Lee Daniels Movie Updates
Total Updates: 22
- added Lee Daniels as director to movie credits of The Deliverance
- added Lee Daniels as director and producer to movie credits of Stealth
- added Lee Daniels as screenwriter to movie credits of Superb**ch
- changed the status of Lee Daniels to Former of Miss Saigon
- added Lee Daniels as producer to movie credits of Superb**ch
- added Lee Daniels as director to credits of The United States vs. Billie Holiday
- changed the status of Lee Daniels to Former of Demon House
- changed the status of Lee Daniels to Former of Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can
- added Lee Daniels as director (Former) to credits of Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?
- changed the status of Lee Daniels to Former of Richard Pryor Biopic
- added Lee Daniels as director to credits of Richard Pryor Biopic
- added Lee Daniels as director to credits of Demon House
- changed the status of Lee Daniels to Former of Selma
- added Lee Daniels as Director to the credits of Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can
- added Lee Daniels as Producer to the credits of Lee Daniels' The Butler
- added Lee Daniels to the credits of The Paperboy
- added Lee Daniels to the credits of Anna in the Tropics
- added Lee Daniels to the credits of Lee Daniels' The Butler
- added Lee Daniels (in talks) to the credits of Selma
- added Lee Daniels (Rumored) to the credits of Untitled Jimi Hendrix Project
- added Lee Daniels to the credits of Miss Saigon
Mon., Mar. 11, 2024
Mon., Jun. 18, 2018
Lee Daniels in Talks to Direct Biopic About Jazz Icon Billie Holiday
Sat., Feb. 24, 2018
Sun., Jan. 29, 2017
from /Film
Amy Adams’ Janis Joplin Biopic Is No Longer Happening
Jean Vallée confirmed that he and Adams were no longer working on Get It While You Can.
Sun., May. 8, 2016
Director Lee Daniels Exits Weinstein's Richard Pryor Biopic (Exclusive)
The long-gestating movie about legendary comic Richard Pryor has lost its director.
Fri., Mar. 13, 2015
from Variety
Eddie Murphy Joins the Cast of Richard Pryor Biopic
Wed., Nov. 12, 2014
Thu., Jul. 11, 2013
from Deadline
Ava DuVernay Now Aboard to Direct MLK Biopic
Ava DuVernay has been set by Pathe UK, Brad Pitt’s Plan B and producer Christian Colson to helm Selma, a feature drama about Martin Luther King‘s 1965 landmark voting rights campaign.
Sat., Jan. 5, 2013
Mon., Sep. 24, 2012
from Deadline
Weinstein Company Acquires Lee Daniels' 'The Butler'
Sun., Feb. 20, 2011
from New York Magazine
Precious Director Lee Daniels Wants Sofia Vergara, Bradley Cooper for Thriller The Pa...
It’s been a year since Lee Daniels devastated us with Precious, but since then we’ve gotten precious little clarity about what he’d be doing next. (Is it The Butler, Selma, Anna in the Tropics? Or maybe that Fellini adaptation?) But now our spies tell us that Daniels appears to be settling on his next project, rewriting an...
Mon., Dec. 13, 2010
'Precious' Director Lee Daniels to Helm 'Anna in the Tropics'
Precious director Lee Daniels has signed on to develop and direct Anna in the Tropics, a film adaptation of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer and Steinberg Prize-winning Broadway play being produced by John Torres Martinez and Joe Lamy of Austin-based Mankind Entertainment.
Fri., Jul. 30, 2010
from The Wrap
Daniels to Rewrite and Direct 'The Butler'
Oscar-nominated "Precious" filmmaker Lee Daniels will rewrite and direct "The Butler" for Sony Pictures, the studio has confirmed to TheWrap.
Wed., Nov. 18, 2009
from Variety
Lee Daniels on march to ‘Selma’
Helmer Lee Daniels is in advanced negotiations to direct "Selma," which will trace the historic 1965 march in the Alabama town that marked the political and emotional peak of the civil rights movement.
Sat., Nov. 14, 2009
from Tracking Board