Biopics
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Robert Redford To Get Back Into a Baseball Uniform for Jackie Robinson Biopic
This project just keeps sounding better and better. The Legendary Pictures take on the life of Jackie Robinson just cast Robert Redford in a major…
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Culture Warrior: Breaking the Movie Mold
A very strange thing happened at this year’s Golden Globes ceremony. Somewhere between Ricky Gervais’ biting monologue/critique and Robert De Niro’s uncomfortable lifetime achievement acceptance…
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Let Your Soul Glow: Script for Sam Cooke Biopic is Complete
This might be the best news all day. Sam Cooke is such a luminary of the music world, an inspiration for countless artists, and the…
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Look For Him Tomorrow And You’ll Find Orlando Bloom a Graves Man
Were you aware that iconic British poet Robert Graves lived in an open love triangle for many, many years? Are you pretending to know who…
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Say Good Evening to an Alfred Hitchcock Biopic From Sacha Gervasi
Say Good Evening to an Alfred Hitchcock Biopic From Sacha Gervasi Psycho was a major change in the way movies are viewed by filmmakers, audiences and…
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Tupac Biopic Scores a Synopsis And Want Antoine Fuqua Is Looking For
If you’re wondering why they don’t just cast Tupac Shakur in the Tupac Shakur biopic, it’s pretty simple. He’s way too old to play himself…
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Believe It Or Not, Jim Carrey May Still Star as Ripley
Back when Tim Burton was going to direct a biopic of Robert Ripley (the journalist behind Ripley’s Believe It Or Not), I could not wait…
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Paul Greengrass May Direct Angelina Jolie for ‘Cleopatra’ Biopic
No matter who ends up directing Cleopatra, it’s going to be a cyclopean undertaking. The budget will be inflated, Angelina Jolie will be inflated, and…
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Hendrix Estate Crushes Hopes for Paul Greengrass’ Jimi Hendrix Biopic
In some alternate universe out there, there’s a film by Paul Greengrass starring Anthony Mackie as the talented and troubled Jimi Hendrix. Sadly, we don’t…