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*Hot British actor David Oyelowo portrays the manager and love interest of Nina Simone in the biopic about Simone’s life, coming out later this year. The film has been met with controversy because the part of Nina Simone is being played by Zoe Saldana, a Latina actress with lighter skin. While Zoe has been criticized, [...]
*The Independent Spirit Awards, the last awards show before the Academy Awards was held Saturday in LA and stars such as Quvenzhane Wallis, David Oyelowo and Michael Pena stopped by to chat with BlackTree TV By the way, among the pics the busy Oyelowo was in this past year was Ava DuVernay’s “Middle of Nowhere,” [...]
*Although Zoe Saldana has been criticized to no end about playing the role of Nina Simone, she might have to get props for singing in the film as well. Yes, the actress did a lot of her own singing. RELATED STORY: Scathing Open Letter Laments Casting and Covert Tactics for Nina Simone Film Co-star David Oyelowo [...]
*In the riveting drama “Zero Dark Thirty,” the steps that led to the death of Osama bin Laden are explored. The woman helming the story is director Katheryn Bigelow who won an Oscar for “The Hurt Locker” that starred Anthony Mackie and Jeremy Renner and directed “Strange Days” with Angela Basset. Jessica Chastain is the [...]
*A sure sign that his career is taking off, David Oyelowo has just signed with high-powered talent agency WME, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The British actor of Nigerian descent, who will be seen opposite Tom Cruise in “Jack Reacher” beginning Friday, remains with management firm Inphenate and U.K. agency Hamilton-Hodell. Oyelowo is an Indie Spirit Award [...]
*David Oyelowo is an actor whose time has come – at least here in the States. He’s been in the game for over a decade in his native England, having performed on stage as part of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company, starred in several British television shows and even a radio play before beginning his [...]
*In a strange turn of casting events, Zoe Saldana is taking over the Nina Simone role for singer Mary J. Blige. Not that the original choice was great, but this one hardly makes sense. The film was set to begin production last year at the end of May. But that didn’t happen even after being [...]
*Oprah Winfrey is getting back to the basics as an actress. She’s set to star in a docudrama about the life of Eugene Allen, the White House butler who served several presidents. The former queen of talk television plays the role of Mrs. Allen. The story begins in New Orleans and graduates to Capitol Hill. [...]
*Actor Nelsan Ellis will go from a possessed gay Louisiana cook in HBO’s “True Blood” to the prince of peace on the big screen. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Director Lee Daniels has tapped the star to play Martin Luther King Jr. in “The Butler,” reports Deadline.com. Mariah Carey and Yaya DaCosta (“America’s Next Top [...]
*Colman Domingo has joined the cast of Lee Daniels’ “The Butler,” based on the life of Eugene Allen, a White House servant who worked for eight First Families over three decades. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Domingo will play a White House butler who works in the Executive Mansion. Forest Whitaker plays Allen and Oprah [...]
*Macy Gray makes her first big screen appearance since 2010’s “For Colored Girls” in the forthcoming Lee Daniels’ film “The Paperboy.” The movie follows reporter Ward James (Matthew McConaughey) and his younger brother Jack James (Zac Efron) as they travel to the deep south to investigate events that may have sent the wrong man to [...]
*Forest Whitaker is in negotiations to play the title character in director Lee Daniels’ “The Butler,” which tells the true story of Eugene Allen, a black man who worked as butler in the White House, serving eight presidents from 1952 to 1986. David Oyelowo is in talks to play the butler’s son in the movie, [...]
*Oprah Winfrey is said to be considering an offer to co-star in “The Butler,” Director Lee Daniels’ story of Eugene Allen, a black man who worked as butler in the White House, serving eight presidents from 1952 to 1986, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Financing is still being arranged and no deals have been made, [...]
“There is no future without the past.” *Never before had there been this much excitement about a movie than the day those involved with “Red Tails” met at the London Hotel in New York to talk about film. Nate Parker, David Oyelowo and eighty-nine year old real life Tuskegee Airman Dr. Roscoe Brown were among [...]
*Deadline.com is reporting that actor David Oyelowo has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” He has headed to Virginia and will play the role of a cavalryman. Oyelowo takes the job while he’s concurrently shooting the Christopher McQuarrie-directed “One Shot” with Tom Cruise starring as Jack Reacher in the Lee Child novel series. Oyelowo [...]
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