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Star Movies premieres Bohemian Rhapsody on 15 Dec
MUMBAI: Star Movies brings home the story of perhaps the greatest rock singer of all time, Freddie Mercury with the Indian television premiere of Bohemian Rhapsody this December. Just around the festive season, Star Movies is all set to give audiences a musical extravaganza with a story Queen not known to many. The film starring Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy and Joseph Mazzello defies stereotypes and convention to become one of the best films of 2018 with four Academy winners. The film premieres on 15th December 2019 at 1 PM and 9 PM only on Star Movies.
Directed by Bryan Singer, Bohemian Rhapsody is an enthralling celebration of Queen, their music, and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek), who defied stereotypes and convention to become one of history’s most beloved entertainers. Following Queen’s meteoric rise, their revolutionary sound and Freddie’s solo career, the film also chronicles the band’s reunion, and one of the greatest performances in rock history. “Bohemian Rhapsody” on its list of the 500 greatest songs ever.
“We're Playing for The Other Misfits. They're The Outcasts, Right At The Back Of The Room. We're Pretty Sure They Don't Belong Either. We Belong To Them."
This quote from Bohemian Rhapsody pretty perfectly sums up their enduring appeal. Queen was a band of misfits who were creating entertainment for the other misfits. They related to the people in the crowd who were never the stars, and tried to make them feel like stars.
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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.
