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&Privé HD rings in the new year with the Indian television premiere of the gripping crime drama ‘The Infiltrator’
MUMBAI: &Privé HD, the newest destination for nuanced cinema, is all set to bring the Indian television premiere of the movie, ‘The Infiltrator’ on 31st December at 1:00pm and 9:00pm. The film is directed by Brad Furman and stars acclaimed actor Bryan Cranston, Diane Kruger and John Leguizamo amongst others.
The crime drama is based on the autobiography of the same name by Robert Mazur, a U.S. Customs special agent, who in the 1986 helped bring down the narcotics empire of infamous kingpin Pablo Escobar’s money-laundering organization. Despite specializing in deep undercover assignments, Mazur (Cranston) is faced with his most challenging assignment yet, as he goes undercover as a corrupt businessman alongside Kathy Ertz (Kruger) and Emir Abreu (Leguizamo) to bring down the notorious drug lord.
Gripping and elevated by Cranston’s superb central performance, the film creates enthralling suspense on what undercover agents do while trying to keep their soul meticulously under wraps.
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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.
