English Entertainment
Star World brings Weekend Brunch – a line-up of reality shows, blockbuster movies and sitcoms, all for some family bonding!
MUMBAI: Quality time with our family is paramount in building stronger relationships with each other. With the hustle and bustle of a busy life, this is not always possible. In understanding this, Star World, India’s leading English entertainment channel curates a special line up ‘The Weekend Brunch’ this new year so viewers can start the year 2020 sit together with their family and enjoy a good afternoon.
Starting this 11th January, the Weekend Brunch will comprise a mix of some of the most exciting family friendly movies and TV shows that will air from 12 PM to 4 PM every weekend. From the most loved culinary reality TV show to compelling dramas and rib-tickling comedy, there is something for every family here.
The longest running reality cooking series in the world, MasterChef Australia has been instrumental in bringing about a culture shift in culinary India. In fact, research suggests and it has been evident how MasterChef Australia is much more than a food show – one that also inspires home chefs into becoming culinary masters. So sit together and watch the trio of judges – Matt Preston, Gary Mehigan, and George Calombaris appearing together on the screen for the last time, bid them farewell and watch MasterChef Australia’s Season 11 airing on Star World every weekend at 12PM!
Next up is a series of light-hearted family comedy movies that will air on the channel at 1 PM! Ranging from all the comic mayhem in Home Alone – Home Alone 3 to animated comedy trilogy – Toy Story 3, the movies are all handpicked to give viewers the ultimate viewing experience with families. Baby’s Day Out, yet another famous children’s movie that exhibits Hughes’s popular comic style is part of the line-up that boasts of good-natured comedy. That’s not it! Adventurous comedy series The Boss Baby and renowned Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Robin Williams starrer fantasy comedy movie – Night at the Museum also make their way to Star World for families to sit together for a compelling watch and some good laughs!
Following suit is cultural sitcom Fresh Off the Boat that is set in the 1990s and depicts the life of a Taiwanese-American family. The series stars Golden Globe nominee Constance Wu, and Critics Choice TV Awards nominee Randall Park. For Indian viewers, a great entertaining storm is brewing as the series recently announced to star Indian film actors – Preity Zinta and Vir Das. Watch this humorously charming family sitcom airing on Star World every weekend starting 11th January at 3PM!
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.
