Jennifer Hudson is earning everyone’s respect as legendary singer Aretha Franklin in the new trailer for the upcoming biopic about the Queen of Soul. Released during the BET Awards, the trailer starts off with the Dream Girls star singing her iconic song Respect (after which the film gets its title). The word shines behind her […]
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Jamie Foxx bulks up his body and confirms that a Mike Tyson biopic is in the works. The Academy Award-winning actor reveals details about his prep work for a film about the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in history. The multi-talented Jamie Foxx has been talking about portraying former boxer Mike […]
Kristen Stewart is set to star as Diana, Princess of Wales, in a new drama from Pablo Larraín, the acclaimed Chilean director of Jackie. The film, called Spencer, will follow Princess Diana over one weekend when she decided her marriage to Prince Charles wasn’t working. The film is scripted by […]
A Hollywood studio executive once suggested that Julia Roberts should play iconic African-American activist Harriet Tubman in a biopic. In a recent Q&A, screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard talked about the “Harriet” biopic. Apparently, it took 26 years to get to production. At the time the effort started, he said, Hollywood was not […]