Like buddy holly decades earlier, aaliyah haughton perished in a plane crash at age 22. The madefortv film was produced for the lifetime cable network and aired in 2015. With alexandra shipp, elise neal, lyriq bent, morgan kelly. It was controversial because aaliyahs family objected to its production.
Nickelodeon star alexandra shipp, who replaced zendaya after she backed out of the film, now has her missy elliott and timbaland. After all, a lot of people idolized the rising star from her hometown of detroit to england. It was released on july 7, 2001, by blackground records and virgin records america aaliyah started to work on the album in 1998, but rescheduled its recording around her developing film career. Timbaland, fans blast lifetime for aaliyah biopic variety. But there was much more to aaliyah than choreographed dance moves, movie roles, and a celebrated voice. Saturday night saw the premiere of the latest addition to the lifetimemovie canon, aaliyah. Certainly her life and career contains stories worth telling, but the lifetime movie aaliyah. Alexandra was only a young girl when aaliyah was tragically. The story of music and video star aaliyah, whose life ended tragically in a 2001 plane crash in the bahamas. So advance controversy about the casting, among other things, can only benefit aaliyah. Ive not read the book, but i sincerely hope its more insightful than the movie. Support the guardian available for everyone, funded by readers. She might be well known to many of my readers, but i had never listened to her music before watching the film today. The controversial tv movie finally gets its premiere.
Lifetimes aaliyah biopic casts its missy elliott and. After months of anticipation and a major cast shakeup, lifetime has released the very first trailer for the networks upcoming biopic aaliyah. Before beyonce and rihanna, selfproclaimed street but sweet aaliyah was poised to become a global icon. The film premiered on the lifetime channel on november 15, 2014 and was met with criticism in its early stages of production due to aaliyahs familys disapproval of lifetimes choice to create the film. Having watched the recent biopic about the late singer aaliyah, miss o gives her impressions of the film and the reactions of other viewers. The film was met with an immense amount of backlash by the fans, close associates of the songstress, and provided an endless string of memes. We havent seen a movie get dragged this bad since mariah carey made her big debut in glitter. The biopic stars alexandra shipp as the young, ambitious singer and actress who spends her youth working toward stardom. More than a woman by christopher john farley, the film arrives on dvd and digital hd via lionsgate on march 10.
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