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Star acquires telenovelas ‘Blue An Angel’, ‘Runaway Love’ from RCTV
MUMBAI: A guardian angel sent to earth to protect a girl! A woman and man trying to escape their suffocating existence!
These are the themes of two telenovela formats that have been acquired by Star India from Venezuelan media company RCTV International.
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ng to Indiantelevision.com, RCTV International GM and V-P Jose Escalante confirmed the news that two shows Runaway Love and Blue An Angel have been sold to Star. Sources in Star India stated that the two shows are a part of the slew of formats that the broadcaster has acquired recently at events like MipTV.
Runaway Love deals with a poor book salesman accidentally meeting a wealthy woman on the same day they decide to buy their wedding rings.
What follows is a story of passion and danger. The woman imagined that she would have a safe life as she is engaged to the son of a very rich man. Their adventures begin when they are incriminated in the robbery of a jewelry store. They see being together as an opportunity to escape from their stifled lives. Things get complicated further when the woman’s father joins in the chase.
Blue An Angel, meanwhile, deals with a guardian angel who is sent to Earth to protect a young girl named April. Blue has little discipline and has a penchant for getting into trouble. He also admires the beauty of women. However, before he goes to earth his teacher warns him not to get involved with any mortal.
He takes this advice until he meets April, an English language teacher at an orphanage. April’s grandfather is the orphanage’s benefactor.
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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.
