Lee Daniels' 2013 film The Butler may have won him widespread acclaim and more than quintupled its budget at the box office, but he didn't do it for the glory or the cash. He did it for his mom.

Nearly ten years have gone by since it was first announced that Precious director Lee Daniels would be taking the helm of a exorcism movie that ... and the local church and hospital all became ...

With films like “Precious,” “The Paperboy” and “The Butler,” Lee Daniels is one ... “The Deliverance,” was a horror movie. By his own admission, Daniels is known for dramas ...

There are very few movies since “The Exorcist” and “The Omen” that are genuinely scary. “The Deliverance” hits home on so many levels. (L-r) Director Lee Daniels, Demi Singleton ...

Lee Daniels’ favorite movie of all time is “The Exorcist,” but when it came to making his own possession film, his mother was a hard no. The Oscar-nominated director wanted to tackle the ...

Director Lee Daniels approached his ... “I don’t believe it’s a hoax,” Daniels said of Ammons’ experience. “I was going to do this (movie) a while ago, right after my film ‘Precious ...

Lee Daniels ... alive in Daniels, who has earned the right as a filmmaker to recruit singular acting titans like Close, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Mo'Nique (from "Precious") into a movie as ...

Lee Daniels reacted to the shock over a controversial ... in a battle for her life and the souls of her children. The movie reimagines the events described by Latoya Ammons and the demonic ...

The watchable part of the movie is its portrayal of the family, which is very Lee Daniels. Andra Day, so potent as Billie Holiday, plays Ebony, a single mother struggling to raise three kids ...

The Lee Daniels film stars Andra Day, Glenn Close and more. It's no fun to hate-watch when talented people make terrible films. Such a specimen is "The Deliverance," an all-star, devil-made-me-do ...

Known for "Empire" and "Precious," the first-time genre filmmaker gets lost in an overwritten script and some nightmarishly bad effects. Lee Daniels‘ first-ever horror effort, “The Deliverance ...

What Daniels wants us to see is that Ebony is a conduit for forces of oppression — economic and racial — that have dogged her life and turned it into a daily pressure cooker. The movie makes ...