Director Niki Caro; will the writers strike?; illustrator Claire Keane

Published March 23, 2017 at 3:54 PM PDT

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Director Niki Caro guides actress Jessica Chastain through a scene in "The Zookeeper's Wife."

Caro's latest film is “The Zookeeper’s Wife," but her next project, the live-action version of “Mulan,” will make her only the 4th woman to have a budget over $100 million; The Writer’s Guild is negotiating its next contract, and there has been talk of a strike over wages for TV writers; children’s book author/illustrator Claire Keane worked with her Disney animator father on a story about Rapunzel that is being turned into a TV series.

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