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Sydney Sweeney trained for months, muscled up, and put on 30lb (13.6kg) to play Christy Martin, a real-life champion boxer with a dramatic personal story. She wears a dark wig and brown contact lenses. And yet it is impossible to forget that she is Sydney Sweeney in the cliché-ridden biopic Christy, as our hyperawareness of her off-screen image distracts us …

Paris Jackson has criticised an upcoming biopic of her father, Michael Jackson, saying she had “zero per cent involvement” in the film, which she suggests has been “sugar-coated” in a broader swipe at Hollywood biopics that contain “full-blown lies”. The comments came just two days after the actor Colman Domingo, who plays the family patriarch Joe Jackson in the film …

Julia Garner is still on to play Madonna in the singer’s official biopic. The Weapons star confirmed in a recent interview that she will portray the “Material Girl” when the biopic comes to life. “I can’t say too much about it, but yes, it’s a work in progress,” Garner told W Magazine. As far as Garner’s favorite Madonna songs, the …

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‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Isn’t the Bruce Springsteen Biopic We Expected  The New York Times Jeremy Allen White on taking ‘a leap of faith’ to play Springsteen in ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’  AP News Jeremy Allen White’s Bruce Springsteen Movie ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ to Open AFI Fest  The Hollywood Reporter Bruce Springsteen ‘Deliver Me’ movie is a film about ‘America’s soul,’ director …

Sinéad O’Connor is reportedly getting the biopic treatment. According to Variety, the production companies IE:Entertainment, Nine Daughters, and See-Saw Films will produce a new movie that tells the story of O’Connor’s early life and career. Josephine Decker will direct the biopic, and Stacey Gregg is penning the screenplay, according to the report. O’Connor died in 2023 at the age of …

A biopic of Sinéad O’Connor is in the works, with its backers including the company involved in Nothing Compares, the acclaimed 2022 documentary about the singer. According to Variety, the film will be directed by Josephine Decker, who made a much-liked biopic of horror writer Shirley Jackson, starring Elisabeth Moss, in 2020. The script will be by Stacey Gregg, who …

A Sinéad O’Connor biopic is in development. Variety has learned that a film is in the works that will tell the story of the early life and career of the iconic Irish musician, who died in 2023 at the age of 56. Behind the project is Irish production company ie: entertainment, which executive produced the critically acclaimed O’Connor documentary “Nothing …

Aubrey Plaza is set to star in and produce The Heidi Fleiss Story, a biopic of “Hollywood madam” Heidi Fleiss from Pinky Promise, the production company behind the Pamela Anderson drama The Last Showgirl, Deadline has confirmed. The dark comedy marks the directorial debut of Leah Rachel, the creator of Netflix series Chambers. Rachel Sennott, the actress known for roles …

Aubrey Plaza’s call sheet is about to get a lot longer, as she’s come on to produce and star in “The Heidi Fleiss Story.” Plaza will portray the infamous “Hollywood madam” Heidi Fleiss, busted in the early ‘90s for what was said to be the world’s largest high-end prostitution ring – which implicated Hollywood, politicians and other power figures. The …