Soundstage: Morrissey Fanatics, Jamie Foxx, Fred Durst and Ice Cube on the Big Screen
August 23, 2007, 03:14 AM
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Welcome to Rock Daily’s new column tracking rock on the big screen. Stay tuned so you don't miss the next Walk the Line, The Doors or, yes, Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
Stalker alert: A film about the fan culture surrounding Smiths leader Morrissey titled Passions Just Like Mine has just completed filming. According to Urbancowgirlproductions.com, the feature-length documentary “tells the story of how fan culture can manifest itself. ” Cameras follow Moz fanatics to Morrissey conventions and tribute shows as the filmmakers atempt to explain how people became completely obsessed with the singer. Sounds kind of disturbing to us. Check out a clip
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Oscar-buzz alert: Ray's Jamie Foxx has signed on to star in another music biopic, The Soloist. Directed by Pride and Prejudice's Joe Wright, Fox plays musical prodigy, Nathaniel Ayers, who developed schizophrenia during his second year at Juilliard and ended up on the streets of Los Angeles, where he played violin and cello for passersby under what he believed to be the protection of the spirit of Beethoven. Ayers got the public’s attention through a twelve-part series written by Steve Lopez in 2005 for the LA Times. Foxx, who has already mastered the piano, is being taught stringed instruments by a cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Ice Cube (again) alert: The MC and Fred Durst just signed on to begin shooting Comeback, an inspirational football drama based on a true story. Cube will star in the film — playing a former high school football star who takes his niece under his wing as she becomes the first female quarterback in Pop Warner football history — as well as produce, while Limp Bizkit's Durst will direct. Of course, this isn’t Durst's first time in the director’s chair; he debuted his directorial skills in The Education of Charlie Banks. We applaud his efforts to stay behind the camera, rather than in front of it.
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Soundstage: Morrissey Fanatics, Jamie Foxx, Fred Durst and Ice Cube on the Big Screen
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