the film is “allowed to be released” means it does not have to be approved and classified by the MTRCB.

The film’s cast members seem hardly enthusiastic about the movie. None of them has posted grandly about their participation in The Rapists of Pepsi Paloma.

Gina Alajar, who plays the late actress Charito Solis in the film, has two Instagram (IG) accounts: one private, the other public. We opened the latter and found out that the actress has never posted anything about it.

Yap, in a previous post in his VinCentiments Facebook (FB) account, is all-praise for the late actress whose character in the film seems to have been made a major one by Yap, so we wanted to find out what Alajar says about it. The director-scriptwriter (and allegedly the film’s sole producer) recently wrote on his FB that everyone needs a Charito Solis in their lives “kailangan ng isang Charito Solis sa ating buhay)."