EXCLUSIVE: One Community, the film and TV co-financing company founded and led by Scott Budnick, today unveiled “In Session Talks,” an initiative inspired by the legacy of iconic performer and ...

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. When it came to encapsulating the epic life, ...

How to bring the Queen of Soul to the big screen with the right amount of glamour and, well, respect? Enter Clint Ramos, who is behind the costumes for the new film about Aretha Franklin, “Respect,” ...

Even well-worn notes can sound freshly resonant in the right hands. A new film about Franklin's early years doesn't entirely avoid biopic... Aretha Franklin Biopic Pays Proper 'Respect' To The Queen ...

*Aretha Franklin is an internationally adored American icon. It is a shame that her layered and complicated story was not brought to screens, big or small, within her lifetime…though the blame for ...

The world wept when the queen of soul Aretha Franklin passed in 2018, but — befitting an icon who sang timeless classics like “A Natural Woman” — her legend lives on. Respect, the Franklin biopic ...

“Aretha’s sound was all her own. But in the very early stages of her career, when she was doing the standards, she was not able to find her voice.” That’s Jennifer Hudson, star of the Aretha Franklin ...

Jennifer Hudson was discovered on “American Idol,” she won an Oscar in her very first film role in “Dreamgirls,” she’s a Tony away from EGOT status, and she landed a role of a lifetime as Aretha ...

To come up with the closing theme of the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect,” a dream team was assembled but had to work independently during the pandemic from L.A., Chicago, Nashville and even Idaho.

EXCLUSIVE: One Community, the film and TV co-financing company founded and led by Scott Budnick, today unveiled “In Session Talks,” an initiative inspired by the legacy of iconic performer and ...

To come up with the closing theme of the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect,” a dream team was assembled but had to work independently during the pandemic from L.A., Chicago, Nashville and even Idaho.