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EXCLUSIVE: Bohemian Rhapsody screenwriter Anthony McCarten has filed a breach of contract suit against Graham King and his GK Films for money owed on the 2018 Best Picture-nominated film about Queen and its iconic singer Freddie Mercury. The lawsuit hit today and shows a fascinating peek behind the curtain into what…

Freddie Mercury BBC Doc In The Works The final chapter of Freddie Mercury’s extraordinary life is to be told in a BBC2 doc from Putin: A Russian Spy Story producer Rogan Productions. Freddie Mercury: The Final Act comes 30 years after the Queen superstar died from complications of AIDS. The film follows the story from…

Universal Music Group has unearthed a brand new video from Queen singer Freddie Mercury and released it on Thursday. “Time Waits For No One” sees Mercury on stage at the Dominion Theatre in London, accompanied by keyboardist Mike Moran on piano. The song was originally recorded in April 1986 as part of a concept album…

The drums of “We Will Rock You” had Hollywood’s well-dressed elite on its feet from the opening beat, and “We Are the Champions” kept them smiling and head-bopping. Finally, a giant image of the late Freddie Mercury hovering over the stage got the crowd back to standing. The Oscars steered clear of topicality, snark…

Bohemian Rhapsody soars on the strength of a performance by Rami Malek, who got under the skin of iconic Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in a way that has made him the prohibitive favorite in the Oscar Best Actor race. The film chronicles the formation, rise, and adversity weathered by the band before its titanic 1985…

Adam Lambert finally confirmed his much-rumored, hiding-in-plain-sight cameo appearance in the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. If the bearded dude hanging out at a truck stop men’s room looked familiar, bingo. The former American Idol breakout and sometime Queen singer tweeted a photo of himself from the…

Controversy has swirled around the new movie Bohemian Rhapsody since before it went into production. Sacha Baron Cohen (who was attached to play Freddie Mercury at one time) griped about the authenticity of the script; director Bryan Singer was fired well into the filming; the first trailer was vilified on social…

"It goes on forever,” says an unamused record exec after listening to “six bloody minutes” of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the operatic, over-the-top tour de force that would become Freddie Mercury’s signature tune (and the name of the new biopic teased in this clip). “I pity your wife if you think six minutes is…

Fox has replaced Bryan Singer on Bohemian Rhapsody with Dexter Fletcher, the director of the films Eddie the Eagle and Wild Bill. Fletcher will resume production next week. There are about two weeks left on the film, unless Fletcher decides to reshoot scenes. The filmmaker will then oversee postproduction as Fox hopes…

UPDATED at 8:05 p.m. Singer’s Fox offices shut down:  Bryan Singer’s production company, Bad Hat Harry, will depart the Twentieth Century Fox lot. The director had a three-year first look deal with the studio that ended Oct. 31 and was not renewed. He was allowed to remain on the lot while finishing the Queen biopic Bo…

EXCLUSIVE: Aaron McCusker has been cast as Freddie Mercury’s lover Jim Hutton in 20th Century Fox's Bohemian Rhapsody, which is being directed by Bryan Singer. Hutton was a key figure in Mercury's life — a hairdresser and boyfriend who was with Mercury for the last six years of Queen frontman’s life. Hutton nursed him…

EXCLUSIVE: In what amounts to his second big-screen association with the Queen tune “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Mike Myers is negotiating for a role in the Bryan Singer-directed film about the seminal British rock band, with Mr. Robot's Rami Malek playing frontman Freddie Mercury. Justin Haythe (Red Sparrow, Revolutionary Roa…