Mufasa: The Lion King was met with mixed reviews from critics, but audiences are turning out to push the film to another ...

"That would be great — we've never done it where the celebrity guests were animated characters," the comedian and actor tells ...

"I really wanted to write a good villain song for Barry, and I called him and said, 'This going to sound crazy,'" Miranda ...

Produced on a reported budget of $200 million, Mufasa still has a long way to go before it can be counted as a success.

Joi McMillon, the first Black woman nominated for an Oscar in film editing, once again teamed up with director Barry Jenkins ...

Barry Jenkins's 2016 movie 'Moonlight' won the Best Picture Oscar but he admits that he struggles to accept his ability ...

The Oscar-winning director of the intimate indie “Moonlight,” the romantic period drama “If Beale Street Could Talk” and the ...

The Lion King” less than a week after “Kraven the Hunter” is somewhat of an oddity or coincidence — and it doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that both movies prominently feature ...

The Fire Inside” burns most intensely when Ryan Destiny and Brian Tyree Henry share the screen. Fortunately, they do so quite a bit in the impressive directorial debut of cinematographer Rachel ...

DETROW: Jenkins talked to NPR's Rachel Martin on Wild Card, where famous guests answer questions about their lives drawn from a deck of cards. And just a warning, there is some bleeped profanity in ...

Barry Jenkins, director of Disney's The Lion King prequel Mufasa: The Lion King, discusses what drew him to the film's epic ...

Director Barry Jenkins is best known for films like Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk. On NPR's Wild Card, he opens up ...