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Get ready to witness the Dark Phoenix rise from the ashes, for the first time on Indian television
NEW DELHI: The popular comic series X-Men, has captivated audiences since a long time, whether it be the cartoon series, the original trilogy — X 3, or subsequent adaptions like Days of Future Past and Logan — fans have long been drawn to the fantastic plot, subtle nuances and analogies, the X-Men universe has to our own world.
The mutants are back in X-Men: Dark Phoenix, with another exquisite enticing adventure. The stellar star cast includes Game of Thrones fame, Sophie Turner taking on the role of the complex, enigmatic and destructive – Phoenix. Turner plays the iconic character, Dr. Jean Grey, who works intimately with Professor X, but struggles to control her natural mutant abilities and the super powers of her alter ego, Phoenix, who is wild, fierce and hard to tame, resulting in pure anarchy and mayhem for everyone in her orbit.
On playing the role Sophie Turner commented, “The story of Dark Phoenix, takes off after Apocalypse when the X-Men are sent to space, Jean, therein gets hit by a solar wave which manifest this crazy, uncontrollable energy within her, The Dark Phoenix, and that begins her unraveling, and the unraveling of the X-Men as a family. I think that’s what draws me in, playing these really strong female characters, even if they are set in supernatural and fantastical settings, there is a real human connection behind it.”
Watch the X-Men: Dark Phoenix saga unfold, for the first time on Indian Television, on Star Movies, 28th June, 12 PM and 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.
