Sean 'Diddy' Combs auditioned to play James Brown in the biopic 'Get on Up,' a witness in his trial revealed. He lost the ...

“Get on Up,” a safe biopic about Godfather of Soul James Brown, doesn’t do either. Played with impressive validity and agility by Chadwick Boseman (“42”), the legend (who died in ...

When director Tate Taylor called on costume designer Sharen Davis to suit up his cast for the energetic “Get On Up,” a biopic of soul singer James Brown that covers multiple decades ...

Chadwick Boseman as James Brown hits the high notes of known songs in "Get on Up." Chadwick Boseman is James Brown in "Get On Up." It would be glib to call “Get on Up” soulless. Chadwick ...

The new James Brown biopic "Get On Up" is certainly hardest working biopic in show business - at least it feels that way, with all of the narrative fluidity and firecracker performances - but it's ...

One of the most influential musicians of all time, master of the funk, James Brown. Get On Up, a movie about Brown, has been one film I have been looking forward to for quite some time ...

James Brown was all about the groove, but the film of his life never finds its own. What is "Get On Up" trying to be? A Southern memory play, full of melancholy ghosts? A hip, break-the-fourth ...

According to the testimony of his former assistant under the pseudonym “Mia,” he once auditioned to portray James Brown in the 2014 biopic Get on Up. The role ultimately went to Chadwick Boseman. The ...

Get On Up' star said he worked five to eight hours a day with a choreographer. — -- When Chadwick Boseman was approached about taking on the complicated, soulful, split-loving role of James ...

These two young men are that good. The performance pieces in Get On Up, whether at The Apollo, or in the bar where James meets Little Richard are, for the most part, engrossing and in some cases ...

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 ...