Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday Movie Was Scooped Up in An 8-Figure Deal

Lee Daniels’s work is headed to the big screen—again. The Precious director’s The United States vs. Billie Holiday was scooped up by Paramount Pictures in an eight-figure deal via Cannes Virtual Market, Deadline reports.The film, penned by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks, stars Grammy nominee Andra Day as the incomparable jazz great. While Lady Day was loved by many at home and overseas, the feds, specifically Harry J. Anslinger, the he