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AXN to air action series ‘Scorpion’
MUMBAI: AXN is all set to bring back the nerdy action series Scorpion. The series starts from 22 August and will be aired every Monday to Friday at 10 pm.
The show is based on the true story of Walter O’Brien, a businessman and an information technologist with an IQ of 197, higher than that of Einstein.
The story revolves around Walter and his team of genius misfits, who belong to the U.S Department of Homeland Security’s new think tank. Walter’s team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviourist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru. By pooling their extensive technological knowledge to solve mind-boggling predicaments, they amaze federal agent Cabe Gallo, who shared a harrowing history with Walter O’Brien.
However, while this socially awkward group is comfortable with each other’s humour and quirks, life outside their circle confounds them. So they rely on Paige Dineen, who has a young and gifted son, to translate the world for them. At last, these quirky masterminds have found the perfect job: a place where they can apply their exceptional brainpower to solve the nation’s crisis, while also helping each other learn how to fit in.
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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.
