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Star World Premiere to air finale of ‘American Horror Story: Roanoke’
MUMBAI: Ryan Murphy’s much anticipated season 6 of anthology horror series American Horror Story: Roanoke is finally coming to an end. Star World Premiere will air the finale episode of the show on 20 November at 11 pm.
Roanoke follows the story of Shelby Miller played by Sarah Paulson and Matt Miller played by Cuba Gooding Jr., a young couple who move from LA to North Carolina countryside into a seemingly perfect farmhouse built in the 18th century. However, the building’s close proximity to the site of the Lost Colony’s disappearance along with horrific events taking place at their home causes the couple to start sensing something dark and eerie underneath the facade. Soon, a colony of spirits begins to haunt and threaten them as they uncover the murderous past of the farmhouse and meet the previous owners.
In the previous chapters, it was revealed that Lee played by Adina Porter was the last person alive surviving the control of the forest nymph who murdered many characters including her ex-husband. Audrey played by Paulson also managed to live until she was shot by the police while attempting to kill Lee.
In the grand season finale of American Horror Story: Roanoke,Lee will be seen going on trial for the murder of Monet played by Angela Bassett, alongside the attempted murder case of Audrey Tindall. But what’s more anticipated in the show’s phenomenal finale is the return of Paulson’s best American Horror Story character to date – Lana Winters, a journalist as well as Golden Globe winner Matt Bomer of the series’ season 5, Hotel in an all-new avatar, this season. Another expected return includes fan favourite Evan Peters.
For a season that has been as unpredictable as this one has, the upcoming finale could go in any number of directions. Will Lee face justice for her actions? Is she still possessed by the spirit of the Butcher? Who has assembled all of the found footage that comprised Return to Roanoke?
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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.
