'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 ...

"Get on Up" was produced by Mick Jagger, who joined Boseman and other stars from the film for the Apollo premiere. Watch the video above to see Jagger and the stars together on the red carpet.

“Get on Up” also deals with the biographical specifics. As a kid in South Carolina, Brown’s mother (Viola Davis) leaves him to his abusive father, and in extreme poverty.

Biopics are always risky, especially when their subjects are as famous as Brown. “Get On Up,” lasting a long two hours and 18 minutes, can’t touch the star it tries to represent.

“Get On Up” goes with the one that has Byrd’s family offering the incarcerated minor a home after Byrd meets Brown during a prison performance of his gospel group.

“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 2006 ...

"Get On Up" certainly has a unique energy all of its own, one fueled by its predictably catchy, grooving soundtrack of Brown’s hits and its lead performances.

Watch a clip from the film "Get on Up," starring Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, and Dan Aykroyd. Photo/Video: Universal Before and after everything else, "Get On Up" is about the transformative ...

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 ...

“Get on Up” covers many key moments of the singer’s adult life, including his decision to put his own money into the hugely successful “Live at the Apollo” album after no one else ...