English Entertainment
GoQuest, Arre tie up for content syndication
MUMBAI: GoQuest Media has tied up with Arre, a multi-format, multi-genre digital media brand co-founded by B Sai Kumar, Ajay Chacko and Sanjay Ray Chaudhuri to distribute and monetize Arré’s vibrant content offering with the digital players & re-broadcasters across the world.
Commenting on the association, GoQuest Media managing director Vivek Lath, said, “GoQuest Media has in the last few years generated great value in content monetization to some of the leading Indian broadcasters in GEC space. To continue to add value to our partners, we are glad to associate with Arré to distribute and syndicate its quality shows like Official Chukyagiri, A.I.SHA – My Virtual Girlfriend, I Don’t Watch TV and Arre Ho Ja Re-Gender which have gathered great response from the viewers in a very short span of time. Our aim is to best optimize revenue potential of such shows from Arre in the years to come through our network of affiliates and distribution partners across the world”.
Arre co- founder and CEO Ajay Chacko stated, “We’re committed to bring quality infotainment and entertainment content to our audiences. Our recent video offerings across fiction, reality as well as our documentaries have shown very good traction with young audiences in India. Through this partnership, we hope to reach out to a wider and varied set of viewers in India as well as globally, across linear and non-linear platforms.
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.
