English Entertainment
Star World to air Celine Dion Las Vegas concert live
MUMBAI: It’s going to be a dazzling show in the desert. Celine Dion is performing at Las Vegas on Wednesday 31 March 2004. But for the fan back home, Star World will be airing the concert live 10 pm onwards.
The channel will be airing the one-hour special Celine in Las Vegas…Opening Night Live! followed by the worldwide premiere of the music diva’s superstar performance on a new $95 million theatre, specifically built for her remarkable three year live engagement.
Created by Franco Dragone (creator of Cirque du Soleil’s “O”, “Mystere”) the show has been in the works for over two years and is a combination of the talents of the multi-Grammy Award winner Celine with the imaginative marvels of Dragone, says a company release.
Among the songs to be performed are “Power of Love,” “I’m Alive,” “The First Time,” “I Wish,” “I Drove All Night,” and “I Surrender,” as well as Celine’s magnificent tribute to music legends Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee (“I’ve Got the World on a String” and “Fever”).
Produced by Emmy-Award winning Ken Ehrlich (the grammys), this special is to be hosted by pop star Justin Timberlake, adds the release.
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.
