Bride For Rent Makes History as the Highest Grossing January Release in the Philippines

Star Cinema's Bride For Rent made history as the highest-grossing January release in the Philippines. The movie, which stars Kim Chiu and Xian Lim is the film outfit's opening salvo for 2014.

According to Star Cinema's AdProm Director Roxy Liquigan, Bride For Rent has already grossed P325 million at the box office as of February 7, that is 24 days after it first opened in cinemas nationwide.

Bride For Rent is the 6th Pinoy movie to surpass the P300 million  mark following The Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin, Sisterakas, It Takes A Man and A Woman, My Little Bossings, and Girl Boy Bakla Tomboy.

Directed by Mae Czarina Cruz and written by Carmi Raymundo, the movie also stars Pilita Corrales, Tirso Cruz III, Dennis Padilla, Matt Evans, Martin del Rosario, and Empoy Marquez.

Quick links: 

Bride For Rent Full Trailer—Official Movie Poster—International Screenings

Meanwhile, with the successes of their first two movies, Star Cinema is trusting another big screen project to Kim and Xian this year. They may be separated on television for now (as Kim is pairing with Coco for the first time in the teleserye Ikaw Lamang) but fans will get to see them in movies.

The still untitled movie will start filming this year (WATCH THE BANDILA REPORT HERE).

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Bride For Rent Breaches P300-Million Mark at the Box Office

Star Cinema's Bride For Rent has already grossed more than P300 million at the box office. The news was announced by Star Cinema's Mico del Rosario on Twitter. The movie, which stars Kim Chiu and Xian Lim is now the most successful opening film of Star Cinema.

Bride For Rent is just the 6th Pinoy movie to surpass the P300 million  mark. The other films are Girl Boy Bakla Tomboy, My Little Bossings, It Takes A Man and A Woman, Sisterakas and The Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin. Among these, 3 films were topbilled by phenomenal box office star Vice Ganda.

Hello P300M !!! #brideforrent !!

— Mico del Rosario (@micodelrosario) February 1, 2014

The stars and director of Bride For Rent took to social networks such as Twitter and Instagram to express their gratitude towards all the fans for the overwhelming support they had for the movie.

Directed by Mae Czarina Cruz and written by Carmi Raymundo, the movie also stars Pilita Corrales, Tirso Cruz III, Dennis Padilla, Matt Evans, Martin del Rosario, and Empoy Marquez.

Quick links: 

Bride For Rent Full Trailer—Official Movie Poster
Teaser Trailers—International Screenings

Meanwhile, with the successes of their first two movies, Star Cinema is trusting another big screen project to Kim and Xian this year. They may be separated on television for now (as Kim is pairing with Coco for the first time in the teleserye Ikaw Lamang) but fans will get to see them in movies.

The still untitled movie will start filming this year (WATCH THE BANDILA REPORT HERE).

For more Kapamilya updates follow/like BIDA KAPAMILYA on Twitter and Facebook.

Bride For Rent Gross P280-M in 2 Weeks Box Office; KimXi Preps for Next Movie this 2014

The tandem of Kim Chiu and Xian Lim thanked fans for the overwhelming support in their latest movie BRIDE FOR RENT. In two weeks, the Star Cinema movie has grossed P280 million at the box office. It is now the highest-grossing opening film of Star Cinema, and of KimXi as well.

"Thank you sa lahat ng staff, sa crew, of course sa Mama ko. Kung nassan man siya ngayon, thank you so much kasi alam ko gina-guide niya ako simula nang nawala siya. Nung Bakit Hindi Ka Crush, maganda ang tanggap ng tao tapos ito ulit," an emotional Kim said during the movie's victory celebration.

In just a week after release, Bride for Rent has raked in P200 million. Bride for Rent is expected to hit P300 million if the warm support of viewers still continue. 

