Be prepared… as Mufasa: The Lion King roars into theaters this holiday season. At once a sequel and a prequel to 2019’s The Lion King, this movie picks up the mantle of Disney’s unique experiment, ...

The circle of life goes on, and on, and on in "Mufasa: The Lion King," a needless furthering of "The Lion King" mythos which treads the same waters as this story has already traversed. This is a ...

Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar-winning “Moonlight,” might seem like an unconventional choice to helm a Disney prequel, but it’s hard to argue with the result. His entry in the “Lion King” canon ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda initially pitched a dancehall-inspired villain song for Mads Mikkelsen’s character Kiros in “Mufasa: The Lion King,” an idea that was perhaps a bit too “counterintuitive” in the end ...

This Friday, Disney will release Mufasa: The Lion King, the new prequel to the 2019 remake. The movie features original songs from Broadway favorite Lin-Manuel Miranda and a voice cast that includes ...

Running time: 120 minutes. Rated PG (action/violence, peril and some thematic elements). In theaters Dec. 20. It’s the Circle of Life at Disney — another boring sequel has been born. Actually, the ...

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 ...

Concerned about Barry Jenkins doing a “Lion King” movie? Hakuna matata! Sometimes the odd pairing of auteur director and franchise property just works, like James Gunn making Guardians of the Galaxy ...

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 ...