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&flix to premiere Slender Man on Nov17
MUMBAI: &flix, home for the biggest Hollywood hits, brings a spooky story of a group of college students who face the exasperation of a demon summoned by them. “Flix First Premiere” is back with Slender Man on November 17, 2019, at 1PM and 9PM. Directed by Sylvain White, the movie stars Primetime Emmy Award Nominee Joey King who essays the role of Wren, Julia Goldani Telles portraying Hallie, Annalise Basso as Katie and Javier Botet as Slender Man.
Set in a small town in Massachusetts, Wren and Hallie, along with her friends, summon the Slender Man. Within a week of his calling, the gang starts to face the repercussions starting with the mysterious disappearance of Katie, who was involved in the occult. The trio needs more clarification and decides to search her house, hoping to find the real reason behind her vanishing. Little do they know, that Slender Man’s summoning is the root cause of all their problems. To get Katie back in exchange for something else, they gather their courage and call back the Slender Man. Wren, who has researched the Slender Man mythology in depth, warns Hallie and Chloe about the rules of contacting him. The chaos begins when Chloe disobeys and the demon unleashes madness.
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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.
