The biopic on Richard Pryor lives. Following years of being put to the side, a biopic on the famed comic is coming by the hands of The Butler and Empire director Lee Daniels. Deadline reported the news on Friday. The project was originally attached to director Bill Condon with Marlon Wayans starring as Pryor, but …
For a performer whose career was so short-lived, Janis Joplin has been hugely influential and such a largely contentious figure in the world of music. We’ve recently gotten a Jimi Hendrix biopic, along with music stories about everyone from the short lived (Ian Curtis, Jim Morrison, John Lennon) to the long-living legends (Johnny Cash, Ray …
The Paperboy Directed by Lee Daniels United States 2012 The Paperboy isn’t your 8-bit Nintendo equivalent. Those suburban neighborhoods where storm drains, skateboarders and tornadoes were the major worry, are replaced with far more serious, graphic concerns in director Lee Daniels’ new drama. Ward Jansen (Matthew McConaughey) is a prize-winning journalist who returns to his …
Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman to win the DGA award for Outstanding Direction of a Feature Film with The Hurt Locker, defeating James Cameron’s Avatar. This award makes her the frontrunner in the 2009 Oscar race. Louie Psihoyos also won Best Documentary for The Cove, his ourstanding film which in using state-of-the-art equipment …