English Entertainment
GoQuest Media brings Croatian romance drama to Africa
MUMBAI: India based worldwide television content sales agency, GoQuest Media is living up to its name of bringing exciting dramas of various genres to its clients worldwide.
A recent development in this regard is Lara’s Choice, a popular Croatian romance drama that has landed in Africa following a deal for the English speaking territories in Africa between GoQuest Media and Beta Films, the global drama and formats distributor.
Lara’s Choice is a story about the choice of a woman between two men, the choice between career and family, loyalty, and the battle for survival. The show’s 50th episode was viewed by a record-breaking 1.2 million viewers in Croatia.
GoQuest has been committed to bringing variety to its content offerings to the television and digital platforms in Africa.
“In the past we have licensed one of the best Turkish dramas to Africa. With the evolving market, more opportunities will arise for Eastern European dramas and a series like Lara’s choice will give the African audience, a new flavour of drama entertainment” said GoQuest Media managing director Vivek Lath.
English Entertainment
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.
