The Oscar-winning producer of “Moonlight” really wanted to get in touch with Eva Victor. Adele Romanski and her producing partner…
Browsing: Barry Jenkins
“Mufasa: The Lion King” has one very important thing going for it: an original story. That may seem like faint…
Over the four years he’s spent working on “Mufasa: The Lion King,” Barry Jenkins estimates that he’s been asked why…
When Aaron Pierre was cast as Mufasa, the weight of following in the late James Earl Jones’ legendary footsteps was…
Nature provides much of the soundtrack to " All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt," a poised and occasionally transcendent debut…
The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled the 10 world premiere features that comprise its Platform program for 2023, along with…
A normal morning scene. Breakfast on the kitchen table. A newspaper rustles. A backpack is packed. The mother asks her…
When Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins was considering adapting Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the Underground Railroad into a limited…
The highly anticipated Amazon Original limited series The Underground Railroad, from Academy Award®-winner (Moonlight) Barry Jenkins, will premiere on May…
The Walt Disney Co. will make a sequel to the 2019 live-action "The Lion King," with Barry Jenkins, the director…
Barry Jenkins will direct a film based on the life of choreographer Alvin Ailey. A spokesperson for Fox Searchlight on…
Two years after his “Moonlight” triumphed on the eve of the Oscars, Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of the James Baldwin novel…
Nominees for the 91st annual Academy Awards convened at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Monday for this year's Oscar Nominees Luncheon,…
If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna Pictures) marks the first English-language feature based on the work of revered novelist James…
"Every black person born in America was born on Beale Street…whether in Jackson, Mississippi, or in Harlem, New York," reads…
On one fateful European trip in 2013, director/writer Barry Jenkins wrote two scripts: "Moonlight," from Tarell Alvin McCraney's play, and…
Amazon Studios announced Oscar and Golden Globe Award-winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) will direct all 11 episodes of the highly anticipated…
Writer-director Barry Jenkins' feature-film follow-up to his Oscar-winning "Moonlight" will be an adaptation of James Baldwin's "If Beale Street Could…
The film academy is inviting 774 new members to join its ranks, including actors Leslie Jones, Dwayne Johnson, Riz Ahmed,…
Two months after his "Moonlight" pulled out a last-second, best-picture win at the Oscars, director Barry Jenkins says "it's time…
Amazon is developing a script-to-series one-hour original limited drama, The Underground Railroad, based on Colson Whitehead’s National Book Award-winning novel.…
Long before Barry Jenkins made his way to the podium through the bewildered throng that packed the Dolby Theatre stage…
At the forefront of this year's Oscar race are two filmmakers in their 30s with seemingly limitless careers ahead of…
Barry Jenkins, a nominee for the Best Director Oscar as well as the DGA Award for Moonlight, has joined the…
The five nominees for the DGA Award recognizing Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2016 are: Damien Chazelle for…
At a Gotham Independent Film Awards overshadowed by the election of Donald Trump, Barry Jenkins’ coming-of-age drama “Moonlight” shined brightest.…
