English Entertainment
‘Wimbledon’ on HBO Saturday Nights
MAIRDATE: 19TH NOVEMBER at 9:00 PM
STARRING: Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany
The fabled grass courts of the All England Lawn Tennis Club and the most prestigious racquet sport championship in the world are the stage for this engaging romantic drama. Peter Colt (Bettany, Firewall) is a 31-year old tennis has-been. The spotlight of fame has always eluded him, and he’s now #119 in the rankings. He’s going to lay down his racket for good, but not before one last swing at Wimbledon. Also joining the tournament is up-and-coming American tennis star Lizzie Bradbury (Dunst). The two meet when Peter is accidentally given the key to Lizzie’s hotel room, and he walks in on her having a shower.
A whirlwind romance begins between the two of them. As the matches go on, Peter finds that being in love is making him perform better than he or anyone else ever expected. In the highly competitive world of tennis, is there space and time for the pursuit of being Number One, and for true love? Movie critic James Berardinelli calls Wimbledon “a crowd-pleaser… the film has heart and spirit, and it does a lot of things well.” The easy chemistry and warmth between Dunst and Bettany create a believable and likable couple… you’ll be rooting for them all throughout.
For further information, please contact:
Aparna Arora
HBO South Asia
Tel: 011 51668405
E-Mail: arora_aparna@hboasia.com.sg
Nimisha Bhargava
CMCG India
Tel: 022 24450991-6
E-Mail: nimisha.bhargava@cmcgindia.com
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.
