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Variety is reporting that DiCaprio has signed on to star in a biopic of Nolan Bushnell, the creator of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese and long considered to be the founding father of the videogame industry.

Robinson’s story of breaking the color barrier in major league baseball is one of the most legendary stories in this country’s history (sports or otherwise), and now that story - the story of his life - is going to be brought to the big screen with ESPN and Robert Redford producing.

I don’t know if we have ever explored this here on FSR, but I am a huge — and I mean huge — space race junkie. Having made a few trips to the Smithsonian and a trip to the Kennedy Space Center in my life time, I can tell you that it is one of [...]

A few years back we got a film about a musician who over came great odds and family tragedy to become world renowned, well respected, a legend in his own lifetime. His life was not an easy one, it was fraught with drug abuse, infidelity, and just overall troubles, all despite his considerable music talent that connected with a legion of fans, and whose influence is felt to this day.

Does anyone else get the feeling that Elizabeth Banks is becoming the next Hollywood “It” girl? It began with her role in The 40-Year Old Virgin and has continued on to a lead role in Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and it will ultimately continue with her role as Laura Bush in Oliver Stone’s W, a biopic of current President George W. Bush.

Take a breath, Hollywood, and wait until the story is over to adapt it for the screen.

Since Jake Gyllenhaal is now in line to star as womanizing football Hall of Famer Joe Namath in an upcoming biopic, we’ve decided to make a few pitches to Hollywood for some other biopics that need makin’.