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Star Movies Select HD to air ‘The Poseidon Adventure’
MUMBAI: In continuity of the Book Adaptation Festival, this week, Star Movies Select HD will be showcasing The Poseidon Adventure, an action-adventure disaster film, directed by Ronald Neame. Airing on 25 September at 3 pm, the classic is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Paul Gallic.
The film gained the stature of being a modern classic and the foremost disaster movies everyone is a fan of. Set on a retiring ocean liner making its last voyage, The Poseidon Adventure tells the story of a New Year’s Eve celebration that gets interrupted by the sinking of a ship. The film is a high stakes story of survival and it’s no surprise why it’s such a success.
Taglined ‘Hell, upside down’, the film was the second-biggest-grossing blockbuster at the time of its release in 1972 and introduced several elements to the disaster formula that would become standard in later films in the genre. A cult classic like no other, the film brought forth a number of death defying stunts and scenes that were way beyond its time and still applauded its tale of survival
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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.
