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Yes, Amy Adams Confirmed For Janis Joplin

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday July 15, 2010 @ 8:36pm PDTTags: Amy Adams, Biopic, Fearnet, Fernando Meirelles, Movie Casting, Twilight Saga, Wyck Godfrey


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Today the website Fearnet had an interview with film producer Wyck Godfrey about the Twilight Saga, and the subject of a long-in-the-works Janis Joplin biopic came up. Godfrey mentioned in passing that Amy Adams would play the 1960s singer. I can tell you that Amy is indeed confirmed in the role for the film to be directed by Fernando Meirelles (City Of God). There’s no studio involved yet, and the script has been through several drafts. Many have tried and failed to get a Janis Joplin biopic off the ground. I recall Pink delivered an impressive screen-test for Penelope Spheeris on an earlier and different Joplin project.

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Taraji Henson To Star In A Lifetime Movie

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 13, 2010 @ 5:24pm PDTTags: Biopic, Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Lifetime, Lifetime Movie, Movie Casting, Shirley MacLaine, TV Movie
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taraji-hensonEXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has tapped Taraji P. Henson to star in its next original movie, Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story. While the network has being able land big-name feature talent for its recent biopics, Shirley MacLaine in Coco Chanel and … Read More »

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Kitty Kelley’s Oprah Biography To Become Biopic; Who Will Play The Talkshow Queen?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday July 12, 2010 @ 10:45am PDTTags: Actors, Biopic, Books, Crown Publishers, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey, Randon House, TV, TV Movie
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oprah300UPDATED: Kitty Kelley’s controversial unauthorized biography of Oprah Winfrey will be given the biopic treatment. Veteran TV movie producer Larry A. Thompson has acquired the rights to the book, Oprah: A Biography, published in the spring by Crown Publishers, a division of … Read More »

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Barry Levinson Directs On Big Screen Again, Nick Cassavetes Acts, Jeff Bridges Walks

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 8, 2010 @ 11:02am PDTTags: Atlas Shrugged, Barry Levinson, Biopic, Columbia Pictures, Directors, Great Hope Springs, Harley Peyton, Jeff Bridges, Mosaic, Nick Cassavetes, You Don't Know Jack
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Some action on the feature front. Sony’s Columbia Pictures attached Barry Levinson to direct Brother Jack, a  Mosaic-produced drama based on the life of human rights activist Jack Healey. Harley Peyton wrote the script and Kelly Masterson is rewriting. Levinson’s got a little momentum from the Jack Kevorkian biopic You … Read More »

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Leonardo DiCaprio Set For J Edgar Hoover Role In Biopic For Eastwood And Grazer

By NIKKI FINKE AND MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 17, 2010 @ 1:36pm PDTTags: Actors, Biopic, Movies, Studios

leonardo-dicaprio-picture-1“He going to spread his wings,” one of my studio sources tells me now that Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play J Edgar Hoover in the still untitled biopic. Already getting early Oscar buzz for Chris Nolan’s Inception, Leo will be … Read More »

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HBO Greenlights ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ Starring Clive Owen And Nicole Kidman

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday June 15, 2010 @ 5:48pm PDTTags: Actors, Biopic, Cable, Producers, TV
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EXCLUSIVE: It took James Gandolfini 6 years to get the story of Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn to the screen. Now HBO has just given the green light to Hemingway & Gellhorn, nicolekidman… Read More »

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