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Bring in festive fun on 25 Dec with animated movies
MUMBAI: The warmth of Christmas is best enjoyed with the entire family, and Star Movies will celebrate this special day with some of the best animated Disney titles as part of the Jingle All Day festival.
Star Movies has a stellar showcase of titles that include a heart-warming father-son tale of Finding Nemo, an all-time classic The Lion King, the fantastic tale of Brave, an extraordinary celebration of friendship Toy Story 3 and a magical journey of emotions – Inside Out. These movies together boast of seven Oscar® wins and 9 Oscar® nominations.
Our Christmas delight doesn’t end here, the festivities continue with the premiere of Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip on 25 December at 9 pm.
Huddle together starting 11 am on 25 December and tune-in to Star Movies and soak in the Christmas spirit.
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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.
