Biopic News

Dolemite Is My Name director Craig Brewer has been tapped to helm the biopic of Snoop Dogg. Produced by the artist himself, along with Brian Grazer and Death Row Pictures president Sara Ramaker, the film will trace how Calvin Broadus Jr. became Snoop Doggy Dogg. Jonathan Daviss will play the lead in the as yet untitled film that marks the first project under Death Row Pictures’ overall deal with NBCUniversal.

Back in 2023, SS Rajamouli declared his intention to make a film about pioneering Indian filmmaker Dadasaheb Phalke. Now Rajkumar Hirani, who previously wrote and directed the biopic Sanju, has announced that his upcoming film Made In India will star Aamir Khan as the father of Indian cinema. Dadasaheb Phalke has previously been portrayed by Nandu Madhav in both Harishchandrachi Factory and Celluloid.

The cast for Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles biopic has been announced. With each film telling the band’s story from one member’s point of view, the biopics will star Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr. With all four films set to be released in April 2028, Mendes has dubbed the event as “the first bingeable theatrical experience”.