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Post by Ripley on Jan 11, 2016 20:34:16 GMT -5
Danai Gurira will play Afeni Shakur in new film "All Eyez On Me". Details below (I'm on mobile) link
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Post by Ripley on Jan 15, 2016 17:35:55 GMT -5
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Post by Ripley on Jan 15, 2016 19:46:59 GMT -5
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Post by Ripley on May 3, 2016 10:15:04 GMT -5
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Post by lesmicelli on May 3, 2016 11:33:42 GMT -5
How very sad May she rest in peace and be with her son again. My thoughts are with her family and friends. Wow the range of emotions Danai must be feeling today as well, from her play getting several Tony Award nominations to a woman she's potraying in a film passing away.
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Post by Ripley on Sept 13, 2016 21:23:45 GMT -5
dark sister please feel free to merge into whatever topic you feel fit, thanks!
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Post by Ripley on Jan 17, 2017 13:35:43 GMT -5
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the film finally has a release day! "All Eyez on Me, the long-gestating biopic of rapper Tupac Shakur, is finally on its way to theaters. Lionsgate has acquired the U.S. rights to the Morgan Creek Entertainment film that follows the life of the iconic '90s rapper, and has set it for release June 16 — the day that would have marked Shakur’s 46th birthday.... Benny Boom directed the film, which stars newcomer Demetrius Shipp Jr. as Shakur. Danai Gurira, Kat Graham, Dominic Santana, Jamal Woolard, Keith Robinson, Lauren Cohan and Hill Harper also star. The film is produced by Morgan Creek’s James G. Robinson and David Robinson, along with Program Pictures’ LT Hutton..." link
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Post by Ripley on Jan 17, 2017 13:37:59 GMT -5
dark sister, I have merged the existing trailer into this topic and am moving to Films
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Post by Ripley on Jun 5, 2017 21:29:10 GMT -5
Clips out! Looking forward to this.
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Post by merelei on Jun 6, 2017 6:58:24 GMT -5
Wow, I can't believe that Tupac is starring in his own biopic -- SERIOUSLY THE CASTING IN THIS MOVIE IS SPOT FUCKING ON.
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Post by Ripley on Jun 19, 2017 18:01:20 GMT -5
The film is getting terrible reviews, sadly. Jada Pinkett-Smith has publicly ridiculed it, saying her depicted scenes never happened. Here is one review from Slate. "Think your way back, if you can, to the year that Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre played Coachella and welcomed Tupac Shakur onto the stage to perform a couple of hits. Shirtless, with jeans sagging and his signature “Thug Life” tattoo on his stomach, the legend worked the stage as he did in the ’90s, greeting the audience in his typically profane style: “What the fuck is up, Coachellaaaaaa?!” There was only one problem: Tupac was dead. This was, instead, just an optical illusion, and so everything was just a little off. The “hologram” (which wasn’t technically a hologram) looked and moved just like the “Picture Me Rollin’ ” rapper, but not quite. It sounded just like him, but Coachella definitely didn’t exist in 1996 when he met his tragic demise. It was bizarre, sort of laughable, and slightly unsettling, and yet the audience was supposed to take it seriously. Watching the long-gestated biopic All Eyez on Me is like reliving that experience, except instead of lasting for just five minutes, it lasts for nearly two and a half ridiculous hours. The film pairs grand thematic ideas with pitifully shoddy execution. The FILA gear is present, the original recordings are licensed, and the movie’s star, newcomer Demetrius Shipp Jr., bears an uncanny physical resemblance to his real-life character inspiration. But something—nah, pretty much everything—is off. If the rapper’s fans were hoping for a feature that both honored the legacy of this polarizing figure and recreated some of the magic of the surprisingly entertaining Straight Outta Compton, this is definitely not that movie. It takes just a few minutes to realize that All Eyez on Me is of only slightly higher quality than a direct-to-DVD movie you’d pick up for a couple of bucks from a Walmart bin. The story opens in 1995 with Makaveli giving an on-camera interview from a maximum-security prison where he is serving a sentence for sexual assault. The reporter’s name and outlet are never disclosed (actor Hill Harper is credited only as “Interviewer”), and this clumsy framing device is only the first of the many poor aesthetic choices that recur throughout the rest of the film. The film dutifully proceeds through the usual stations of the cross, jumping erratically between scenes tracing his origins as the son of Black Panther Afeni Shakur ( The Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira, doing the best she can with this mess of material) and his first professional gig as a background dancer with Digital Underground—scenes that function almost exclusively to introduce a new character or plot point and explain, via that interview, how it factored into Shakur’s life..." www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2017/06/all_eyez_on_me_the_new_tupac_biopic_reviewed.html
