She's Dating the Gangster Movie

After two consecutive Sunday youth-oriented shows, Padilla finally landed a role in a primetime television series in Princess And I. He played Gerald Antonio "Gino" dela Rosa or Dasho Yuan Rinpoche, a character whom he describes as "a swaggering rich kid who will change and sacrifice a lot for the sake of love". The romantic-comedy royalty-themed series did well in the ratings, having reached the 40% mark and placed second behind Walang Hanggan. On May 28, 2012, Padilla released his debut self-titled Album, Daniel Padilla. The album has six tracks with the carrier single "Hinahanap-hanap Kita", which is also featured in his primetime show Princess And I. According to Star Records producer Jonathan Manalo, Padilla's debut album sold more than 10,000 copies in less than a week. On June 17 of the same year, Padilla was given a Gold Record Award for the sales of his debut album and later on sold more than 30,000+ copies and reached Double Platinum. On April 14, 2014, Star Records will release Daniel Padilla's new album. I Heart You is one of the singles in the said album. In 2010, Bernardo went on to dramatic roles by landing the role of the young Victoria in ABS-CBN's Magkaribal and in GMA's Endless Love as the young Jenny. Coincidentally, both premiered in the same day of 28 June 2010. Her breakthrough role was Mara in the remake of Mara Clara with her co-star and real life best friend Julia Montes. Since its premiere, the TV series was a consistent leader in primetime ratings. Affirming its success, the show was nominated in the 2011 Banff World Media Festival in the "Telenovelas & Soap Operas" category.

After the primetime teleserye finished, Bernardo soon began appearing in the Sunday afternoon teen show, Growing Up. Together again with Julia Montes, the show starred other up and coming ABS-CBN teen stars like Kiray Celis, Diego Loyzaga and Daniel Padilla. In the show, Bernardo played the role of 15-year old Ella, who lives with her single mother. The show premiered strongly ranking number 2 overall in the afternoon block. She’s Dating the Gangster has first gained its popularity in the online story sharing website, Wattpad, where it got millions of love from the netizens. Then, Summit Books published it last March 2013 which consistently figured in the bestselling charts. With the success of movies adapted from best-selling books such as Bakit Di Ka Crush Ng Crush Mo, new doors are now opened for the hidden talented writers to showcase a much fresher style and trend in movie making.KathNiel and SDTG fanatics are all excited for ‘She’s Dating The Gangster’ 940x280 The upcoming movie adaptation of the bestselling book “She’s Dating The Gangster” has been hogging the internet through the movie posters made by the book’s fans and supporters of Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla, the lead stars of the “She’s Dating The Gangster.” “She’s Dating The Gangster" is being helmed by box-office director Cathy Garcia-Molina under Star Cinema. The bestselling book She’s Dating the Gangster made its debut in media as an online book published in Wattpad. Afterwards, Summit Books published it last March 2013. The book, which is written by Bianca Bernardino, consistently figured in the bestselling charts. The popularity of the work urged Star Cinema to buy the rights for a movie remake.

In a Candy Mag interview, the author said that she's seeing Daniel Padilla and Kathryn Bernardo bringing her characters to life if ever the work will be adapted into a movie. She cited Daniel's "bad boy aura" and Kathryn's vibe similar to the girl protagonist as the reason why they perfectly fit the roles. She’s Dating the Gangster is the story of Athena Dizon who falls in love with her fake boyfriend Kenji de los Reyes, a gangster and a campus heartthrob. With the success of movies adapted from best-selling books such as Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo, Star Cinema is now creating waves with this new project. Aside from She’s Dating the Gangster, the film outfit is also adapting the bestselling Precious Hearts Romances title of all time, Once A Princess to be topbilled by Enchong Dee and Erich Gonzales (read more about it here). The movie adaptation of She's Dating the Gangster will be directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina, the director of KathNiel's romantic series Got to Believe. The production team targets filming this March 2014.

The heart-wrenching story of She’s Dating the Gangster tells the tale of two teenagers namely, Athena Dizon and campus bad boy Kenji de los Reyes who begin a pretend relationship and later blossomed into something deeper. According to the interview of Candy Mag, author Bianca Bernardino said that Kathniel love team best fit the leading characters of her book due to Daniel’s “bad boy aura” and Kathryn’s vibe similar to Athena’s character.