With 'A Wrinkle In Time,' Ava DuVernay will pass a milestone

''In Hollywood, there are few measures that connote a director’s power greater than budget. This week, it became clear that Ava DuVernay has passed a power-player milestone, becoming the first woman of color to direct a live-action film with a production budget over $100 million, Disney’s upcoming “A Wrinkle in Time.”

DuVernay’s adaptation of the 1964 Madeleine L'Engle novel was on a list that the California Film Commission released Tuesday of projects receiving tax incentives to shoot in the state. “A Wrinkle in Time” will bring $85 million in qualified spending to California, state officials said, and receive an incentive of $18 million, the largest since the state program expanded in 2014...''

by Rebecca Keegan