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Friday, January 3, 2025

Repost: Park Sung Hoon’s Agency Clarifies Actor's Posting of Parody Poster of ‘Squid Game’

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New information has just come to light in regards to the recent scandal involving actor Park Sung Hoon mistakenly posting an explicit parody poster to his social media. The 'Squid Game' actor briefly posted an explicit AV poster depicting a graphic parody of 'Squid Game,' but took the post down within a minute after uploading it.

Park Sung Hoon apologized soon after, with his agency, BH Entertainment, providing the explanation that the explicit poster had been sent to his DMs, resulting in him accidentally uploading it without realizing what it was. His representatives stated, "Park Sung Hoon received an overwhelming number of direct messages (DMs) on his social media. While checking the DMs, he accidentally uploaded the image.”

However, only a day later, Park Sung Hoon's agency has come forward with more accurate information regarding the incident. BH Entertainment issued the following statement:

"Actor Park Sung Hoon said yesterday, 'It was uploaded due to a mistake while checking the DMs,' but we would like to explain in more detail.

Park Sung Hoon received it (the Japanese AV cover) as a direct message, but he felt it was problematic, so he downloaded the photo in question with the intention of sending it to the company manager. He should have saved it, sent it to the manager, and then deleted it right away, but it was uploaded by mistake."

When asked why Park Sung Hoon would feel the need to report such a DM to his manager, BH Entertainment's representative answered: "I think he decided to send it because he thought it would be a problem that such strange things were floating around about his work."

In the wake of this recent incident, controversy has erupted surrounding Park Sung Hoon's future work. The actor is scheduled to star in the upcoming drama 'The Tyrant's Chef' alongside Girls' Generation's Yoona, but many netizens are now calling for Park Sung Hoon to step down from the role.

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Thursday, January 2, 2025

MMFF 2024 Awards Controversy, Who's Responsible?

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For the past five decades, moviegoers look forward to the last weeks of December. This is the time that cinemas are required to show only Philippine movies, thus, effectively blocking off foreign movies for a month. The limited number of movies shown in cinemas assures a good share in box-office receipts of the participating films.

Given their love for movies, Filipinos look forward to the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) annually. In the past 50 years, the MMFF is often marred by controversies. For example, the first issue is that a non-showbiz group runs the MMFF. Second, decisions on awards always raise questions. Third, a discrepancy exists between multi-awarded films and box-office hits.

MMFF 2024 has not escaped issues. On the one hand, luminaries in lead roles were not even nominated, whereas newbies were in the list. Subsequently, the winners were predictable. On the other hand, certain films hardly had nominations or none at all. No nomination, of course, means no chance for any MMFF award. Netizens who were watching the live broadcast consistently posted disagreements, even to the extent of accusing a production firm of allegedly bribing to get awards.

Worse, rumors in the grapevine are pinpointing to the cause of the messy handling of the awards. Allegedly, a personality in the entertainment industry strongly influenced decisions on who gets which award. Despite this controversy, the MMFF has undergone many intrigues in the past and none of which has stopped the festival.

‘What happens outside you, and what happens inside you - happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds.’ ― Manoj Arora

Comedy legends Tito, Vic, and Joey, together with their creative genius Jenny Ferre, scored another massive win in their high-profile legal battle against GMA Network of bilyonaryo Felipe Gozon, and TAPE of the Jalosjos family. https://t.co/F9aaYxi348
— Bilyonaryo (@bilyonaryo_ph) December 29, 2024