Most music biopics take place in a world of alternative facts where Queen broke up before Live Aid, Elton John named himself after John Lennon, Mötley Crüe‘s Vince Neil sang Billy Squier’s “My Kind of Lover” before it was released, Amy Winehouse didn’t thank “Blake Incarcerated” at the Grammys, and Bob Dylan hooked up with Joan Baez the night of …
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“Chalamet’s looking pretty good right now, huh?” a musician pal said as we staggered in a daze out of “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.” Writer-director Scott Cooper’s moribund portrait of The Boss is as enervating a movie experience as you’ll have this year, a tedious emotional flatline about a dark chapter in the singer’s personal history that plays like a …
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In 1981, Bruce Springsteen found himself at a crossroads. He’d just finished his tour for The River, which had brought his marathon-length, rock & roll-revivalist shows to a record number of audiences. The E Street Band was hitting on all cylinders. “Hungry Heart” was his first single to crack the Top Five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. His record …
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Debbie Harry knows exactly who she wants to play her in an upcoming biopic: “We Live in Time” star Florence Pugh. As Harry told The Sunday Times, “I would be in heaven. I just think she’s a great actor and she could do anything.” Harry currently has two films — a documentary and the aforementioned biopic — in development with …
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At times, watching Bruce Springsteen biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere feels like watching a musical episode of The Bear. The most obvious similarity is that Jeremy Allen White leads both projects, but The Bear comparisons aren’t solely his fault. Even without White, writer-director Scott Cooper’s take on the Boss is eerily reminiscent of Carmy Berzatto: He’s a tortured artist …
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Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is facing a situation that few tech executives ever encounter: watching her own life story dramatized on screen — without her involvement. Hulu’s new biopic about the 35-year-old entrepreneur premiered on Sept. 8. Swiped stars Lily James as Wolfe Herd and traces her dramatic rise from Tinder cofounder to Bumble CEO and youngest woman to …
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Black Bear has released the trailer for “Christy,” a new sports biopic starring Sydney Sweeney as the International Boxing Hall of Fame icon Christy Martin. Other cast members include Katy O’Brian, Merritt Wever, Ben Foster, Ethan Embry, Chad L. Coleman, Valyn Hall and Tony Cavalero. David Michôd directed and co-wrote the film with Mirrah Foulkes from a story by Katherine …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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