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Star World’s new shows to have elements of fate, sci fi
Mumbai: Star World will launch two shows next month – Wild Card and Enterprise. The first one Wild Card will air every Tuesday at 9 pm from 2 March.
The show deals with feisty Zoe Busiek (Joely Fisher). When we first see her she is working a blackjack table in the gambling den of Las Vegas. When her sister dies in a car crash Zoe returns to Chicago and finds that the insurance company refuses to pay up as they feel that her sister was the reason for the mishap.
She launches her own investigation as her sister by nature was always a cautious person at the wheel. Her endeavour leads to her getting a job as an employee of the insurance company’s special investigations unit. Her personal qualities of resourcefullness, imagination, scepticism and persistence come in handy.
The other show is totally different in tone. Enterprise will air every Saturday at 9 pm from 13 March. This is the fifth installment of the Star Trek franchise. This prequel series, set 150 years before the original Star Trek series. It focusses on the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the formation of the Federation and the Earth-Romulan Wars. The series is set aboard the Earth ship Enterprise NX-01, captained by Jonathan Archer played by Scott Bakula.
The show was conceived with the aim of widening the Star Trek fan base by attracting non-science fiction fans to the show, In addition the channel will also air the special Celine Dion In Las Vegas: Open Night on 31 March at 10 pm. This was This is her first Las Vegas concert. She belts out hits like I’m Alive. The show was nominated for an Emmy for the cinematography and is hosted by Justin Timberlake.
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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.
