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GoQuest to present its formats at MIPCOM 2016
MUMBAI: GoQuest Formats, a non-fiction and fiction formats subsidiary of GoQuest Media Ventures- a global multi -platform for content syndication, distribution & production, is keeping up to its promise made at MIPTV 2016 to various global clients that GoQuest will be producing pilots of its 2 formats and presenting it at MIPCOM 2016.
The formats are:
Ultimate Cinderella: A life makeover show, this unique TV program gives a second chance to deserving women changing their lives forever.
Friends ForNever: An exhilarating quiz game show where best friends go at each-other for a cash prize.
This has come on the back of its having generated considerable interest on its paper formats from the participants at MIPTV 2016. This was announced by Vivek Lath, Managing Director and founder of GoQuest Media. The international pilots of the formats have been developed to showcase the novelty and entertainment factor in these FORMATS. The paper format of these shows received great response from participants from China, Greece, France, Germany, Turkey and UAE.
GoQuest Formats will be presenting three more formats at MIPCOM:
Sing-A-Songwriter– A unique singing reality show which wraps all the aspects of a song i.e. singing, songwriting and composing into one super music reality format. On Sing-A-Songwriter, every song is a new song.
Dinner Karaoke: A fun weekend format which searches for a Karaoke star among regular restaurant diners.
Kitchen 50: 50: A cooking show where two cooks who know each other in real life go against each other in a cook off to win a 10,000 dollar prize.
All the formats have been designed to elicit a lot of excitement and drama for the viewer’s globally. Ease in execution is another advantage for broadcasters looking to produce these formats.
Vivek Lath further adds GoQuest has collaborated with vibrant creators from Europe and North America to come up with ideas that have global resonance and cuts across various genres of Reality TV. GoQuest is approaching MIPCOM with an expectation to not only earn a name for itself in the FORMAT space with its offering but also to soak-in the latest trends and the current needs to help our creators and collaborators to continually develop more exciting options in the future”
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.
