Aretha Franklin's road to becoming a music icon was paved with heartache, and troubled times but she knew her voice had a place in this world. It was Franklin's wish that Jennifer Hudson play her ...

Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” is eternal. Anyone born after its release in 1967 might assume the song had existed since the Big Bang; it’s the kind of music that you cannot pinpoint hearing for the ...

The biopic is slated to hit theaters next year. If what you want is a first look at Jennifer Hudson portraying the Queen of Soul in the upcoming Aretha Franklin biopic "Respect," you got it! A ...

Aretha Franklin was one of our greatest artists, and Respect, the new movie about her early years, doesn't entirely avoid those biopic conventions.

Officially, “Respect” is a relationship song. That’s how Otis Redding wrote it. But love wasn’t what Aretha Franklin was interested in. The opening line is “What you want, baby, I got it ...

Marlon Wayans plays Ted White, Aretha Franklin's abusive first husband. Marc Maron plays Jerry Wexler, the producer behind some of her signature hits.

To Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin became much more than a music legend when the talk show host was preparing to play her idol in the 2021 biopic Respect. “You know, I didn’t realize how much ...

The show, Aretha: Respect, plays at the Kimmel Center from February 14-16 and will feature music from the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin.

A sneak peek of Jennifer Hudson's new movie, Aretha Franklin biopic "Respect," played at AMC River East Thursday night.

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Earnest to a fault, "Respect" spells out a handsome tribute to Aretha Franklin, with Jennifer Hudson and her peerless singing pipes as its formidable anchor. Yet this biography never fully sparks ...

The tag line for the latest biopic about an American icon reads: “Find out what it means.” Good luck with that. After more than two hours of the new messy Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect ...