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FX to premiere season 1 of ‘The Missing’
MUMBAI: FX is all set to premiere Season 1 of the suspense drama anthology series, The Missing. The James Nesbitt and Frances O’Conner starrer will premiere on 30 November 2015 at 10 pm.
The show is an anthological series chronicling the life of a married couple, Tony Hughes and Emily Hughes, played by James Nesbitt and Frances O’Connor respectively, after they lose their five year old son, Oliver, while vacationing in France. The show is conceptualized around Tony’s exhaustive search which fractures his marriage to Emily and threatens to destroy his life.
The show is available for Indian viewers and is narrated over two frames simultaneously in two countries, as it explores the emotional cost borne by parents after a child’s abduction.
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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.
