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 ...

Get on Up is a 2014 movie based on James Brown’s life starring the late Hollywood actor Chadwick Boseman. The film revolves around the struggles of James and how he rose to fame to be named the ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The Orpheum Theatre will pay tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman with a free screening of “Get On Up” on Sept. 9. The “Black Panther” star died from cancer on Aug. 28 at the age of 43. In his brief ...

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 ...