Fox is dipping into the hip-hop mogul storyline pool again (anyone remember “Platinum”?) with Lee Daniels’ new show “Empire.” The series stars Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson, Jussie Smollett, Macy Gray, Malik Yoba and more. Howard plays a gangster turned record exec named Lucious Lyon, who is running a label called Empire Entertainment. Lucious has […]
Timbaland Mosley got back on his music grind in 2013 producing heaters for Jay Z and Justin Timberlake, but now the Virginia-born super producer is adding more TV credits to his already extensive resume. According to Entertainment Weekly, Fox has signed the Grammy-winning producer to be a songwriter and producer for Lee Daniels’ upcoming hip-hop […]
TMZ caught up with “The Butler” producer Lee Daniels and asked him how he was feeling about the movie being snubbed by the various award shows this year. He had the classiest answer ever! Take a look at what Mr. Daniels told the cameras in the video below! See…we told ya! Pure class! And […]
The love train for “12 Years A Slave” came to a full stop Monday night at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The critically acclaimed film failed to win any of their three nominations (Best Feature, Best Actor, Best Breakthrough Performance). One of the most buzzed about […]
Movies about slaves and domestics usually inspire collective eye rolls in the African-American community. After the controversy revolving around last year’s “Django Unchained” and 2011’s “The Help,” the patience of Black moviegoers has grown thin with portrayals of magical Negroes in subservient roles. With “Lee Daniel’s The Butler” we finally get a film that […]
Unafraid to push the envelope, film director, Lee Daniels, who brought Precious to the big screen, wrote produced and directed a poignant film The Butler. Filmed from the point of view of a Black White House butler who worked from 1952 to 1986, Daniels showcases a man who gets a front-row seat to witness change happen for […]
The highly anticipated movie, “The Butler”, just had a their first official trailer released, and the movie looks like it’s going to be great. Starring Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker and Winfrey as the White House’s butler and his wife, the movie takes us through over 30 years of presidency, which was based on a true story. […]
Director Lee Daniels has recently revealed that in his new feature, The Paperboy, the role of Anita the maid was originally offered to Oprah Winfrey before Macy Gray would go on to take the role. However, not so shockingly as Shadow and Act pointed out, Oprah was not trying to simulate masturbation on the floor […]
Oprah Winfrey really enjoys playing with public perception of her clean cut image. When she isn’t stealing people’s cars she is celebrating sexy afterglow on Twitter. RELATED:Oprah Instagrams Photos From The Set Of “The Butler” The bajillionaire tweeted a photo of her “love scene” from Lee Daniels upcoming film The Butler with actor Terrence Howard. […]
Television titan Oprah Winfrey has put her acting shoes back on. She has a role in Lee Daniels film “The Butler.” She and her cast mates are hard at work filming the movie about a butler who served in The White House for four presidents. While making use of a little down time, Oprah posted […]
Looks like Lafayette from True Blood can stop working at Sam’s Bar in Bon Temps for a while. The actor known for playing Lafayette, Nelsan Ellis, was just cast in Lee Daniels film The Butler. The Butler is a movie that centers around one butler who lived in the White House for 30 years and […]
Precious director Lee Daniels is working on a new film called The Paperboy, where Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron star. Daniels was caught on the set having a heated argument with one of the film’s producers, Avi Lerner. The pair seemed to be arguing about the movie going over its tight $15 million dollar budget. […]
