{"id":14157,"date":"2026-03-02T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14157"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:18:02","slug":"go-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/02\/go-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Cinema!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/david-ellison-commits-30-films-year-paramount-warner-merger-1236741232\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">David Ellison Says \u2018Top Gun: Maverick\u2019 A Pivotal Event For Him As Paramount CEO Commits To 30 Theatrical Releases A Year Post-Merger: \u201cMovies Should Be Seen In Theaters\u201d<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/jill-goldsmith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jill Goldsmith<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MCDTOGU_PA043.jpg?w=681&amp;h=383&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"David Ellison Commits To 30 Films A Year After Paramount-WBD Merger\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><strong>Tom Cruise in \u2018Top Gun: Maverick\u2019 <\/strong>Paramount Pictures\/Everett Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paramount\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paramount<\/a>\u00a0CEO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/david-ellison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Ellison<\/a>\u00a0was emphatic about theatrical during a call with Wall Street on Monday. \u201cIt\u2019s something we deeply, deeply believe in,\u201d he said. \u201cLarge franchises and big pieces of intellectual property are launched in theaters, period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/massive-merger-confirmed-paramount-and-wbd-reveal-details-1236738785\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paramount\u2019s massive merger with Warner Bros Discovery<\/a> announced Friday, he wound back to 2022 when one film in particular had a huge impact on his thinking regarding theatrical versus streaming.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/david-ellison-commits-30-films-year-paramount-warner-merger-1236741232\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline David Ellison Says \u2018Top Gun: Maverick\u2019 A Pivotal Event For Him As Paramount CEO Commits To 30 Theatrical Releases A Year Post-Merger: \u201cMovies Should Be Seen In Theaters\u201d By\u00a0Jill Goldsmith Paramount\u00a0CEO\u00a0David Ellison\u00a0was emphatic about theatrical during a call with Wall Street on Monday. \u201cIt\u2019s something we deeply, deeply believe in,\u201d he said. \u201cLarge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14158,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions\/14158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}