Edgar" (Nov. 9), Clint Eastwood's bio-pic about the longtime F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover.
EL CANTANTE A bio-pic about the late salsa singer Hector Lavoe, starring Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez, directed by Leon Ichaso.
PIERREPOINT Adrian Shergold directed this bio-pic, about the last hangman of Great Britain.
"Leadbelly," his bio-pic about the legendary blues musician, has a truly sexy and liberated black character.
"Black Mass" (Sept . 18 is a bio-pic about the Boston mobster Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp), who, in the nineteen-seventies, became an informant for the F.B.I.
10), directed by David O. Russell, is a bio-pic about the welterweight champion Mickey Ward, starring Mark Wahlberg as the boxer and Christian Bale as the half brother who trained him.
WHAT WE DO IS SECRET A bio-pic about the L.A. punk band the Germs, directed by Rodger Grossman and starring Shane West, Bijou Phillips, Rick Gonzalez, and Noah Segan.
Davis and Tennon have also commissioned a bio-pic, about the politician and civil-rights leader Barbara Jordan (with a script by the playwright Tony Kushner).
On deck for S.S.S. Pictures: "Ingrid," a bio-pic about the Swedish cinema legend Ingrid Bergman, starring the nineteen-year-old newcomer Anngärd Nyström.
MOLIÈRE A bio-pic about the playwright, the details of whose life are surprisingly sparse; whole years are unaccounted for in the historical record, which gives the director, Laurent Tirard, considerable license in laying out a series of imaginary escapades.
