Long before he ruled over everything the light touches, lead creatures from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope, and issued proclamations with the gravitas of a CNN-tagline announcer, Mufasa the ...

This article contains spoilers for the movie "Mufasa: The Lion King." "Mufasa: The Lion King" is a prequel to the animated 1994 movie and its 2019 remake. Directed by Barry Jenkins and featuring songs ...

Sequels to beloved films are not typically welcome, but many will flock to a theater to learn the backstory of an iconic character, myself included. "Mufasa: The Lion King" offers audiences a look ...

Soundtrack Features All Original New Songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda with Additional Performances by Lebo M, and Original Score Composed by Dave Metzger Also, Two New Videos Launch Ahead of the Film’s ...

The announcement that Barry Jenkins would direct a prequel to Disney’s “live-action” The Lion King remake hit film enthusiast communities like a bombshell. On one hand, Jenkins has established himself ...

Of all the films in Disney's seemingly never-ending onslaught of live-action remakes, there is no film I dislike more than 2019's The Lion King. Some would argue the film doesn't even qualify as ...

SPOILER WARNING: This story discusses minor plot details for “Mufasa: The Lion King,” now in theaters. Lin-Manuel Miranda and composer Dave Metzger both knew the mighty musical legacy they had to ...

Barry Jenkins truly is a miracle worker. The Oscar-winning director of the intimate indie “Moonlight,” the romantic period drama “If Beale Street Could Talk” and the Amazon series “The Underground ...

One must imagine watchers of Disney remakes as happy. Each time a new sequel, prequel or live-action remake is announced, audiences dutifully return to theaters with Sisyphean devotion and an entirely ...

“Mufasa: The Lion King” is a prequel to the animated 1994 movie and its 2019 remake. Directed by Barry Jenkins and featuring songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the film traces how Mufasa came to be king of ...

Though Jenkins’ new movie is light on plot, it keeps the action moving briskly jumping from scene to scene with precision and fluidity even though the humorous references to the Broadway musical ...