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Disney India’s Broadway Style Musical Beauty and The Beast Red Carpet
MUMBAI: Disney India brought back the magical experience of Beauty and the Beast live on stage at NSCI dome Worli with its second weekend of shows. The locally produced musical theatre extravaganza attracted a huge crowd of celebrities and once again left everyone mesmerized with their breath-taking performances.
The show spotted Varun Dhawan, Boman Irani, Terrence Lewis, Vishal Dadlani, Karishma Tanna and others attending the grand musical.
The highly anticipated show boasts of world class production values, extravagant sets, stunning costumes and over 100 of the finest musical theatre performers bringing alive the magical love story live on stage. Some of the prominent people who worked with Indian production include – Vikranth Pawar (Show Director and Creative Head, Live Entertainment at Disney India), Lesle Lewis (Music Direction), Terence Lewis (Choreography), Varsha Jain (Set Design), Gavin Miguel (Costume Design), Pallavi Devika (Hair & Make-up) and Suzanne D’Mello (Vocal Training). Most outstanding is the fact that this production of the Beauty and the Beast musical has been entirely developed locally but retains the original script and memorable music of the Broadway show.
The show (in English) runs for 130 minutes in duration and has only select shows in Mumbai.
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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.
