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A biopic on the early years of Bela Lugosi who immigrates from Hungary and then plays “Dracula” on Broadway.
A feature biopic about the R&B group Boyz II Men.
Story of world champion boxer Christy Martin who had to fight through a man’s world to gain success and later personally found herself fighting for her life.
A biopic (in the vein of The Social Network) on Martin Cooper, referred to as “the father of the cell phone,” who is credited with inventing the first handheld cellular device at Motorola.
No plot details have been announced yet.
Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper with a sixth-grade education, becomes an important voting-rights advocate and founds the first integrated political party in the South in mid-1960s Mississippi.
Biopic of rapper and trap music forefather Gucci Mane.
Centering on escape artist and illusionist Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz).
After taking a commercial DNA test on a whim, the man a woman had known her whole life as her father was not biologically related to her. She goes on to uncover the truth about her identity, which had been kept from her for more than 50 years.
Lynsey Addari travels to war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq and wins the MacArthur Fellowhip in 2008. Her work in dangerous locales include her being kidnapped by pro-Quaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war. She is part of the N.Y. Times team which wins a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for International Reporting for her work in Waziristan.
A biopic of country, rock ‘n’ roll and Latin music legend, Linda Ronstadt.
True story of Audie Murphy, a man who enlisted in 1942 as a 16-year-old and became one of America’s most decorated combat veterans after seeing intense action in Italy and France. He then went on to star as himself in the 1955 hit “To Hell and Back” and appeared in more than 40 other films.
To be based on Paris Hilton‘s autobiography “Paris: The Memoir."
The story centers on the life of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner.
Set in the 1970s, Janet Guthrie, a pilot turned racecar driver, makes a bid for the Indianapolis 500 in 1976 despite relentless opposition from the racing establishment and the men she hopes to race against. Janet qualifies for the race in 1978 where she finishes in the top ten, destroying many widely-held stereotypes about female drivers.
Documents the band’s life before and after the death of front man Bradley Nowell in 1996.
Based on the autobiography of London-based music promoter Roy Tempest, who organized UK tours in the 1960s for some of America’s biggest soul acts – even though the acts were fakes.
Follows the friction between Ray and Dave Davies, the brothers who formed seminal Brit band The Kinks.
A decades-long affair takes place between William Faulkner and longtime Hollywood script supervisor Meta Carpenter.
Gabrielle Hamilton, the youngest of five siblings born to a French mother and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, takes an unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef. She later becomes the owner and chef of New York's Prune restaurant and also a trained writer with an MFA from the University of Michigan.