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Sony Le Plex HD to premiere ‘Ex Machina’
MUMBAI: Sony Le Plex HD is all geared up to air the TV premiere of the Oscar award winning film Ex Machina. The movie will air on 6 November at 1 pm and 9 pm.
Extending its promise of keeping the audience hooked to mega premieres, the channel is showcasing this film for cine-lovers, making their weekend entertaining.
Directed by Alex Garland, the movie is a psychological and cerebral thriller featuring Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Sonoya Mizuno. The movie is about a unique scientific experiment where the emotions and intelligence of a female robot are assessed by interacting with her. As the movie progresses, it sees a turn of events when Caleb played by Gleeson realizes that he is the human component chosen for a test that evaluates the capabilities of artificial intelligence. When his bond with Ava played by Vikander grows and things do not go as planned, the situations turn more deceptive than anyone’s imagination.
The movie highlights high quality visual effects and gives a peek into the future. It has also been nominated for several awards functions and has bagged many accolades
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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.
