Sentences with word «biopic»

I tend not to be too crazy about Biopics of musicians in general, particularly ones that are about people that have been a big influence on me i.e John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Hendrix ect.

The past few years have brought about plenty of biopics about strong and powerful women who changed the course of history, but there are still countless influential women who've yet to be portrayed on the silver screen.

Kate Winslett to star in biopic of American fashion model, photographer and war correspondent Elizabeth «Lee» Miller.

In 2015, there was talk that Natalie Portman would be playing US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (who has a fun cult following as «The Notorious RBG») in biopic On The Basis Of Sex.

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Academy Award nominated director Lee Daniels (The Butler, The Paperboy) has departed the upcoming biopic about legendary comedian Richard Pryor.

But as their habitual preference for biopics of late indicates, it is performances reliant on stylisation or artifice that can have the hardest time getting recognised.

A recent Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher is not scaring Aaron Sorkin and Sony from doing their own film about the Apple founder.

This is a musical biopic with some pretty high stakes and a pretty big payoff.

Oscar - winning actor Tom Hanks («The Post») is set to play one of the nicest men to ever grace Hollywood, Fred Rogers of the children's classic «Mr. Rogers Neigborhood,» in a new biopic from director Marielle Heller («The Diary of a Teenage Girl»).

The British Board of Film Classification named the Mike Leigh - directed biopic as the most complained - about movie of 2014, because of a scene in which lead actor Timothy Spall «vigorously» clenches his buttocks, according to the Guardian.

The influence of the early 1970s rock music scene on the post-punk movement is plastered across the walls in «Control,» a new biopic about Joy Division's tragic front man Ian Curtis.

He also just wrapped the sci - fi indie Ex Machina, which is The Beach novelist Alex Garland's first foray into directing, and this fall he is scheduled to begin shooting the Angelina Jolie - directed biopic of World War II hero Louis Zamperini, Unbroken.

Release: Friday, August 14, 2015 [Theater] Written by: Jonathan Herman; Andrea Berloff Directed by: F. Gary Gray F. Gary Gray's first directorial outing in six years debuted last weekend to the most successful opening for a musical biopic in cinematic history.

Every year Oscar season sees a healthy number of well made biopics for the Academy's consideration, and those efforts are very often rewarded: 12 Years a Slave, Lincoln, The Iron Lady.

The Steve Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson's book depicts Apple as paranoid and closed — and quite the opposite of the publishing business.

I especially don't like biopics about musicians.

This is a breath of fresh air in the stylish pedal to the metal biopic genre that includes «The Wolf Of Wall Street» among many other films.

«Chadwick Boseman was only recently confirmed to be entering the Marvel universe as the emphatic superhero the Black Panther, and while such news left many a film fan scratching their heads as to who this young actor is, it should be a question that's easier to answer when James Brown biopic Get On Up has been released; such is the sheer brilliance of the electric performance by this talented star»... Read More»

Here, he talks about making his writing and directorial debut with The Birth of a Nation, a reverential biopic in which he stars, too, as slave revolt leader Nat Turner (1800 - 1831).

Focus Features has released the first trailer for Race, the upcoming sporting biopic which stars newcomer Stephen James as Jesse Owens, the U.S. Olympian who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany; check it out here... Based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar whose quest -LSB-...]

From Clayton Dillard's introduction to Slant Magazine's Top 25 Films of 2014:» In a year when The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game offer a most banal and repressive sort of historical biopic treatment for their respective subjects (and are being largely celebrated nonetheless), it becomes ever more important to draw lines in the cinematic sand to understand what we talk about when we talk about movies.

By so carefully planning the misdirection of the first half of the film, Bendjelloul's movie becomes more than just a music biopic with a twist.

Oldman himself was recently at CinemaCon promoting his Churchill biopic from Focus Features so you know he wants this.

To aficionados of hacky late - night talk - show jokes of the early»90s, a Tonya Harding biopic sounds like something that should turn up on a DTV double feature with To Buttafuoco Or Not To Buttafuoco.

