Oprah Winfrey to play Richard Pryor’s brothel-running grandmother

Posted 12 years ago

Oprah Winfrey has always treated acting as a hobby more than a career, but since the end of her iconic talk show and the formation of her own cable network, Winfrey has found time to stretch her thespian muscles. After...

Mike Epps is officially playing Richard Pryor in Lee Daniels’ biopic

Posted 12 years ago

A few weeks ago we told you that comedian Mike Epps was the frontrunner to take on the role of the legendary comic Richard Pryor. Now after beating out other hopefuls for the role including Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Marlon...

Mike Epps is now frontrunner to star in Lee Daniels’ Richard Pryor biopic

Posted 12 years ago

Everything that was old is new again as comedian/actor Mike Epps is now the front-runner to play Richard Pryor in Lee Daniels‘ biopic of the late stand-up legend. Epps apparently blew producers away during an “explosive” screen test, according to...

Oliver Stone takes to Twitter to announce his departure from the Martin Luther King biopic

Posted 12 years ago

Oliver Stone’s next was set to be a biopic focused on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. However, the director knew that he might face some issues with the estate of the late civil rights leader. The film would...

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...

Alex Pettyfer to play half of a gay, interracial action hero couple for director Lee Daniels

Posted 13 years ago

Lee Daniels has garnered a good deal of respect from the film industry for his Academy Award-nominated PRECIOUS and this year’s THE BUTLER. His prior film, THE PAPERBOY, did not fare so well, but Daniels has proven that he has...

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...

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...

Review: The Paperboy

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Two reporters and a couple of lost souls team together to free a potentially wrongly convicted man in 1960s Florida. REVIEW: THE PAPERBOY as a whole can be summed up in one giddily tawdry, borderline embarrassing sequence (perhaps you’ve...

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