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

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 ...

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 ...

At 2 hours and 18 minutes, the James Brown biopic “Get On Up” runs exactly two hours longer than the knockout YouTube clip of the real Mr. Dynamite performing up a storm in 1964’s “The T.A ...

He says that he was able to play the roles because the families of both Brown and Robinson have given him their thumbs up and blessings. "Get on Up" was produced by Mick Jagger, who joined Boseman ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

DETROIT (WWJ) – This is sure to come as a surprise to a large number of people, so let me start my review by getting this out of the way now: "Get On Up" does an excellent job chronicling the ...