See The United States Vs. Billie Holiday first look images for the Lee Daniels-directed biopic about the iconic Blues singer.
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Lee Daniels has been tapped to direct the Stealth movie adaptation of the superhero comic book from The Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman and Marc Silvestri.
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A Billie Holiday biopic is potentially in the works with Oscar-nominated Precious director Lee Daniels in talks to helm the film about the jazz icon, and singer-songwriter Andra Day being eyed to star.
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A collection of 2018 Oscars montages that played throughout the ceremony on Sunday night featured a dive into the history of film, the importance of representation on the big screen, and a tribute to the military.
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Terms of Endearment is a beautiful, heartbreaking, and hilarious film Lee Daniels (Empire) might remake. Learn more about the Terms of Endearment remake
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A few months ago, Lee Daniels dropped out of the Richard Pryor biopic, due to a scheduling issue. Now, he's back with producer Jay Z and possibly Netflix.
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After directing movies like Precious and The Butler, Lee Daniels is in talks to create a Lee Daniels musical based on the filmmaker's own life.
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A biopic about legendary comedian Richard Pryor has been developing long enough that Eddie Murphy was once considered for the lead role, but has since been hired to play the father of the iconic comic, who will instead be played by Mike Epps. The project finally seemed like it was on track to make it…
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Continuing his comeback to entertainment, we'll get see Tracy Morgan playing Redd Foxx in Lee Daniels' forthcoming biopic about the career of Richard Pryor.
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The Paperboy by Lee Daniels has become one of my favorite trashy movies because it is totally nuts. And so the idea of a Lee Daniels horror film is fantastic, because that could be just the framework in which he can let loose some similar energy with a different vibe. Enter Demon House, a supernatural…
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Looks like the lead in the Richard Pryor biopic has gone to Mike Epps. Somehow, early on in the process, it looked like Nick Cannon was going to get the gig, and thus be enshrined in proximity to Pryor's simply by virtue of proximity. But then Mike Epps came roaring up from the back of…
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Bible-based projects are hotter than ever. This year alone, we'll see Ridley Scott's Exodus, Darren Aronofsky's Noah, and the Jesus tale Son of God. But while most are taking the familiar form of an historical epic, WGN America is going a different way with their religiously inspired new miniseries. Produced by The Weinstein Co., 10 Commandments…
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It almost feels like there could be a movie about the effort to make a biopic about Richard Pryor. Various producers and directors have been attached to the film over the past few years, with Richard Condon almost getting the green light back in 2010. The film is in the hands of the Weinstein Company,…
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As we mentioned a few days ago, one of the great pleasures of the award season, which does arrive each year with a grand set of problems and irritants, is that filmmakers are given more opportunities than usual to discuss their work, and some of those opportunities are more extensive than others. THR has created…
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I had a long conversation at Fantastic Fest with Evan of Badass Digest about our growing mutual interest in Lee Daniels, director of Precious, The Paperboy and The Butler. Our shared opinion boiled down to the fact that Daniels is a rare man, the sort of director who straddles fringe and mainstream, and who makes weirdly…
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Janis Joplin has yet to get the biopic treatment (well, unless you count Jenna Maroney's Jackie Jormp-Jomp), but that'll change soon if Lee Daniels has anything to do with it. The director attached himself last year to a Joplin drama with Amy Adams in the lead, and now he says that the film will be…
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Following in the footsteps of his old boss Gus, Mike will drop by Greendale in the next season of Community. Also after the jump: Game of Thrones recasts one of its roles for Season 4 Lee Daniels is circling a Sammy Davis Jr. movie for HBO History greenlights Houdini mini with Adrien Brody FX is…
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You may recall that a couple of years back, Lee Daniels was debating between two civil-rights themed projects. He ultimately settled on the White House drama The Butler, which opens next month. But the other, Selma, hasn't been forgotten entirely -- it's just in new hands now. Ava DuVernay, the rising star behind last year's Sundance…
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Hollywood has been trying and failing to make a Janis Joplin biopic for years, but all of a sudden it looks like two such films are on their way. Over the summer, Martha Marcy May Marlene helmer Sean Durkin signed on to direct Joplin with Tony winner Nina Arianda as the famed songstress. Now the…
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It took a couple of years after Precious for director Lee Daniels to get cameras rolling on his follow-up, the lurid Southern melodrama The Paperboy, but he's barely even taking a breather before heading into his next picture. Even as The Paperboy gears up for its theatrical run, Daniels has already started shooting The Butler with…
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Matthew McConaughey is having one hell of a year. Having already drawn praise for turns in Richard Linklater's Bernie, Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike, and William Friedkin's Killer Joe, the onetime Failure to Launch star is now heading into fall with Lee Daniels' The Paperboy. Inspired by true events, The Paperboy centers around wayward young man…
Read MoreAfter Precious became a hit, director Lee Daniels ended up looking into dual true-story films with civil rights interests. The first, Selma, lined up an impressive cast (Hugh Jackman, Liam Neeson, David Oyelowo, Robert De Niro, Cedric the Entertainer) for a tale about the relationship between Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Lyndon Johnson, and…
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Precious director Lee Daniels is putting together The Butler, and he's handing Robin Williams a razor before signing him on to the film. Williams is now set to play former President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the movie, which traces the true story of Eugene Allen, who served in the White House for three decades, through…
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Even as Lee Daniels' follow-up to Precious, The Paperboy, makes its debut at Cannes this week, the filmmaker's wasting no time assembling a stellar cast for his next project, The Butler. The talented Forest Whitaker leads the picture as Eugene Allen, the late White House butler who served under eight different presidents from 1952 through 1986,…
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The primary lineup for the competition slate at the 2012 Cannes has been unveilend, and it is a very strong list of films. There are quite a few expected entries: David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, Lee Daniels' The Paperboy, John Hillcoat's Lawless (formerly The Wettest County), and Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly (formerly Cogan's Trade), and we…
Read MoreBriefly: For anyone who doubted, Lee Daniels just proved that he has a sense of humor, perhaps even an impish sense of provocation. The director of Precious and the upcoming film The Paperboy is assembling The Butler, about Eugene Allen, a White House butler who served presidents from Harry Truman in 1952 to Ronald Reagan…
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A couple years ago, Precious director Lee Daniels went back and forth on the idea of filming the life of longtime White House servant Eugene Allen for the movie The Butler, or making a civil rights drama called Selma. In the end, he made neither, choosing instead to shoot The Paperboy with Zac Efron, John…
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