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Post by Mia on Jun 19, 2017 18:09:59 GMT -5
The film is getting terrible reviews, sadly. Jada Pinkett-Smith has publicly ridiculed it, saying her depicted scenes never happened. Here is one review from Slate. "Think your way back, if you can, to the year that Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre played Coachella and welcomed Tupac Shakur onto the stage to perform a couple of hits. Shirtless, with jeans sagging and his signature “Thug Life” tattoo on his stomach, the legend worked the stage as he did in the ’90s, greeting the audience in his typically profane style: “What the fuck is up, Coachellaaaaaa?!” There was only one problem: Tupac was dead. This was, instead, just an optical illusion, and so everything was just a little off. The “hologram” (which wasn’t technically a hologram) looked and moved just like the “Picture Me Rollin’ ” rapper, but not quite. It sounded just like him, but Coachella definitely didn’t exist in 1996 when he met his tragic demise. It was bizarre, sort of laughable, and slightly unsettling, and yet the audience was supposed to take it seriously. Watching the long-gestated biopic All Eyez on Me is like reliving that experience, except instead of lasting for just five minutes, it lasts for nearly two and a half ridiculous hours. The film pairs grand thematic ideas with pitifully shoddy execution. The FILA gear is present, the original recordings are licensed, and the movie’s star, newcomer Demetrius Shipp Jr., bears an uncanny physical resemblance to his real-life character inspiration. But something—nah, pretty much everything—is off. If the rapper’s fans were hoping for a feature that both honored the legacy of this polarizing figure and recreated some of the magic of the surprisingly entertaining Straight Outta Compton, this is definitely not that movie. It takes just a few minutes to realize that All Eyez on Me is of only slightly higher quality than a direct-to-DVD movie you’d pick up for a couple of bucks from a Walmart bin. The story opens in 1995 with Makaveli giving an on-camera interview from a maximum-security prison where he is serving a sentence for sexual assault. The reporter’s name and outlet are never disclosed (actor Hill Harper is credited only as “Interviewer”), and this clumsy framing device is only the first of the many poor aesthetic choices that recur throughout the rest of the film. The film dutifully proceeds through the usual stations of the cross, jumping erratically between scenes tracing his origins as the son of Black Panther Afeni Shakur ( The Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira, doing the best she can with this mess of material) and his first professional gig as a background dancer with Digital Underground—scenes that function almost exclusively to introduce a new character or plot point and explain, via that interview, how it factored into Shakur’s life..." www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2017/06/all_eyez_on_me_the_new_tupac_biopic_reviewed.htmlMy friend saw it and said he has seen better movies on The Life Time Channel. And that he didn't believe half of what they were saying.
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Post by Rosie on Jun 19, 2017 20:35:43 GMT -5
I had heard this. Too bad.
I am sure DG made the best of what she had to work with.
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Post by merelei on Jun 20, 2017 7:08:14 GMT -5
You know I was honestly wanting so bad for this movie to do really well.
Just like always - disappointment. Why am I actually surprised.
People need to write their own movies, this is ridiculous. Independent films need to have a rise in popularity, cause Hollywood just isn't trying anymore and it hasn't been for a long-ass time.
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Post by dark sister on Jun 20, 2017 9:02:26 GMT -5
I'm disappointed this is getting bad reviews. I love Tupac's music and I really wanted this to succeed.
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Post by Ripley on Jun 20, 2017 13:09:13 GMT -5
I'm disappointed this is getting bad reviews. I love Tupac's music and I really wanted this to succeed. I haven't seen the film, but am also disappointed this is getting panned by most critics. I had hoped it would be a great film, not only because of Tupac, but also for Danai Gurira and Lauren Cohan.
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Post by greaterpursuit on Jun 20, 2017 17:48:47 GMT -5
Apparently Lauren's role in the film was only about 3 minutes long? Is that accurate?
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Post by Rosie on Jun 24, 2017 14:14:29 GMT -5
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Post by Ripley on Jun 25, 2017 9:08:24 GMT -5
Apparently Lauren's role in the film was only about 3 minutes long? Is that accurate? Yes, I had heard that also and her filming schedule last year seemed to confirm that supported by her social media.
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Post by dark sister on Sept 10, 2017 18:53:49 GMT -5
I saw this last night and this movie absolutely failed its actors. It felt like a Lifetime movie. DG was very good at it. (LC is literally in this movie for one minute) but everything else felt so cheap. They also have the guy playing Snoop not only lip syncing to his rapping but to his actual speaking voice too. It's so distracting.
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