Tag: Precious
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Precious Star Mo’Nique Reuniting With Director Lee Daniels For Netflix Thriller Demon House
Thirteen years after their collaboration on “Precious” wowed audiences and garnered six Oscar nominations, performer Mo’Nique and writer-director Lee Daniels are reuniting for a new project. The news comes via Deadline, whose reporting notes that the pair were estranged for more than a decade following the release of “Precious.” Mo’Nique, who was paid a mere…
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‘Minari’ Trailer: Lee Isaac Chung’s Sundance Winner Is A24’s Big Oscar Hopeful
When Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at Sundance earlier this year, it joined a prestigious list of fellow double winners that includes Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station,” Damian Chazelle’s “Whiplash,” and Lee Daniels’ “Precious.” These three films all turned their Sundance wins into Oscar buzz, with “Whiplash” and…
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Lee Daniels Reveals He Was the Original ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Director Before Ang Lee
The musical chairs of hot directors once attached to direct the classic pastoral gay romance “Brokeback Mountain,” which ultimately went to Ang Lee, is the stuff of legend. Gus Van Sant was once set to helm the adaptation of Annie Proulx’s story, with Matt Damon and Joaquin Phoenix eyed to star in the roles that…
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Trial by Fire review – old-fashioned death row drama pulses with anger
Jack O’Connell and Laura Dern impress in a sturdy, no-frills retelling of an enraging true story about a man who might have been wrongfully convicted of killing his childrenQuietly premiering at last year’s Telluride film festival alongside bigger, splashier titles, the worthy fact-based drama Trial by Fire quickly became one of the season’s most inevitable…
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Lee Daniels Boards Lesbian Love Story ‘Pimp’ as Producer (Exclusive)
Lee Daniels has signed on to executive produce the indie urban drama film Pimp.Written and directed by Christine Crokos, the love story stars Keke Palmer (Akeelah and the Bee), Haley Ramm (The Originals), Aunjanue Ellis (The Help), Vanessa Morgan (Finding Carter), Mike E. Winfield (Conversations in L.A.), Edi Cathegi (Twilight) and Dmx.Pimp marks the first…
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From Philadelphia to 120 Bpm: the changing face of Aids in film
Rampant homophobia in the 80s meant that film-makers were reluctant to vent their anger at indifference to the HIV/Aids crisis. Not any more. But should directors of the past have been braver?From the first films made about the crisis in the mid-80s to recent historical dramas charting the epidemic, cinema has given us many noble…
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‘Call Me By Your Name’ And ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Are 2018 USC Scripter Winners
The 30th Annual Scripter Awards were handed out in Los Angeles Saturday night and 89-year-old “Call Me By Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory may be one step closer to winning an Oscar. Ivory and original novel author André Aciman won the film Scripter and nine of the last 10 Scripter winners have also won the…