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Turn your fantasies into reality with the Flix first premiere of Fantasy Island on &flix
MUMBAI: Who wouldn’t crave a trip to an exotic island? Lush green palm trees, serene sea-side sunsets and a lavish tropical resort – sounds like a dream! But beware, as every fantasy comes with a price! This Sunday, 30 August 2020, &flix, the destination of the biggest Hollywood hits, takes viewers on a trip to Fantasy Island with the Flix First Premiere of the 2020 suspense thriller at 1 pm , 7 pm and 9 pm. After back-to-back #FirstDayFirstShowAtHome of blockbusters like Jumanji: The Next Level and Bad Boys For Life, &flix invites viewers to #LeapForth into a world where your biggest fantasies turn into your worst nightmares!
Directed and produced by Jeff Wadlow known for his work on Kick Ass 2 and Never Back Down, the edge-of-seat thriller features an ensemble cast featuring the Mexican-American actor Michael Pena (Ant-Man) Austin Stowell (Spielberg's Bridge of Spies), Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) and Maggie Q (Mission: Impossible III) among others. The horror-thriller movie will also premiere the same day at 3 pm and 11 pm as part of Club Privé on &PrivéHD and 2 pm on Zee Cafe.
The plot revolves around a group of seemingly unrelated individuals with diverse backgrounds who embark on a trip to an exotic island. One with a mysterious vibe, the island promises these hopefuls a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to grant their one of their deepest fantasies under the watch of the enigmatic owner Mr. Roarke (Michael Pena). The only catch is that once you begin, there is no looking back! By now, there are signs that there is more to this blissful island than what meets the eye. As fate would have it, these fantasies don’t really play out as expected and come with a price that threatens their lives. It is the island is in control now and the guests – Gwen (Maggie Q), Melanie (Lucy Hale), Sonja (Portia Doubleday), Bradley (Ryan Hansen), Brax (Jimmy O. Yang) and Patrick (Austin Stowell) – now find themselves on a life-defying run to save their lives!
Filled with jump-scares and screams, here’s a thriller that surely reminds one to be careful what you wish for!
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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.
