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Movies Now to air ‘Edge of Tomorrow’
MUMBAI: Tom Cruise’s intense performance in the movie ‘Edge ofTomorrow’ as a soldier, who fights aliens, will air on MOVIES NOW and MOVIES NOW HD on Sunday, July 17, 2016 at 9PM. The science fiction action is also the super movie of the month on MOVIES NOW and stars Emily Blunt in the lead alongside Tom Cruise and Bill Paxton.
Tom Cruise, who plays Major William Cage, is forced to fight a war against an alien race. In the very beginning of the war, Cage finds himself muddled in a mysterious time loop where his day restarts every time he dies; landing him back at the same point from where he started the battle. In his quest to defeat the aliens, he is joined by Warrior Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), who helps him find a way to get closer to winning this battle.
The movie is based on a screenplay of the Japanese novel All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. The film is directed by Doug Liman, who is known for his popular genre of action thrillers like Bourne Identity and Mr and Mrs. Smith. Edge of Tomorrowwhich was well received by critics as well as the audiences, garnered a rating of 7.9/10 from IMDB. The film also got nominated for the Critics Choice Awards 2015, in three categories; Best Film, Best Actor in an Action Film and Best Actress in an Action Film, with Emily Blunt winning the latter in the year 2015.
An interesting trivia about the film is that Tom Cruise recommended Emily Blunt to the makers of the film as he had long wished to work with her and believed this role to be best suited for her.
Watch this action packed science fiction this Saturday on July 17, 2016
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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.
