Lee Daniels only gets one f*ck with The Butler’s PG-13 rating

Posted 13 years ago

Lee Daniels, director of such hard-R flicks as Precious and Paperboy, evidently felt a bit frustrated with keeping things PG-13 inhis upcoming film The Butler, which follows Forest Whitaker as a White House staffer through eight presidential administrations. That’s a...

Game Change scribe Danny Strong set to write The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

Posted 14 years ago

When Danny Strong accepted the award for writing HBO’s GAME CHANGE, the first thing I said was, “Holy crap! That’s Jonathan!” I was completely unaware that Strong was the same Strong who once was in the cast of BUFFY THE...

Lee Daniels’ The Butler finds distribution courtesy of The Weinstein Company

Posted 14 years ago

THE BUTLER will assuredly get a wide release now that The Weinstein Company has picked up the US rights to the Lee Daniels film. The movie has all the makings of a prestige film and Oscar contender. If there is...

Oprah tweets two new photos from The Butler featuring Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda, and Lenny Kravitz

Posted 14 years ago

Lee Daniels’ THE BUTLER has been slowly sharing images of it’s star-studded cast as they transform into a range of political figures from American history. We previously saw Forrest Whitaker in character (see above) and now we get a look...