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*Nearing its the one-year anniversary of its theatrical release, “The Help” is headed for its TV premiere next month on Showtime. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The best picture nominee, which earned a supporting actress Oscar for Octavia Spencer, will debut June 24 at 10 p.m. ET on the cable channel. Also starring Viola Davis, [...]
“The Help,” starring Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, has crossed the $100 million threshold in box office grosses in less than three weeks in release, marking a notable victory for DreamWorks and Participant Media. The Tate Taylor-directed movie hit the milestone Tuesday night, and has now earned $100.8 million domestically, according to the Hollywood Reporter. [...]
*The writer of the hit book and now film, “The Help,” was taken to court recently by her brother’s former African American maid. Kathryn Stockett was accused of using the likeness of Ablene Cooper without her permission in a book about relationships between White families and their Black maids in the segregated South of [...]
*The Association of Black Women Historians are speaking out against both the best-selling novel and the new movie “The Help,” urging fans to reconsider the popular tale of African American maids in 1960s Jackson, Miss., who risk sharing their experiences with a young white journalist. “Despite efforts to market the book and the film as [...]
*Viola Davis’ “The Help” got off to an impressive start at the Wednesday box office, grossing at least $5 million in its first day and earning a rare A+ CinemaScore from folks who came out to see it, according to the Hollywood Reporter. DreamWorks and Disney decided to open the movie midweek to build buzz [...]
*Actress Viola Davis addresses the elephant in the room regarding her forthcoming film “The Help.” There has already been frustration expressed from those who simply heard that two-time Academy Award nominee Viola Davis is playing a maid in her next movie – without knowing anything about her character from the book upon which the film [...]
*Although she’s been acting professionally and consistently since her 1996 debut in “A Time to Kill,” actress Octavia Spencer, for the first time in her career, is being singled out among a cast of heavyweights as the one to watch. You’ve seen her in everything – including such films as “Never Been Kissed,” “Big Momma’s [...]
*Mary J. Blige said she had heard of Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling book “The Help,” but had never actually read it before she was asked to provide a song for its film adaptation. Set in civil rights era Mississippi, the story follows a group of maids who risk their livelihood just to stand in their own [...]
*A black woman who once worked as a maid for a relative of novelist Kathryn Stockett is suing the author of the best-selling book “The Help,” claiming she was the basis for a black servant character who she thought depicted her in a poor light. The novel is based on relationships between white families and [...]
*Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling debut novel “The Help,” which follows the lives of three extraordinary women during the civil rights era in 1960s Mississippi, is being adapted for the big screen with an all-star cast. Viola Davis has just been cast as determined maid Aibileen Clark, reports Entertainment Weekly. Allison Janney was recently slotted to take [...]
Actress Viola Davis, a supporting actress Oscar nominee for “Doubt,” has just booked her first-ever headlining role…playing a maid for a white woman in the 1960s. Before the outrage begins, consider the Dreamworks film is an adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help,” which explores the complicated relationships between the upper class matriarchs and their servants [...]
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