First Look Featurette at Jennifer Hudson Becoming Aretha Franklin

 

Watch Jennifer Hudson embody Aretha Franklin as she becomes the Queen of Soul in a new behind-the-scenes look at the making of the upcoming film “RESPECT.”

 

*Also featuring commentary from Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Mary J. Blige, director Liesl Tommy, screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson, and more.

 

 

Directed by: Liesl Tommy

Screenplay by: Tracey Scott Wilson

Story by: Callie Khouri and Tracey Scott Wilson

 

Starring: Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald, Marc Maron, Tituss Burgess, Kimberly Scott, Saycon Sengbloh, Hailey Kilgore, Heather Headley, Skye Dakota Turner, Tate Donovan and Mary J. Blige

 

Producers: Harvey Mason Jr., Scott Bernstein, p.g.a., Jonathan Glickman, Stacey Sher

Executive Producers: Jennifer Hudson, Liesl Tommy, Sue Baden-Powell, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Cloth

 

Rated: PG-13

Run Time: 2h 25min

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

 

 

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Joe Bell Official Trailer

Roadside Attractions will release “Joe Bell” only in theaters July 23rd, 2021 (originally titled Good Joe Bell)

 

Directed by: Reinaldo Marcus Green

Written by: Diana Ossana, Larry McMurtry

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, newcomer Reid Miller, Connie Britton and Gary Sinise

Run Time: 1h 30min

Genres: Biography, Drama

 

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The Eyes of Tammy Faye Official Trailer

 

Trailer for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” presented by Searchlight Pictures

 

Directed by: Michael Showalter

Written by: Abe Sylvia

 

Cast: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones, Fredric Lehne, Louis Cancelmi, Sam Jaeger, Gabriel Olds, Mark Wystrach, and Vincent D’Onofrio

 

Produced by: Jessica Chastain, p.g.a., Kelly Carmichael, p.g.a., Rachel Shane, p.g.a., Gigi Pritzker

Rated: PG-13

Genres: Biography, Drama

 

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Respect Movie Trailer

 

To become the queen, she needed to find her voice.

 

 

Trailer for Respect

 

 

Directed by: Liesl Tommy

Written by: Tracey Scott Wilson

 

Starring: Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Audra McDonald, Saycon Sengbloh, Hailey Kilgore, Brenda Nicole Moorer, Marlon Wayans, Mac Maron, Tituss Burgess, Kimberly Scott, LeRoy McClain, and Tate Donovan

 

Rated: PG-13

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

 

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Judas and the Black Messiah Movie Review

This film is inspired by true events. Similarly, to Sam Pollard’s ‘MLK/FBI’ out earlier this year, ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ shows the world how afraid of powerful black men J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI was. Both films come out and say that he feared a Black Messiah and that the number of people Black leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King and the focus of this film, Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, could gather with one assembly alone, terrified him.​
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