FX To Pilot ‘The Spook Who Sat By The Door’ From Lee Daniels, Leigh Dana Jackson & Gerard McMurray

attacked near a Scots high school forcing police to lockdown the area.The 38-year-old was discovered seriously injured in Tinto Drive, Grangemouth this morning sparking a police probe.He was rushed to Forth Valley Royal Hospital where he remains in a stable condition after the alarm was raised at around 4am.Pictures taken around 6am this morning show a police cordoned erected around Grangemouth High School parts of Tinto Drive in Grangemouth.A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Around 4am on

Cops have locked down large areas near a Scot school following an incident.Pictures taken around 6am this morning show a police cordoned erected around Grangemouth High School parts of Tinto Drive in Grangemouth.Images show a number officers guarding the scene with a van also in attendance.Local reports indicate that two crimes scene appear to be investigated, however this has not been confirmed.The nature of the incident is not known at this time.A local told the Daily Record: "Cops have been

The United States vs. Billie Holiday” was the product of a year-and-a-half of research and planning, even before shooting began in late 2019.“These songs don’t sound like a record from that time,” executive music producer Salaam Remi tells Variety.

Andra Day as Billie Holiday, who has already been nominated for two Golden Globes for the performance. The harrowing tale of Holiday’s traumatic childhood and tumultuous life in the spotlight has been famously recounted in the 1972 classic “Lady Sings the Blues,” starring Diana Ross, and on Broadway in the musical “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” led by Audra McDonald in 2014.

Lee Daniels tells ET’s Nischelle Turner as the game-changing filmmaker looks back on his career in Hollywood, which includes directing Oprah Winfrey in as well as helming, the first major biopic about the legendary jazz singer since 1972’s.

Andra Day is about to make a bigger name for herself, portraying legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in Lee Daniels’ biopic,. This marks the first lead onscreen role for the 36-year-old performer, who opens up to ET’s Rachel Smith about the dramatic transformation she went through to embody the 1940s icon.

Lee Daniels is a filmmaker, but he’s also a wavelength. You either get him, or you don’t.

Lee Daniels didn’t want to touch the story of Billie Holiday. “Lady Sings the Blues” already existed after all.

“God Bless the Child” was the first Billie Holiday song I ever heard. It was one of my grandmother’s favorites.

Watch Video: Hear Andra Day Sing 'What the F-' She Wants in 'The United States Vs. Billie Holiday' TrailerSpecifically, Holiday was the obsession of Federal Bureau of Narcotics chief Harry J.

Danielle Armstrong broke down in tears on Instagram as she revealed cruel trolls had branded her a “bad mum” after she mistakenly used her daughter’s car seat incorrectly.The former TOWIE star, who is a mum to nine-month-old daughter Orla with fiancé Tom Edney, took to Instagram Stories to defend herself - explaining she had to buy the tot a new car seat because she had outgrown her old one, but was accidentally using it wrong.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorSinger-turned-actor Andra Day brought versatility to Lee Daniels’ biopic “The United States vs.

For director Lee Daniels and the cast of his new film, The United States vs Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday was a public figure with whom they felt a personal connection, like "one of my aunties," Daniels said of the jazz singer. But the film, which will premiere on Hulu Feb.

Lee Daniels The first time I saw myself on-screen was in 1972. The film was “Lady Sings the Blues,” a cinematic masterpiece about jazz icon Billie Holiday.

Spike Lee's to Regina King's, Shaka King's and Lee Daniel's, each film serves as a time capsule — capturing the events of the era from which it was inspired — but are also as timely today as ever, speaking directly to a culture that still needs to experience these stories.

Surfing legend Garrett McNamara has broken many bones riding some of the world’s biggest waves.

Lee Daniels is moving into the spy genre, according to The Hollywood Reporter, as he’ll executive produce a series adaptation of the Sam Greenlee novel “The Spook Who Sat By Door” with “The First Purge” director Gerard McMurray handling the show’s pilot. Leigh Dana Jackson will be the series showrunner, writer, and executive producer on the CIA project.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterFX has ordered a pilot for a series adaptation of Sam Greenlee’s spy novel “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” Variety has learned.The adaptation of the book will be written by Leigh Dana Jackson, who will also serve as executive producer and showrunner. Lee Daniels and Marc Velez will also executive produce on behalf of Lee Daniels Entertainment.