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Music Biopics

  1. coming soon
    Interchangeable British Actors Get Four Chances to Star in a Beatles MovieSam Mendes is going four-for-four on Beatles biopics.
    By Jason P. Frank
  2. film is a losing game
    Marisa Abela’s Day (to Play Amy Winehouse) Has ComeA first trailer for Back to Black hits the usual music biopic beats — with bigger hair and a London accent.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  3. tv review
    Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain Make George & Tammy SingThe stars take what could have been a run-of-the-mill music biopic and infuse it with passion.
    By Jen Chaney
  4. movie review
    Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Should Have Been WeirderBut credit to Daniel Radcliffe for committing to the bit.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  5. trailer mix
    Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Weird Als the Musical BiopicDaniel Radcliffe parodies the parodist on November 4.
    By Rebecca Alter
  6. vulture lists
    The Least Historically Accurate Music Biopics Ever MadeFrom Amadeus to Bohemian Rhapsody, here are ten movies that treated the truth as mere suggestion.
    By Keith Phipps
  7. keep that pelvis far from me
    Elvis Trailer: Tom Hanks Got COVID-19 for This?Entering the building (your local movie theater) on June 24.
    By Rebecca Alter
  8. movies
    In Defense of the Mediocre Music BiopicThey’re not very good movies that are nevertheless trying very hard to be — which makes them inherently entertaining.
    By Sean O'Neal
  9. biopics
    Sammy Davis Jr.’s Estate Gives Long-Gestating Biopic the Green LightThe crooner’s family and the producers — including Lionel Richie — all agree on the angle.
    By Hunter Harris
  10. sayonara sinatra
    Martin Scorsese’s Frank Sinatra Biopic Is Sleepin’ With the Fishes, Capiche?R.I.P.
    By Kaitlin Fontana
  11. biopics
    Velvet Underground Singer Nico Getting BiopicIt’ll focus on the last years of her short life.
    By Dee Lockett
  12. music biopics
    Baron Cohen on Leaving Freddie Mercury BiopicThe band wanted it to be a PG-rated family film.
    By Nate Jones
  13. music biopics
    O’Connell and Hoult May Play Lennon and EpsteinFor a biopic called A Life in the Day.
    By Nate Jones
  14. music biopics
    Jennifer Hudson Probably Playing Aretha FranklinIn a biopic from a Straight Outta Compton producer.
    By Nate Jones