All Eyez on Me (film)
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| Directed by | Benny Boom |
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| Music by | John Paesano |
| Cinematography | Peter Menzies Jr. |
| Edited by | Joel Cox |
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Morgan Creek Productions
Program Pictures |
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Summit Entertainment Codeblack Films |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $45 million |
All Eyez on Me, originally titled Tupac, is an upcoming American biographical drama film about Tupac Shakur, directed by Benny Boom and written by Ed Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft. The film stars Demetrius Shipp, Jr. as Tupac and co-stars Danai Gurira, Lauren Cohan, Jamie Hector and Annie Ilonzeh. Principal photography began in mid-December 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. The film is scheduled to be released in North American theaters on Friday, June 16, 2017, on what would have been Tupac Shakur's 46th birthday.
The film focuses on the life and career of Tupac Shakur all the way to the fatal shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1996.
On February 10, 2011, it was announced that Morgan Creek Productions had developed and would finance and produce the rap legend Tupac Amaru Shakur's biopic titled Tupac, which would follow his life from growing up to his death.Antoine Fuqua was attached as the director of the film, and the script was from Steven Bagatourian, Stephen J. Rivele, and Christopher Wilkinson.James G. Robinson and David C. Robinson would produce the film along with Program Pictures' L.T. Hutton, and Tupac's mother Afeni Shakur as executive producer, with production scheduled to begin that summer. On September 19, 2013, Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films came on board to co-finance and co-produce the $45 million budgeted film along with Morgan Creek. Ed Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft were writing the latest draft of the film. On February 12, 2014, John Singleton again signed on to rewrite, direct and produce the film. On April 16, 2014, Open Road Films acquired the United States distribution rights to the film. Gonzalez, Haft, and Singleton wrote the latest draft of the script for the film, about Tupac's life from his growing up in East Harlem to becoming a legendary songwriter and hip-hop artist, to his death in Las Vegas at the age of 25. On April 7, 2015, it was revealed that Singleton exited the film due to some major creative differences, while Carl Franklin was being eyed to hold the direction duties. On October 28, 2015, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Emmett/Furla/Oasis had sued Morgan Creek over $10 million for breaking the companies co-production agreement signed in September 2013. In the agreement, terms were not to exceed the production budget above $30 million, mutual approval for the lead actor's selection, filming schedule, and distribution and sales agreements. Randall Emmett and George Furla also claimed that they all first signed a distribution deal with Open Road, which Morgan Creek rejected, and then Morgan Creek inked a new deal with Open Road without mutual approval.
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