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&flix brings World Television Premiere of ‘Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood’ on 16 Feb
MUMBAI: ‘In this town, it can all change…like that.’ That’s how the celebrated filmmaker Quentin Tarantino introduces his 9th and penultimate masterpiece – ‘Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood.’ With a star-studded cast and legendary pairing of Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, the film is surely no ordinary affair! Taking viewers on a time capsule, &flix, the destination for the biggest Hollywood hits, gives fans a chance to leap into the golden days with the Flix First World Television Premiere of the biggest and most-awarded blockbuster of the year on Sunday, February 16, 2020, at 1PM, 7PM and 9PM. Available with the Zee Prime English Pack, the channel enables fans to relive the magic of Tarantino’s magnum opus on television, before the US! The film also airs as a part of Club Privé this Sunday, February 16, 2020, at 1PM and 9PM on &PrivéHD and at 2PM on Zee Café.
Winner of 3 Golden Globe Awards and nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, the film opens the doorways to Hollywood of the 60s where things are at the brink of a change. The story revolves around a fading TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his long-time stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) who make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. Tensions are rife as Rick needs to make a difficult decision while things are hunky-dory with his famous next-door neighbours Roman Polanski (Rafał Zawierucha) and Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie). But it’s not all rainbows and sunshine as their lives entangle unfolding intense drama, action and crime with the movie culminating into one exhilarating climax.
Will Hollywood ever be the same? Only one way to find out!
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.
