“So relax and look for the formal announcement soon and actual promotion to start coming out,” he concluded.
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This was no regular movie so you’ve been hearing about it since we started.”Īccording to Santana, the movie isn’t behind schedule. “Because it was Tupac a lot of buzz was created word of mouth even while we were filming which usually doesn’t happen until a movie is about to come out. We’re all anxious for it to come out but people gotta remember it’s a major film and there’s a lot of process to releasing major films,” he said in a post Monday. In an Instagram video posted by the Shade Room on Monday, Hutton told a crowd of people that “All Eyez On Me” will be in theaters on June 16.Īctor Dominic Santana, who will play Suge Knight in the film, also confirmed the release date and explained to fans why it was taking so long for the movie to drop. Hutton told fans at a recent event that the film will be released next year on the slain rapper’s birthday. After announcing last week that the movie wouldn’t be hitting theaters on Nov. Just majorly disappointed.The Tupac Shakur biopic, “ All Eyez On Me,” finally has a release date. In the seven days since the release of the 2Pac biopic All Eyez on Me, it’s gone through some shit.Not only has Jada Pinkett Smith flat-out denied that portions of the film happened in real life. As for the people banking on Tupac getting his own Straight Outta Compton-level movie, well – we ain’t mad at cha, All Eyez on Me. It’s biopic-making by numbers, and for anyone happy enough to simply see Shakur get the sinner-saint screen treatment, maybe that’s enough. This is a movie that’s content to superficially scroll through hits and misses and headlines without diving deeper.
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Tupac rapped about shooting his enemies and sleeping with their wives he also sang that “even as a crack fiend, Mama/you always was a black queen, Mama.” Any attempt at contextualizing why or how that mix of in-your-faceĪggression and sensitive hood journalism came from the same place gets buried under sloppy Which, for those of us who’ve been waiting for this for a long time, is a major letdown. Santana) enters stage right and we start slouching towards tragedy, All Eyez on Me already feels like it’s been looking at its subject with one eye closed. Or questionably staging an encounter with Ayanna Jackson, who’d accuse the musician of sexual assault, like a slo-mo R&B video. If he doesn’t quite have the star power that the real Tupac did, the actor does have screen presence to spare.Īnd when the movie briefly allows Shipp to get onstage and drop a few verses, you wish it hadn’t skimped on the actual musical aspects in favor of half-baked attempts at pathos involving Shakur’s mother Afeni ( The Walking Dead‘s Danai Gurira.) Or having a didactic journalist (Hill Harper) play devil’s advocate with an imprisoned Shakur over everything from rap lyrics to responsibility, social consciousness to C. He does his best to convince you that this was a man who was deeply conflicted about whether to start a movement or just keep sipping the Moët. Even when director Benny Boom and a trio of screenwriters keep weighing him down with dramatic dead weight, Shipp keeps his head up. Never mind that he bears an uncanny resemblance to the late Shakur what’s impressive is how he manages to nail the rap star’s rage and swagger, the street smarts and the crazy-sexy-cool vibe. You want the movie equivalent of “Hit ‘Em Up.” You get something that would’ve been deemed unfit for Loyal to the Game.ĭon’t blame Demetrius Shipp Jr., the newcomer who nabbed the Tupac role.
is a real sense of what made Shakur so vital – then and now – or any idea why we superfans and stans still rightfully look at his work as a hip-hop high point.
As a bonus, you also get characters who exist solely to spout exposition and/or infomercial taglines (“Well, Interscope was founded as a haven for artistic expression!”) and the sort of clunky, nuance-free filmmaking that keeps pushing the Camp-o-meter into the red. Less a biopic than a pop-up Wikipedia page, All Eyez on Me covers the bases of Shakur’s story: the early schooling in Shakespeare and militant sloganeering, the formative mistrust of authority, his big break with the Digital Underground, the discovery of his voice, the near-derailment due to his shooting and scandals and incarceration, and the self-destructive free-for-all of the Death Row years.
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