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Mission Smart Cities 2020 Event by WION
MUMBAI: WION – India's only International English News Channel is hosting the Mission Smart Cities 2020 event in Delhi on the 27th of December, 2019 at 5 pm.
The '100 Smart Cities Mission' was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015 to drive economic growth and improve the quality of life by enabling local development and harnessing technology.
The Mission Smart Cities 2020 event by WION will focus on key topics, with session 1 focussed on designing the future of India and unravelling the buzzword “Smart Cities” and session 2 dealing with India’s real estate outlook on growth, sustainability, and the economy. From climate neutral cities, technology and transport to government initiatives and co-working spaces, stakeholders and industry stalwarts would discuss the opportunities and challenges of smart cities and real estate at the event.
Mr. Hardeep Singh Puri, the Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, Civil Aviation and the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry will be the Chief Guest for the event. He will share his views and insights on Mission Smart Cities 2020.
The event would be aired from 5 pm to 6:30 pm – Live on WION, its social media pages and on https://www.wionews.com/live-tv
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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.
