*Aretha Franklin is an internationally adored American icon. It is a shame that her layered and complicated story was not brought to screens, big or small, within her lifetime…though the blame for ...

MGM’s Respect earned $1.05 million (-71%) on Friday for a likely $3.29 million (-63%) weekend and $15.26 million ten-day cume. That’s a brutal drop for a film that cost way too much ($55 million).

The film does create a through-line of Aretha’s “demon” or her psychological problems stemming back to a childhood trauma that she experienced. I don’t believe that Franklin ever talked about this ...

Welcome to another episode of Deadline’s Scene 2 Seen Podcast. Today’s guest is Liesl Tommy, the director and executive producer of the 2021 Aretha Franklin biopic Respect which stars Jennifer Hudson, ...