Angelica, Eugene go for big laughs in “Here Comes the Bride”

May 7, 2010 - PRLog -- Riding high on the recent box-office success of the Sam Milby-Anne Curtis light romantic comedy, Babe, I Love You, ABS-CBN International’s Starry Starry Store goes full throttle with the laughs via the hilarious new film, Here Comes the Bride, a joint summer offering from Star Cinema, Octoarts and Quantum Films.  The film will screen in San Francisco, Milpitas, Vallejo, San Diego, Los Angeles-Buena Park, Los Angeles-Chino and New Jersey-Bergenfield.

Here Comes the Bride stars the versatile and sexy Angelica Panganiban and the eternally wacky Eugene Domingo.  Angelica has already scored a winner this year in the U.S. with the mature drama I Love You, Goodbye back in January. Eugene proved she can carry a movie by playing the title role in Kimmy Dora: Kambal Sa Kiyeme which was a major hit in the Philippines last year. Joining them in this new film is a very able supporting cast with Tuesday Vargas, Cherry Pie Picache, Jaime Fabregas, John Lapus, Kim Atienza, Tom Rodriguez and a host of unknown good-looking creatures in skimpy clothing.

The plot is delightfully original and incredible, mixing cultural superstitions and pseudoscience to generate humorous situations of the metaphysical kind.  Gentleman Harold (Tom) and the virginal Stefanie (Angelica) are set to have a romantic beach wedding.  They did not factor in that their wedding day coincides with a solar eclipse. As their guests - which include their spinster godmother Precy (Eugene), the ring-bearer’s harassed nanny Medelyn (Tuesday), the bored groom’s grandfather Bien (Jaime) and flamboyant make-up artist Toffee (John) – head for the wedding site, they pass a high magnetic field spot.  Showing shades of the Bermuda Triangle mystery on ground, a freak accident occurs where everyone loses consciousness. The result?  An absolutely chaotic soul exchange that threatens to mess up the lives of the entire bridal entourage forever! Will the wedding ever push through for Harold and Stefanie?

“It’s a pandemonium of a movie but it’s a lot of fun,” laughed Kerwin Du, ABS-CBN International’s head of theatricals. “That’s the kind of mood that we want to create this summer – we want to bring in a barrel of laughter, have families go to the theater, enjoy watching a Filipino film and have a real good time.”

Written and directed by award-winning producer-screenwriter-book author-director Chris Martinez (who penned Caregiver and Sukob), Here Comes the Bride will be shown in the following cities:

May 21-27
SAN FRANCISCO
UA Stonestown Twin
501 Buckingham Way
San Francisco, CA 94132

MILPITAS
Century Great Mall
1010 Great Mall Drive
Milpitas, CA 95035

VALLEJO
Century Vallejo
109 Plaza Drive
Vallejo, CA 94591

SAN DIEGO
UA Horton Plaza
475 Horton Plaza
San Diego, CA 92101

LOS ANGELES-BUENA PARK
Krikorian Premier Theatres
8290 La Palma Avenue
Buena Park, CA 90620

LOS ANGELES-CHINO
Cinemark Movies
5546 Philadelphia Street
Chino, CA 91710

May 21-June 3
NEW JERSEY-BERGENFIELD
Clearview Bergenfield Cinemas
58 South Washington Avenue
Bergenfield, NJ  07621

For more information, please visit www.abs-cbnglobalmovies.com. Catch the trailer also at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwOuNsclEpI



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About ABS-CBN International
ABS-CBN International was created over 15 years ago to be of service to all Filipinos. With the launch of The Filipino Channel (TFC), the company became the first and most successful Filipino broadcaster in the U.S. The company offers telecommunication, retail, theatricals, money remittance and cargo services, online audio and video streaming, IPTV content along with philanthropic support for Filipinos and the communities they now call home. Based in Redwood City, Calif., ABS-CBN International is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABS-CBN Broadcasting, the Philippines’ largest entertainment and broadcasting company. For more information, visit www.abs-cbnglobal.com.