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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
Oprah Winfrey chose to revitalize her acting career by taking a role in Lee Daniels’ The Butler, and now the former talk show host has tweeting some new images of her return.
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. | Full Story
Director Lee Daniels has teamed up with Hugh Jackman to make a new Martin Luther King Jr. assassination film which will reportedly take on an “unconventional view of King’s murder.” Meaning that the movie will explore the possibility of King’s murder being a conspiracy.
According to LA Times, The film titled, Orders To Kill, will tell an alternative version of the MLK shooting.
The film will tell the story of William Pepper (Jackman), a controversial attorney and activist who for decades has argued that convicted killer James Earl Ray, who recanted his confession and died arguing his innocence, didn’t shoot MLK. | Full Story
Ne-Yo turns down Martin Luther King Jr. role Says nothing comes before his music.
In an interview with a British newspaper, R&B singer Ne-Yo revealed that he rejected an opportunity to play Martin Luther King Jr. in a new film. The singer turned actor expressed he had to turn the role down because the director wanted him to gain 30 pounds and that went against his efforts to prepare for his new album release. | Full Story
Robin Williams will play President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Lee Daniels’ drama The Butler, a movie which will tell the story of Eugene Allen, a black butler who worked at the White House from 1952 to 1986, serving under eight presidents.
Williams joins an already impressive 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
Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy has received its U.S. theaters release date.
The film is a thriller set in 1969, and is based on the story of a young man who go back to his little hometown in Florida to help his brother, who is a reporter, learn the truth about a might-be-innocenct man on death row. In the process of working, he develops an attraction for the convict’s lover. As a result, conflict, danger, lying, seduction and betrayal follows. | Full Story
David Oyelowo joins the cast of Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln‘ He will play the role of calvalryman. Oyelowo is a busy man these days, agreeing to do the Spielberg project while currently shooting the Christopher McQuarrie directed ‘One Shot‘ starring Tom Cruise. Oyelowo plays the lead detective investigating a sniper massacre in Pittsburgh.
In addition, Oyelowo just wrapped Lee Daniels’s ‘Paperboy‘ and will be seen next starring in George Lucas ‘Red Tails,’ a drama about a group of African Americans pilots called the Tuskegee airmen, whom has to fight home grown racism in order to fight for their country during WWII. | Full Story
Trouble with Lee Daniels ‘Paperboy’ after Tobey Maguire dropped out of the project it set the production in a downward spiral. Because Maquire dropped out it pushed the shoot date back wich then conflicted with Sofia Vergara Modern Family shooting schedule, prompting her to drop out. Production is moving quickly to fill those empty roles. Nicole Kidman is in talks to join Paperboy to fill the shoes of Vergara.
‘Paperboy’ centers on a reporter and his brother who investigate the events surrounding a murder in order to exonerate a man on death row. | Full Story
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