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Film News Roundup: Aretha Franklin Biopic ‘Respect’ Pushed Back to Christmas

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In today’s film news roundup, Jennifer Hudson’s “Respect” is moved back two months, another film festival is postponed and “Lupin the Third: the First” and “Raising Buchanan” find distribution. RELEASE DATE MGM has moved the release date of Jennifer Hudson’s Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect” from Oct.

9 to late in the awards seasons with a limited Christmas Day debut. “Respect,” titled after Franklin’s 1967 hit, will expand Jan.

8 and go into wide release Jan. 15 at the start of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Hudson, who won a supporting actress Oscar for “Dreamgirls,” was personally selected for the role by Franklin before Franklin died in 2018 at the age of 76.

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