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NGC to offer viewers amazing moments
MUMBAI: This month NGC is looking to add juice to its programming line up with Nat Geo Amazing Moments. The show kicks off on 26 March at 8 pm.
The 12 part series counts down the best events captured by National Geographic’s lens. Featuring imagery and first hand accounts from scientists, journalists and filmmakers on the scene, the programme lets viewers experience moments of discovery, adventure and shocking animal behaviour.
NGC India VP marketing Rajesh Sheshadri said, “Nat Geo’s Most Amazing Moments showcases a collection of real-life experiences that makes our viewers think again about their definition of possible and impossible by going beyond their thought horizons. National Geographic’s unparalleled cinematography also adds to the thrilling experience, which I am confident will leave our audience wanting more!”
The twelve part series follows a theme for each episode. These episodes take the viewers on a roller coaster ride of danger, thrill and close encounters with death. Seeing Is Believing captures most amazing moments brilliantly on film. From nature’s fury, dangerous rescue missions, unpredictable animal behaviour to painful human rituals, this never seen before amazing footage leaves the viewer thinking again about all that’s around them.
Most Thrilling Moments, the first episode of the series presents daring moments. Viewers will find out what it’s like to have a 200-mile-an-hour racecar fly through the air, right over ones head and a descent into an active lava-spewing volcano.They will also see a real-life vampire drink human blood and venture down one of the world’s most violent stretches of whitewater.
Another episode Close Encounters features surprising moments when predator meets prey, man meets animal and people look death in the face in some of the most incredible scenes ever captured on film. Viewers will get up close and personal with rats, giant squids or swarms of stinging bees and pray for passengers on a sinking cruise ship or pilots in a mid-air collision.
The series concludes with Predators of War on 31 March at 8 pm. Predators on South Africa’s Mala Mala game reserve, including cheetahs, hyenas and lions, engage in a no-holds-barred battle for slowly diminishing water and food.
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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.
