Clint Eastwood is gearing up to tackle the life of J. Edgar Hoover in a project being developed by Brian Grazer and Imagine Entertainment. Eastwood will work...

Biopics are crowd pleasers and regular Oscar winners – with bankable actors often attracted to the challenge of playing a real and notable figure. But while the facts of someone's life might offer elements of plot, how can writers ...

Glen's look at music in the movies takes in his choice of the ten best music biopics...

News of the biopic's progress comes just days before what would have been Cobain's 43rd birthday (he was born February 20, 1967). Look back at our Kurt Cobain Remembered archive to read our essay on Nevermind 10 years later and Kurt's ...

Biopics, films that dramatize and explore the lives of the famous, infamous or the previously unknown have been nominated for and won more Academy Awards than any other type of film. Yet according to Dennis Bingham, Ph.D., ...

Don't Let Me Down: rise of the rock biopics. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8480358.stm. by Kev Geoghegan 24 February 2010. Lennon Naked will be the second film of the past 12 months to tackle ...

I am interested in a biopic but would also welcome an investigative documentary that interviews other students of Ip Man. Have they gone on to teach, and do they see similarities in their own Kung Fu to that of Bruce Lee? ...

Ramin Setoodeh claims the biopic is a dead genre as compared to its past status as a surefire hit. We think we have a long list of classics for him to watch to learn some film history.

Last year we had a couple of unusally great little football films in Looking for Eric and The Damned United, the latter a biopic of Brian Clough which proved a fascinating insight into the man (albeit in a nicer way [...]

I used to make my Hitler and Harry Potter dolls kiss. Naughty!) One of the producers of dyslexic Nazi drama The Reader is set to produce a biopic about.