The CEO of Abs-cbn has lifted the lid on how the media conglom’s first variety show collaboration with former network rival GMA typifies a new era of business for the Filipino company.
Abs-cbs teamed with GMA to air the popular midday variety show It’s Showtime, which will air from April 6 on GMA’s main channel.
The series is a long-running franchise that first premiered in 2009 on Abs-cbn, 11 years before the company lost its broadcasting license due to a Philippines’ National Telecommunications Commission order in 2020.
Since then, the Filipino media giant has pivoted to focus on content production, partnering with other companies to distribute shows domestically. It’s Showtime is Abs-cbn’s second collaboration with GMA, after previously working together on drama series Unbreak My Heart last year. In exclusive comments made to Deadline, Abs-cbn CEO Carlo Katigbak explained the strategic pivot.
“Since the non-renewal of our franchise and...
Abs-cbs teamed with GMA to air the popular midday variety show It’s Showtime, which will air from April 6 on GMA’s main channel.
The series is a long-running franchise that first premiered in 2009 on Abs-cbn, 11 years before the company lost its broadcasting license due to a Philippines’ National Telecommunications Commission order in 2020.
Since then, the Filipino media giant has pivoted to focus on content production, partnering with other companies to distribute shows domestically. It’s Showtime is Abs-cbn’s second collaboration with GMA, after previously working together on drama series Unbreak My Heart last year. In exclusive comments made to Deadline, Abs-cbn CEO Carlo Katigbak explained the strategic pivot.
“Since the non-renewal of our franchise and...
- 4/3/2024
- by Sara Merican
- Deadline Film + TV
Abs-cbn Entertainment and regional streamer Viu are teaming on a Philippines remake of Cj Enm’s hit romcom series What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim.
Kim Chiu and Paulo Avelino will head the cast of the remake, taking on the lead roles of Secretary Kim and Mr. Vice-Chairman, originally played by Park Min-young and Park Seo-joon in the Cj Enm series.
Dreamscape Entertainment is producing the show, which starts production today. The story revolves around a handsome, narcissistic vice-chairman of a major corporation whose world turns upside down when his highly competent secretary of many years announces her resignation. He then does everything it takes to keep her by his side.
Based on a popular webtoon, Cj Enm’s What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim topped Korean ratings when it aired in 2018 and also gained widespread popularity globally.
The show marks the third adaptation of a top-rating international format between Viu and Abs-cbn,...
Kim Chiu and Paulo Avelino will head the cast of the remake, taking on the lead roles of Secretary Kim and Mr. Vice-Chairman, originally played by Park Min-young and Park Seo-joon in the Cj Enm series.
Dreamscape Entertainment is producing the show, which starts production today. The story revolves around a handsome, narcissistic vice-chairman of a major corporation whose world turns upside down when his highly competent secretary of many years announces her resignation. He then does everything it takes to keep her by his side.
Based on a popular webtoon, Cj Enm’s What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim topped Korean ratings when it aired in 2018 and also gained widespread popularity globally.
The show marks the third adaptation of a top-rating international format between Viu and Abs-cbn,...
- 11/21/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
CinemaIncidentally, ‘U Turn’ was the first Kannada film to be remade in all the south Indian languages and in Sinhalese.Digital NativeDigital NativeDirector Pawan Kumar recently confirmed that his hit Kannada movie U Turn will be remade in Filipino. He shared the news through his social media page, “Just got to know – Kim Chiu, Jm De Guzman and Tony Labrusca are teaming up for a Filipino adaptation of Indian box-office hit U Turn, a mystery thriller film that first came out in theatres in 2016.” U Turn will be the first ever Kannada movie to be remade in Filipino. According to the director, it is possible that the film will be remade in Chinese and Thai too as filmmakers from those countries have shown interest. We can expect an official word on it soon. It may be mentioned here that U Turn was remade in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu and in the Sinhalese language.
- 3/16/2020
- by Vidya
- The News Minute
Blade of the Immortal, Tumhari Sulu and more international cinema titles opening this weekend!Blade of the Immortal, Tumhari Sulu and more international cinema titles opening this weekend!Adriana Floridia11/16/2017 2:46:00 PMEvery week, select Cineplex theatres feature some of the most popular and exciting films from all around the world, from countries like China, India, Korea, The Philippines and more. If you want to try something different at the movies, or simply celebrate your own or a new culture on the big screen, we’re highlighting the International Cinema titles out this weekend that you’ll surely enjoy!
Blade of the Immortal (Japanese w/ English subtitles)
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents,...
Blade of the Immortal (Japanese w/ English subtitles)
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents,...
- 11/16/2017
- by Adriana Floridia
- Cineplex
The young lovers in Jose Javier Reyes' Till My Heartaches End have the easiest of romances. Unfettered by meddling family members, poverty, or other problems that stall the relationships of their counterparts in other movies, Powie (Gerald Anderson), a young man who ambitions to make his own name and wealth, and Agnes (Kim Chiu), a nursing graduate from the province who relocates to Manila to review for the board exams, get into a relationship without any issue.
After an encounter in a coffee shop where Powie was working and a fateful meeting in the heart of Manila that led to a lunch of cheap soft-boiled eggs covered in orange batter in the middle of a busy street, the two become inseparable. When Powie starts to earn more money as a real estate agent, the relationship starts to crack and reveal its weaknesses, starting with the impression that maybe Powie,...
After an encounter in a coffee shop where Powie was working and a fateful meeting in the heart of Manila that led to a lunch of cheap soft-boiled eggs covered in orange batter in the middle of a busy street, the two become inseparable. When Powie starts to earn more money as a real estate agent, the relationship starts to crack and reveal its weaknesses, starting with the impression that maybe Powie,...
- 11/3/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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