Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave Director, To Make Tupac Shakur Film

Academy Award-winning film-maker Steve McQueen is to direct a documentary about the life of Tupac Shakur. McQueen, who won an Oscar for 12 Years a Slave, has been signed up to make the film by the late hip-hop star’s family. Shakur, who was murdered in 1996, had only a five-year career but has sold more … Read more

Goldwyn To Tackle Real-Life ‘Scandal’ In Watergate Movie

Thirty-five years ago on Monday, Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign approved plans to bug Democratic Party offices at the Watergate complex, setting in motion the most notorious political scandal in US history. Five members of the covert “White House Plumbers” taskforce were arrested six weeks later burglarizing the building in Washington, and FBI agents established that … Read more