Now, Joey comes up with a new movie about love with nine major characters whose lives criss-cross each other, “Somebody to Love”, opening on August 20 as Mother Lily’s special birthday presentation. Carla Abellana plays the creative director of an ad agency who meets Matteo Guidicelli, a real estate magnate who’s attracted to her but he’s already bedding Isabelle Daza, a Hongkong-based hotelier, whenever she’s in Manila. Jason Abalos is Carla’s OFW best friend who feels insecure upon learning that she’s getting cozy with Matteo.
Matteo’s sister, Maricar Reyes, is the abused wife of David Chua, who’s having an affair with a former beauty queen, Nathalie Hart (the former Princess Snell). Iza Calzado is the best friend of Isabella. She’s a TV talk show host who always wants to be talked about in public and cooks up a relationship with an athlete (Alex Castro) who she dumps upon learning he’s not helping her career at all. Kiray Celis is a secretary who believes she’s very beautiful and is forever hitting on Manuel Chua, who’s the boyfriend of the gay Vince de Jesus. She believes she can turn Manuel into a real man.
Ella Cruz is the production assistant of Iza who’s in love with a gym hottie, Albie Casino, whose sideline is bedding sex-starved matronas. Also in the cast are Jaclyn Jose as the mom of Matteo and Maricar, Jackielou as the mom of Carla, Beauty Gonzalez as Kiray’ best friend.
Even before this is shown, Joey has started shooting a horror flick, “Dilim”, about a haunted dorm in the university belt, topbilled by Kylie Padilla, Rayver Cruz, Rafael Rosell, Nathalie Hart, and Joross Gamboa. But his biggest project is “Chinoy”, which will be for 2015, about the lives of several Fil-Chinese young people today and he’s tapping the services of some of the good-looking candidates in the recently concluded Mr. and Miss Chinatown who Regal wants to sign into a contract.