Nicolas Winding Refn’s Barbarella project lands at Amazon

Posted 12 years ago

It’s been quite a while since we got an update on Nicolas Winding Refn‘s "Barbarella" TV series, with our last report coming almost one year ago when Neal Purvis and Robert Wade – writers of the five most recent James...

Lee Daniels in talks for Richard Pryor biopic with Eddie Murphy and Michael B. Jordan among contenders for the lead

Posted 12 years ago

Let the onslaught of late comedian biopics continue! THE BUTLER director Lee Daniels is in talks to take on a biopic of late great comedian Richard Pryor with Eddie Murphy, Marlon Wayans, and Michael B. Jordan in contention to take...

Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: 300, Duel, Seven, Star Wars

Posted 13 years ago

Theodore Some cliche somewhere said that 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have...

Review: Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A butler serves during seven presidential administrations between 1957 and 1986 while his son engages in the Civil Rights movement down south. REVIEW: LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER could have been an awkward disaster; it has all the makings of...

Harvey Weinstein says the controversy over The Butler’s title is because of The Hobbit

Posted 13 years ago

Harvey Weinstein and Warner Bros. are currently at odds over the title to Lee Daniels‘ latest movie THE BUTLER. At the heart of the case is an obscure 1916 silent short movie of the same name that WB is claiming...

Gaumont’s Barbarella TV series coming to life with Skyfall writers; Nicolas Winding Refn will direct

Posted 13 years ago

True confession: I’ve never seen the 1968 BARBARELLA starring Jane Fonda.  It’s sitting in my Netflix queue like homework and perhaps I’ll get to it one day, but it’s just not high enough on my list of movie-watching priorities.  I’m...

James Bond’s writers penning Barbarella series for Nicolas Winding Refn

Posted 13 years ago

Last summer came the news that DRIVE director Nicolas Winding Refn was set to sit at the helm of a small-screen adaptation of BARBARELLA, based upon the sexy French comic book and the immortal (?) 1968 film starring Jane Fonda....

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...

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...

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