Nicholas Martin's screenplay could have been given the standard Hollywood biopic treatment, but in the hands of Frears, cinematographer Danny Cohen, composer Alexandre Desplat, production designer Alan MacDonald, and costume designer Consolata Boyle, the film presents 1940s New York in all its flashy glory, a heightened world suited to serve as backdrop to such an extraordinary — and sometimes painfully funny — story.

The internet has provided us with our first look at Natalie Portman as former First Lady Jackie Kennedy in the upcoming biopic Jackie.

Despite a stellar performance by Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, the story of Howard Hughes never takes off thanks to a directionless script by Hollywood biopic go - to - guy John Logan and a weak performance by Leonardo DiCaprio as the title.

Good biopics about artists seem to be even rarer.

It's his biggest film in scope and budget, and seemed from a distance as if it could turn out to be his most conventional — at least if it fell into the structural traps that so many biopics do.

However, the answer may be to stop doing quite so many biopics of figures from recent British history: so far, we've had Tony Blair (twice), David Frost, Kenneth Williams and now Brian Clough, the controversial British -LSB-...]

DVD Review by Kam Williams Biopic Features Bryan Cranston's Oscar - Nominated Performance as Blacklisted Scriptwriter Scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo (1905 - 1976) was at the height of his career when subpoenaed in 1947 to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigating the spread of Communist propaganda by Hollywood.

It's all handled so deftly, and raises so many probing questions, that the film's shift into more standard biopic territory in its second half can't help but be a letdown.

Most biopics follow the same formula: star starts off poverty - stricken, small fish in a big pond, meets the right people by chance, becomes uber - successful, then the drugs, loose women come along, then tragedy.

He is currently shooting Contagion, starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, and also plans on shooting a Liberace biopic with Matt Damon and Michael Douglas.

The first look at Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury in the upcoming Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody was unveiled by Entertainment Weekly.

Actor PAUL DANO grew emotional when he first met Beach Boys icon Brian Wilson, who he portrays in new movie biopic Love & Mercy.

Following the announcement that highly - anticipated N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton will be released on August 14, 2015 (originally slotted for the next Bourne film, but that has now been moved to 2016), Universal Pictures released a photo of the confirmed cast.

The Theory of Everything writer Anthony McCarten has been tapped to write the script for a new Freddie Mercury biopic from GK Films, tentatively titled Bohemian Rhapsody, according to Deadline.

Back in July it was announced that Kevin Spacey is set to take on the role of celebrated American writer Gore Vidal in a feature film biopic at Netflix, and now the streaming service has released details of the supporting cast for Gore.

Goodbye Christopher Robin comes with many of the standard characteristics of a conventional biopic in telling the story of how A A Milne came to create the much - loved Winnie - the - Pooh stories.

With principal photography now underway, Fox Searchlight has released four first - look images from director Simon Curtis» upcoming untitled A.A. Milne biopic featuring Domhnall Gleeson as the Winnie the Pooh creator, Margot Robbie as his wife Daphne and Will Tilston as their son Christopher Robin; take a look below... The UNTITLED A.A. MILNE film gives a -LSB-...]

This compelling biopic follows Martin Luther King Jr. (played by British actor David Oyelowo) as he fights for federal legislation to protect the voting rights of black citizens and his involvement in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches.

With James Brown biopic Get On Up finally moving under director Tate Taylor, the Help director is gathering the cast he needs.

With the popularity of «The Crown», it was only a matter of time before Netflix built another vehicle for biopic drama with an all star cast.

As far as biopics go, this is a better one.

Actor Morgan Freeman has been cast to play Colin Powell in an upcoming biopic focusing on his time as secretary of state in George W. Bush's administration.

Finally, there's also the possibility that the film may also feel too perfectly calibrated for Oscar and could meet the same fate as other biopics like J. Edgar and last year's Unbroken.

The indie music biopic tells the story of Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson and will see the «Harry Potter» actor and the «Hugo» actress join the impressive cast which already features Aaron Eckhart as Dennis and Vera Farmiga, as Fleetwood Mac singer - songwriter Christine McVie.