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.

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 ...

The Deliverance is a subpar exorcism movie that’s all the more depressing for being directed by Lee Daniels, whose distinctive flair is only sporadically spied amidst its shopworn clichés.

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 ...

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 ...

As they set up, Ebony’s mother Alberta (Close) worships at church with the older kids ... deployed to war — looms at the dinner table. Daniels, working from a screenplay written by David ...

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 ...

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The devil got into Hollywood this weekend as seven bidders waged a head-spinning auction battle for a star-studded exorcism movie package that was won late last night by Netflix. Lee Daniels will ...

By Stephen Galloway When Lee Daniels was 8 years old ... And then I got my apartment and I was still directing theater at the church. And so I’m selling nurses. Then I said, “Why am I doing ...

Lee Daniels will direct “Demon House,” based ... The Gary Police Department, Department of Child Services and the local church filed reports about the supernatural occurrences, and exorcisms ...

“Let me go find a movie that’s going to make the church people happy — in come ‘The Butler,’” Daniels said. “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” the 2013 film inspired by the life of a ...