A love team is born 'to love you'

MANILA, Philippines - Star Cinema, the country’s only Home of Wholesome Entertainment, has given birth to today’s most popular and most bankable love teams. The Honor Roll is growing longer and longer: Piolo Pascual and Judy Ann Santos; Judy Ann Santos and Ryan Agoncillo (now her husband and leading man in Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo and Sakal, Sakali, Saklolo); Jericho Rosales and Kristine Hermosa; Aga Muhlach with, among others, Kristine Hermosa, Claudine Barretto, Angelica Panganiban and Angel Locsin; John Lloyd Cruz with, among others, Bea Alonzo, Toni Gonzaga and Sarah Geronimo; Sarah Geronimo and, among others, Rayver Cruz and Gerald Anderson; Piolo Pascual and Angelica Panganiban in its latest offering, Every Breath You Take (still showing nationwide) and many others.

In its forthcoming offering, Born To Love You, Star Cinema is introducing yet another love team — Coco Martin and Angelina Quinto — in a love story calculated to pinch the heart of movie fans (kukurot sa puso ng mga manonood).

“It’s part of the company’s evolution,” said Star Cinema supervising producer Malou Santos. “We see to it that we meet the public’s expectations by introducing something new while giving them the same of what they have seen and crave for more of it.”

Directed by Jerome Chavez Pobocan from a story and screenplay by Rondel Lindayag, Born To Love You is a movie made for Coco and Angeline, with characters created for them to a T.

Coco plays a photographer who considers every click of his camera as a way to make his future clear. Angeline plays a tourist guide whose encounter with every tourist is her way of getting closer to finding the father she has never seen and is said to be somewhere in Korea. What happens when these two souls who have the same situation in life but pursuing opposite directions meet and fall in love?

Because he’s the more experienced in the industry, having successfully graduated from indie to mainstream and winning awards along the way, Coco inevitably acts not only as leading man but also as mentor to Angeline.

“I’m thankful that Coco is my leading man in my movie break,” said Angeline whose ticket to stardom was her finishing a champion of the ABS-CBN talent search Star Power.

Touted to be following in the footsteps of Sarah Geronimo (herself a talent-search winner recruited for the movies), Angeline said that she’s happy to have chosen the right role model.