English Entertainment
Black Dog Sparkling Water presents Easy Evenings with Colin and Brad
MUMBAI: Black DogSparkling Water presents Easy Evenings with world famous laughter riot duo and comedy mavericks – Brad Sherwood & Colin Mochrie from ‘Whose Line is it Anyway?’ to India in March.
Here is a rare chance to unwind, relax and witness the performance of the greatest Improv artists of all time who will make you laugh to your heart’s content. Armed with an arsenal 0f sharp wit and inimitable style, comic legends Brad & Colin take on the live stage across Hyderabad, Mumbai, Gurgaon& Bengaluru to create original scenes and deliver hilarious one liners through their Interactive Comedy show. The events will be hosted by India’s funniest lady Anu Menon and she will also take centre stage with an opening act in each city.
Schedule:
City wise venues
Hyderabad: 22nd March 2016 – ShiplakalaVedika, Hitech City, Madhapura
Mumbai: 25th March 2016 – JamshedBhabha Theatre, NCPA, Nariman Point
Gurgaon: 27th March 2016 – Club Patio, South City – 1
Bangalore: 29th March 2016 – The Lalit Ashok, Kumara Krupa High Grounds
Tickets for the Black DogSparkling Water presents Easy Evenings with Colin and Brad can be bought from bookmyshow.com –https://in.bookmyshow.com/mumbai/events/black-dog-easy-evenings/ET00039173
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.
