RELATED STORIES The CW is prepping for a potential profusion of girl power. The network has greenlit three pilots centered on young women, TVLine has learned, including a live-action project based on The Powerpuff Girls cartoon series. The Powerpuff Girls will follow characters introduced in Craig McCracken’s Cartoon Network series, who are now “disillusioned twentysomethings who […]
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Daily Podcast: Avengers: Infinity War, Ava DuVernay, Ready Player One, The Last Jedi, and More
On the March 16, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the newest Avengers: Infinity War trailer, Ava DuVernay’s new directing gig, a Clarissa Explains It All reboot, the original Ready Player One reference you won’t see […]
Ava DuVernay Will Direct ‘The New Gods’ For DC Films
A Wrinkle in Time and Selma director Ava DuVernay briefly considered directing Marvel Studios’ Black Panther, but Marvel’s loss is DC’s gain: DuVernay is heading to Warner Bros. and DC Films to direct an adaptation of The New Gods, based on the comic created by Jack Kirby. Discover the details of the Ava DuVernay New […]
‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Review: Ava DuVernay Delivers a Unique and Admirable Mess
Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time represents a long-overdue milestone being passed. The fact that the film’s director, Ava DuVernay of Selma and 13th, is the first woman of color to helm a Hollywood film with a budget over $ 100 million is remarkable; that it took the industry until 2018 to allow this barrier to […]
How ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Director Ava DuVernay Became a Creator of Worlds
With “A Wrinkle in Time,” director Ava DuVernay merges sci-fi’s embrace of the Other with her own vision for a better, more inclusive future. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a78b9cb0842ad1e04480637/master/pass/0318-WI-FFDUVE-01_sq.jpg
Watch: Jay-Z’s ‘Family Feud’ Music Video, Directed by Ava DuVernay
We recently wrote about Never Let Me Go director Mark Romanek’s foray back into the world of music videos with his video for Justin Timberlake’s new single “Filthy,” but he’s not alone: Selma and A Wrinkle in Time director Ava DuVernay has a new music video of her own, featuring none other than Jay-Z and Beyonce. As you […]
Ava DuVernay Developing TV Adaptation of Octavia Butler’s ‘Dawn’
Ava DuVernay is keeping herself very, very busy these days, between the last week’s mid-second-season finale of her OWN TV series Queen Sugar, her recently-announced Netflix mini-series on the Central Park Five, and the upcoming release of her highly-anticipated film adaptation of Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. But apparently she’s also going to skip […]
Ava DuVernay Directing Netflix Series About the Wrongly-Convicted Central Park Five
After 13th, which detailed the history of mass incarceration in the United States, scored a well-deserved nomination for Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Oscars, director Ava DuVernay (Selma, Disney’s upcoming A Wrinkle in Time) is heading back to Netflix to direct a five-episode series that tells the story of the wrongly-convicted Central Park Five. Get the latest info about the new […]
Ava DuVernay and Issa Rae Jump Onboard (at Least, on Social Media) the Rihanna/Lupita Nyong’o Movie Idea
A lot of the movies put out by Hollywood puts out these days seem to have had wholly nonverbal pitches: an image of a superhero, or a poster of the movie on which it’ll be based, or a toy, or a still of an app about goddamn tempestuous fowl. So a film wrought by a casual Twitter conversation […]
‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Movie Photos: Ava DuVernay Wraps Filming
If you’re not following director Ava DuVernay on Twitter, you’re missing out – few filmmakers are as generous and enlightening on their social media. The extraordinarily talented director of Selma and 13th just wrapped production on her big-budget adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s science fiction adventure A Wrinkle in Time and she took to Twitter to celebrate, […]
