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Paramount’s Selma, Universal’s Get On Up and Lionsgate’s Dear White People are among the Outstanding Motion Picture nominees for the NAACP’s Image Awards, which will be bestowed live on TVOne on February 6. On the TV side, Shonda Rhimes’ ABC trifecta of Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder are all…

Veteran hair stylist Robert L. Stevenson has a clipping of a piece of fan art called "The Evolution of Samuel L. Jackson's Hair." He's very proud of it—a tribute to the many different styles he helped the actor create over 14 years of big-screen collaboration. "He was losing his hair at one point and said, 'If I just…

Star Chadwick Boseman and director Tate Taylor talk with Deadline’s Pete Hammond at our recent The Contenders event about making the James Brown biopic Get On Up. Boseman, in particular, shows his own magnetic personality in talking about playing the Godfather of Soul, one of music history’s most dynamic performers…

10th UPDATE, Monday 1:20 PM: Disney/Marvel’s intergalatic juggernaut Guardians Of The Galaxy ended up the weekend with $94.3M becoming one of the highest openers of 2014 and busting August records. Get On Up, Universal’s James Brown biopic, whose audience trended older had a curtain call of $13.5M despite its A…

Say it loud: It’s The Trailer — Part 2. Universal has issued the second look at its biopic starring 42‘s Chadwick Boseman as the Godfather of Soul. Get On Up follows James Brown from hardscrabble upbringing to jail to the stage to musical immortality. Octavia Spencer, Nelsan Ellis, Lennie James, Tika Sumpter, Jill…

“One day,” young James Brown’s aunt tells him, “everybody gonna know your name.” And so it was. Universal has dropped the first trailer for its biopic on the Godfather of Soul. Chadwick Boseman segues from playing Jackie Robinson in 42 to channeling another American legend in Get On Up. Octavia Spencer plays his Aunt…

Tika Sumpter has joined the cast of Universal’s James Brown biopic Get On Up. She will play Yvonne Fair, a singer in the James Brown Revue who recorded Brown’s “I Found You,” which later was reworked into his classic “I Got You (I Feel Good).” Tate Taylor is directing the pic, which stars Chadwick Boseman as the…

Fox‘s Walking With Dinosaurs 3D has added a quartet of thesps to its voice cast. John Leguizamo joins the BBC Earth production as the Alexomis bird Alex, with Justin Long leads a trio of Pachyrhinosauruses as Patchi, Alex’s symbiotic host pal. Tiya Sircar will voice Juniper and Skyler Stone will voice Scowler rounding…

EXCLUSIVE: Nelsan Ellis has been set to play Bobby Byrd, James Brown's longtime friend and musical collaborator in the Tate Taylor-directed Get On Up for Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures. Imagine's Brian Grazer is producing with Jagged Films' Mick Jagger. It’s a big role in the film behind Brown, who’s…

Universal Pictures said today it will release Tate Taylor‘s James Brown movie Get On Up on October 17, 2014. The dating comes after Monday’s news that 42 star Chadwick Boseman has been tapped to play The Godfather of Soul. The pic charts a young boy's rise from extreme poverty and violence to become one of the most…