Dennis is Catholic while Bela is a Jehovah’s Witness. Not all the cast members are INC members (the casting was done regardless of religious belief, with director Joel Lamangan helping in the selection).

At the presscon, Dennis said so but he didn’t reveal the price. Said to have been produced at the staggering cost of P150M, shot in 59 calendar days, Felix Manalo has just made Dennis probably one of the highest-paid, if not the highest-paid, actor in Philippine Cinema. It might break into the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest and most star-studded ever - that is, if, besides lead stars Dennis Trillo and Bela Padilla (as Felix Manalo and his wife Honorata), the 44 other stars in the cast will show up (and they will, I guess).

Produced by Viva Films, the movie will have a premiere at the 55,000-capacity INC-owned Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan, a few days before its nationwide commercial run on Oct. If the estimated 2-million-plus members here and abroad (others put the number at thrice that) of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) will watch (and I guess they will), Felix Manalo, the biopic of the INC founder, will go down in history as the biggest box-office hit.

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