David Oyelowo Movie Updates

Forest Whitaker and David Oyelowo are in negotiations to star in Lee Daniels' The Butler, with Whitaker playing the title role and Oyelowo as his son.

Winfrey is mulling an offer to co-star in The Butler, Precious director Lee Daniels' story of Eugene Allen, a black man who worked as butler in the White House, serving eight presidents from 1952 to 1986.

David Oyelowo has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. He has headed to Virginia and will play the role of a cavalryman.

Richard Jenkins is in final negotiations to join the cast of Paramount's "One Shot," starring Tom Cruise.

David Oyelowo is in talks to join Tom Cruise in the Paramount and David Ellison's Skydance Productions' "One Shot."

British thesp David Oyelowo has joined DreamWorks' "The Help" as a Southern preacher opposite Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Bryce Dallas Howard.

Lee Daniels is firming up the cast of "Selma," his civil rights follow-up to "Precious," even as its funding is on shaky ground.