Notorious B.I.G.'s Life to receive Silver Screen Treatment and The Daily Music and Tech News

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Author: Katharine Donelson — Published: Jul 20, 2005 at 8:05 pm 1 comment

Notorious B.I.G. to get big screen treatment. Fox Searchlight has hired the last journalist to interview Biggie, Cheo Hodari Coker to write the script. They are in negotiations with Antoine Fuqua to direct. Notorious B.I.G. was shot outside of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles in 1997 and his murder has never been solved. The film will be produced by former managers Mark Pitt and Wayne Barrow with his mother Violetta Wallace.

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Katharine Donelson is a student of Linguistics, Communication and Welsh. She currently lives with her formerly feral cat and spends her time learning Welsh vocabulary, listening to music, watching films, photographing the local scenery and maintaining her blog The Film Noir Experience. …

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  • 1 - Tan The Man

    Jul 21, 2005 at 2:16 am

    MTV still does Unplugged? I thought they abandonned live music?

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