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DC villains take over Warner TV this fall
MUMBAI: Villains are making an epic comeback on Warner TV this season, as DC Comics’ most nefarious foes will battle it out against their legendary superhero counterparts in three high-profile return series.
On Tuesdays, Gotham fanatics will have to buckle up for Season 2 in the next instalment of this Batman origins-story. Having won theCritic’s Choice Television Award in the Most Exciting New Series category in its first season, Gotham Season 2 will see the rise of new and ambitious villains, as well as the emergence of the infamous Riddler, Penguin and The Joker. Right after that, the channel also premieres the highly anticipated first season of Blindspot. It will be revving up suspense and thrills in a larger conspiracy setting, pointing towards a series of unsolved crimes and a beautiful body full of tattoos.
iZombi makes a comeback with its second season on Wednesdays. The series follows Rose McIver stars as Olivia “Liv” Moore, a 25-year-old medical resident on the fast track to a perfect life until she’s turned into a zombie.
On Thursdays, season 4 of Arrow makes its mark on the channel. Uneasy alliances and rivalries shift as Oliver Queen faces his most difficult challenge yet – facing villainous Ra’s al Ghul and the League of Assassins.
On 26 September, Warner TV will also play tribute to arguably the biggest superhero with Batman Day. Watch out for a Batman movie marathon starting from 10:30 am, that will feature Batman Begins and The Dark Knight franchise. This is the start of a crescendo, which will see a new season of The Flash, and premieres of Supergirl and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow hit the screen in 2016.
As if that wasn’t enough, Warner TV will also exclusively air the latest series of The Big Bang Theory starting 25 September.
The summary of the line up is as follows:
. Tuesdays: Gotham S2 premieres 22 September / 9 pm (SG/HK/MY/PH)
. Tuesdays: Blindspot premieres 22 September / 9:50 pm
. Wednesdays: iZombie S2 premieres 7 October / 9 pm
. Thursdays: Arrow S4 premieres 8 October / 9 pm
. Friday: The Big Bang Theory premieres 25 September / 9 pm
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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.
