<P> Since the year 2009, the presence of box - office films in the Philippine Box Office has surged, with You Changed My Life starring Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Cruz generated ₱ 230 million, making it the first Filipino movies to breach the 200 million pesos mark . This started the commercial box office success trend in local Philippine Cinema . </P> <P> 2011 is the most fruitful year in Philippine Cinema history as 3 films produced within the year (all from Star Cinema) landed in the top 3 of the highest grossing Filipino Film of All - Time . Vice Ganda's The Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin grossed ₱ 331.6 million in box office and became the highest grossing local film in the Philippines . No Other Woman grossed ₱ 278.39 million while 2011 Metro Manila Film Festival ("MMFF") entry Enteng Ng Ina Mo, has a gross income of ₱ 237.89 million (as of January 7, 2012) and considered as the highest grossing MMFF entry of all time . However, Sisterakas, a Kris Aquino - Ai Ai delas Alas - Vice Ganda movie, replaced the title of Enteng ng Ina Mo and the Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin as it became the highest grossing Filipino film and highest grossing MMFF entry of all time . </P> <P> In 2013, It Takes a Man and a Woman, the third film of the A Very Special Love series of Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Cruz, made many box office records, one of which is being the current "Highest Grossing Filipino Film of All Time", replacing Sisterakas . It made ₱ 375,024,507 during its theatrical run in the Philippines and ₱ 211,573,332 overseas, for a total of ₱ 586,597,839 worldwide until Vice Ganda's Girl, Boy, Bakla, Tomboy and Kris Aquino's My Little Bossings (both are MMFF entries) surpassed their local box - office record and battle for the first spot . </P> <P> In 2014, Filipino master Lav Diaz's film, From What Is Before (Mula sa Kung Ano Ako Noon) won the Golden Leopard at the 2014 Locarno Film Festival . Its win was a highly regarded as the second Filipino film to be awarded at an A-list film festival in the world almost 20 years after The Flor Contemplacion Story won the Golden Pyramid at the 1995 Cairo International Film Festival . The Amazing Praybeyt Benjamin, another Vice Ganda film, breaks his own record again with an estimated gross of PHP450, 000,000.00 . Meanwhile, the sequel of Kris Aquino's Feng Shui series is the highest grossing Filipino horror film . </P>

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