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Watch the exclusive premiere of ‘Hobbs and Shaw’ before anyone else in India only with ‘Sony PIX Premiere Nights’
MUMBAI: Sony PIX, home to Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters and premieres, is geared up for another night full of action, adventure and amazement with its biggest on-ground Hollywood movie extravaganza, ‘Sony PIX Premiere Nights’. This edition of SPPN will premiere the most awaited action movie of 2019, ‘Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw’ on August 1, a day before its India release.
‘Sony PIX Premiere Nights’ is a highly anticipated, invite-only, experiential event for Hollywood fans as viewers get to exclusively watch the premiere of the latest Hollywood movies before its theatrical release in India. This time, the excitement is sky high as Fast & Furious franchise’s resident actors, Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham reunite, and are joined by stellar actors, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, and Helen Mirren.
The channel, which is also home to Fast & Furious franchise, is holding the screening of ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ across 9 cities – Mumbai, New Delhi, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Pune and Kolkata – to give fans across India an action-packed night to remember. This edition of SPPN has ‘Volkswagen’ as the presenting sponsor, ‘Daily Objects’ as the lifestyle brand partner and ‘Social Offline’ as the on-ground partner.
Other Hollywood buffs can also participate by giving a missed call on 8828626162 or by registering on https://www.sonypix.com/ppncontest/. Additionally, Sony PIX has tied-up with multiple partners like Insider.in, Kasa Kai Mumbai and Raasta Café, Radio One, Radio Mirchi, Fever FM, to give more people a chance to attend this exclusive screening.
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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.
