IBCinema (TV channel)

**IBCinema** (stylized as **IBCINEMA**) is a Philippine free-to-air television channel created, owned and operated by Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation. IBCinema is the second movie channel of IBC after the former Cinema Movie (defunct), a cable channel owned by the network, and the first digital terrestrial television movie channel. The programming consists of mainstream and independent local films (including all the films shown on IBC's *Kaibigan Sinerama*, IBC Plus' *Kaibigan Movie Fest* and *PPP: Piling-Piling Pelikula*) and Tagalog-dubbed foreign movies.

Named after IBC's former movie block of the same name, the channel was on test broadcast from September 13, 2020 until October 4, 2020, and was officially launched on October 5, 2020. As an all-movie channel, IBCinema operates daily from 6 am to 12 mn.

It is the fourth network launched under the **IBC** television branding, along the leading TV network IBC, the Filipino-language UHF news channel IBC News Network, the UHF TV network IBC Plus and the digital archive television channel IBC Classics.

## Overview

The channel consists from selected local and Filipino-dubbed international movies aired on IBC, IBC Plus and Toon TV.

## Programming

IBCinema carried local films from four Filipino major film companies (Viva Films, Seiko Films, Regal Entertainment and IBC Films) and minor film companies (OctoArts Films, Globe Studios, TBA Studios, Reality Entertainment and selected Filipino independent film companies), along with Tagalog-dubbed foreign films.

Meanwhile, IBCinema's weekend programming includes a movie marathon from the film libraries of Viva Films, Seiko Films, Regal Films, the Kaibigan network's film outfit IBC Films, independent film outfits and various Hollywood film studios (Paramount, Hallmark, Fox, Universal Studios, Marvel Studios, Summit Entertainment, DreamWorks, Columbia Pictures, Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros., etc).

### **Movie blocks**

*Note:* Titles are listed in alphabetical order.

* *Cine Chinese* - showcasing Tagalized Chinese movies every weekend morning.
* *Cine Pinoy* - showcasing Tagalog movies from 70's to early 2000's.
* *Hapon Sine* - showcasing Tagalized foreign movies.
* *IBCinema Presents* - weekend local movies every weekend.
* *Kaibigan Movie Marathon* - weekend movie marathon.
* *Kaibigan Sinemax* - featuring contemporary local movies on Mondays to Thursdays and Eastern foreign movies on Friday.
* *Movietime* - featuring Tagalized foreign movies.
* *Pelikula Sunday* - showcasing Tagalog films every Sunday night.
* *PPP: Piling Piling Pelikula* - showcasing Filipino movie idols/legends from the 70s to the present.
* *Sine Aksyon* - featuring local action films every Saturday night.
* *Spectacular Action on Screen* - Tagalized action films every Saturday night.
* *Sunday Movie Night* - Tagalized foreign blockbuster movies every Sunday night.

### **Shorts**

* *Cine Facts* (facts on local movie celebrities; during commercial breaks)

## Schedule

Monday-Friday

* 5 am - PPP: Piling Piling Pelikula (replay)
* 7 am - Cine Pinoy (replay)
* 9 am - Movietime
* 11 am - Kaibigan Sinemax (replay)
* 1 pm - Cine Pinoy
* 3 pm - Hapon Sine
* 5 pm - PPP: Piling Piling Pelikula
* 7 pm - Kaibigan Sinemax
* 9 pm - Movietime
* 11 pm - Cine Pinoy (replay)

Saturday

* 5 am - Sunday Movie Night (replay)
* 7 am - Cine Chinese
* 9 am - Kaibigan Movie Marathon
* 5 pm - Sine Aksyon
* 7 pm - IBCinema Presents
* 9 pm - Spectacular Action on Screen
* 11 pm - Movietime

Sunday

* 5 am - Spectacular Action on Screen (replay)
* 7 am - Cine Chinese
* 9 am - Kaibigan Movie Marathon
* 5 pm - Pelikula Sunday
* 7 pm - IBCinema Presents
* 9 pm - Sunday Movie Night
* 11 pm - Movietime

## Channel lineup

**Notes**

* all non-encrypted digital terrestrial TV channels broadcast within the area of the household will also be carried.
* IBC Classics, IBCinema, Toon TV, DZTV TeleTrese, DMZ Channel, DepEd TV, and Channel V Philippines are encrypted and scrambled with Multi2-based encryption, because of that, thus requiring SMS activation to unscramble those channels.
* IBC Classics, IBCinema, Toon TV, DZTV TeleTrese, DMZ Channel, DepEd TV, and Channel V Philippines are their digital channels to IBC Digibox, a digital set-top box marketed by the network.

## See also

* IBC
* Cinema Movie (defunct)

## References

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