Kathryn Bernardo Releases Feel-Good Album Under Star Music

“Sweet, young and happy” is how Philippine showbiz’s Teen Queen Kathryn Bernardo describes her self-titled debut album to be initially released online by Star Music this Sunday (November 30) via Starmusic.ph. It will be available at all record bars nationwide beginning December 5 (Friday).

According to Kathryn, she ventures into music to widen her horizon as an artist.

“Acting will remain my comfort zone. But for now, I want to explore and learn many things like singing, dancing, and hosting. I also want to know how to play musical instruments,” she said.

The 18-year-old recording star admits that she is very hands-on in the production of her album filled with easy-listening, feel-good tracks.

“Since this is my first time in recording, I trusted Star Music with the song choices because they surely know better what fits my voice,” Kathryn explained. “But in terms of the album’s concept, layout, and total look, and even in the music video, I helped out to make it really personalized.”

When asked about her musical influences, the Teen Queen has a handful of favorites, including Juris, Michael Bublé, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, and her idol Sarah Geronimo.

Featured in Kathryn’s debut album produced by Rox Santos, are three revivals, five original songs, and three bonus tracks.

She made a revival of Sharon Cuneta’s “Mr. DJ,” Cris Villongco’s “Crush ng Bayan,” and Heart Evangelista’s “Love Has Come My Way.”

Among the original tracks are “Na Sa ‘Yo Din Pala,” “Ikaw Na Nga Yata, “K Tnx Bye,” “Temporary Deja Vu,” and album’s carrier single “You Don’t Know Me” which was composed by singer-songwriter Marion Aunor.

All eight tracks have minus one versions in the album.

Meanwhile, Teen King Daniel Padilla is also part of Kathryn’s debut album. Part of the bonus tracklist are Teen Queen’s version of “Pagdating ng Panahon and the popular KathNiel duet performances of “Got to Believe In Magic” and “Pinas Smile” (ABS-CBN 2014 Summer Station ID).

Kathryn’s self-titled debut album will be available at all record bars nationwide for only P199. Digital tracks can also be downloaded via online music stores such as iTunes and Mymusicstore.com.ph.

For more information, visit Starmusic.ph or follow Star Music’s official social media accounts at Facebook.com/starrecordsphil, Twitter.com/starrecordsph and Instagram.com/Starmusicph.

Pinay Jamie Herrell Win Silver Medal in Miss Earth 2014

Miss Philippines Earth Jamie Herrell won silver medal in the recently concluded National Costume competition of the 2014 Miss Earth pageant. Annisa Ananda Nusyirwan from Indonesia bagged the gold award.

Jamie Herrell is wearing a white gown, a crown and holding Senior Santo Niño during the Asia Pacific Region National Costume competitions of the 14th edition of Miss Earth.

Miss Earth 2014 Best in National Costume:

Gold- Indonesia

Silver- Philippines

Bronze- India

In Americas region, Miss Earth Panama clinched the gold medal while Miss Earth South Africa and Miss Earth England won in their respective regions.

WATCH: 'Jurassic World' First Official Trailer

Universal Pictures has released the official trailer of much awaited fourth movie of the Jurassic Parks Movie Series, the "Jurassic World" which is showing June 12, 2015. The movie is set 22 years after the events of "Jurassic Park."

In this movie, Isla Nublar has a dinosaur theme park named Jurassic World. It was based on John Hammond's story that happened twenty-two years ago.

It was a great attraction and drew a lot of visitors and tourist. However due to unfortunate turn of events, the research team accidentally unleashed a hybrid genetically-modified dinosaur into the team park which causes chaos on the Jurassic World.

SHOCKING VIDEO: Teacher Drags 14-Year-Old Student to the Pool

A video has been released capturing the shocking moment a physical education teacher dragged a 14-year-old girl to a pool after she refused to swim because she didn't want to ruin her hair.

Denny Peterson, a teacher at Edison High School in Stockton, was charged this week with a misdemeanor count of corporal injury to a child.

Peterson was filmed with a cellphone by another student, pulling the girl across the pool deck repeatedly as she clings to anything and anyone she can.

The incident took place in August after the girl refused to get in the pool because her hair was done that morning and she had an event to attend that night.

