 Only days after the official trailer premiered, Lee Daniels’ upcoming film The Butler with Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey has shifted its release date according to Deadline.
The film was originally scheduled to drop October 18 and has now been moved to August 16. Does this mean the Weinstein Company has lost faith in their potential Oscar vehicle or was it a strategic move to get their film noticed sooner? Who knows? There was a mixed reaction to the trailer from critics and viewers so perhaps it was damage control on their part. Read more on The Weinstein Company Moves ‘The Butler’ to August 16!…
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One of the big mysteries of this awards pre-season will be whether or not Lee Daniels latest effort, The Butler, will be an Oscar player or not. Following his Academy Award nominated film, Precious, in 2009, many were excited to see what he would do next. Unfortunately, that was The Paperboy. But there are very few directors without an asterisk somewhere in their filmography (Spielberg’s The Terminal anyone?), so it would be foolish to think Daniels couldn’t rebound with The Butler. Especially with The Weinsteins distributing the film.
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 Written By: Danny Strong and Lee Daniels
Directed By: Lee Daniels
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Alex Pettyfer, John Cusack, Robin Williams, Alan Rickman, James Marsden, Minka Kelly, Lenny Kravitz, Jesse Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Mariah Carey, Oprah Winfrey, Liev Schreiber, Nelsan Ellis, Jane Fonda, Melissa Leo, Terrence Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, Yaya DaCosta, David Oyelowo, Colman Domingo, Alex Manette
Synopsis: A look at the life of Eugene Allen, who served eight presidents as the White House’s head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made. Read more on Awards Profile: The Butler…
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 On television so many shows cross our path and some are works of art while others don’t even make the cut. Louie C.K. has proven that if you take responsibility for your work and put all your passion and love into it it’ll be a success. Louie C.K. has set the bar for dark comedy with his show Louie. Read more on TV Review – Louie: Season 2 (****)…
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 With Seth MacFarlane recently awarded the prestigious gig of hosting the Oscars in February 2013, he becomes one of, if not, the first person to host the Oscars that got his start primarily in voice-over work. MacFarlane voices Brian, Stewie, Quagmire, and Peter Griffin on FOX’s hit-show “Family Guy,” where he’s won an Emmy Award in the show’s near thirteen year run.
The Oscars, unbeknownst to many, have a strict rule about nominating voice-work in films. Today’s question asks which voice-over performance by an actor or actress would you reward with either an Academy Award Nomination or Win?
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For those of you who are already setting up your charts for your 2013 Oscar predictions (guilty as charged), you can now move Academy Award nominee Lee Daniels’ (Precious) The Butler towards the top of your list.
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 With The Paperboy set to hit cineplexes soon, Lee Daniels is hard at work on his next feature film, The Butler. Based on the Wil Haygood’s report “A Butler Well Served by This Election,” the film will tell the story Allen, who worked for eight presidents, starting with Harry Truman in 1952 and ending in 1986 with Ronald Reagan. Daniels has assembled quite the cast for the film (Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Liam Neeson, John Cusack, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams, James Marsden, Aml Ameen and Liev Schreiber are among it’s members) and now we get our first glimpse at Forest Whitaker as the title character via Coming Soon. Take a look at the first image after the jump!
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Robin McLaurin Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 21, 1951. He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan before moving to Woodacre, California, and studied at Claremont Men’s College for four years before being accepted in to Juilliard School, where he was one of only two students (the other being Christopher Reeve) selected into the Advanced Program that year. Garry Marshall found Williams working as an extra on The Richard Pryor Show, and cast him as the alien Mork on the sitcom Happy Days. His extraordinary improv skills helped create a character that was so fun and memorable that the executives at the studio decided to create the popular spin-off show, Mork and Mindy. Williams found great fame through this character, and found greater exposure through several HBO produced standup comedy specials before moving on to being an A-list movie star.
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