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...good job," says Muhammad Ali, who played himself in the awful 1977 biopic The Greatest. For this new movie, under the tutelage of director Michael Mann (The Insider), Smith prepared by studying Ali's Islamic faith and learning to box, training for nearly a year. The 33-year-old star added 30 lbs. of muscle to his lanky physique and transformed his body into a nearly perfect replica of the champ's when he was in fighting form. When this observation is shared with Ali, he pauses, then looks up from his drawing and, his eyes twinkling a bit, says...
...business partner, hooked up with producer Paul Ardaji. A friend and former advertising executive, Ardaji optioned the rights to the fighter's life, and the project eventually landed at Sony. The Alis maintained contractual control over the movie's basic story and met with all five writers (including Mann) who would work on the screenplay...
...instance, says analyst Joshua Mann ’00, fans of alternative musician Beck tend to appreciate Prince...
...Beck’s] whole popular image is derived from Prince,” Mann says. “We found that given exposure to both artists, people tend to like both. And they’re usually surprised...
...cast the versatile Sean Penn as the lead, the sassy Michelle Pfeiffer as his lawyer and an adorable little girl (Dakota Fanning) as Penn’s daughter. If that weren’t enough, Nelson fills the soundtrack with catchy Beatles tunes. (You may recently have heard Aimee Mann and Michael Penn’s Two of Us on the adult contemporary airwaves.) All of this adds up to a pop movie—an entertaining treatment of a formulaic story...