VIRAL VIDEO: Husband Protects Mistress from Being Attacked by Wife and Daughter

A video of a husband protecting a woman, believed to be his "mistress", against the attacks from his own wife and daughter, is currently making rounds in social media.

In the video, it shows that two girls beating another, while a man tries to stop them as they slapped and kicked the girl. Apparently, the girl sitting on the pavement with her head down was the mistress of the man, and the 2 girls were his wife and daughter. Passersby simply looked on.

What do you think about this video? Post your opinions below and don't forget to share this on Facebook.

ABS-CBN Files $12M Lawsuit Against 18 Video Streaming Sites

ABS-CBN Corporation, ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc (Star Cinema) and ABS-CBN International filed suit in US Federal District Court in Florida last November 21, 2014 against 18 pirate sites for damages of over $12 million dollars resulting from the infringement of the copyrights and trademarks of ABS-CBN’s popular TV shows and movies.

The defendants are partnerships or unincorporated business associations which operate through domain names registered with registrars in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Their domain names are the following:

1) buhaypinoyofw.net;

2) freepinoytvshows.net, pinoylovetvshowreplay.com;

3) hapeetube.biz, lovelytube.biz, pinoy-telebisyon.biz, pinoy-telebisyon.org;

4) lambingan.tk;

5) movieserye.com;

6) pinaytambayan.org; pinoy-ako.me;

8) pinoymoviegallery.net;

9) pinoytambayan.me;

10) pinoytelesine.com;

11) pinoytopmovies.com;

12) pinoytv.me;

13) projectcabbage.com;

14) tambayanofwtv.info;

15) telebesyon.com;

16) telebyuwers.ph, telebyuwers.tv;

17) teleseryereplay.com;

18) yzreplay.com.

Based on the complaint, the defendants provide on-demand streaming performances of full-length versions of ABS-CBN’s TV shows and movies through their websites. Defendants often display the latest content to their servers within minutes or hours of the original broadcast in the Philippines. Further, they control the organization and presentation of the content by providing links to ABS-CBN shows and promote and advertise the content as ABS-CBN’s through search engine optimization and meta tags, including the use of ABS-CBN’s marks, then stream the shows for users’ viewing through their websites. With the popularity of ABS-CBN films and TV shows, these sites drive significant traffic that enables them to reap profits from advertising and other revenue.

According to ABS-CBN AVP of Global Anti-Piracy Elisha Lawrence, “this is another phase in our relentless enforcement campaign to identify and punish pirates whose sites have been reported to contain malware that can cause substantial financial harm to innocent people who were just trying to view our shows and movies.”

This latest lawsuit comes on the heels of the police search and seizure by police in Victoria, Australia at the home of Mary Smith in the suburb of Barooga, New South Wales in Australia where numerous pirate ABS-CBN DVDs, DVD burners and hundreds of pirated ABS-CBN movies on computer hard drives were located. Recently, ABS-CBN also received a US$10 million judgment from the U.S. Federal District Court in Oregon against Jeffrey Ashby for damages from his infringing the copyrights and well-known trademarks of ABS-CBN by rebroadcasting ABS-CBN’s popular TV shows and movies on his pirate websites. Among the many pirate sites that Ashby owned were watchfilipinotv.com, watchfilipinomovies.com and pinoytalaga.com.

“We at ABS-CBN are committed to giving our viewers the best viewing experience for our content and protecting the rights of the talented creative and production teams that work hard to deliver these shows and films,” said ABS-CBN Global COO Raffy Lopez. “Online pirates undermine that, hence, we are determined to discourage and stop them.”

VIDEO: Sarah Geronimo is the New Disney Princess

Philippines' very own Sarah Geronimo will add another jewel to her crowning glory as she was selected by Disney to interpret the theme song of its highly popular "Princess" franchise. The confirmation was revealed by the singer actress through a video which was uploaded on YouTube and dominated the social media sites especially Twitter.

The 26-year-old Pop Star Princess was featured in a teaser aired on Disney Channel as she announced that she recorded her own version of "The Glow," whose music video will premiere on December 6, 2014. This song was originally sung by Shannon Saunders, written to make Rapunzel as the 10th Princess, aired in 2011.