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AXN delivers a ‘Messiah’ on Platinum Showcase
MUMBAI: AXN will deliver serial killer chills in its Platinum Showcase block. The channel will air the two part television film Messiah on 19 April and on 26 April at 10 pm. The film is a product of the BBC.
The lead character detective Red Metcalfe has a special gift getting into the minds of killers. A brilliant man and a top investigator on the police force, he has the ability to track down murderers by learning what makes them tick.
his latest cases involves a serial killer who starts stalking the streets of London, attacking and leaving his victims with their tongues removed and a silver spoon inserted in their mouths. Red realises that there is a bizarre connection between the murders the killer is re-enacting the deaths of the twelve apostles.
With the murderer still on the loose, threatening to strike anytime, Red and his top team of investigators from Scotland Yard are in a race against time to uncover the clues amongst the victims of the gruesome and terrifying murders, and stop the body count from rising again.
With a killer that appears to be always one step ahead, Red finds himself up against an adversary that will force him to face his own past and secrets that he is determined to hide at all costs.
Messiah stars Ken Stott Shallow Grave, Plunkett & Macleane and Kieran O’Brien Band of Brothers, Coronation Street.
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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.
