Megan Thee Stallion has officially launched her Hot Girl Summer Tour and the set list is now available!
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The first teaser trailer for Mufasa: The Lion King has debuted online!
Moonlight‘s Barry Jenkins is directing the film with Lin-Manuel Miranda writing songs. The film will be released on December 20.
Here’s the synopsis: Mufasa: The Lion King enlists Rafiki to relay the legend of Mufasa to young lion cub Kiara, daughter of Simba and Nala, with Timon and Pumbaa lending their signature schtick. Told in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka—the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of an extraordinary group of misfits searching for their destiny—their bonds will be tested as they work together to evade a threatening and deadly foe.
We’ve learned of 6 stars from the 2019 movie who will return to voice their characters once again. Plus, Blue Ivy Carter has joined the cast!
Keep reading to see who is returning…
Megan Thee Stallion has officially launched her Hot Girl Summer Tour and the set list is now available!
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Garfield is in negotiations to star alongside Julia Roberts in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming feature After the Hunt, which will be released in theaters next year. Luca Guadagnino is directing the film from a script penned by Nora Garrett. Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum are producing alongside Guadagnino via his Frenesy banner. Imagine Entertainment’s Karen Lunder will executive produce alongside Nora Garrett. The film is targeting a summer start-of-production.
Megan Thee Stallion has shared a new single called ‘BOA’ – you can listen to it below.Continuing the snake theme of the Houston rapper’s current era, the song follows on from her recent tracks ‘Cobra’ and ‘Hiss’.It is built around a sample of Gwen Stefani‘s 2004 solo song ‘What You Waiting For?’, and was produced by Megan’s frequent collaborator Lil Ju (aka LilJuMadeDaBeat).“I be showing my ass, they mad huh?/ Bitches is bitter, they thought it was sweet,” she spits in the first verse. “All of sudden they vegan, they don’t want beef/ Talking outta veneers, I’m knocking out teeth.”Later, Megan raps over Stefani’s infectious “Tick-tock” refrain: “Bitch yo time up, why is you not clockin’ out? Doin’ shit for TikTok/ Bitch, I’m really hip-hop.”‘BOA’ arrives with some video game-inspired official visuals, which see a male character go head-to-head with Megan in a Street Fighter-style battle.
Megan Thee Stallion has dropped her new single “BOA” and she’s leaning into the whole snake theme!
The Chi is back this week!
Hulu dropped the trailer for The Kardashians Season 5, which is set to return on May 23.
North West is headed to the stage!
The idea of a zombie is pretty terrifying. Sure, no one wants to have a world overrun with dead people trying to bite you.
North West, Broadway’s Heather Headley and Grammy winner Lebo M. have been added to the cast of Disney’s The Lion King 30th Anniversary – A Live-to-Film Concert Event, a musical concert set to run May 24-25 at the Hollywood Bowl.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor North West is set to make her Hollywood Bowl debut next month at Disney’s live-to-film concert/screening of “The Lion King.” West, the daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, is set to star alongside Jeremy Irons, Nathan Lane, Billy Eichner, Ernie Sabella, Jason Weaver, Jennifer Hudson and Bradley GIbson. Broadway actress Heather Headley and Lebo M. round out the cast.
Whoops! Sounds like Prince William and Princess Catherine almost ruined King Charles III‘s coronation!
Over the weekend, many celebrated the unofficial “Star Wars” holiday, May the 4th. While Lucasfilm didn’t announce anything monumental, the studio did release a trailer for the next “Star Wars” live-action TV series coming, “The Acolyte.” But that’s not the only “Star Wars” show coming in 2024, apparently.
Barry Jenkins defends himself over criticism for helming the Disney prequel Mufasa: The Lion King.
Filmmaker Barry Jenkins has made some astounding progressive leaps in his career. In 2016, after one acclaimed but tiny-budgeted micro-indie, “Medicine For Melancholy,” he won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 89th annual ceremony for his highly successful and critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama film “Moonlight.” While he’s made one film, “If Beale Street Could Talk”) and one series since (“The Underground Railroad”), Jenkins turned a lot of heads and arguably even shocked some—especially in the indie and arthouse film communities where he started—when it was announced that he would direct Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King,” a live-action photorealistic computer-generated imagery prequel to the similarly made 2019 “Lion King” film by Jon Favreau.
Yes, “Presumed Innocent” was a late 1980 legal thriller directed by Alan J. Pakula, and starring Harrison Ford, and well, everything is due for a remake of some kind these days, right? Enter “Presumed Innocent,” based on the same source material, the limited series from TV super producer David.
EXCLUSIVE: Cameras have started rolling in Sofia, Bulgaria, on the survival-thriller Savage Hunt from Dutch filmmaker Roel Reiné (Halo).
Michaela Zee Barry Jenkins defended his involvement in “Mufasa: The Lion King” after he was criticized on social media this week for helming the Disney live-action prequel. Jenkins shared the first “Mufasa” trailer on X (formerly Twitter) following its release on Monday, which prompted some fans to criticize the filmmaker, known for the Oscar-winning films “Moonlight” and “If Beale Street Could Talk,” for working on such a mainstream project.
Mufasa, the prequel to 2019’s The Lion King, has been released, confirming that Beyoncé and Donald Glover will be back.The new Disney film, which was confirmed a few years ago following the success of the remake, tells the origin story of King Mufasa, and is directed by Moonlight‘s Barry Jenkins, while 2019 film scribe Jeff Nathanson returns as a screenwriter.“This story begins far beyond the mountains and the shadows, on the other side of the light,” Rafiki (John Kani) narrates in the clip, which showcases the photorealistic style used in the 2019 film.“A lion was born without a drop of nobility in his blood. A lion who would change our lives forever.
Disney has dropped a teaser for Mufasa: The Lion King, a prequel for the studio’s 2019 photorealistic version of the animated 1994 classic The Lion King.
Filmmaker Barry Jenkins has made celebrated indies (“Medicine for Melancholy”), Academy Award-winning dramas (“Moonlight,” “If Beale Street Could Talk”), and an epic ten-part historical period series (“The Underground Railroad”), but his latest film, “Mufasa: The Lion King,” is easily his biggest and most ambitious leap to date. A live-action-styled photorealistic animated prequel to the 1994 film “The Lion King,” and the similar-looking 2019 remake from director Jon Favreau, Disney has released the first look trailer for the film that comes out in December.