Joy Adalia
Star Cinema’s AdProm manager Mico del Rosario was fuming with anger after spotting a government agency blatantly showing a pirated copy of the Star Cinema movie, A Second Chance.
Del Rosario revealed that he spotted the erring government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), inside Ali Mall playing the video. He took some pictures of the TV screen showing the movie inside the office as evidence of the wrongdoing. Del Rosario posted the snapshots on Facebook, calling out to the management and staff of the government agency that they were blatantly breaking the anti-piracy law by showing the pirated copy of the movie.
[facebook https://www.facebook.com/micodelrosario/posts/10153484350033510?pnref=story]
After coming out in November 2015, the box office hit starring John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo broke local records, becoming “the highest grossing Filipino film of all time” after hitting the P556 million mark during its fourth week of showing. The movie has yet to be released on home video so what the DFA was showing was definitely not an officially released copy.
Del Rosario also posted about the incident on Twitter which host-comedian Vice Ganda retweeted. Vice called the situation “DISGUSTING” (in angry, capital letters).
This is DISGUSTING!!! Hoy DFA Ali Mall ang garapal nitong ahensya ng gobyerno na ito!!! https://t.co/RQCTx3jRCO
— jose marie viceral (@vicegandako) February 5, 2016
Vice followed it with a tweet that made light of the situation, chiding the office for showing A Second Chance when pirated copies of his movie Beauty and the Bestie with Coco Martin were already available. He ended his tweet with the hashtag “#NoToPiracy”
Langya magpalabas ba ng pirated na A Second Chance e meron namang pirated na Beauty and the Bestie!!! Chozzzz! #NoToPiracy
— jose marie viceral (@vicegandako) February 5, 2016
