From Elvis to Blonde, these are the best biopics coming to our screens this year
will be “very frank about the price that super-stardom exacted” while also being “the moving tale of a simple Jersey girl trying to find her way back home”, according to a press release.
Not all biopics centre on high-profile figures from the world of entertainment. But when Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was exposed for his decades-spanning history of sexual assault and harassment in 2017, tworeporters deservedly gained the spotlight – and now, the story of how Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor took down the disgraced producer is coming to the big screen.
Not only were the reporters, who will be played by Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan, the first to break the story of Weinstein, but their explosive exposé launched the #MeToo movement, helping to drive much-needed change around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood. Thanks to their efforts, Weinstein was eventually sentenced to 23 years in prison on charges of sexual assault and third-degree rape.
Starring Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till-Mobley and Whoopi Goldberg as Till’s grandmother Alma Carthan,magazine publish David Jackson’s funeral photos in order to ensure people everywhere saw the true horrors of her son’s murder. The decision from the grieving mother was a galvanising moment that led to the creation of the civil rights movement.
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