Even well-worn notes can sound freshly resonant in the right hands. A new film about Franklin's early years doesn't entirely avoid biopic... Aretha Franklin Biopic Pays Proper 'Respect' To The Queen ...

Forty-three years ago, director Sydney Pollack filmed the recording of Aretha Franklin’s seminal gospel album Amazing Grace with the intention of making a documentary about it. But various technical ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. John Landis' 1980 musical comedy "The Blues Brothers," which made one of my /Film colleagues a lifelong fan of the action genre, is based on ...

Aretha Franklin is not taking any back talk. They were on a mission from God. When Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and director John Landis decided they would adapt the popular Blues Brothers characters ...

Jennifer Hudson is earning everyone’s respect as Aretha Franklin in the new trailer for the upcoming biopic about the Queen ...

Aretha Franklin is taking a very hands-on approach with the movie being made about her life: She approved a story treatment based on her memoir, has commissioned a script, and is negotiating with ...

“Amazing Grace” is a film that chronicles a landmark performance the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin, gave of the eponymous double album at a Los Angeles church in 1972. For years, it has been seen by ...

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The average musical biopic — and most of them are pretty average — follows a predictable arc: the troubled childhood marked by flashes of genius; the record deals and hit album montages; the marriages ...