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Pad Up For An Innings Of Unrivalled Thrills As &flix Presents Flix Movie League
The much-awaited moment has arrived as one of the biggest sporting leagues finally takes centre stage. But that’s not all! As you welcome back your beloved cricketers on field, it’s also time to root for your favourite heroes on screen with Flix Movie League on &flix. The stage is set for the biggest clash of titans starting Monday, September 21, 2020 on the destination of the biggest Hollywood hits. #LeapForth and witness a league like no other as you experience the adrenaline rush with all-time hit movies featuring the biggest Hollywood stars, action packed titles airing 9PM and 11PM weekdays on &flix.
There is an assorted range of entertaining superhero movies up for grabs with Benedict Cumberbatch as the cloaked wizard in Doctor Strange, Chris Pratt’s group of imbeciles in Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 and the friendly neighbourhood kid, Tom Holland in Spider: Homecoming to some raging crash and burn hits like Pearl Harbor, Zombieland: Double Tap and Charlies Angels. When something ‘good’ simply isn’t enough, &flix brings you the ‘best’ with features like Bad Boys For Life, Moana, Goal II: Living The Dream and Jumanji: The Next Level. This season, come together to support your favourite all-star team while keeping a close eye out for a quick pick from &flix’s lot of power hits airing weeknights at 9PM and 11PM.
It’s a blizzard of googlies and Yorkers this month along with a variety of Global hits coming to you on your big screen as Flix Movie League airs September 21, 2020 weeknights at 9PM and 11PM.
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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.
