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Romedy Now launches new properties in April
MUMBAI: Romedy Now will be showcasing a host of new movies and series this April.
In addition to an existing line-up of series such as F.R.I.E.N.D.S., Dharma and Greg and The Middle among others, the channel has now launched a new series called – Cristela. For the first time on television, the series will air from Monday to Friday at 7 pm on Romedy Now.
‘Romedy at First Sight’ this month includes a line-up of popular movies like Les Miserables, Rachel Getting Married, Julie & Julia and Blue Crush 2. To make the Saturdays special Everlasting Romedies this month will be featuring titles like The Lake House, City of Angels, and Notting Hill, scheduled at 7 pm.
The Romedy of the month movie is Definitely, Maybe, which will air on 25 April, 2015 at 9 pm. This twisted narration of a love story is directed by Adam Brooks.
The channel will also launch a special property for women – Sweet Nothings – to let them reflect and enjoy their time with hits like – Juno, Notting Hill, Leap Year, Heartbreaker, Ever After Cinderella Story and PS I Love You, scheduled Monday – Friday at 1 pm.
To end the month, the channel will add another series to their line-up – Mike and Molly. A series where love and laughter comes in various shapes and sizes and doesn’t see any limitations to it. The series is scheduled to air on the channel from 27 April Monday – Friday at 8:30 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.
