English Entertainment
Celebrate this festive season with Movies NOW, MNX and Romedy NOW’s exciting programming line-up
With the festive season around the corner, Times Network English Entertainment Channels – Movies NOW, MNX and Romedy NOW has announced a special programming line-up, bringing an eclectic mix of movies to keep viewers entertained and engaged this Dussehra and Diwali. As we cope with the new norms of celebrations, the channels are keeping the festive spirits high with its best in class English entertainment and presents a perfect opportunity for the viewers to spend this festive season with their families and binge watch their all-time favourite Hollywood movies.
Kick-starting the Dussehra season, Movies NOW and MNX brings an exciting selection of Hollywood blockbusters which will air every night at 9pm from October 16 – 25, 2020. Celebrating the victory of good over evil, Movies NOW is all set to air Terminator 3, Star Wars, Hell Boy, Evil Dead and Venom amongst others, under its special property ‘Ten Faces of Evil’. With ‘X-Terminators’, MNX will air super hits like Daredevil, Equalizer II, Hollowman and Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning amongst others.
Gearing up for the festival of lights, Diwali, Movies NOW adds sparkle to the celebration with ‘Flash N’ Flare’, starting October 26, every night at 9pm and will air action packed movies including Creed II, Hancock, Alpha and Spectre. Offering viewers an electrifying experience, MNX adds to the Diwali blast with Xplosive Nights, which will air some of the unmissable Hollywood megahits including Bad Boys, Knight and Day, Hobbit and Superfly, from October 26 – November 15,2020, every night at 9pm.
Lighting up this Diwali with the best of visual treat for the viewers, Romedy NOW brings ‘Diwali Delights’, starting November 1 – 14, 2020 every night at 9pm. The property will air some of the most wholesome Hollywood movies including Marley & Me, First Daughter, Love & Other Drugs, Down With Love, Burnt and Bride Wars.
Get ready to watch your favourite Hollywood movies and celebrate this festive season with Movies NOW, MNX and Romedy NOW
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.
