English Entertainment
Movies NOW, Romedy NOW and MNX celebrates this festive season with a special programming line-up
MUMBAI: Celebrating the spirit of this festive season, Times Network's English Entertainment channels, Movies NOW, Romedy NOW and MNX, has curated a programming line-up providing the best of entertainment to its viewers till November 8, 2018.
Kick starting the Dussehra celebrations, under the theme, ‘Good over Evil’, all the three channels have designed a special content which will be aired at 9pm everyday till October 19, 2018. Movies NOW will air blockbuster movies like The Dark Knight, Gladiator, Iron Man 3, Spectre and more under its property ‘10 Faces of Evil’. Romedy NOW, with the property, ‘Love Conquests', will showcase how love triumphs over all in life through a line-up of heart-warming movies which includes Racing Hearts, Before Sunrise, No Reservations, You’ve Got A Mail. ‘X-Terminator’ by MNX is curated to exterminate the sins from our lives and will showcase movies with a similar theme will feature movies like Wrath of Titans, Species, Hobbit, End of Days, Child’s Play and more.
Gearing up for the festival of lights, Diwali, Movies NOW, MNX and Romedy NOW will air some of the best Hollywood movies, under its curated properties like ‘Flash & Flare’ on Movies NOW, ‘Diwali Delights’ on Romedy NOW and ‘Xplosive Nights’ on MNX. Providing an electrifying experience, starting 22nd October to 8th November at 9pm daily, following movies will be aired as part of the line-up,
‘Flash & Fare’, Movies now – The Jungle Book, Captain America: Civil War, Spectre, Zootopia and Finding Dory
‘Diwali Delights’, Romedy NOW – The Boss, How To Make Love Like An Englishman, Sisters, Learning to Drive, Everything, Everything, Maleficent, If I Stay, Tangled and Father of the Bride
‘Xplosive Nights’, MNX – Gone in 60 Seconds, Pirates of the Caribbean – At World’s End, Prince of Persia – Sands of Time, Tron Legacy
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.
