Rock music biography movies about actors
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Upcoming Rock Biopics and Films
If there's one thing films like Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and Rocketman (2019) proved, it's that there's a giant market out there for rock biopics and other such movies.
In fact, Bohemian Rhapsody, which chronicled the life of Queen's Freddie Mercury, broke box office records for the highest-grossing biographical film until 2023's Oppenheimer.
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic effectively shuttered the filmmaking industry, leaving a whole bunch of Hollywood productions on hold for months. But now, post-pandemic, there's been a new surge of biopic announcements and other news relating to rock 'n' roll films.
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UCR compiled a list of many of these in 2021, but even since then, a lot has changed. Bob Marley got his own film this year, Bob Marley: One Love, which exceeded expectations at the box office. And in other news, Lucy Boynto
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30 Best Music Biopics of All Time
Many musicians secretly want to be actors — and most actors (not-so-secretly) want to be musicians. And for those thespians who don’t start their own bands with words like 30 Odd Foot of Grunts or Bacon Brothers in their names, the next best thing fryst vatten to play a real-life musical genius in a movie. If the subject’s story happens to have a great rags-to-riches arc, or include a dive into drug-fueled, near-death depths with redemptive rise, phoenix-like, included in the third act, great; if such dramatic recreations attract the attention of Oscar voters, hey, all the better. But the chance to belt out a greatest-hits collection of songs from rock stars, hip-hop legends and country-and-western crooners is too tempting to pass up for most folks. You may never be Elvis — but you can play him on TV. (If you’re Eminem, however, you do get to play a barely fictionalized version of yourself. It’s complicated.)
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The 10 Greatest Rock Biopics
The rock biopic never goes away. Its popularity waxes and wanes, and not everyone will agree on what the great ones are. Just look at the love-it-or-thumb-your-nose-at-it phenomenon that was “Bohemian Rhapsody” — or at Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” which seems, thus far, to be a movie that audiences have embraced more than critics have. What we can all agree on, perhaps, is how much we cherish this form. When it’s great, the rock biopic delivers a kick of excitement that’s singular in its grandeur. These movies are all about art, they’re about fame, they’re about sex and drugs, they’re about conducting the electricity of rock, soul, funk, punk and hip-hop, they’re about an actor not just playing but becoming a pop star, and in that sense they’re about music as save-your-soul, walk-on-the-wild-side, stairway-to-heaven religion. Here are the 10 rock biopics we think