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MN+ celebrates Steven Soderbergh this month!
MUMBAI: ‘Director’s Cut’, the flagship property of MN+, is preparing to treat its viewers with an exhilarating line-up of gold class Hollywood movies by the Oscar Award winning director ‘Steven Soderbergh’. The ongoing property will air some of the finest works of Steven from 10 December, 2016, every Saturday at 9pm, on MN+. The director known for his versatility in TV series and making films in genres like comedy-drama, horror, biographical, crime thriller and films came to spotlight with his film Sex, Lies, and Videotape in 1989.
The movies that will feature on ‘Director’s Cut’ are Traffic, The Good German and The Informant.
Multiple Academy Award winner Traffic is a criminal thriller exploring drug trafficking from the point of view of different people from diverse walks of life. The movie won critical acclaim and also garnered the Academy Award for Steven Soderbergh as Best Director.
The Good German is a murder mystery encapsulating the story of an American military journalist in the post-war period who gets drawn into an investigation involving his former mistress and his driver. The film won a lot of appreciation from the audiences along with receiving a nomination for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007.
The Informant is a biographical comedy crime film based on the life of whistle blower Mark Whitacre who exposed his organization’s price-fixing tactics.
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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.
