In December of 2006, Spike Lee was hired to write and direct a film about the life of James Brown for producer Brian Grazer. One year later, Wesley Sn...

When actress Jessica Chastain attended the Sundance Film Festival more than a year ago, making the rounds for the film Take Shelter, she spoke on a pa...

Tate Taylor's magical 2011 continued on Thursday, as his film "The Help" was nominated for four major Golden Globe awards. The '60s-set civil rights d...

It would seem an impossible task: play a character that toes the line between ornery, funny, battered, distrustful and scared, all against the backdro...

While nothing's ever a sure bet in Hollywood, sometimes there's a collaboration so good that failure is nearly impossible. The Hollywood Reporter ...

Octavia Spencer may be best known to devotees of Ugly Betty as Constance Grady, the IMS agent who stalked Betty's father. Her film resume is varied, but she says, The Help was especially close to her heart.

Some will say: This is yet another movie about the civil-rights movement moment in our history, in which the white people are the heroes, saving the black characters. But that's far too simplistic a reading of The Help.