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Experience the cinematic journey of the Academy’s finest with &Privé HD’s ‘The Winning Side’
As the stage is getting set for one of the most important nights in Hollywood, film enthusiasts across the world are waiting with bated breath to see their favourite stars take home the golden statuette. While the highly-anticipated night soon approaches, &Privé HD, the premium English movie destination, brings to its audiences The Winning Side, an exclusive property showcasing the other side of Academy award winning movies. Started on 5th of February, the channel is presenting a cinematic experience of Academy award recipients from the days past to those of today, weeknights at 9.
Through this property &Privé HD celebrates some of the spectacular cinematic stories on celluloid which are testimony to the unquestionable dedication to the craft of filmmaking. Movies shown during this property include Hugo, Arrival, Beginners, Sleepy Hollow, Jackie, Bridge of Spies, A Beautiful Mind, and Memoirs of Geisha amongst others. The last movie to be showcased will be last year’s Best Picture winner Moonlight. With a total of 45 Academy Awards won amongst the 20 films that are being telecasted, the channel continues to uphold its promise of offering finest films to its nonconformist audience.
To promote the property, the channel recently associated with The Kala Ghoda Festival for its cinema vertical. While it screened last year’s multiple Academy award winner Moonlight, it also showcased this year’s Best Film nominee, The Post which will be making its Indian television premiere on &Privé HD this year!
Since its launch, &Privé HD has presented some of the most-awaited critically-acclaimed movies for its audiences. Now, it’s time to revel in the perfectly-timed, biggest Academy award winning movie festival with The Winning Side.
So, don’t forget to catch the other side of these spectacular movies. Tune-in to &Privé HD weeknights at 9!
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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.
