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Star World Premiere HD to air finale episode of Better Things
MUMBAI: Star World Premiere HD is all geared up to premiere the final season of Better Things. The final episode will premiere on this 17 November at 10 pm.
The series, centered on Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon) – a divorced Hollywood actress who juggles between raising her three daughters and focusing on her professional and personal commitments, captures characters rarely seen on television — single mothers, young girls and middle-aged and elderly women — and depicts them in an authentic, thought-provoking light. Unlike the other moms on television, Adlon’s Sam isn’t just trying to survive. Rather, she is holding on and doing her best and, with the grace that so few of us have, doing it without losing her temper every five or so minutes.
On the season finale titled as Only Women Bleed, Adlon remarked, “I have favorite moments, but this episode is my favorite because it’s more like a portrait. It doesn’t overly explain, but it really exposes you to this family and how they just get through the day. That scene in the morning, when everyone comes in and out of the house — it’s more like a feeling. You’re watching what Sam has to deal with.”
The season finale is promised to be an emotional one as it brings out the beauty in the ordinary chaos of life and holds onto the love in a family that often spews hateful things at one another.
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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.
