Lee Daniels

Oscar-winning director of Precious wraps shooting on erotic thriller The Paperboy

Filming recently wrapped in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the erotic thriller The Paperboy, starring Matthew McConaughey (The Lincoln Lawyer), Zac Efron (Me And Orson Welles), Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman (The Hours), and John Cusack (2012), with David Oyelowo (The Help), Macy Gray (For Colored Girls), and Scott Glenn (Bourne Legacy) co-starring. New York Times’ ….

Precious director to develop big-screen adaptation Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play

THR reports that Precious director Lee Daniels has signed on to develop and direct a film adaptation of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer and Steinberg Prize-winning Broadway play Anna in the Tropics, which is being produced by John Torres Martinez and Joe Lamy of Austin-based Mankind Entertainment. Anna in the Tropics is set in 1920s Tampa, which ….

Win one of five copies of the thought-provoking road film Tennessee on DVD

Vivendi Entertainment has just released the thought-provoking road film Tennessee, featuring Multiple Grammy Award winner Mariah Carey, on DVD. To celebrate the release of the film, which also stars Adam Rothenberg (Mad Money) and Ethan Peck (TV’s 10 Things I Hate About You), FilmFetish is giving away five copies of the DVD for readers to ….

Director James Cameron, Variety’s Peter Bart, Precious director Lee Daniels, uber-producer Lauren Shuler Donner to speak at Produced By Conference 2009

In June of 2009, the entire producing community will gather in one place for an extraordinary weekend of discovery, learning and creative inspiration. Presented by the Producers Guild of America and hosted by Sony Pictures Studios, the Produced By Conference brings together the entire producing profession—from acclaimed Oscar and Emmy winners, to experienced team members, ….

62nd Festival de Cannes line-up filled with cult, arthouse favorites and veterans

Arthouse favorites Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee, Pedro Almodovar, Johnny To, Lee Daniels, Jane Campion, Lars Von Trier and Terry Gilliam are among the directors, whose projects will be screened at Cannes, when the festival kicks off next month. Festival co-chairmen Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux unveiled the entries at a press conference in Paris earlier ….

Spike Lee, Natalie Portman, Gael Garcia Bernal, Eric Bana and more to host free filmmaker series at Apple Store

The Apple store in Soho New York will be celebrating the spirit of independent film and the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, by hosting a series of free filmmaking events from April 22 to May 3, 2009. Grab a seat in the store’s theater for the Meet the Filmmakers series, presented by Apple Computer and indieWIRE. ….

Shadowboxer Trailer

Shadowboxer is an emotionally-charged, full-throttle noir, which delves deep into the harsh underworld of organized crime and uncovers the complex lives of trained assassins, Mikey (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and Rose (Helen Mirren). But when a brutal crime boss wants his wife dead, Rose has a change of heart when they find her pregnant. And so, the three begin a harrowing ….