Directed by Curtis Hanson, co-edited by Jay Rabinowitz, and shot by Amores Perros cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, 8 Mile
stars Eminem as an aspiring rapper choking on the poverty, stale air, and broken dreams of his trailer - park life.
Sure, most of your better actors would never take a script as poorly written as this one, but at least the money wasted on this torturous road trip could have been spent on something more worthwhile like a Curtis Hanson film, unless it happens to
star Eminem.
That is Southpaw, the boxing picture that is set to
star Eminem.
The Korean American music video director, filmmaker and social media provocateur is clearly unafraid of controversy, and «Bodied» promises to stir plenty of it, amplified by the prominent co-sign of rap recording
star Eminem, a producer on the film.
Meanwhile, the car that launched Chrysler's «Imported from Detroit» tagline a year ago during the now - famous Super Bowl commercial
starring Eminem, the 200, gets a Super S variant, which will also be unveiled at the Detroit auto show.
Not exact matches
His latest roll of the dice was a two - minute, $ 9 million Super Bowl ad, featuring
Eminem's anthem and the rap
star himself, to launch a new strategy and tagline around the Chrysler brand: «Imported From Detroit.»
Eminem wants to be a Big Rap
Star.
Fun fact:
Eminem was originally slated to
star; he now has to settle for a song in the (spoiler - heavy) trailer.
Compton is now the most successful musical biography of all time, topping the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line ($ 119.5) as well as 2002's 8 Mile ($ 116.7),
starring the rapper
Eminem.
Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter has just sold a pitch to DreamWorks called Southpaw, which has Marshall «
Eminem» Mathers attached to
star.
The pic was initially developed as a
starring vehicle for
Eminem, centering on a welterweight's rise to a championship title «as he battles various tragedies in his personal life and wins back the love of his daughter.»
L.A. native Dumbfoundead (nee Jonathan Park) is one of several real - life battle rappers who
star in the
Eminem - produced «Bodied,» an audacious comedy about a privileged white academic who loses himself in an intoxicating underground hip - hop world where lyrical gladiators face off in wars of words.
When: July 24th Why: Director Antoine Fuqua and writer Kurt Sutter's long - gestating boxing drama was originally designed as a
starring vehicle for
Eminem, so moviegoers should count their lucky
stars that the rapper has since been replaced by the far superior Jake Gyllenhaal.
Eminem was previously attached to
star in the film but dropped out in 2012.
Eminem was originally attached to
star in Southpaw, but he dropped out and will provide some new music for the film.
Similarly, people compiling list of great movies about music and / or musicians frequently neglect to include 8 Mile, perhaps because its
star (and indirect subject) is the polarizing rapper
Eminem.
Amongst this, Mr. West has been spotted with Rick Rubin and many are worried that Kanye's new album might turn out as «disastrously» as that of
Eminem's most recent release, OFF - WHITE has had enough of fake online retailers, and Martin Freeman went from being the
star of Fargo, to the
star of Cargo in this brand new trailer.
Eminem stars as B - Rabbit, an aspiring rapper from the wrong side of Detroit's 8 Mile, whose ambition is to secure a recording deal.
In the institution's central hall, Da Corte will erect a large - scale stage on which to examine, via imitation, four iterations of the Detroit - born
star — as pop - cultural icon; as social phenomenon; as a brand so sensationally vast that in 2017 the word «stan» was added to the Oxford English Dictionary, its definition, in accordance with
Eminem's song of the same name: «an overzealous or obsessive fan of a particular celebrity».