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&flix brings the explosive action thriller this Sunday with ‘S.W.A.T.: Under Siege’
MUMBAI: It’s triple the trouble and thrice the thrill – this season, your favorite Special Weapons and Tactics team – S.W.A.T. are back with the third installment of the blockbuster series. Titled, S.W.A.T.: Under Siege, the slick action-crime feature promises to uphold its legacy and keeps you hooked straight from the start. Bringing this high-voltage action thriller to your television screens, &flix, the all-new destination for the most-awaited Hollywood hits, is set to premiere ‘S.W.A.T.: Under Siege’ this Sunday, August 26th at 1PM & 9PM. Directed by Tony Giglio, the film stars an ensemble cast featuring Sam Jaeger, Adrianne Palicki, Michael Jai White and Kyra Zagorsky as the lead crew members of the S.W.A.T. team.
The film opens with 4th of July on the calendar and the supremely skilled S.W.A.T. team on the move as they are summoned to thwart the plans of a master criminal. In a raid gone horribly wrong, SWAT agent Travis Hall (Sam Jaeger) and his highly trained crew hold a mysterious man captive who turns out to be a high-profile person of interest code named ‘Scorpion’ (Michael Jai White). Soon after, all hell breaks loose as their classic grey SWAT compound comes under siege by the most maniacal drug lord Lars Cohagen (Matthew Marsden) and his army of assault teams in an attempt to capture the prisoner. It is now up to the able hands of Travis and his team to protect Scorpion and find their way out alive. Not just that, the pressing problem of a mole in the SWAT team needs their immediate attention.
With an action-loaded shootout and a nail-biting suspense, will the SWAT agents come out victorious yet again? Block your Sunday as &flix showcases its latest Flix First Feature – S.W.A.T.: Under Siege!
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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.
