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Man, these parodies of Oscar bait movies just get more and more convincing! This fake trailer for The Butler posits a movie based on the real life of Eugene Allen, who served as a butler in the White House for over 30 years, from the 1950′s through the 80′s. Forest Whitaker plays “Cecil Gaines,” Allen’s fictional counterpart, while Oprah (Oprah!) plays his wife.
And just see who else is in this! | Full Story
Frutivale is a film which has been getting plenty of buzz lately. A few days ago the movie won multiple accolades after debuting at the Sundance Film Festival. Prior to that, it had five major Hollywood distributing companies fighting for its rights. Now, there has been footage released of the movie, to showcase part of why everyone went so crazy over the film at the festival.
Below is the first look of the film, which is based on Oscar Grant’s last day of life, before he was tragically gunned down by the Bay Area’s BART police on New Years Day of 2009. | Full Story
Last night, the Sundance Film Festival wrapped up its 2013 event with the annual awards ceremony. Many films were able to take home accolades, other didn’t, but it still was a successful event nevertheless. Ryan Coogler‘s Fruitvale, actual made history at the function, winning two prestigious awards in its category.
According to reports, Fruitvale captured the audience emotions to the point where some were seen weeping uncontrollably. That ultimately fueled the viewers to select the film for the 2013 Audience Award in the US Dramatic. | Full Story
At Sundance Film Festival, The Weinstein Company, Fox Searchlight, Paramount Pictures and Focus Features went into a bidding war over the controversy film Fruitvale. After all the nukes were dropped and the smoke cleared The Weinstein Company was the only organization to survive the intense battle. According to the Variety, The Weinstein Company won the auction war for the film by reportedly dropping a bomb worth between two to three million dollars, including commitments to a wide theatrical release. | Full Story
The Weinstein Company have picked up the U.S. rights to his star-studded, historical drama “The Butler.” The Butler centers around Eugene Allen, a butler who worked at the White House from 1952 to 1986, serving under eight presidents. The movie is based on an article written about Eugene’s life story by Wil Haygood. Allen started working at the White House at a time when black people were still discriminated against.
Along with the announcement, there have been a new set pic of the Forrest Whitaker in costume, which is clearer than that silhouette photo that dropped in August. | Full Story
Lee Daniel’s film ‘The Butler’ has met a match that’s too big to handle. Production for the upcoming film has been shut down for a few days. Isaac, the category 1 hurricane which recently hit New Orleans, is the culprit behind the temporary set-backs.
In result of the anticipated hurricane, the entire cast and crew were moved to safer locations. According to one source: “The cast and crew for the film is huge, and it was a giant operation to get them out. | Full Story
Pernell Walker has landed a role to play in Lee Daniels’ upcoming film The Butler. The Pariah actress will play the character name Lorraine in the movie. There isn’t much details on her character’s role as of yet but she join a star-studded cast of actors which includes Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack, Alan Rickman, Terence Howard, Cuba Good Jr., Jane Fonda, Nicole Kidman, Lenny Kravitz, Colman Domingo and Jess Williams. | Full Story
Michael B. Jordan is now being considered for Forest Whitaker’s independent film about a man shot and killed by Bay Area police in 2009.
Fruitvale tells the story of Oscar Grant, a 22 year old black man that was detained on New Year’s Day of 2009 by police officers at the Fruitvale station, and then murdered with a gun shot wound to the back. The event was captured on many cell phone cameras and despite video evidence the ‘not guilty’ verdict caused protests and riots. | Full Story
Forest Whitaker and Woody Harrelson are the latest thesbians to jump aboard Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace. The two actors will join Christian Bale, Sam Shepard, Zoe Saldana and Casey Affleck to top off the A-list cast.
Whitaker, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor (The Last King of Scotland), will play Sheriff Wesley Barnes of the mill town, Braddock. PA. Harrelson will play the crime boss Harian DeGroat. | Full Story
Forest Whitaker is currently working out a deal to play the lead role in the upcoming movie The Butler. The film is a story of Eugene Allen, a black butler who worked at the White House from 1952 to 1986, serving under eight presidents.
The film is based on an article written about Eugene’s life story by Wil Haygood. The butler started working at the White House at a time when black people were still discriminated against. | Full Story
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