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Topic: biopics

Brian Tyree Henry (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Henry talks "Fire Inside" and "Atlanta"

D. Watkins
Taron Egerton as Elton John in "Rocketman" (Paramount Pictures)

"Rocketman" won't go breakin' your heart

Erin Keane
Salma Hayek (Getty/Chris Delmas)

Weinstein extorted Hayek into sex scene

Rachel Leah
Hugh Hefner; Jared Leto (Star Max/Goodwin/AP/Andy Kropa)

Jared Leto to play Hefner in biopic

Gabriel Bell
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Jordan Peele; Spike Lee (Getty/Matt Winkelmeyer/Netflix/Erika Goldring)

Spike Lee's "Black Klansman"

Rachel Leah
Freddie Mercury; Rami Malek (AP/Getty/Pascal Le Segretain)

Malek's Freddy Mercury stuns

Gabriel Bell
Felicity Jones; Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Getty/Stuart C. Wilson/Alex Wong)

Felicity Jones snags RBG role

Matthew Rozsa
Rebecca Hall as Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Bella Heathcote as Olive Byrne in "Professor Marston & the Wonder Women" (Annapurna Pictures)

Wonder Woman's kinky origin

Gabriel Bell
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James Franco as Tommy Wiseau in "The Disaster Artist" (A24)

See Franco as Tommy Wiseau

Matthew Rozsa
Shia LaBeouf and Sverrir Gudnason in "Borg vs. McEnroe" (Nordisk Film)

See LaBeouf as John McEnroe

Matthew Rozsa
Mark Twain; Val Kilmer (AP/Mark Humphrey)

Val Kilmer as Mark Twain!

Matthew Rozsa
Don Cheadle in "Miles Ahead" (Sony Pictures Classics)

Don Cheadle on Miles, racism

Andrew O'Hehir
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Prachi Gupta

Prachi Gupta

Golden Years: Bowie & Iggy

Kera Bolonik
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