Tag: Get on Up
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Musician Biopics Must Evolve to Keep Rocking On
For a while there, it looked like the musician biopic had fizzled out. At the start of the 2010s, the handful of music biopics that did hit movie theaters like The Runaways or Get on Up didn’t make waves at the box office, seemingly ensuring that Hollywood wouldn’t have any reason to resurrect this subgenre…
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Chadwick Boseman to Be Honored in Special Tribute at Stand Up to Cancer Fundraiser
Chadwick Boseman will be honored in a special tribute during Stand Up to Cancer’s (SU2C) fundraising telecast and streaming event on Saturday.The late actor’s wife Simone Boseman and SU2C host Anthony Anderson will honor him during the biennial fundraising telecast and streaming event. Boseman passed away last year, at the age of 43, after a…
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‘Respect’ Trailer: Jennifer Hudson Is The Queen Of Soul
We’ve had definitive biopics on legendary Black soul artists like James Brown (“Get On Up“), Miles Davis (“Miles Ahead“), Tina Turner (“What’s Love Got To Do With It“), and Ray Charles (“Ray“). And while she’s appeared in many films and there have been documentaries made about her, there’s never really been a definitive movie biopic…
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Chadwick Boseman’s Posthumous Oscar Nomination Puts Him in Rare Company
Before Monday morning, the late actor Chadwick Boseman had somehow never been nominated for an Academy Award, despite his astonishing performances as Jackie Robinson in 2013’s “42” and as James Brown in 2014’s “Get on Up” — not to mention his iconic role as the superhero T’Challa in 2018’s “Black Panther.”That was finally rectified with…
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Chadwick Boseman remembered by Ruth E Carter
29 November 1976 – 28 August 2020The Oscar-winning costume designer – who worked with the actor on Black Panther – recalls a kind, self-assured man who would rather crack a joke than talk about his illnessAndrew Weatherall remembered by David HolmesRead the Observer’s obituaries of 2020 in fullIn 2015, I interviewed for the film Marshall,…
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Viola Davis Remembers Chadwick Boseman at ‘Ma Rainey’ Preview Event
Netflix unveiled the first trailer and preview for the upcoming “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Monday morning along with a conversation with co-star Viola Davis and director George C. Wolfe. The movie version premieres Dec. 18 on NetflixThe acclaimed August Wilson play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is set in the late 1920s around the pioneering “queen…
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Chadwick Boseman’s ’42’ Getting Re-Released in Theaters as Tribute to Actor
AMC Theatres, Regal Cinemas, Cinemark, and other exhibitors will pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman, the “Black Panther” star who died last week of colon cancer at the age of 43, by screening “42.”The baseball drama featured Boseman as Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers infielder who broke the color line when he became the first African…
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Michael B. Jordan Shares Emotional Tribute to Chadwick Boseman
Michael B. Jordan, who portrayed Killmonger in “Black Panther,” posted an emotional tribute to Chadwick Boseman on Instagram after Boseman died due to colon cancer at the age of 43 on August 28.Jordan wrote that he would “dedicate the rest of my days to live the way you did” and praised Boseman’s kindness in his…
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Remembering Chadwick Boseman: 5 Times the ‘Black Panther’ Star Was a Real-Life Superhero
The world knew star Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa, the fearless king of Wakanda who would do anything to protect his people.But the actor — who tragically died after a four-year battle with colon cancer on Friday — was not only a hero on-screen, but off, as well.Though Boseman played other major roles, such as Jackie…
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What Chadwick Boseman’s ‘Black Panther’ Legacy Means
“Long Live the King,” the appropriate tagline on the poster for 2018’s “Black Panther,” captures this moment in history. The significance of Chadwick Boseman, who died on Friday at 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer, to the African American and Black community is immeasurable. When representing inspirational icons such as Jackie Robinson in…