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‘The Night of’ to end on Star World Premiere HD!
MUMBAI: Steven Zaillian’s The Night Of turned out be the big hit that no one ever expected it to be. After all the obstacles it overcame and the amount of years it took for the miniseries to finally make it to television screens, The Night Of, since its premiere, led to a lot of conversations among audiences and continued with the same momentum to consistently peak everyone’s attention.
The show follows the journey of a lawyer Jack Stone (John Turturro), who seeks to absolve a young Pakistani-American student (Riz Ahmed) accused of brutally murdering a girl on the Upper West Side.
Drawing close to its end, The Night Of, has managed to garner immense conversation, suspecting, assuming and contemplating Andrea’s real killer. Now with the last episode on the cards this Wednesday night at 10 PM on Star World Premiere HD, questions are being raised more so now than ever before. Could it be her gold-digging step-father or her mother’s financial advisor? Could it be the creepy neighbor or the weird black guy Naz and Andrea encounter while heading to her place? Or is Naz himself the killer? Will we get the definitive ending we have hoped for all this while?
The finale episode of The Night Of airs in India this Wednesday, August 31st at 10 PM on Star World Premiere HD!
Coming from Oscar winner Steven Zaillian and renowned novelist Richard Price, The Night of is a strong mix of heavy-duty performances, layered character developments and a complex core mystery that is equal parts horrifying and frustrating as we approach the nail-gritting finale episode.
Speaking about if he ever had any misgivings about telling the cast the end of the story, director and producer of the show, Steve Zaillian stated, “First of all to me that’s not the crucial piece of information in the whole story – but obviously people are interested in that. I never had long conversations with any of the actors about that. If they would ask me, ‘well why do you want to know? Would you play it differently if it was this or that?’ If the answer is yes, well then we’re not going to talk about it any more. It shouldn’t matter to the performance.”
He further spoke about the attention to detail used in the series that has been widely spoken about and appreciated, “I like conveying a story point visually as much as I can, as opposed to in dialogue. A lot of times that requires to shoot it in a certain way in order to tell that story. I just prefer that; I’m not a big dialogue guy, I’m not a guy who wants people to come out and say what they mean; usually if they say anything it’s something other than what they mean.”
Starring stellar actors – Poorna Jagannathan, Riz Ahmed, John Turturro, Peyman Moaadi and Amara Karan in the lead, the 9.1 IMDB-rated show airs its finale episode this Wednesday, 10 PM on Star World Premiere HD!
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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.