Directed by Mae Czarina Cruz and written by Carmi Raymundo, the movie also stars Pilita Corrales, Tirso Cruz III, Dennis Padilla, Matt Evans, Martin del Rosario, and Empoy Marquez.

Quick links: 

Bride For Rent Full Trailer—Official Movie Poster
Teaser Trailers—International Screenings

Meanwhile, with the successes of their first two movies, Star Cinema is trusting another big screen project to Kim and Xian this year. They may be separated on television for now (as Kim is pairing with Coco for the first time in the teleserye Ikaw Lamang) but fans will get to see them in movies.

The still untitled movie will start filming this year (WATCH THE BANDILA REPORT HERE).

For more Kapamilya updates follow/like BIDA KAPAMILYA on Twitter and Facebook.

Bride For Rent International Screening Schedule Dates and Venue (US, Canada, Australia)

After the blockbuster success of Bride for Rent in the Philippines, the Kim Chiu and Xian Lim movie is now set to conquer USA, Canada and Australia. The Mae Cruz-directed movie is ready to bring kilig to Pinoys in these territories.

Bride For Rent has such an impressive run in cinemas, raking over P200 million in just 8 days. The movie is the most successful Star Cinema movie released in January. 

Quick links: 

Bride For Rent Full Trailer—Official Movie Poster—Teaser Trailers

Here are the screening schedule (dates and venue) of Bride For Rent in the US, Canada and Australia as posted by Star Cinema on its official site.

US SCREENINGS (Jan 31 to Feb 6)
Pickwick Theater Consolidated Kaahumanu 6 Pearlridge West Theatres Century at Tanforan Century 25 Century Great Mall Century 14 Century Laguna 16 Century Roseville Richmond Hilltop 16 Cerritos Stadium Cinema 10 West Covina Stadium 18 Ontario Palace Stadium 22 Orange Stadium Promenade UA Horton Plaza Digiplex Mission Marketplace 13	Digiplex Temecula Tower Cinemas Regal Village Square Stardium Century Park Lane Cinemark Paradise 24 Cinemark Festival Bay 20 Cinemark 16 Parkway Plaza Stadium 12 Tinseltown USA Cinemark (The Legacy) Allwood Cinemas AMC Loews Jersey Gardens 20 Clearview Bergenfield Cinemas AMC Loews Rio Cinemas 18 AMC Hoffman Center 22 Cinemark 18
CANADA SCREENINGS (Jan 10-23)	AUSTRALIA SCREENINGS (Starts Feb 13)
The Globe Cinema Cineplex Northgate Winnipeg Coliseum Scarborough Square One Empire Studio 10 Famous Players Canada Square Cinemas Sunridge Spectrum Cineplex Cineplex Movies 12 Edmonton Empire Studio 12 – Guildford Cineplex Odeon Centre Mall Cinemas Cineplex Odeon Southland Mall	Hoyts Blacktown Hoyts Taylor Lakes Events Liverpool Events Garden City

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Bride For Rent Gross P200 Million at the Box Office in 8 Days

Star Cinema opens the year 2014 with a big box office hit courtesy of Bride for Rent starring the kilig tandem of Kim Chiu and Xian Lim. After only 8 days in theaters, Bride for Rent has already crossed the P200-million mark in gross ticket sales.

The said figure was announced by the movie's lead star Kim Chiu who posted the above photo on her official Instagram account Friday. 

"Maraming, maraming salamat po! Sobra! Thank you Papa God! Thank you sa lahat ng nanood. Sa lahat ng nakitawa and nakiyak sa amin, maraming, maraming, maraming salamat po," she said in the image's caption.

Bride For Rent has such an impressive run in cinemas, raking over P100 million in just 4 days. The movie is the most successful Star Cinema movie released in January after the Metro Manila Film Festival. It is now the highest-grossing KimXi movie, beating last year's Bakit Hindi Ka Crush Ng Crush Mo which took over two weeks to earn P100 million.

