Yasiin Bey will return to the silver screen in a forthcoming biopic about the jazz legend Thelonious Monk. Bey will play the title role in Thelonious, which is slated to start up production in the summer of 2022.
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Netflix Orders Scripted Series About the Life of Selena Quintanilla
Netflix has ordered a scripted series based on the life of Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla. Continue reading Netflix Orders Scripted Series About the Life of Selena Quintanilla
Jared Leto Tapped to Play Hugh Hefner in Biopic of Playboy Founder
Brett Ratner‘s decade-strong desire to direct a Hugh Hefner biopic is finally coming together. Ratner, known (of course) for helming the Rush Hour trilogy and X-Men: The Last Stand, has tapped Jared Leto—the only Oscar winner who’s less than a minute from Mars at any given moment—to play the late Playboy founder.
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New Trailer For Tupac Shakur’s Biopic ‘All Eyez On Me’
A new trailer for the upcoming Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez On Me has been released today for the 20th anniversary of his death.
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First Footage From the Tupac Biopic ‘All Eyez on Me’
Now that shooting on the long-awaited Tupac biopic All Eyez on Me in Las Vegas has officially wrapped, we must now endure an impatient waiting game until its release later this year. Despite a troubled historyof false starts, the first (admittedly brief) look at Eyez footage shows that Demetrius Shipp Jr. may very well nail one of the most coveted roles in any biopic ever made:
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