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Tells the tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and re-imagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.

Robert F. Kennedy transforms from the younger brother in the shadow brother President John F Kennedy to a strong national leader in his own right before he is gunned down in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel.

The story centers on the true story of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi, who was assasinated in 1984.

Feminist, journalist and activist Gloria Steinem becomes a galvanizing symbol for equality via surprising encounters along the road that help shape her.

Musical biopic of Nat King Cole, one of the most popular and influential musicians of all time.

Betty Robinson sets an unofficial world record in the 100-meter at the age of 16. At the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, running in just her fourth official 100-meter race, Robinson wins gold — the first gold medal awarded to a woman in track and field at the Olympics. In 1931, tragedy strikes when Robinson is involved in a terrible plane crash. It takes her two years to learn to walk again, and, incredibly, she is able to make the U.S. team for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

During the height of the Watergate scandal, rising star Hillary Rodham is the youngest lawyer chosen for the House Judiciary Committee to Impeach Nixon, but she soon finds herself forced to choose between a destined path to the White House and her unresolved feelings for Bill Clinton, her former boyfriend who now teaches law in Arkansas.

The story centers on the rise and fall of entrepreneur John DeLorean. After his arrest in 1982, DeLorean presses a defense that he was entrapped by the FBI and is eventually acquitted. Still, his company goes bankrupt after producing only 9,000 automobiles.

Sam Phillips is a pioneer in the music industry during the 1950s as a producer helps launch the careers of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.

In post-WWII 1945 Paris, right before the onset of the Cold War and communist witch hunting, Ingrid Bergman and war photographer Robert Capa have a torrid, clandestine romance. Capa, who fearlessly covered with his camera the Normandy invasion and other battles, becomes the catalyst for Bergman's self-awakening.

Follows Steve McQueen's life from humble beginnings in the Midwest to the pinnacle of Hollywood and ultimately to his untimely death at the age of 50 in Mexico. Also features the meeting and issues that evolved between McQueen and Charles Manson.

The project will primarily chronicle Steve McQueen's Hollywood career, which began in 1956 when the Indiana native got his break in the film Somebody Up There Likes Me. The book, which was published in paperback in October, also delves into McQueen's offscreen penchant for motorcycles, fast cars and drugs.

An immigrant white kid from Macedonia moves to the most dangerous neighborhood in Detroit at the height of gang violence in the 1970s. He befriends two of Detroit's most wanted drug lords, and just when he feels he's starting to fit in, he becomes a witness to a horrific crime that shatters his American dream and the life he loved in Detroit.

A big-screen adaptation of football coach Barry Switzer's memoir about coaching at Oklahoma University and the NFL's Dallas Cowboys

Colonel Tom Parker, né Andreas van Kuijk, arrives in America as a 20-year old undocumented Dutch immigrant in 1929. Parker, a Svengali-like manager, builds Elvis Presley into a global music and film star, and takes 50% of all his earnings.

Marco Pierre White has a tumultuous childhood upbringing before becoming a rock star chef in 1980s London.

A biopic based on the true story of South African-born British Olympian and former world champion athlete Precious McKenzie.