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*In a bid to create more Oscar buzz breathing room, The Weinstein Company has moved the release date of its Lee Daniels-directed “The Butler” from October 18 to August 16, reports Deadline.com. The film looks at the life of Eugene Allen, who served eight presidents from 1952 to 1986 and had a bird’s-eye view of [...]
*It won’t hit theaters until the thick of awards season in October, but The Weinstein Company has released its first trailer for the Lee Daniels-directed “The Butler.” The film tells the story of Eugene Allen (Forest Whitaker), who served eight commanders in chief during his 1952-1986 stint as the White House butler. Daniels wrote the [...]
*Jennifer Hudson’s son David is set to make his film debut in his mother’s upcoming holiday movie musical “Black Nativity.” The Oscar winner plays a single mom in the retelling of the Nativity story with an all-black cast. David, her 3-year-old with fiancé David Otunga, will make a cameo. “He put himself in the film [...]
*The 2013 Cannes Film Festival announced that it will wrap on May 26 with Jérôme Salle’s noir thriller “Zulu,” based on the award-winning novel by French author Caryl Férey. Shot on location in South Africa, Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom star as Cape Town cops on opposite sides of the apartheid divide who end up [...]
*The long-gestating Richard Pryor biopic is starting over from scratch with Forest Whitaker now in charge. Fresh from producing the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner “Fruitvale,” Whitaker has taken over the nearly two-decade effort to bring the legendary comic’s life of the big screen, reports Deadline.com. Whitaker is teaming with the late [...]
*In October, Oprah Winfrey tweeted the above photo of herself and Terrence Howard from the set of their upcoming film “The Butler.” “And THAT’s a Wrap! Terrence Howard and me in our goodbye ‘love scene’,” Winfrey wrote as a caption, providing no further details. Howard, however, is now spilling the beans on how he ended [...]
*The NYC deli that accused Forest Whitaker of shoplifting last week is blaming the incident on a “misguided” employee, and insists race was absolutely not a factor, reports TMZ. The actor was publicly frisked at Milano Market after he was wrongly suspected of stealing an item. A rep for the store told TMZ, “The management [...]
*Forest didn’t do it! Actor Forest Whitaker expressed his outrage when a New York deli accused him of stealing on Friday morning. They must not have known who he is! According to TMZ, he was on his way out of Milano Market on the Upper East Side when he was stopped by the store’s manager. [...]
*It’s never too late, or early for that matter, to tell the Black version of any story. “Black Nativity” is a contemporary film adaptation of Langston Hughes’ play, about a street-wise teen from Baltimore, raised by a single mother, who journeys to New York City to spend his Christmas holiday. “‘Black Nativity’ has a been [...]
*On the homestretch! Amber Rose takes in a prenatal yoga class. Meanwhile, Wiz and Amber’s pooch, show’s their future sibling some belly kisses. That sure ain’t Olivia Pope! The real Kerry Washington was peeped, scurrying through LAX, sporting a snatch-back, fashionable coat and nerd glasses. Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker was on set in NYC, [...]
*Director Lee Daniels is feeling a bit “muzzled” while making his first PG-13 film. “It’s very un-‘Precious’ and un-‘Paperboy,’” he tells The Hollywood Reporter of “The Butler,” about a White House staffer (Forest Whitaker) employed through eight presidential administrations. “I can’t go into my bag of tricks on this one: no urination, no baby falling [...]
*The Weinstein Company has acquired distribution rights for the Forest Whitaker-produced “Fruitvale,” which follows the true story of 22-year-old Bay Area resident Oscar Grant who was unarmed when he was shot dead by police officers at the Fruitvale BART station. The feature directorial debut of Ryan Coogler, who also wrote the screenplay, premiered to wide [...]
*Moviegoers in the States will get a chance to see Lee Daniels’ upcoming film “The Butler” courtesy of The Weinstein Co., which just picked up U.S. distribution rights. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Written by Daniels and Danny Strong, who earned an Emmy on Sunday for his “Game Change,” the story is inspired by Wil [...]
*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. [...]
*As a person perceives a thing is how that thing is in a person’s mind. This phenomenon is personified in the instance of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. He is a multi-million dollar corporation unto himself with wide ranging interests and revenue streams as numerous as the battle scars that adorn his frame. But he is [...]
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