In today’s film news roundup, Jennifer Hudson’s “Respect” is moved back two months, another film festival is postponed and “Lupin the Third: the First” and “Raising Buchanan” find distribution.Release DateMGM has moved the release date of Jennifer Hudson’s Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect” from Oct.
9 to late in the awards seasons with a limited Christmas Day debut.“Respect,” titled after Franklin’s 1967 hit, will expand Jan.
8 and go into wide release Jan.
15 at the start of the Martin Luther King Jr.
holiday weekend.
Hudson, who won a supporting actress Oscar for “Dreamgirls,” was personally selected for the role by Franklin before Franklin died in 2018 at the age of 76.Franklin won 17 Grammys, starting with “Respect” in 1968 and “Chain of Fools” in 1969.
The film, directed by Liesl Tommy, also stars Forest Whitaker as C.L.
Franklin, Marlon Wayans as Ted White, Mary J.
Blige as Dinah Washington and Tituss Burgess as Rev.
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