Many artist biopics celebrate their subjects. “Get On Up” doesn’t make it that simple. In the best scene from Tate Taylor‘s biopic of James Brown with Chadwick Boseman as the Godfather of Soul, Brown ...

Get on Up is a 2014 movie based on James Brown’s life starring the late Hollywood actor Chadwick Boseman. The film revolves around the struggles of James and how he rose to fame to be named the ...

“Get on Up” director Tate Taylor pays tribute to actor Chadwick Boseman, who died Aug. 28 of colon cancer at age 43. Chadwick and I were on our way to Augusta, Georgia to meet James Brown’s family. We ...

Released in 2014, Get on Up attempted to repeat the successes of the biopics Ray and Walk The Line, turning the story of a musical icon into box office gold and bag an award or two in the process. The ...

In a desperate bid for a better life, a young James Brown (Chadwick Boseman) breaks into a car to steal a suit, leading to an arrest that lands him behind bars. It is a gorgeously somber sequence that ...

At the beginning of the James Brown biopic, Get On Up, a strung-out Brown (Chadwick Boseman) walks into an insurance seminar in 1988 with a shotgun and causes a scene because someone used his private ...

"He stayed in character not because that was his method," Tate Taylor writes in a new tribute, "but because he became James Brown." As Taylor explains it, Boseman stayed in character as James Brown ...

Biopics, especially musical biopics, are both an easy sell and a tough nut to crack. Like the most resilient of sub-genres, the formula is so tried and true that to stray from it is to avoid what is ...

Among his legendary roles as T’Challa in Black Panther and Jackie Robinson in 42, Chadwick Boseman also played “Get Up Offa That Thing” singer James Brown in Get on Up. The actor tragically passed ...