After the success of Star Cinema and GMA Films’ “Hello, Love, Again” which stars Kathryn Bernardo and Santa Rosa, Laguna Kid Alden Richards, how true that Kathryn will be paired off again with her perennial loveteam and former boyfriend Daniel Padilla?
It is possible, though.
To begin with, the fans of Bernardo and Daniel are legion and still very much around.
Just a few days ago, many fans of the two are praying and hoping that their idols will be united again in one movie. They miss them so much, according to their sentimental posts.
It is not far-fetched, indeed.
Star Cinema, the film arm of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation, is willing to invest again in the return of Bernardo and Padilla.
After all, it’s just a movie, fantasy, project, an artifact.
It all started in 2022 when director Cathy Molina Sampana, expressed her thoughts that Kathryn and Daniel are supposed to star in “After Forever” but the project fizzled out because the lovers broke up in 2023.
The split-up fracas was very heart-melting for the fans.
KathNiel, the portmanteau between Kathryn and Daniel, suffered a meltdown.
In the meantime, even in the middle of the plan to reunite the two if only on screen, Cathy pulled off “Hello, Love, Goodbye” that introduced the loveteam of Kathryn and Alden Richards. To realize the project, Star Cinema borrowed Alden from GMA Network where the young actor was and still is tied up.
The new tandem was born and it was very sensational as it broke all existing box-office records in Philippine cinema from the turn of the century when the film as a technology including its ethos were transferred to the Philippines from the West.
Meanwhile, KathNiel as a commercial product has been around waiting to be relaunched.
In terms of name calling, the Kathryn-Alden duo cannot be outdone as it coined its own mix, KathDen, obviously from Kathryn and Alden.
So let it be that “Hello, Love, Again” is another blockbuster.
At the moment, it has earned over P1B in worldwide sales.
If ever “After Forever” is made, will it outshine the second team-up of Kath and Den?
There are no official words from Star Cinema about the possible greenlight of the project but it is an interesting and exciting history in the making in 2025.
For the moment, Alden will be out of the scene yet and Daniel will enter the Kathryn narrative.
Will it also signal a new chapter in KathNiel romance?
Definitely, it will be another sweet success at the tills.
This is reminiscent of the Nora Aunor and Tirso Cruz III phenomenon in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s up to the millennium.
There was a time that Nora and Tirso separated from each other onscreen but when their pair did return on the big screen after an intermittent breakup-reconciliation-breakup-reconciliation even just for the sake of their fans like “Till We Meet Again” or “Bilangin ang mga Bituin sa Langit,” among others, their work was still patronized by their fans
Can’t wait to see Kathryn and Daniel together again
Let’s just wait and see.
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