Barry Jenkins Talks Reading The Script For His ‘Lion King’ Film: “Holy Sh*t, This is Good”

EXCLUSIVE: In the first significant agency move of the new year, Meredith Wechter is exiting WME. Details are still being worked out, but I’m told the exit will be amicable and that she will become a manager. Wechter has been a partner at WME, and she is rumored to shortly be joining Michael Sugar’s Sugar23 as a manager and partner.

For the unversed, before Patty Jenkins made us fall head over heels in adoration, once again, with Wonder Woman, the acclaimed filmmaker was set to direct Thor: The Dark World. However, because of creative differences, Jenkins opted out of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) movie and Alan Taylor ended up directing Thor 2, which opened to a poor reaction.

Lauren Bushnell Lane is sharing her pregnancy journey with fans, including the «hard» parts where she wasn't sure she'd be able to conceive. The former star — who announced she was expecting her first child with husband Chris Lane in December — revealed in a blog post on New Year's Day that she «prayed every day for months» to get pregnant. Lauren and Chris married in October 2019, and decided to enjoy a few months of marriage together before she went off birth control in March 2020.

Star Wars franchise when she helms Rogue Squadron.The actor, who stars alongside Gal Gadot in the Jenkins-directed Wonder Woman 1984, said in a new interview that he believes she will be successful at reimagining the franchise.He told Collider: “I had spoken to her about, not my involvement, but the story [of Rogue Squadron]. She talked to me about it.

The discourse around “Wonder Woman 1984” online right now is a little toxic right now, to say the least. And that’s probably due to the cycle of news and social media in today’s modern world, and perhaps a bit of (not necessarily unwarranted) resentment too.

Moussa Dembele will not be leaving Lyon in the January window as was once claimed.

Love Is Blind, which started streaming in February. During the series, six couples got engaged without seeing each other.

Patty Jenkins is making sure she gets paid what she deserves.

With a flurry of exiting pardons expected from Donald Trump any moment, incarcerated Tiger King star Joe Exotic has taken the Justice Department to court in the hopes of joining Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and other similar upstanding citizens in getting an 11th hour Presidential act of clemency.

90 Day Fiancé alum Larissa Dos Santos Lima hit out at TLC for showing footage featuring her months after she was fired for appearing in a racy lingerie webcam show.“Excuse me, TLC, I do not understand why you would want [to] air my storyline,” the Brazil native, 34, wrote on her Instagram Stories on Thursday, December 17.

Dave McNary Film ReporterMetro Goldwyn Mayer has signed a two-year second-look film production deal with Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner’a Plan B Entertainment.As part of this new pact, Plan B has set several projects with MGM, including an untitled love story from “Minari” writer and director Lee Isaac Chung.

Rangers are really all about.The big questions hanging over these players since Wednesday night are about to be answered. Was the Betfred Cup defeat at St Mirren the beginning of their bottle crashing? Or was it just a blip and a minor bump in the road towards the title?I know what I think.

straight to your inbox every day for freeManchester United have handed Dean Henderson his second Premier League start for them, against former loan club Sheffield United.Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has named Henderson, Paul Pogba and Alex Telles in his line-up to face the Blades at Bramall Lane, in another vital Premier League clash. Edinson Cavani is missing through injury, as Marcus Rashford starts up front alongside Anthony Martial and Mason Greenwood.

Screen Media has acquired U.S. digital rights to After the Murder of Albert Lima, a true-crime documentary thriller directed and produced by Aengus James and which counts Meredith Vieira among its executive producers. With the deal, it will be released as a Crackle Original in the first quarter of 2021.

Also Read: Sundance Film Festival's 2021 Lineup Includes Films From Robin Wright, Questlove and Edgar WrightBarry also revealed that there were several periods during their 5 decades in music when he, Robin and Maurice didn’t get along, most notably after their initial rise to fame in the late 1960s fuled by hits like “To Love Somebody.” Robin and Barry in particular began to fight over who deserved to be the group’s frontman as they were equals in vocal skill and songwriting talent.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterFilmmakers Chloe Zhao and Barry Jenkins met as many indie directors do — hiding in the corner of a film festival party as their heroes and other luminaries schmoozed. It was in 2017 in Telluride, when Jenkins returned to the festival for which he used to work with a Best Picture Oscar for “Moonlight.” There he saw Zhao’s sensational “The Rider.”Years later, both directors are solidified in a new wave of indie crossovers.

children Luna and Miles on Sunday, in which the mini Teigen-Legends pose in front of two giant Nutcracker soldiers. Wearing matching red and black ensembles (Luna in a red puffer jacket, Miles in a festive Elmo sweater, both in black skinny jeans), Luna smiles while looking at her little brother, who's extremely excited about the toy car he's holding.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSienna Miller and Diego Luna star in writer-director Tara Miele’s “Wander Darkly” as a married couple with a baby who get into a horrible car crash.The film follows both of them as they contemplate and examine their relationship, but it’s unclear if they are alive or were killed in the accident.

Lion King prequel is in the works for Disney+.The news was announced as part of yesterday’s (December 10) Disney Investor Day in which the entertainment giant revealed details of a huge expansion to its Disney+ catalogue.Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) will direct the Lion King prequel, which is presumably linked to last year’s Lion King live-action film starring the voices of Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen, John Oliver, Eric Andre and others.A prequel to the live-action The Lion King is in