Justin Simien
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Justin Simien in Talks to Direct Disney’s ‘Haunted Mansion’ Movie
Katie Dippold wrote the most recent draft of the script
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Justin Simien’s ‘Bad Hair’ About a Killer Weave Gets New Trailer, October Release on Hulu (Video)
“Dear White People” director’s new satire takes a look at the societal pressures Black women face
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Justin Simien on the Korean and Japanese Influence of ‘Bad Hair’ (Video)
Sundance 2020: “The idea really came from a conversation about a sub-genre of horror in Korean and Japanese horror films about hair specifically,” Simien tells TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven
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Hulu Nears Worldwide Deal for Justin Simien’s ‘Bad Hair’
Sundance 2020: The film premiered at the festival last Thursday
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Sundance Lessons: How the Trump Era Has Focused Indie Filmmakers’ Lens
Sundance 2020: A sense of loss in the Trump era and a longing for escape from our current reality suffused the festival
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‘Bad Hair’ Film Review: Justin Simien Puts Thoughtful Twists in a Creepy Horror Movie
Sundance 2020: Elle Lorraine is riveting to watch as she plays an ambitious producer forced to solve the unexplained mysteries of her sentient hair weave
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‘Dear White People’ Renewed for Fourth and Final Season by Netflix
Series creator Justin Simien will return as co-showrunner alongside Yvette Lee Bowser
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‘Dear White People’ Season 3 Guest Stars Include Yvette Nicole Brown, Laverne Cox and Flavor Flav (Video)
Blair Underwood and series creator Justin Simien will also appear
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‘Dear White People’ Creator Justin Simien Takes on Biopic for Sugar Hill Records Founder Sylvia Robinson
Robinson was a prominent record producer, writing and producing for artists such as Ike and Tina Turner, Kid Rock, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg
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Kristen Bell Says ‘Good Place’ Set Really Is a Good Place – Thanks to ‘No Jerks’ Policy (Video)
“You don’t really ever need to be a dick,” Bell said on TheWrap’s Emmys panel Wednesday
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Charles King’s MACRO Raises Additional $150 Million for Film, TV Projects
Company closed initial funding in 2015 for an undisclosed eight-figure amount
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‘Dear White People’ Renewed by Netflix for Season 2
Creator Justin Simien and the cast announced the pickup at the Essence Festival
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New ‘Dear White People’ Trailer Doesn’t Let Up, Starts With a Trigger Warning (Video)
The preview is simultaneously biting and self-deprecating, but that hasn’t stopped trolls from crying racism
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Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver,’ Noel Wells Debut ‘Mr. Roosevelt’ Win SXSW Audience Awards
Blind magician film “Dealt,” Judd Apatow’s latest and “Dear White People” also among winners
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‘Dear White People’ Creator: Complaints Denying Racism ‘Sat Beside Comments Calling Me a N—er’
Justin Simien lays out lengthy history of his new Netflix show amid accusations from alt-right that he’s calling for “white genocide”