Quick links: 

Bride For Rent Full Trailer—Official Movie Poster—Teaser Trailers

Bride for Rent is expected to hit P300 million if the warm support of viewers still continue. Directed by Mae Czarina Cruz and written by Carmi Raymundo, the movie also stars Pilita Corrales, Tirso Cruz III, Dennis Padilla, Matt Evans, Martin del Rosario, and Empoy Marquez.

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Bride For Rent Gross P100 Million in 4 Days; Certified Box Office Hit!

There's no stopping Bride For Rent from taking the whole country by storm as it already grossed P100 million in just 4 days, breaking box office records. The movie starring Kim Chiu and Xian is Star Cinema's opening salvo for 2014.

Bride For Rent opened in theaters last January 15 with P21.2 million gross in the box office and in less than a week in cinemas, it has earned P100 million, making it one of the fastest movies to hit the said mark. 

There is no doubt about the success of the movie with fans expressing how excited they were to watch and several posts showing that the tickets for this movie are always sold out. In fact, its trailer remains to be one of the most-watched, with close to 2 million views as of this writing.

Now showing in more than 200 cinemas nationwide, Bride for Rent is bound to be Kim Chiu and Xian Lim's highest-grossing movie to date, beating their first ever big screen tandem Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo which grossed P102.36 million in three weeks.

Quick links: 

Bride For Rent Full Trailer—Official Movie Poster—Teaser Trailers

With Star Cinema opening the year with a huge box office hit, the pressure is now on for the next movies to be released by the film outfit. Slated to open January 29 is action film Sa Ngalan ng Ama, Ina at Mga Anak starring an ensemble of Padilla clan including Robin, his wife Mariel and nephew Daniel. [Check out full trailer]

Meanwhile, Piolo Pascual and Toni Gonzaga's first big screen team up in Staring Over Again will be Star Cinema's Valentine offering. Also starring Iza Calzado and under the helm of Olivia Lamasan, the movie opens in cinemas February 12. Watch full trailer here.

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Bride For Rent Opening Gross: P21.2 Million at the Box Office on First Day

Star Cinema's opening salvo for 2014, Bride For Rent, has grossed P21.2 million on its opening day. The movie which stars Kim Chiu and Xian Lim premiered in the Philippines on Wednesday.

"Amaaazzzzinnggg!!! On its first day: #brideforrent made a whopping P21.2 Million at the box-office!!! Congratulations to the entire team! Pang-MMFF levels sa lakas ang kimxian tandem!" Mico del Rosario of Star Cinema posted on Instagram.

Bride for Rent is Kim Chiu and Xian Lim's follow up movie after the success of their first ever big screen tandem in Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo. The said movie grossed P102.36 million in three weeks.

Quick links: Bride For Rent Full Trailer—Official Movie Poster—Teaser Trailers

Also starring Dennis Padilla, Empoy Marquez, Martin del Rosario, Lloyd Zaragoza, Matt Evans, Eda Nolan, Zeppi Borromeo, Marlann Flores, RJ Ledesma and Tirso Cruz III, Bride For Rent is Direk Mae Czarina Cruz's last film as a single lady.

With more fans raring to see Bride for Rent, no wonder that this will surpass the box office success of Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo and be KimXi's highest-grossing film.

Bride for Rent is now showing in more than 140 cinemas nationwide.

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Kim Chiu on Dyesebel Role: "Hindi ko kaya ang consequence, ang bashing."

Primetime princess Kim Chiu admitted that although it was her childhood dream to play Dyesebel, she can't handle the consequences of playing the role on TV. The actress said that she's not disappointed for not getting her dream role.

"Ay bakit naman may ganoon? Hindi ko naman kaya 'yung consequence," Kim Chiu said in an interview on Kris RealiTV aired Wednesday morning. "Hindi naman bagay sa akin. Puro bashing lang ang aabutin ko niyan, 'wag na. Magigigng komedyante na lang ako," she added, referring to her stints as a comedic actress in romantic movies.

