Timothee Chalamet is set to play Bob Dylan in the forthcoming biopic A Complete Unknown, and he took inspiration from another star who delivered an Oscar-nominated performance in a musical biopic – Austin Butler.
03.10.2023 - 18:03 / deadline.com
Lionsgate and Universal Pictures International announced on Tuesday that Universal will serve as the international distributor for the Michael Jackson biopic Michael, starring the pop superstar’s nephew Jaafar Jackson, which we were first to report on. Uni will handle all territories apart from Japan, with Lionsgate repping the film on the domestic front.
Antoine Fuqua will direct the film from a script by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan, with Graham King (Bohemian Rhapsody) producing alongside John Branca and John McClain, the co-executors of the Michael Jackson Estate. Production is set to kick off as soon as the SAG-AFTRA strike resolves.
Michael promises to give audiences a never-before-told and in-depth portrayal of the complicated man who became the King of Pop. The film will explore all aspects of Jackson’s life, including his most iconic performances that led him to become one of the most beloved entertainers of all time.
Said Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair, Joe Drake, “Michael’s decades-long career left an indelible mark on the way audiences experience entertainment all over the world. We are thrilled to be partnering with our friends at Universal to give global audiences new insight into the complex life of one of the most prolific artists the world has ever known.”
Since his passing on June 25, 2009, aged 50, Jackson’s music has continued to resonate broadly, even as his legacy continues to be wrestled with. The Tony Award-winning hit MJ the Musical, based on his life, continues to play to sold-out crowds on Broadway and with its national touring company across North America, and will open on London’s coveted West End next spring, coming to Hamburg later in the year. The Cirque du Soleil-produced
Timothee Chalamet is set to play Bob Dylan in the forthcoming biopic A Complete Unknown, and he took inspiration from another star who delivered an Oscar-nominated performance in a musical biopic – Austin Butler.
Getting over his breakup blues?!
Lupita Nyong’o has announced on Instagram that she is no longer dating Selema Masekela. The actress shared a lengthy statement, sharing her “personal truth” as a means to “publicly dissociate” from someone she “can no longer trust.” Nyongo’s message comes after she was photographed with newly single Joshua Jackson at Janelle Monáe’s concert.Nyong’o wiped photos of Masekela off her Instagram, so whatever happened seems serious. “I find myself in a season of heartbreak because of a love suddenly and devastatingly extinguished by deception,” she wrote.
Drake and Michael Jackson have tied with the most Number One hits by a male solo artist in Billboard history.The rapper’s track ‘First Person Shooter’ which features J. Cole debuted at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 charts making it his 13th chart-topping song in the US charts which is a record that had yet to be surpassed since Jackson achieved it back in 1995.
Rick Riordan published“Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief ” in 2005. The book introduces 12-year-old Percy, who discovers that the monsters and demon-eyed teachers who have plagued him his whole life aren’t figments of his imagination: He’s a demigod, it turns out — the child of a human woman and the water god Poseidon — and the Greek myths he grew up learning about are real. To empower his son, Haley, Riordan positioned Percy’s ADHD and dyslexia as strengths: They came from his battle instincts and his innate ability to read ancient Greek.
Where to start with Michael Mann‘s “Ferrari“? It’s a passion project long in the making, with Mann developing it for over two decades. It’s also Mann’s first film with Adam Driver, and with rumors of Mann wanting to cast the actor in “Heat 2,” it may not be the last.
Another Drake song has debuted at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. This time, it's his J. Cole-featuring “First Person Shooter” off of his latest album, For All The Dogs.
Thania Garcia Drake continues his record-breaking spree on the Billboard charts with the release of his latest full-length release, “For All The Dogs.” All 23 of the songs on Drake’s 13th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 appear in the top 50 of the singles chart this week, with Drake and J. Cole’s “First Person Shooter” debuting atop the list.
Julia Fox opened up about auditioning for a role in Madonna‘s biopic.
@CirqueDuSoleil’s @MJoneLV just celebrated their 10th anniversary at @MandalayBay in Las Vegas and the Cirque Du Soleil Michael Jackson show is…
Counter-Strike 2 players are no longer able to pull off a “Michael Jackson peek” thanks to a game update, but they’ve replaced that with a “Shakira booty dance”.Earlier this week, Counter-Strike 2 players were using a custom control to lean their character’s body out of the way of bullets, and the result looked somewhat similar to Michael Jackson‘s lean in ‘Smooth Criminal’.While it was entertaining, Valve removed the “foot pinning bug” that let players perform the trick in the most recent patch.The update also solved the spaces where players could clip through ceilings in some maps, adjusted Inferno, Mirage, Nuke, Overpass, and Vertigo, improved player visibility and added a few Steam Workshop tools.Yet, it did not take the Counter-Strike 2 community long to find another musical artist to emulate in their matches (via Dot Esports). Repeatedly pressing “A” and “D” on the keyboard causes the player character to sway back and forth.
Counter Strike 2 players have discovered a trick that lets them seemingly dodge bullets, and in practice it looks a little like Michael Jackson‘s lean in ‘Smooth Criminal’.Reported by Rock Paper Shotgun, the “Michael Jackson Peek” in Counter-Strike 2 is achieved by running in the game while inputting a custom key bind. It’s as easy as pasting this code into the game’s autoexec file in the player’s Steam folder on their PC.When active, the player’s character leans in a similar way to the lean seen in Michael Jackson’s music video for ‘Smooth Criminal’ in 1988.
The new Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series adaptation is on the way and is just a couple of months away from premiering!
Joshua Jackson has been spotted out and about amid his divorce from estranged wife Jodie Turner-Smith.
A source is opening up about Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson‘s split and revealing why it happened.
A source tells ET that the former couple was ‘having issues’ ahead of their split.
Well. This is a different take.
We already thought this divorce was out of nowhere. But it was more sudden than we realized!
Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith have split after nearly four years of marriage. The British actress, 37, who shares a three-year daughter Janie with the Dawson's Creek star, 45, filed for divorce and cited 'irreconcilable differences' as the reason for the split, TMZ reports.The date of separation is listed as September 13 - just one day after the pair attended New York Fashion Week together.
Jodie Turner Smith has reportedly just filed for divorce from Joshua Jackson.