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Sidharth & Jacqueline to set fire to Koffee couch
MUMBAI: 2017 has begun on a truly steamy note. After Shahid and Mira Kapoor, get ready to turn up the heat with Sidharth Malhotra and Jacqueline Fernandez, who are set to appear on Koffee with Karan. The actors will be seen on the Koffee couch on 8 January 2017 at 9 pm on Star World and Star World HD.
The two are candid and unabashed while facing Karan Johar’s questions about their budding ‘friendship’ and various other things. From fielding questions about Alia Bhatt to being the ‘booty’ that gets ‘beat’ to ‘warming’ Fernandez up – Malhotra’s naughty secrets come tumbling out.
Fernandez adds to the steamy equation as she playfully flirts with Malhotra – asking him to marry her in French at one point, leading to comical consequences. Johar is left rolling with laughter as the two actors continue with their hilarious antics making this one of the spiciest episodes to look out for on this season of Koffee with Karan.
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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.
