Pop royalty Beyonce on Friday released her much-hyped visual album “Black Is King,” an aesthetically ambitious video billed as a companion to her 2019 album of songs inspired by
Let’s be honest: 2019’s film roster are collages of copy-paste titles from our childhood. We got “It: Chapter 2,” “The Lion King,” “Dumbo,” “Hellboy,” “Aladdin,” “Pet Sematary,” and “Men In
Walt Disney Pictures’ 2019 film “The Lion King” is a photorealistic, computer-generated animation remake of the 1994 traditional animated film of the same name. It’s the most recent of Disney’s remakes of their animated films, following “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Dumbo,” and “The Jungle Book” (whose director, Jon Favreau, also helmed and produced “The Lion King”).
Among all the Disney animated movies, “The Lion King” presented a unique and daunting challenge in becoming the latest of its live-action adaptations for a very simple reason: There were no human characters in it. Every one of the 1994 classic’s characters is an animal and while you can indeed render all of them in stylized form in the animated film, you cannot do that for the 2019 live-action version.
At “The Lion King” on Sunday, my daughter Gia commented, “Mom, there’s three generations of us here.”
After playing to packed houses and standing ovations in Manila for almost two months, the first international tour of the world’s no. 1 musical is extending its season, adding
Grand vistas, an endless array of wonderful talking creatures, and heart-stopping action laced with poignant drama: these are the requirements any fantasy blockbuster musical must be able to summon
When Lebo M., now known as “the voice and spirit of ‘The Lion King,’” began working on the 1994 Disney animation “The Lion King” over two decades ago, he didn’t know it was going to be such a phenomenon. “I wish had. I don’t think any of us had a sense of what the film was going to do or be,” he said.
A glorious theatrical event. This was how associate director Anthony Lyn described “The Lion King” a day before the production’s Manila gala night. A six-time Tony Awards winner (1998), “The
One reason the concerts of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) are much fun is that the music director, Yoshikazu Fukumura, often features as soloist an outstanding musician who specializes in
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