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Sony PIX brings back ‘Hollywood’s Finest’
MUMBAI: While the world celebrates back to back award nights in Hollywood, Sony PIX is bringing back ‘Hollywood’s Finest’ to recognize, applaud and celebrate the most cherished movies. The two week-long festival will serve Hollywood fans with the finest, most acclaimed and most revered Hollywood stories every night at 9 until 16th February.
With titles ranging from over 3 decades, Hollywood’s Finest has an especially curated line-up of stellar movies with over 1200 nominations and 500 awards cumulatively to their credit. The festival has something for every Hollywood movie buff – from First Man, Interstellar and the Indian Television Premiere of ‘Boy Erased’ to Jurassic Park, Wonder Woman and King Kong.
Additionally, to bring Hollywood closer to the movie buffs, Sony PIX has partnered with popular hangout joints The Beer Café and Hoppipola for the on-ground leg. Across 3 outlets of Hoppipola in Mumbai and Bangalore and across 13 outlets of The Beer Café in Mumbai, Delhi, Gurgaon, Bangalore, fans can celebrate their love for movies with a customized cocktail menu inspired by Hollywood.
Also, fans who consider Hollywood to be their Holy Grail can visit Hoppipola and The Beer Café to be a part of ‘Hollywood’s Finest Quiz’ and ‘PIX charades’. Winners who prove their fandom stand a chance to win exclusive Hollywood collectibles. Fans can also head to Sony PIX’s social media pages for an exciting quiz which is sure to test and challenge one’s knowledge about Hollywood.
SPN English Custer marketing head Rohan Jain said, “Our programming and marketing efforts have helped solidify our leadership position and engage with the relevant audience. This year too, we want to continue to be at the forefront of consumer engagement via various associations on-ground and on digital platforms, strengthening Sony PIX’s stand as the go to destination for the best in Hollywood”.
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.
