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&flix celebrates Mother’s Day with ‘A Bad Mom’s Christmas’
MUMBAI: Mother’s Day is all about acknowledging and honouring all that your mom does for you. Due to the influence of popular culture, the day has turned into a celebration of ideal motherhood. But our mother, no matter how loving and brilliant they may be, are human too, and imperfect. So this year, English movie channel &flix is marking Mother’s Day with the Indian television premiere of A Bad Mom’s Christmas. Set to air on &flix on 9 May at 1 pm and 9 pm, the movie will also be screened on Zee Cafe at 2 pm, and on &PriveHD at 3 pm and 11 pm.
A Bad Mom’s Christmas is directed by The Hangover screenwriter Jon Lucas and Scott Moore and stars Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, Susan Sarandon, and Jay Hernandez in lead roles.
A fun family entertainer, the movie follows our three under-appreciated and over-burdened women as they rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas. And if creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn’t hard enough, they must do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers. By the end of the journey, witness the three badass moms redefine how to make the holidays special for all and discover a closer relationship with their mothers.
A Bad Mom’s Christmas released worldwide on 1 November 2017 to generally mixed to positive reviews from critics and audiences. A sequel to this movie, tentatively titled Bad Moms’ Moms, is currently in development.
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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.
