Straight Outta Hollywood: how hip-hop saved the biopic - The Guardian

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Straight Outta Hollywood: how hip-hop saved the biopic The Guardian Sure, some are well done (Control and I'm Not There come to mind), but this type of film has never been particularly successful. Until fairly recently only one – Walk the Line, about Johnny Cash – grossed more than $100m (£77.3m) at the box office. Let ...