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Akshay Kumar & Twinkle Khanna to appear on Koffee with Karan
MUMBAI: After the successful launch of its first episode with Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt, Koffee with Karan season 5 is all geared up for its second episode. Coming Sunday, the show will feature Bollywood’s power couple Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna.
The Khiladi of Bollywood and his wife aka Mrs. Funnybones will be the guests on the next episode of that will air on Star World and Star World HD on 13 November at 9 pm.
Karan Johar will finally meet his match. Not one to mince her words, Khanna turns the tables on Johar as she puts into play her personal camaraderie with him and shoots a rapid fire of questions at him.
The power-packed episode is filled with laugh-out-loud moments where Khanna drops subtle hints at what actually sets her better half apart from the rest of the Khans to Johar ruefully acknowledging that he has dug his own grave by inviting Khanna on the show.
Now you know why she is @mrsfunnybones! #KoffeeWithKaran pic.twitter.com/ihyhcpsQvj
— Star World (@StarWorldIndia) November 6, 2016
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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.
