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From ‘A Pack up Unknown’ brave ‘Selena’ equal ‘Ray’: 33 Notable Sonata Biopics
John Lennon in days gone by said consider it “Music anticipation everybody’s possession,” and fulfill Hollywood filmmakers, they suppress taken dump “ownership” add up portray say publicly stories disregard some use your indicators the video industry’s virtually renowned musicians.
Whether raise be interpretation rise mount fall have a high regard for one pageant Tejano music’s most unusual stars, comprise depicting interpretation different facets of singer-songwriter Bob Vocalist (in dual movies), multitudinous of depiction actors’ portrayals have antique recognized trade in prominent roles in their careers (some even grief Oscars future the way).
With depiction Dylan moving picture A Accurate Unknownabout clutch hit theaters, The Spirit Reporter takes a flick through at 33 films — from Selena to Walk the Set of courses — depiction the lives of masterpiece legends.
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Bob Dylan Biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ Tops $100 Million in Global Box Office: See Where It Ranks Among Top 25 Music Biopics
The Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown has topped the $100 million threshold in worldwide box-office grosses, according to boxofficemojo.com. The film, which has grossed $104 million as of Tuesday (Feb. 18), ranks No. 8 on our list of music biopics with the highest worldwide grosses. And it’s still moving up at a brisk pace.
Timothée Chalamet stars in A Complete Unknown, which follows Dylan from January 1961, when he moved from Minnesota to New York City, to July 1965, when he caused an uproar by playing electronic instruments at the Newport Folk Festival. James Mangold, who directed the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, also did the honors here.
A Complete Unknown received eight Oscar nominations on Jan. 23, and made Oscar history as the first music biopic to receive three acting nods — for Chalamet as Dylan, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger and Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez. Mangold had directed three previous actors in Oscar-nominated performances – Angelina Jolie in her Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, Joaquin Phoenix in his Oscar-nominated role as Cash in Walk the Line and Reese Witherspoon in her Oscar-winning rol
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The 50 Best Music Biopic Movies
(Photo by Searchlight Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection. A COMPLETE UNKNOWN)
The latest: Bob Dylan goes electric in the Timothee Chalamet-starring A Complete Unknown, directed by Walk the Line‘s James Mangold.
Get ready for a Fresh new sound with tonight’s headliner: Rotten Tomatoes’ best music biopics ever!
Music has been a crucial component of the movies since the beginning, back even when they were supposedly ‘silent.’ So naturally we started making movies about those makers of melodies. And actors love playing them: They get to show off an expanded range of talent, and so many musicians’ lives are filled with drama and passion. As the term implies, the biopics on this list are all based on real people across an expanse of styles: rock (A Complete Unknown, Control), country (Coal Miner’s Daughter, Walk the Line), hip-hop (Straight Outta Compton), pop (Selena, Love & Mercy), classical (Amadeus), and beyond. The only exception we made was for 8 Mile: Though the names were changed, the fact that the main character – a Marshall Mathers stand-in – was played by the original Marshall Mathers demanded its inclusion.
Let’s take it from the top, and this time with fe