Drug lord Edgar Valdez, for one, admitted to financing a narco biopic about his life.
Sometimes those devices serve as witty parodies of the biopic genre, and make you smile.
The character was so popular that a biopic about Grossman is in the works.
He took what could have been a standard biopic and made a grand film about unity.
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What he surely won't fail to notice, though, is the gentle mockery that infuses Stone's biopic.
Currently, he is working on the script for a Freddie Mercury biopic starring Sacha Baron Cohen.
"I think this is the year of the biopic, " said Black List creator Franklin Leonard.
Dylan is also the subject of a biopic being made by Far From Heaven director Todd Haynes.
" Matthew Braga of Ars Technica wrote, invoking the oft-paraphrased line from Facebook biopic "The Social Network.
His next film, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a parody of music biopic genre, stars John C.
We are talking about baby mama drama part 75 and also about a new biopic of Biggie Smalls.
Little Miss Sunshine actor Paul Dano is to play Beach Boy star Brian Wilson in a forthcoming biopic.
"The Princely family wishes to emphasise that this film is by no means a biopic, " the statement said.
Lincoln, the biopic of the American president who helped to free the slaves, will soon be on general release.
The Experience Hendrix company said it had not "ruled out" a Hendrix biopic.
Darryl Hammer's contribution to the BBC Hitchcock biopic The Girl, starring Sienna Miller, earned her the best production design award.
For her first gig, in a Muhammad Ali biopic, she earned minimum wage playing a woman getting off a bus.
This now seems improbable, although Steve Jobs movie mania could well awake interest in a biopic of wunderkinds Brin and Page.
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It has been reported that Jerry Weintraub, who produced and appeared in Ocean's Eleven and its sequels, will produce the biopic.
Meanwhile, in the best documentary category, Bart Layton's thriller The Imposter is up against Kevin Macdonald's biopic of the reggae legend, Marley.
Well, here comes another mass-market biographical presentation not a biopic, but a bio picture book that may or may not set the record straight.
Case in point was my own recent encounter with a man who said he was developing the definitive biopic about Tupac Shakur.
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Join us next time for the debuts of 42 (aka the Jackie Robinson biopic) and Scary Movie 5 (aka Ashley Tisdale deserves better).
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Apart from the Simpson masterpiece, Louisiana recently has hosted the filming of Oscar-winning biopic Ray (about Ray Charles) and the thriller Skeleton Key.
Daniel Day-Lewis won his universally expected best-actor trophy for "Lincoln" the only prize out of 10 nominations for Steven Spielberg's historical biopic.
Spielberg, who was nominated but didn't win the directing Oscar for his biopic "Lincoln" this week, takes the reins from Italian Nanni Moretti.
It is the kind of studio programmer biopic that was once a standard issue release, and it is absolutely successful in its respective goals.
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Steven Spielberg has said that his Abraham Lincoln biopic will be released after the 2012 US presidential election to avoid it being "political fodder".
News of the Hefner biopic comes more than 15 years after a film about rival adult entertainment magnate Larry Flynt received two Oscar nominations.
But while Blanchett gives a stirring performance in the role, director Joel Schumacher cannot resist saddling his biopic with the usual Hollywood sentiment and bombast.
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