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AXN to launch ‘Ray Donovan’ on 7 December
MUMBAI: AXN is gearing up to launch the American television series Ray Donovan on 7 December.
The series will be aired from Monday to Friday at 11 pm.
Ray Donovan stars Liev Schreiber as the lead. He is portrayed as a guy who makes the problems of the city’s celebrities, superstar athletes, and business moguls disappear.
The show also stars Jon Voight, who portrays the role of Ray’s father named as Mickey Donovan.
The series narrates the story of Ray Donovan who is a professional fixer for the rich and famous of Los Angeles. The character is portrayed as a cool and sophisticated person but at the same time is shown quite ruthless. Ray continues to seek balance between the demands of his family, including his volatile relationship with Mickey and his adamant and attractive Hollywood clients.
The channel has planned a 360 degree campaign including on-air, social media and on-ground to promote the show. The channel also aims to further strengthen its core consumer engagement beyond television.
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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.
