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Star World Premiere HD to launch 3 shows this July
MUMBAI: This July, Star World Premiere HD is all set to unveil an exciting set of international shows in India. Home to over 50 of the latest and biggest shows every year, the channel will be extending the offering with 3 highly anticipated shows this July – a groovy new series – Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, an exciting medical comedy – Royal Pains, and Season 2 of the breakout thrilling series – The Strain.
Starting 10thJuly, the country’s only premium HD channel will bring Royal Pains, a story about a young doctor who seems to have it all until he loses it thanks to his principles, and ironically, ends up becoming an on-call doctor for the rich and famous of the Hamptons!
The latest entrant creating waves in the international television world – Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll – is set to premiere in India exclusively on Star World Premiere HD, starting 22nd July. The comedy centers on Johnny Rock, a middle-aged rock star who desperately wants to be rich and famous. Actor-writer-producer Denis Leary, of The Amazing Spiderman fame, plays the lead in this series, also starring John Corbett and Elaine Hendrix.
Viewers will be treated to a nail-biting experience with the premiere of the latest season of last year’s breakout success, The Strain. Launching on 31st July, The Strain is a high-concept thriller focusing on Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and his team from the Center for Disease Control in New York City, who are investigating a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism.
Airing over 900 hours of fresh content in the year, Star World Premiere HD will also be premiering the latest seasons of popular shows like The Blacklist, Homeland, Modern Family, How to Get Away with Murder, Castle and many others, soon.
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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.
