Biopic

Thor: Ragnarok director will helm movie about Michael Jackson’s pet monkey

Posted 9 years ago

You read that right. THOR: RAGNAROK director Taika Waititi – alongside co-director Mark Gustafson – will be helming a movie about Michael Jackson's famous pet monkey, Bubbles, appropriately-titled BUBBLES. The film will be stop-motion animated through Dan Harmon's Starburn Industries,...

Mike Myers to play improv mentor Del Close in upcoming Del biopic

Posted 9 years ago

About seven years ago, I bumped into Mike Myers while attending a concert in downtown Brooklyn, New York. The line up was a Yo La Tengo spin-off group called DUMP, an intimate performance by Oneida drummer Kid Millions, my friends...

The Rock is making a wrestling comedy with Stephen Merchant

Posted 9 years ago

So…is this the first time that The Rock is doing a film that's wrestling-related at all? *checks imdb*. Huh. Seeing as it feels like a million years ago since he was the "People's Champion" on WWE, it does seem kinda...

FX’s show Feud releases two new clips

Posted 9 years ago

Anyone versed in Hollywood lore is aware of the epic, bitter rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, two starlets who hated each other's guts. Well, that feud is going to be immortalized in the new FX series fittingly titled FEUD,...

Albert Einstein series Genius starring Geoffrey Rush releases new trailer

Posted 10 years ago

For such an enigmatic figure as Albert Einstein, it is peculiar that we haven't really had a straight up epic biopic about him (unless you count YOUNG EINSTEIN, which I do). So, while not a film, National Geographic is going to...

Tupac biopic All Eyez on Me gets release date

Posted 10 years ago

Tupac Shakur was a prolific, controversial, and, to many, an inspirational musician. He helped change the face of rap music during his too-short career, and during that time lived an eventful and, quite frankly, movie-ready life. So it's not a...

Sammy Davis, Jr. biopic on the way

Posted 10 years ago

It's apparently taken a lot of time to finally untangle all the legal hullabaloo, but we're finally going to get a Sammy Davis, Jr. biopic off the ground, as all parties involved have come to an agreement on how to tell...

Martin Scorsese has pulled the plug on his Frank Sinatra biopic

Posted 10 years ago

Those of you who were eagerly awaiting Martin Scorsese's take on Ol' Blue Eyes will likely be disappointed to discover that Scorsese has shelved the project. It's been close to a decade since he first signed on direct a biopic...

Jonah Hill joins cast of Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Go Far on Foot

Posted 10 years ago

As we reported a couple weeks ago, Joaquin Phoenix is set to play iconoclast cartoonist John Callahan for Gus Van Sant based on Callahan's autobiography DON'T WORRY, HE WON'T GO FAR ON FOOT, where he describes: [After becoming] paralyzed in...

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