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5 Dead Rappers Who Need a Biopic

By Christopher Campbell posted 10 months ago

This weekend’s box office is almost sure to go to Notorious, Fox Searchlight’s much-anticipated biopic about rapper Biggie Smalls (aka The Notorious B.I.G.; aka Big Poppa; aka Christopher Wallace), who tragically met his end 12 years ago in a controversial shooting. So far, the reviews are mostly favorable, though even a 0% score on RottenTomatoes.com couldn’t keep people away from this film. Fans aren’t likely to learn anything new about the hip-hop star, and they sure won’t gain any fresh revelations regarding the mysterious circumstances behind Biggie’s death, but they’ll definitely enjoy seeing the icon portrayed on the big screen (partly by his own look-alike son, Christopher Jordan Wallace). Like Newsweek critic Allison Samuels, many moviegoers will feel like they’re “attending a 10-year high-school reunion and reliving the good old days.”

And with the success of Notorious, both Hollywood and hip-hop fans will probably be begging for more. So, in anticipation of the potential copycats, and in hope for the best, we’ve selected five deceased rappers who are also worthy of the biopic treatment.
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Locarno, Conan and Combs: Trade Roughage 08/13/07

By Karina Longworth posted 2 years ago

The lineup boasted a wealth of warmed-over Hollywood pics (1408, Planet Terror), but the top prize at the Locarno Film Festival went this weekend to Masahiro Kobayashi’s controversial drama, The Rebirth. The Hollywood Reporter’s Eric J. Lyman called the film “cerebral and weighty … one of the most talked about films of the festival, but it was not without its detractors, who were turned off by the film’s deliberately repetitive construction.”
Millennium Films, the company that’s currently working on bringing the Rambo series back from the dead, will next concentrate on resurrecting the Conan series. They’re planning “multiple pictures”, the first of which will go into production next spring.
Sean P. Combs Esq. has signed on to exec produce that Biggie Smalls biopic.
Ever hear of Movie Gallery? Yeah, that’s part of the problem. The long-shot competitor to Netflix and Blockbuster says it still hopes to launch DVD-by-mail and video-on-demand services within the next six months, despite admitting “substantial doubt as to our ability to continue” operating.