This weekend marks one of the biggest signifiers that movie theaters will be making a comeback, as both A Quiet Place Part II and Cruella opened in nearly 4,000 theaters nationwide, some of the widest openings since the pandemic caused movie theaters to shutter their doors last spring. On Thursday [.]
- May 28th in Theatres and Streaming
Academy Award (R) winner Emma Stone ( La La Land ) stars in Disney s Cruella, an all-new live-action feature film about the rebellious early days of one of cinemas most notorious - and notoriously fashionable - villains, the legendary Cruella de Vil. Cruella, which is set in 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, follows a young grifter named Estella, a clever and creative girl determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute, played by two-time Oscar (R) winner Emma Thompson ( Howards End, Sense & Sensibility ). But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace h
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Cinema Chat: 05/27/21 SINGIN IN THE RAIN AND THE WIZARD OF OZ ARE NOT PART OF THE AMAZON DEAL
Here’s why MGM has a long history of mergers and acquisitions revolving around its library.
With its $8.45 billion deal to buy MGM, Amazon will stock Prime Video with the studio’s cache of 4,000 movies and 17,000 hours of television. It’s a huge library, but notably absent are some of MGM’s most iconic films, including “The Wizard of Oz,” and “Singin’ in the Rain. Those titles and all other MGM movies made before 1986 belong to WarnerMedia.
In 1986, Ted Turner made a series of deals that resulted in Turner Broadcasting taking ownership of all prior MGM films. Not unlike Amazon, he wanted the films for programming his growing cable empire and the library became one of the pillars that built Turner Classic Movies. Today, WarnerMedia owns what was Turner Broadcasting, including TCM and the MGM library.