A fan-shot documentary about rocker Bruce Springsteen will screen in cinemas around the world on July 22.

Produced by Ridley Scott Associates and directed by music video director Baillie Walsh, Springsteen & I is a retrospective look at The Boss' 40-year career in music and comprises previously unseen fan-shot performance footage.

"This beautifully crafted film allows us a unique and powerful insight into the relationship between a recording artist and the impact he has on those who connect so profoundly with his music," Scott wrote in a statement on the film's website.

The film was produced with the support of Springsteen, Columbia Records and his management. Arts Alliance Media is handling the release. Full information and ticket info will be announced on June 4.

This year is the 40th anniversary of Springsteen’s debut  album Greetings From Asbury Park, the 30th anniversary of his classic Born In The USA album.

Watch the trailer for Springsteen & I here.

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Vibe reports that the "Diamonds" singer is production company Noosa Films' "first-choice" to fill the leading role.

"Rihanna is one of the most talented performers of this millennium," producer W. Lance Reynolds said in a statement. "With her unique acting and performing abilities, I have no doubt she will bring Josephine back to life on the big screen."

Born in 1905, Baker was a singer, dancer, activist and spy. She was also the first black woman to star in major Hollywood feature.

Rihanna made her movie debut in 2012's Battleship and will appear in the forthcoming comedy This Is The End alongside Seth Rogan, James Franco and Paul Rudd.

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Kanye West has filmed a cameo for Anchorman: The Legend Continues.

Hollywood.com reports that the hip-hop star was spotted on the Atlanta set this week alongside Paul Rudd and Christina Appelgate. The cast and crew were shooting in Woodruff Park and on a rooftop. According to a source, West "was quite afraid of heights and required an umbrella for shade most of the time he was on the roof."

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Songs from the Jay-Z's soundtrack for The Great Gatsby have been trickling out for the past few weeks but now the whole thing is available to stream online via NPR.

Some noteworthy songs include Beyoncé' and Andre 300's polarizing cover of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black," Jack White's cover of U2's "Love Is Blindness," and a new Jay-Z song called "$100 Bill."

The Great Gatsby soundtrack is due out on May 7. Check out the full track list below:

1. "100$ Bill" - Jay-Z
2. "Back to Black" - Beyoncé & André 3000
3. "Bang Bang" - Will.i.am
4. "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)" - Fergie, Q Tip & GoonRock
5. "Young and Beautiful" - Lana Del Rey
6. "Love Is the Drug" - Bryan Ferry with The Bryan Ferry Orchestra
7. "Over the Love" - Florence + The Machine
8. "Where the Wind Blows" - Coco O. of Quadron
9. "Crazy in Love" - Emeli Sandé and the Bryan Ferry Orchestra
10. "Together" – The xx
11. "Hearts a Mess" - Gotye
12. "Love Is Blindness" – Jack White
13. "Into the Past" - Nero
14. "Kill and Run" - Sia

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Nicki Minaj is in talks to make her live-action feature film debut opposite Cameron Diaz in The Other Woman, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Nick Cassavetes-directed comedy will also star Leslie Mann, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Kate Upton. It's about a woman (Diaz) who discovers she is the other woman in a relationship and teams up with the wife (Mann) of her lover (Coster-Waldau) and another one of his mistresses (Upton) to exact revenge.

The rapper and American Idol judge would play the outspoken assistant to Diaz's character, who works in a law firm.

She previously voiced Steffie the mammoth in the animated feature, Ice Age 4: Continental Drift.

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Filmmaker Asif Kapadia is working on a documentary feature about late British soul singer Amy Winehouse.

Reuters reports that the film will contain previously unseen footage of the "Back to Black" star, who died in 2011 at age 27 from alcohol poisoning.

"Amy was a once-in-a-generation talent who captured everyone's attention. She wrote and sung from the heart and everyone fell under her spell," Kapadia and producer James Gay-Rees said in a statement. "But tragically, Amy seemed to fall apart under the relentless media attention, her troubled relationships, her global success and precarious lifestyle. As a society, we celebrated her huge success, but then we were quick to judge her failings when it suited us."

Focus Features is planning to shop the film, which does not yet have a title, to buyers during the Cannes Film Festival in May.

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The trailer for a feature film biopic about the life of Jeff Buckley has hit the web.

Greetings From Tim Buckley stars Gossip Girl actor Penn Badgley as the late singer-songwriter. The story traces Buckley's life as he prepares for a 1991 tribute concert for his estranged musician father, a show that would become his break-out performance.

Buckley later rose to fame after the release of his acclaimed 1994 studio album Grace, which featured his starmaking cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." He drowned to death in 1997 at age 30.

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Rocker Lenny Kravitz has dropped out of a feature film biopic about the life of Marvin Gaye, Deadline reports.

Instead, Law & Order actor Jesse L. Martin is now slated to star as the Motown legend in the Julien Temple-directed Sexual Healing, which is due to begin production later this month in Europe.

Shortly after producers announced Kravitz would play the lead role last year, Gaye's son, Marvin Gaye III, denounced the casting as "shameful" and said he and his family would consult lawyers in order to shut down production.

"The producers and directors of this film are very wrong and shameful," he said in an interview with TMZ. "[They're] trying to do a film about a low period in his life. They don't even know the whole story."

Gaye III, a long-time friend of Kravitz's, added: "I would hope [Lenny] doesn't have any idea that we are against this film being done."

Producers previously tapped Martin to star as Gaye in a James Gandolfini-produced version of Sexual Healing five years ago. The story focuses on the time soul singer-songwriter spent in Europe in the early 1980s trying to beat his addictions before he was fatally shot by his father in Los Angeles in 1984.

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A movie about David Bowie (pictured) and Iggy Pop's collaborations in 1970s West Berlin is in development, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Tentatively entitled Lust For Life, the film will be directed by Gabriel Range (Death of a President) and based on a screenply by Robin French. It chronicles the period in the late 1970s when the two stars relocated to the divided city of West Berlin and recorded Pop's solo albums Idiot and Lust For Life and Bowie's Low.

"[Lust for Life] is not a traditional rock biopic, for no one dies at the end," producer Egoli Tossell said in a statement.

Bowie recently returned to his Berlin period in"Where Are We Now?", the lead single from his forthcoming album The Next Day. The song is full of lyrical references to the city and its music video is set in an artist's studio that appears to be based on Bowie's apartment in Berlin.

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HBO has released the trailer for Phil Spector, its upcoming TV movie about the murder trial of the legendary music producer.

Written and directed by David Mamet, the film stars Al Pacino (pictured) in the title role and focuses on Spector's 2003 trial and conviction for the murder of b-movie actress Lana Clarkson. Helen Mirron co-stars as Spector's defense attorney.

Judging from the trailer, viewers can expect an array of wild wigs and a typically ferocious moments The Godfather actor is known for. ("First time you got felt up, guess what? You were listening to one of my songs!")

Phil Spector will premiere on HBO on March 24. Watch the trailer here.

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