English Entertainment
Solid Entertainment seals two deals with Discovery Intl.
MUMBAI: Racking up a number of sales in the last few weeks, Solid Entertainment Founder and CEO Richard Propper announced today that they has just concluded sales for two of its highly rated series, Overhaulin’ and Rides, to several of Discovery’s International outlets.
These two series are currently top-rated hits on The Learning Channel in the US.
Overhaulin’ was sold to Discovery International in the UK, Italy, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Whereas, the Rides deals include sales to Discovery International in France and all French-speaking territories.
Overhaulin’ (7×48 minutes), produced for The Learning Channel in the US, is the series where the owner gets tricked and the car gets tricked-out. The action begins with an unsuspecting vehicle owner who finds his or her shabby old ride missing and a week later ends up with a certified show car. Each episode brings in top custom designer Chip Foose, who teams up with his crew of professional builders, and spends the next seven sleepless days and nights making someone’s hot rod dream come true.
Rides (11×48 minutes), narrated by Jason Priestly and produced for The Learning Channel in the US, is an 11 part series which defines the automotive genre on television, with its concept to completion coverage of the latest and greatest from the world of automotive design. Last seasons episodes included the exclusive start to finish coverage of Fords new Cobra, inside the newest sport of drifting, and inside the world custom street rods. Rides features interviews with the carmakers, designers, painters, and owners.
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.
