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Lando Calrissian will return in “Lando,” a brand-new event series for Disney Plus. Justin Simien is in the early stages of developing the project.The project was announced at Disney’s Investor day.More to come…

Eli Countryman Justin Simien, writer and director of television’s “Dear White People” and the recent horror feature “Bad Hair,” spoke about the difficulties experienced by queer students during the Virtual Point Honors Los Angeles Gala on Saturday.“I’m not that far out from my college years at Chapman University, but I have been around long enough to know that while every year there is progress toward greater acceptance and inclusion, we still have a ways to go,” he said during the virtual

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterNeon has snatched the domestic theatrical rights to Justin Simien’s new horror film “Bad Hair.”The Oscar-winning distributor behind “Parasite” will take the film out to drive-in theaters nationwide before it debuts October 23 on Hulu in October, Variety has learned.Markets will include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit, Austin, Sacramento and Las Vegas.

Hulu has released the first full trailer for Justin Simien's Sundance horror Bad Hair, which offers a look at racist beauty norms while playing againsta chilling rendition toBell Biv DeVoe's "Poison." In Simien's followup to Dear White People, thesatirical thriller follows an ambitious '80s music TV staffer named Anna (Elle Lorraine) who gets a fabulous weave in order to succeed in an image-obsessed world of music television.

Horror likes to warn of us many societal ills. Last year, Peter Strickland made the horror-comedy “In Fabric,” about a hexed killer dress that curses everyone who wears it.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentPicturehouse Entertainment has acquires U.K. distribution rights from FilmNation Entertainment for Justin Simien’s “Bad Hair,” which will be released in British movie theaters on Nov.

Kinky, curly, afro-centric hair and bad hair are not synonymous, but obviously complicated topics, not only in Black culture, but Black and BIPOC filmmaking too, especially on a society that seems to favor straight hair. Chris Rock made an entire documentary about it, “Good Hair,” which explored the explores the wonders of African-American hairstyles, but also the obsession with natural vs.

Janet W. Lee Justin Simien’s Sundance Midnight section opener “Bad Hair” released its first trailer on Thursday, with Hulu also announcing that it will debut on the streaming platform on Oct.

Peter White Television EditorNetflix’s Dear White People has been portraying racial tensions at a fictional white Ivy League university for three seasons and is set to portray them for one final run once Justin Simien and his team are able to return to filming.Last month, it was revealed by data from research firm Parrot Analytics that the comedy had received an uptick in viewership as the Black Lives Matters protests were in full force.Creator Simien tells Deadline that he’s pleased that his

When Netflix announced that its celebrated series “Dear White People” had seen a massive increase in viewership during the social justice protests that erupted following George Floyd‘s death it was admittedly a “weird consolation prize” for creator Justin Simien.

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JON FROSCH: Here we are, team, another Sundance under our belts! As usual, it’s hard to confidently qualify a given edition of the festival as “good” or “bad”; depending on what you see (this year, there were 114 feature-length world premieres), Sundance can either be a thrill or a slog. Or, more typically, both — sometimes even within the span of a single movie (hello, Justin Simien’s Bad Hair).I did think the narrative films felt a bit smaller this year.

Hulu is set to acquire Justin Simien’s campy horror film “Bad Hair” out of the Sundance Film Festival, insiders told Variety. The global pact is for $8 million.

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“Bad Hair” writer and director Justin Simien always intended for his horror-satire film to spark a conversation about the way society relates to appearance (especially around and among black women), but filming the project has equally affected his cast, who shared their own struggles to gain acceptance professionally and learn how to accept themselves personally.

The year is 1989 and New Jack Swing is about to push black culture from the margins to the mainstream. The question for the black employees of Culture, the music TV station at the center of writer-director Justin Simien’s delightfully macabre horror-dramedy “Bad Hair,” is what image do they — and their white executive Grant (James Van Der Beek) — want to promote? Accuses one host, “You want us to appeal to a whiter — er, wider — audience.”

Deeply personal but indulgently campy, Justin Simien’s Sundance opener “Bad Hair” is a genre-blending horror show that the director said serves as a tribute to the struggles of black women.

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The creator of Netflix comedy Dear White People has said he is not surprised by a lack of diversity in recent Oscar nominations.

Justin Simien understands the value of a compelling story.

Elle Lorraine — the lead of Justin Simien's Sundance-bound Bad Hair— has signed with WME.Lorraine stars in Simien's sophomore feature, which will premiere in the fest's genre-focused Midnight section, and also stars Lena Waithe, Vanessa Williams and Laverne Cox.Her other onscreen credits include an appearance on Netflix series Dear White People, and an arch on the third season of Issa Rae's HBO seriesInsecure.