Lee Daniels Tapped For Outfest Honor
Lee Daniels will receive Outfest’s Visionary Award for his contribution to LGBT arts and media visibility. The director will be honored at the org’s ninth annual Legacy Awards Nov. 21 at Los Angeles…
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Jane Fonda Gets AFI Lifetime Achievement Salute
Jane Fonda has been tapped as the 42nd recipient of AFI’s Lifetime Achievement Award, to be presented June 5 at ceremonies in L.A. and airing on TNT. After a self-imposed 15-year hiatus, Fonda…
Forest Whitaker to Receive Gotham Awards’ Actor Tribute
Forest Whitaker will receive the annual actor tribute at the 2013 Gotham Awards, picking up the kudo for a film career with recent credits including "Fruitvale Station" (as a producer) and "Lee…
OWN Acquires Network Rights to Lee Daniels’ ‘The Butler’
OWN has acquired the network television rights to "Lee Daniels' The Butler," co-starring network founder Oprah Winfrey, for the the first broadcast window beyond pay television beginning in 2017…
Box Office: ‘Insidious’ Sequel Spooks Competition With $41 Million Record
Boosted by a Friday-the-13th launch, FilmDistrict's low-budget scarer sequel "Insidious Chapter 2" beat expectations with an estimated $41.1 million, making it the largest opening in September for a…
Box Office: ‘Riddick’ Defies Post-Labor Day Slump With $18.7 Mil, Knocks ‘Butler’ to Second Place
Vin Diesel helped light up what is usually a dark post-Labor Day box office period, with Universal's franchise pic "Riddick" scoring a solid estimated $18.7 million domestically.
Hollywood Has Record Summer at Box Office
Final summer box office came in slightly higher than expected, at $4.75 billion — a new record, up nearly 8% over the $4.4 billion summer benchmark set in 2011. Admissions, at approximately 567…
Box Office: ‘The Butler’ Takes Down ‘One Direction’ in Four Days
With the dust having settled, the victory in the weekend's close battle for No. 1 goes to the Weinstein Co.'s "Lee Daniels' The Butler," which collected a revised $20 million in four days. Sony's…
Box Office: ‘One Direction’ Takes Early Lead Over ‘Butler’
Labor Day weekend box office turned in a nail-biting battle for No. 1, with Sony's music doc "One Direction: This Is Us" taking an early lead estimating $20.5 million in four days, enough to beat…
Box Office: ‘Butler’ Impresses With $17 Mil, Staves Off Trio of Wide Releases
A trio of counterprogramming wide releases, led by Sony-Screen Gems' Y/A adaptation "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones," with an estimated $14.1 million in five days, were no match for "Lee…
