Hindi itinanggi ni Kris Aquino na malaki ang budget nila sa kanilang Metro Manila Film Festi­val entry naSegunda Mano. “Kai­langan maging worth it na mag­bayad ng P180 ang Pilipinas to watch. [With the movie] you won’t ask for a refund because it’s big and it’s the biggest horror movie I’ve ever made,” pahayag ng tinaguriang queen of horror films. Sulit naman daw ang gas­tos dahil de-kalidad ang pelikula.

Scandals and controversies are the stuff show business is made of. Funny how show biz issues beat national news in scope and impact most of the time. Perhaps it’s because this chis­mis/intriga/chika thing has be­come the Filipinos’ national pas­time. It serves as sort of a comic relief to see our idols fall and fail like lesser mortals do.

Actress Valerie Concepcion’s controversial tweet about a party in Malacanang on the night after Sendong hit Cagayan de Oro City was cited in a New York Times ar­ticle published Dec. 27. The story dubbed “Philippine Floods Put Popular Leader to Test” discussed the tweet’s disastrous effect relating to President Benig­no “Noynoy” Aquino’s public im­age quoting an unnamed Manila newspaper’s headline: “President Parties as Thousands Suffer.”

BY the time this issue comes out, KC Con­cepcion would have already signed up a tal­ent contract with Boss Vic del Rosario and his Viva Group of Companies. Yes, just like her mom, Megastar Sharon Cuneta, KC is now a Viva contract star.

Will Sharon Cuneta transfer to TV5 as soon as her contract with ABS-CBN expires in January 2012. The tip goes that Cuneta’s supposed big 2012 birthday bash on the Kapamilya Net­work has allegedly been canceled and that her movie, “Call Center,” which would’ve co-starred Enrique Gil, Maja Salvador, Ger­ald Anderson and Julia Montes, got shelved, too. As for Cuneta’s “Sharon at Home” aired over the Lifestyle channel, it is said to have taped its last episode recently though it will still air until next month.

“I think one of the biggest factors in tak­ing this projectna naging question ko tala­ga was kung papayagan ako sa Showtime kasi pinayagan naman ako sa ASAP. Kasi it’s different if you’re absent in a daily show for a whole month. So si direk Bobet Vidanes,siguro da­hil he believes in all about living your dream eh.