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Sharon Stone guest stars in ‘The Practice’ on Star World
MUMBAI: On 4 May at 9 pm the episode of The Practice on Star World will see actress Sharon Stone Basic Instinct putting in a guest appearance.
Set in Boston the eight season of the show will have provocative, issue-related stories, coupled with the creator, writer and producer David E. Kelley’s trademark humour.
In the episode titled The Chosen Stone plays the role of Sheila Carlisle, Alan Shore’s (James Spader) friend who appears to be mentally inept. Shore agrees to help his friend who is also a successful attorney who claims God speaks to her, and who was recently fired from her law firm for being mentally incompetent.
Meanwhile, there are startling new developments in the case of Brad Stanfield (Chris O’Donnell), whom Ellenor and Jamie are defending for allegedly poisoning his pregnant wife.
According to Kelley picking Stone for the part was a stroke of genius. On her role in the legal series, Kelley commented, “She did such a great job. She really inhabited this character. She’s crazy one minute and cutely sane the next. She did it remarkably well.” Stone won an Emmy for best guest actor for her role in The Practice.
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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.
