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She won rave reviews for her role in last year’s Lee Daniels’ The Butler and now Oprah Winfrey is making a return to the big screen. The media mogul has signed up to take on the role of freedom fighter Annie Lee Cooper in Selma, which will focus on Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement, The Wrap reports. Winfrey is producing the […]

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  Missed it the first time or want to see it a second, starting on Friday Dec. 6, “The Butler” is back in theaters. In an unprecedented move, the movie, which stars Forest Whitaker,Oprah Winfrey and David Oyelowo, is getting a second theatrical run in an effort to push the film for the upcoming award show season. “The […]

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President Obama loved Lee Daniels’ latest film, “The Butler.“ More importantly, he loved his “girl” Oprah Winfrey in “The Butler.” During an interview with radio hosts Tom Joyner and Sybill Wilkes at the Oval Office, the president said of the media mogul, “My girl, she can act.” Another favorite for the president was Cuba Gooding Jr. According to the New York Daily News: “His favorite parts of the movie were the […]

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  “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” served up a second helping at the box office, topping the weekend with $17 million according to studio estimates Sunday. That was enough to lead all films on a late August weekend known as a dumping ground for studios following their summer blockbusters and before the start of the fall movie-going […]

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  Lee Daniels’ The Butler” is serving up successat the box office. According to studio estimates Sunday, the Weinstein Co. biopic about a White House butler debuted in the top spot with $25 million. But the weekend’s three other new offerings – the action romp “Kick-Ass 2,” Open Road’s Steve Jobs biopic “Jobs” and the dramatic […]

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  Director Lee Daniels call into the Yams to talk about his new groundbreaking movie that will be in theatres today “The Butler” Based on the real-life account of Eugene Allen, the film stars Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, an African-American who eyewitnesses notable events of the 20th century during his 34-year tenure serving as a White House butler. The fictional Cecil […]

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Oprah Winfrey as Gloria Gaines in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” *There’s the man who witnessed American history from the halls of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave…and then there was the woman by his side. Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey play Cecil and Gloria Gaines in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” a husband and wife based on real life White House butler Eugene […]

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  Several classic novels after adapted for the big screen became classic films – Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” quickly comes to mind along with “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck and “To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee to name just a few. “The Butler: A Witness to History” is […]

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  “People need to see this movie,” says Oprah of Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which raises questions about race in America In this weekend’s issue, Parade features a very personal conversation with Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, and director Lee Daniels (Precious) about their new movie and the questions it raises about race in America. The […]

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Singer Mariah Carey is hooking up with director Lee Daniels“The Butler,” for a part that, at first glance, makes one go, “huh?” But then again if you’ve followed her film career, Carey, a high maintenance glamour queen in real life, seems to go for gritty, down-to-earth characters on film. And when you work for Daniels that’s pretty much […]

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A first look at The Butler, starring Forest Whitaker and featuring Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan andOprah Winfrey in her first film since 1998′s Beloved. The Weinstein Company releases it October 18. article courtesy of Joy105.com

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It’s official: Oprah’s heading back to the silver screen. Director Lee Daniels confirms that Oprah will be playing a big role in his film The Butler, which starts shooting in New Orleans in July. “It’s a true story of a man (Eugene Allen) who served several decades in the White House,” says Lee Daniels. “Forest […]