After the success of Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo, Kim returns on the big screen with partner Xian Lim in Bride For Rent, which is now showing in cinemas.

Watch Kim's interview on Kris RealiTV below.

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Bride For Rent Full Trailer | Kim and Xian Movie Opens January 15

After a series of teasers, Star Cinema finally released the full trailer for the upcoming movie Bride For Rent starring Kim Chiu and Xian Lim. The movie is the production outfit's opening salvo for 2014.

The trailer sees Rocky( Kim Chiu ) auditioning for a role, unaware that she's up for a challenge of pretending to be Rocco's (Xian Lim) wife so that the latter will get his inheritance from her grandmother (Pilita Corrales) after getting married.

Quick links: Bride For Rent Official Movie Poster—Teaser Trailers

Also starring Dennis Padilla, Empoy Marquez, Martin del Rosario, Lloyd Zaragoza, Matt Evans, Eda Nolan, Zeppi Borromeo, Marlann Flores, RJ Ledesma and Tirso Cruz III, Bride For Rent opens in theaters January 15.

Watch the full trailer of Kim and Xian's Bride For Rent below:

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Bride For Rent Teaser Trailer: Kim Chiu Auditions to be Xian Lim's Bride

Star Cinema has released teaser trailers for Bride For Rent starring Kim Chiu and Xian Lim. The movie is a follow up to KimXi's first big screen team up, Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo.

The teaser trailers show Kim Chiu in what could be seen as an audition for a role—not in a teleserye, stage play or movie but in real life. Yes, Kim is up for a role as Xian's bride albeit for rent only. 

Directed by Mae Czarina Cruz, Bride for Rent will open in theaters January 15, 2014 as Star Cinema's opening salvo for the new year. Check out the official movie poster here and watch the teaser trailers below.

Kim and Xian will be joined by Dennis Padilla, Empoy Marquez, Martin del Rosario, Lloyd Zaragoza, Matt Evans, Eda Nolan, Zeppi Borromeo, Marlann Flores and RJ Ledesma in this movie with the special participation of Ms. Pilita Corrales and Tirso Cruz III.

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Bride for Rent Movie Poster Unveiled | Kim Chiu and Xian Lim 2nd Movie

Check out the official movie poster of Bride for Rent starring Kim Chiu and Xian Lim. The movie is the second big screen team up of KimXi following the success of their first movie together Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo.

Bride for Rent is Star Cinema's opening salvo for 2014 and will open in cinemas January 15, 2014 after the Metro Manila Film Festival. It is directed by Mae Czarina Cruz (She's The One).

Kim and Xian will be joined by Dennis Padilla, Empoy Marquez, Martin del Rosario, Lloyd Zaragoza, Matt Evans, Eda Nolan, Zeppi Borromeo, Marlann Flores and RJ Ledesma in this movie with the special participation of Ms. Pilita Corrales and Tirso Cruz III.

With an interesting title and plot combined with a powerful cast, Bride for Rent is one romantic comedy movie you should not miss. 

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Kim Chiu and Xian Lim Movie 'Bride for Rent' Opens January 2014

One of today's hottest love team Kim Chiu and Xian Lim, popularly known as KimXi will have their big screen reunion next year with the movie Bride for Rent.

Bride for Rent is Kim and Xian's follow up project after the box office success of their very first big screen tandem Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo which raked in more than P100 million. The said movie is both Kim and Xian's highest grossing movie to date.

KimXi fans will surely be delighted as the movie will be Star Cinema's opening salvo for 2014 and is slated to open in cinemas by January after the Metro Manila Film Festival. With that interesting title, we can only assume that this movie will bring more 'kilig' to audience.

With Mae Czarina Cruz at the helm (the director who gave us box office romantic movies such as Catch Me... I'm In Love and She's The One), Kim Chiu and Xian Lim's Bride for Rent will certainly deliver. 

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