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&flix to premiere ‘Miss Bala’ on Dec 22
MUMBAI: A Mexican drug cartel, corrupt cops and a girl trying to save her best friend, how far are you willing to go? Available as part of the Zee Prime English pack, &flix, the destination for the biggest Hollywood hits, brings you the #FlixFirstPremiere of ‘Miss Bala’ – a story of how two girls face their biggest nightmare. Premiering this Sunday, December 22, 2019, at 1PM and 9PM, Miss Bala sees Gina Rodriguez, who plays Gloria, in a new avatar. Directed by multiple award nominee Catherine Hardwicke, the film is based on a 2011 Mexican film with the same name. The movie also stars Ismael Cruz Córdova, who plays Suzu and Anthony Mackie, who plays Jimmy.
The film opens with Gloria, as she drives to Tijuana, Mexico to visit her best friend (Suzu) who is competing in the local ‘Miss Tijuana’ beauty pageant. During a night out, her friend is abducted, and Gloria soon finds herself a pawn in a dangerous game being played by the CIA, the DEA and a charismatic yet ruthless cartel kingpin. Finding the power, she never knew she had, Gloria plays one organization against the other, as she seeks to rescue her friend. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength. Will she be able to save her friend?
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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.
