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 ...

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 ...

The son of Brown's manager and the head of his former agency say what really happened. By Hilary Lewis Deputy Editor, East Coast Allen says that the film inaccurately suggests that Brown took the lead ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Production and costume designers lead Billboard through the film's many times and places. By Phil Gallo, Billboard Hopper photographed Brown on tour the same year the Godfather of Soul released his ...

As The Esquires prepare to be inducted into the (WAMI) Hall of Fame in April, Justin Brown looks at the band's breakthrough hit, "Get On Up." See the current lineup of the group next week at Linnemann ...

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 ...