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MOVIES NOW brings #StopDreamingAndStartWinning with 100 Mania Season 5 for its viewers
MUMBAI: Movies Now, India’s english movie channel, rings in the festive season with its property ‘100 Mania’, beginning Friday, 15 December at 9pm. In its 5th season, the channel has curated a line-up of some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters like Furious 7, Jurassic World, Disney’s The Jungle Book, Minions and Mad Max Fury Road.
Featuring 100 prizes across 100 blockbusters over 100 days, this watch and win contest gives viewers a chance to win exciting prizes like smartphones, laptops, HD TVs, Macbooks, Playstations, Cars, bikes and lots more by answering simple questions.
Times Network EVP & head entertainment cluster Vivek Srivastava said, “Over the years, 100 Mania has grown from strength to strength and the 5th season promises a higher dose of adrenalin-pumping blockbuster titles coupled with even bigger gratifications. I’m sure this season’s interesting proposition of #StopDreamingAndStartWinning will rob movie buffs of their sleep and induce them to stay glued to their screens, making 100 Mania a huge success.”
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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.
