English Entertainment
Star World & Star World HD brings ‘The Blacklist’
MUMBAI: Star World and Star World HD, home to the best of English entertainment in India, will house the latest season of the nail-biting drama series – The Blacklist. Starring Emmy Award winner James Spader, the third season of The Blacklist premieres on Star World and Star World HD will air from 30th June, 2016 onwards on weekdays at 10 pm.
In the third season of the “The Blacklist,” FBI Agent Elizabeth “Liz” Keen is a fugitive and on the run with criminal mastermind Raymond “Red” Reddington. With Assistant FBI Director Harold Cooper under investigation, a conflicted Agent Donald Ressler will lead the FBI task force on a massive manhunt for Liz and Red – more dangerous together than apart since Liz has expert knowledge of FBI procedures and no one exceeds Red’s vast resources. Liz will be on an unpredictable journey of self-discovery and all the pieces of her life, including her indefinable relationship with Tom. As Liz and Red struggle to stay one step ahead of their former colleagues, this season promises an action packed storyline and an explosive finale that will leave the viewer’s wanting for more.
The ensemble cast consists of talented actors like Megan Boone as Elizabeth “Liz” Keen, Diego Klattenhoff as FBI Agent Donald Ressler and Ryan Eggold as Tom Keen. The show is centered on Raymond Reddington, a former US Naval Intelligence officer and now a wanted fugitive who surrenders to the FBI in return for immunity. Reddington promises to assist the FBI to bring down the deadliest criminals across the world on the condition that the only person he will communicate through is Elizabeth Keen, a FBI recruit. The story of what connects the two of them and how their lives intertwine forms the essence of the show.
Get ready to ride along with Liz and Red as they chase deadly criminals, navigate the FBI and delve deeper into their pasts.
English Entertainment
Ellison takes his Paramount-Warner Bros case straight to theater owners
The Skydance chief goes to CinemaCon with promises and a skeptical crowd waiting
CALIFORNIA: David Ellison strode into a room packed with thousands of cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday and did something rather bold: he looked them in the eye and asked them to trust him.
The chief executive of Paramount Skydance vowed that his company would release a minimum of 30 films a year if regulators greenlight its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a deal that has made theater owners deeply, and loudly, nervous.
“I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word,” Ellison told the crowd. “Once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios.”
It was a confident pitch. Whether it landed is another matter. Cinema operators have already called on regulators to block the deal, and scepticism in the room was hardly concealed.
Ellison pushed back by pointing to recent form. Paramount, born from the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media last August, plans to release 15 films this year, nearly double the eight it put out in 2025. Progress, he argued, was already underway.
He also threw theater owners a bone they have long been chasing: all films, he pledged, would run exclusively in cinemas for a minimum of 45 days, drawing applause from a crowd that has spent years fighting for exactly that commitment across the industry.
“People can speculate all they want,” Ellison said, “but I am standing here today telling you personally that you can count on our complete commitment. And we’ll show you we mean it.”
Fine words. The regulators, however, will have the last one.
