6 Thoughts on ‘Cruella,’ Starting With: It May Be the Best Movie of the Year So Far (Column)

Chris Willman Music WriterJared Gutstadt already established enough entrepreneurial chops for one lifetime by founding the highly successful Jingle Punks, a company that provides original music for ads, TV, film and videogames, back in 2008, at which time he developed the whimsical persona of “Jingle Jared.” After selling that firm in 2005, he bode his time for five years before coming back last year as the CEO-founder of Audio Up, a production team that focuses largely on narrative audio

If you’re not aware, Amazon is looking to acquire MGM Studios for a massive $8.45 billion and means that future films could be heading directly to their streaming service Prime Video. This will likely lead to more commercially viable projects that will be cooked up at the studio, and a new MGM pic sounds like it meets that criteria.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s more specific details as to how the advance tickets sales are for Universal’s F9 heading into the weekend: The Justin Lin-directed sequel is bound to be the biggest pre-seller of 2021 to date for Fandango. Already, F9 is outpacing the opening weekend pre-sales of Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II which continued on to post a 4-day debut of $57M.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda has done it again! Again!The “Hamilton” creator’s blissful new movie “In the Heights,” which is based on his Tony Award-winning 2008 musical, is the best film of the year so far. It’s also easily the best movie-musical since the Oscar-winning “Chicago” from way back in 2003.

Rebel Wilson, 40, is taking it back to high school! The Australian born actress was in full character on-set of her new film Senior Year in her latest Instagram photo, where she plays a cheerleader who was in a coma after a whopping 20 years. Posing in a bowling alley, Rebel wore a fuzzy, light, pink mini dress with an embroidered red heart across the chest.

The Suicide Squad star Joel Kinnaman has described it as "by far [writer-director] James Gunn's best movie". While promoting his new show In Treatment on the Just for Variety podcast, the actor, who reprises his role as Rick Flag in the comic book sequel, said the DC outing "just takes [everything] to another level".

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camping in the mountains or visiting family back in their hometown.

Lindsay Lohan is ready for her comeback. Netflix just announced that the infamous redhead will be starring in a new Christmas romantic comedy, where she plays a “newly engaged and spoiled hotel heiress” who gets amnesia after a skiing accident and “finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner” and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas.” LiLo fans have been waiting for her return to acting for years.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.