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History Channel to air documentary on plots to kill Hitler
MUMBAI: The History Channel will telecast a documentary on the plots that were hatched to kill former Nazi Supremo Adolf Hitler and his miraclous escape on 12 December at 10 pm.
A company release informs, that over the course of World War II, numerous assassination attempts were made on Adolf Hitler’s life, but none were successful. The conspiracies such as the Burgerbrau Beer Hall Bomb in 1939, the human bomb of Colonel Von Gersdorff in 1943 or the bomb at the Wolf’s Lair in 1944 – plans were made by both – military dissenters in Germany and the allied forces. All the plots either failed or were aborted at the nth hour.
History Channel senior VP, content and communication Dilshad Master said, “The History Channel offers factual programming in a story telling manner that is entertaining and at the same time informative. The channel variety in programming and its objective approach to each event and personality ensures that viewers see it as an authority on historical events and personalities”
The whole week, starting from 13 December will follow World War II action in Biography, at 10 pm, showcasing personalities who led these battles.
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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.
