West Gallery opens 4 exhibits WEST GALLERY will be opening four new exhibits on July 30. They will run until Aug. 29. The exhibits are...

Southeast Asians are favoring conveniently packaged coffee during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

FILM DEVELOPMENT Council Chairman and CEO, Mary Liza B. Diño, has been removed from the Executive Committee (Execom) of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) after the festival’s Chairman Danilo D. Lim accused her of trying to take the festival away from the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and bringing it under the management of the FDCP (Film Development Council of the Philippines).

HOLLYWOOD’S summer blockbuster season is a bust. And the rest of the year isn’t looking much better.

ISLAND RECORDS, the record label behind Amy Winehouse, Ariana Grande, Bob Marley, and even Queen, has opened its first Asian outpost in the Philippines, in a bid to strengthen its Asian influence and help local talents “achieve local success whilst reaching new audiences worldwide.”

DAME OLIVIA Mary de Havilland, aged 104, died on July 25 in Paris. Entertainment Weekly cites that the last surviving cast member of Hollywood epic Gone with the Wind “died peacefully in her sleep.”

LOS ANGELES — Taylor Swift on Friday won some of the best reviews of her career with an album produced entirely during the coronavirus crisis that breaks new ground for the Grammy-winning artist.

REGIS PHILBIN, a familiar face to TV viewers as an energetic and funny talk and game show host who logged more hours in front of the camera than anyone else in the history of US television, has died aged 88, People magazine said on Saturday, citing a statement by his family.

FLEETWOOD MAC guitarist and co-founder of the influential rock group Peter Green has died at age 73, Green’s lawyers said on Saturday.

NETFLIX, INC. has hit the sweet spot with a controversial reality series on a jet-setting Indian matchmaker helping her picky clients find life partners, in a boost to the streaming giant’s efforts to produce local content for subscribers in new markets.

AN ONLINE protest concert featuring the likes of Martin Nievera, Ebe Dancel, and Noel Cabangon is to stream on July 27, 3 p.m., at the Radyo Katipunan Facebook page, in response and in protest of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.

NEW YORK — Jia Wertz may be a documentary filmmaker in New York City, but these days she feels like a full-time resident of Zoom world.