The first thing you'll notice about The Butler—excuse us, Lee Daniels' The Butler—is all the stars. Nearly everyone in this movie, no matter how small a part, is somebody. But that just scratches the ...

"Lee Daniels' The Butler" was apparently the director's gift for "my mother and the church." Lee Daniels' 2013 film The Butler may have won him widespread acclaim and more than quintupled its budget ...

Looks like the persistent questions Oprah Winfrey asked Lee Daniels during the filming of Lee Daniels' The Butler paid off: Judging by this, Oprah's acting chops are just as they were in 1985 when she ...

Oprah Winfrey's got a lot more free time on her hands these days, time that might be spent on a return to acting. Oprah is being courted by director Lee Daniels ...

Award winning-director, producer and screenwriter Lee Daniels is known for directing films "Precious," "The Paperboy," "The Butler," "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" and "The Deliverance" and ...

That’s the reason actors love working with Lee. He forces you, in every breath, to stay in character. To find the bone-marrow ...

Lee Daniels’ highly anticipated film rested comfortably atop the box office by bringing in an estimated $25 million on the film’s debut weekend. “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” – starring Forest Whitaker ...

With the announcement of the 2014 Screen Actors Guild nominations came the start of the awards season and multiple nods for “12 Years a Slave” and “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” “12 Years a Slave” led the ...

“Lee Daniels’ The Butler” is neither as good as it might have been nor as bad as survivors of “The Paperboy” may have feared. An ambitious and overdue attempt to create a Hollywood-style epic around ...

All Lee Daniels' mother wanted was for her son to 'make movies like Tyler Perry.' 'You're embarrassing us at church,' she said. So he made 'The Butler' to appease her, calling it 'the most refrained I ...