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AXN brings double treat for ‘Sherlock’ fans with restaurant hopping and binge watching
MUMBAI: It is Benedict Cumberbatch’s aka Sherlock Holmes’ birthday month. And to celebrate the birthday of the man who plays the most iconic detective on screen Sherlock Holmes, AXN has taken an unconventional route for its fans. In addition to showing all Sherlock episodes back-to-back for the first time, the channel will host a unique restaurant crawl across 5 premium venues in 5 cities – Mumbai, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Pune and Kolkata.
To be a part of this premium restaurant crawl, one can register on AXN’s Facebook page by answering questions around their favourite Sherlock character. At the crawl, participants get to play detectives! Each venue will be linked to a Sherlock character that the participants will have to look for. Upon finding the ‘cos-player’, they need to answer a simple Sherlock-related question correctly, click a selfie with the character and upload it on Facebook to avail free drinks and starters. One also needs to get a stamp from the cosplayers to be eligible to win some cool merchandise at the final venue.
Sherlock restaurant Crawl is AXN’s perfect gift to celebrate Benedict’s birthday as Sherlokians will get to party and relive Sherlock moments, the Sherlock way!
The channel will also air all four seasons of the show along with Abominable Bride, July 24 onwards every Monday to Friday, from 10PM to 12AM. Watching Benedict’s finest work ‘Sherlock Holmes’ for his birthday is the best treat for all you Sherlockians out there. So are you all ready to be part of the biggest birthday bash?
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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.
