Barry Jenkins never set out to make movies for the masses. He's a champion of independent film who tells stories about Black ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Over the four years he’s spent working on “Mufasa: The Lion King,” Barry Jenkins estimates that he’s been asked why he wanted to make it at least 400 times. Countless ...

The first reviews for Barry Jenkins' Mufasa The Lion King are in ... on the 2019 retread" and commending its exploration of identity, friendship, and empathy. However, they found the shifts ...

Barry Jenkins on Why He Made 'Mufasa' and How It Changed Him as a Filmmaker NEW YORK (AP) — Over the four years he’s spent working on “Mufasa: The Lion King,” Barry Jenkins estimates that ...

With songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Mufasa” works as a big-movie entertainment and, even more surprisingly, as a Barry Jenkins film. “My head was spinning when this started,” Jenkins says.