Who better to direct a biopic about the famous blue-eyed Italian-American entertainer Frank Sinatra than Martin Scorsese? This is the kind of movie news that's so "just right" it makes me wonder why it hasn't happened before. Here's more on the project, titled simply, Sinatra: The deal comes after years of negotiations with Frank Sinatra Enterprises, a joint venture of the crooner's estate and Read more

Having written the screenplay for the Notorious B.I.G. movie, writer Cheo Hodari Coker is now gearing up to bring more rap stars' lives to the big screen. He's signed on to adapt Bill Adler's book Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC — The Authorized Biography for film which "will explore the history of hip-hop's first superstars: Joseph 'Run' Simmons, Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels and Jason Read more

"I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living." — Harvey Milk The story of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk had a huge impact on me a few years ago when I first watched the Oscar-winning documentary about him, The Times of Harvey Milk. His is truly a stranger-than-fiction tale and is so full of inspiration, absurdity, and absolute heartache Read more

It's a wonderful world for Forest Whitaker. According to Variety, Whitaker will direct and star in a Louis Armstrong biopic titled What a Wonderful World. The story will have the help of a Paris-based production company, Legende, the company behind another musician biopic, La Vie en Rose. Some facts: The movie, which is "the first big-screen project to be authorized by the Armstrong estate, will Read more

When I was in high school, I discovered Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl and it astounded me. Ever since, it's been that book on my bookshelf that consistently beckons me to pick it up and read it again, and decades later, it's just as relevant to our times as it was in the 1960s. At the time of its publication, however, some folks were not so enamored with Ginsberg's words. To commemorate the 50-year Read more

John Lennon's life looks like it's heading for the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter writes that a biopic called Nowhere Boy is in the works, to be directed by visual artist Sam Taylor-Wood and written by Matt Greenhalgh, who most recently wrote the Ian Curtis biopic Control. According to the Reporter, the movie will film in Lennon's hometown of Liverpool and focus on his early Read more

Some are arguing that the biopic is the new black in Hollywood these days, but this genre has been entertaining us for some time now. Sometimes they're a great way to honor a beloved figure — Read more