English Entertainment
Times Network salutes the spirit of heroism with its Republic Day movie line-up
MUMBAI: Times Network, India’s leading television broadcasting network, celebrates the 70th Republic Day of India by taking its viewers on a remarkable journey of valiance on its channels MOVIES NOW and MNX. Celebrating strength, valour and action, the Network’s English movie channels MOVIES NOW and MNX outlines an exclusive line-up of Hollywood blockbusters on R-Day.
Commending the true essence of heroism and passion, Movies NOW outsets the spirit of Republic Day with its property – ‘Badge of Courage’. Starting from 9am to 9pm, the day-long movie festival will salute the daring heroes who fought evil against all odds. The festival boasts an exclusive line up of movies including ‘Captain America: Civil War’, ‘Iron Man 3’, ‘The Dark Knight’, ‘Skyfall’ and ‘London Has Fallen’, that will definitely ignite the spirit of nationalism and patriotism amongst the viewers.
In parallel, MNX will correct the incorrect with an explosive line up of films through its latest property ‘Line of Control’ that promises to showcase the true spirit of bravery, determination and resilience that personifies a real hero. The viewers will witness the tales of champions with a marathon of movies like ‘Gladiator’, ‘Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies’, ‘Robocop’, 10,000 BC and ‘The 13th Warrior’.
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.
