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Mystery Supper – master chef australia season 11 Indian launch
MUMBAI: Star World, India’s leading English Entertainment channel launched the biggest gourmet show in the world, MasterChef Australia Season 11, by hosting a Mystery Supper – an exclusive dinner event across three cities – Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore on 11th September 2019.
In Mumbai, the Mystery Supper was held at Slink and Bardot, Worli. Through this on-ground launch activity, Star World took its campaign theme for the show – #Reunite, on-ground, by bringing together all five senses over food. Star World brought dishes from the kitchen of French chef, Alexis Gielbaum. As he dug deep to his roots drawing inspiration from the great chefs of France, he reproduced some of their signature dishes with a twist armed with the best of contemporary Indian produce.
In re-enforcing the channel’s messaging to #Reunite, celebrities like Mandira Bedi, Tara Sharma, Mini Mathur, Shveta Salve, Shruti Seth, Pooja Gor, Raj Singh Arora and Manasi Scott graced the dinner event with their presence. Renowned chefs like Vicky Ratnani, Munaf Kapadia, Boo Kim, Rohan D’souza, Maria Goretti and Harsh Dixit also made their way to the MasterChef extravaganza leading to the ultimate reunion between food, fashion and culinary greatness.
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.
