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Biopics

August 2024

  • A young Britney Spears smiles.

    Britney Spears memoir The Woman in Me headed to the big screen

    Universal has acquired the rights to the bestselling tell-all, with Wicked’s Jon M Chu set to direct

June 2024

  • Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan in The Lost King.

    What does Steve Coogan’s Lost King case mean for future biopics?

  • Sally Hawkins as Philippa Langley with Steve Coogan as John Langley in The Lost King: they are sitting on a wooden bench in front of a historical site. Hawkins wears a mustard-yellow anorak and Coogan a grey suit and tie, dressed as their characters.

    Portrayal of character in Steve Coogan’s film The Lost King is defamatory, judge rules

  • The promised land … Joel Smallbone (centre) playing his real-life dad in Unsung Hero.

    Unsung Hero review – real-life journey of Christian music migrants from Australia

  • Daisy Ridley as swimmer Trudy Ederle in Young Woman and the Sea

    Young Woman and the Sea review – handsome if formulaic 1920s swimming biopic

May 2024

  • Daisy Ridley in Young Woman and the Sea.

    Young Woman and the Sea review – Disney’s surface-level swimming biopic lacks depth

    Daisy Ridley leads the reductive, if at times stirring, story of the first woman to swim across the English channel
  • Hands hold papers with drawing of man

    Authorized big-screen biopic of George Floyd in the works

    Daddy Changed the World will tell the story of the man whose murder sparked anti-police brutality protests across the US in 2020

    • ‘This garbage is pure fiction’: when subjects hit back at their biopics

    • Limonov: The Ballad review – Ben Whishaw brilliant as Russia’s outlaw bohemian

    • ‘Acid humour was a big part’: the life and legacy of Flannery O’Connor

April 2024

  • a still from Putin, directed by Besaleel.

    Soiled nappies and karate: AI-rendered Putin biopic to be released

  • Four images together, clockwise from top left: John Galliano standing in a doorway; Audrey Tautou in Coco Before Chanel; Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face; Ben Stiller in Zoolander.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: High & Low: John Galliano and the best films about fashion

  • Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese at the Cannes film festival in 2023.

    Martin Scorsese to revive Frank Sinatra biopic with Leonardo DiCaprio

  • Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in Back to Black.

    ‘The house was small, the life was big’: how Amy Winehouse’s homes were recreated for Back to Black

  • Forget Back to Black. Here are eight great fake music biopics

  • Back to Black review – wildly uneven portrait of Amy Winehouse

  • ‘Close to home’: Camden locals applaud Amy Winehouse biopic

  • Warning: with Back to Black and four Beatles movies, Hollywood’s most cliched genre isn’t going away

    Zach Schonfeld

  • ‘Her demons were probably worse’: does Back to Black reveal the real Amy Winehouse?

  • Back to Black review – woozy Amy Winehouse biopic buoyed by extraordinary lead performance

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