English Entertainment
Star Movies blockbuster lineup for Yuletide 2015
MUMBAI: Star Movies, the English movie channel, is all geared up to showcase the biggest movie premieres of 2015. The blockbuster premiere month starts from December14, 2015 and runs until December24, 2015 and will be aired at the prime time slot of 9 pm every weekday.
The merrymaking begins with Captain America a.k.a. Steve Rogers played by Chris Evans battling a mysterious assassin called the Winter Soldier on December14. Captain America will be followed by movieslike Black Widow and Falcon.
This will be followed by Non-Stop, which premieres on December 15. The movie revolves around Liam Neeson, in the lead, springing into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages that put his fellow passengers at risk. Next in the row is Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb which will be aired on December 17 followed by Exodus: Gods & Kings on December 18.
The next in this mega movie lineup has Scarlett Johansson and Dylan O’Brien starrer, Lucy. In the movie, both encounter a strange twist of fate that lands them in a situation that no man has ever explored. The movie will unveil on December 21 followed by Maze Runner on December 22.
Finally, the end of this blockbuster movie month on television will see the party animals out in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The movie will be aired on 24 December 2015.
English Entertainment
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.
