At the intersection of artistry and addiction, director Lee Daniels found his connection with late blues icon Billie ... the movie reaches a climax: a lynching scene, in which Holiday stumbles ...

Lee Daniels didn’t want to touch the story of Billie Holiday. “Lady Sings the Blues” already existed after all. The 1972 film with Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams showed him Black romance ...

“The United States Vs. Billie Holiday” is available for streaming exclusively on Hulu starting Feb. 26. The film is directed by Academy Award nominee Lee Daniels and stars Grammy-nominated ...

Lee Daniels’s work is headed to the big screen—again. The Precious director’s The United States vs. Billie Holiday was scooped up by Paramount Pictures in an eight-figure deal via Cannes ...

It is always entertaining and informative when I get the chance to talk with Lee Daniels, as I did for ... The United States vs Billie Holiday, just dropping on Hulu after the streamer picked ...

Director Lee Daniels is in talks to direct 'Billie,' a new biopic about jazz great Billie Holiday. By Gregg Kilday ... have been featured in dozens of movies, has gotten the big-screen treatment.

Singer-turned-actor Andra Day brought versatility to Lee Daniels ... re-approach that movie. In meeting Lee, I learned that the script would be the revealing of Billie Holiday as a civil ...

Billie Holiday,” notes director Lee Daniels (“The Butler”), is not ... “Those flaws were the reason I did the movie. I see myself in her,” Daniels said. “I think she should be ...

Billie Holiday” will be the first project Lee Daniels has directed since 2013’s “The Butler,” which starred Forest Whitaker and grossed over $175 million at the worldwide box office.

Billie Holiday, director Lee Daniels told Vogue he turned to Anna Wintour for advice. After the magazine's editor-in-chief suggested Prada, nine looks were born that Andra Day, who portrays the ...

Lee Daniels’s work is headed to the big screen—again. The Precious director’s The United States vs. Billie Holiday was scooped up by Paramount Pictures in an eight-figure deal via Cannes ...