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Anthony Bourdain is one of America’s most famous and celebrated chefs. His life in 1975 and early career were the inspiration for the biopic Tony. Anthony “Tony” Bourdain (Dominic Sessa) is an arrogant and entitled student at Vassar College. He lies to his family that he got a writing fellowship, and he runs off to […]
Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, finally gets his theatrical biopic with his nephew, Jaafar Jackson, playing the iconic star. Joseph Jackson (Colman Domingo) is a steel mill worker who’s determined to get his family out of Gary, Indiana. He makes his sons perform as The Jackson 5, including 10-year-old Michael (Juliano True Valid). When […]
James McAvoy makes his directorial debut with a biopic about Silibil N’ Brains, a rap duo that fooled the British music industry into thinking they were an emerging American hip-hop act. Billy “Silibil” Boyd (Samuel Bottomley) and Gavin “Brains” Bain (Séamus McLean Ross) are best friends and rap partners in Dundee. When they travel to […]
Song Sung Blue is a dramatisation of the 2008 documentary of the same name, with Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson playing Milwaukee’s most popular Neil Diamond tribute act. Mike Sardina (Jackman) is a musician who finds a like-minded woman, Claire (Kate Hudson), and they quickly become musical and romantic partners. They became a popular act […]
Giant is a biopic about the famous lightweight boxer Naseem Hamed, told through the eyes of his manager/trainer, Brendan Ingle. Brendan Ingle (Pierce Brosnan) runs a boxing club in the Wincobank district of Sheffield. After stopping some National Front thugs harassing a local shop, Ingle meets the Hamed family and Mrs Hamed (Elika Ashoori), asks […]
Christy Martin is seen as one of the first successful female boxers, and her life and career are explored in the biopic Christy. In 1989, Christy Salter (Sydney Sweeney) discovers she has a boxing talent. She gets noticed by a promoter in Tennessee and is put into contact with a trainer, James V. Martin (Ben […]
Bruce Springsteen, AKA the Boss, is one of the most popular musicians America has ever produced, and he is the latest musician to be given the biopic treatment. In 1981, Bruce Springsteen (Jeremy Allen White) had completed a sold-out tour and returned to his hometown. He uses his time to write a new album and […]
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s career has taken a dramatic turn by teaming up with the indie studio A24 and acclaimed director Benny Safdie so he can star in a biopic about Mixed Martial Artist Mark Kerr. Mark Kerr is a star fighter in the growing sport of MMA. Between 1997 to 2000, he travelled to […]
Richard Burton is one of Wales’ most famous actors, and the relationship with his adopted father serves as the centre of his biopic. Richard Jenkins (Harry Lawtey) is a schoolboy from a working-class family in Port Talbot. Richard’s English teacher, P.H. Burton (Toby Jones), notices his potential, and the pair become close when Richard decides […]
Bob Dylan is arguably one of the greatest singer/songwriters ever to have lived. He has been the subject of many documentaries and the unofficial biopic I’m Not There. James Mangold, the filmmaker behind the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line takes on the challenge of making a biopic about another musical legend. In 1961, Bob […]