 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.
Read more on First Trailer for Lee Daniels’ ‘The Butler’ Features All-Star Cast – Potential Oscar Player?…
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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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 Directed By: Bennett Miller
Written By: E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman
Cast: Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave
Synopsis: Foxcatcher tells the story about how John du Pont suffered paranoid schizophrenia and killed Olympic wrestler David Shultz in 1997.
Read more on Awards Profile: Foxcatcher…
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 Black Rock (*)
Black Rock sees three twenty-something women return to the isolated island of their childhood in an attempt to reconcile some old differences. However a series of dramatic events turn their camping trip into a quest for survival, as a trio of ex-soldiers threaten their lives.
Read more on BFI London Film Festival – DAYS 7 & 8…
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 If there’s one thing we Brits are proud of, it’s our long and lively history. Even within the comparatively short life of cinema, we love to look back in admiration at those who have already forged a place for themselves within the pages of the great tradition that is Hollywood myth.
For Vanessa Redgrave it was foretold from birth, as Sir Laurence Olivier proclaimed to the audience at London’s Old Vic Theatre in January 1937, “Tonight a great actress has been born.” At the time he was playing Hamlet opposite Vanessa’s father Sir Michael Redgrave, cementing her destiny as one of the all time great stars of stage and screen from the earliest age.
Read more on Best of British: Vanessa Redgrave…
 Every year the Supporting Categories are the hardest to predict. And it makes me so damn frustrated. Grr. This year I am 100% positive two actresses will receive nominations; Octavia Spencer and Berenice Bejo.
Read more on Women in Cinema- The “Oscarettes”: Who Will be nominated for Best Supporting Actress?…
Categories: Article, Women in Cinema Tags: Berenice Bejo, Carey Mulligan, janet mcteer, Jessica Chastain, Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, oscarettes, Shailene Woodley, vanessa redgrave, women in cinema
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