She was a regular on the nickelodeon show house of anubis and will play the title role in the lifetime tv movie aaliyah. Wendy williams isnt letting the haters get her down. Lifetime has released the first teaser from its highly anticipated aaliyah biopic. The 16second clip, which was posted on the networks.
Aaliyah was a fabulous singer and dancer, how could lifetime attempt to make a movie about her life and exclude her hits and not include more dancing and singing in it. Instead of digging deep and edifying audiences about segments of. Zendaya coleman explains why she quit lifetimes aaliyah movie. My life has never quite recovered from their attempt at the aaliyah story.
Timbaland, fans blast lifetime for aaliyah biopic variety. 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. Lifetimes aaliyah biopic is the laughingstock of the internet there was a video here lifetimes stiff treatment of the life of aaliyah haughton, aaliyah. American actress and singer alexandra shipp, stars in lifetime biopic, aaliyah. The story of music and video star aaliyah, whose life ended tragically in a 2001 plane crash in the bahamas. The film is based on christopher john farleys aaliyah. Clearly, this lifetime movie was not an ideal way to service her memory. That particular movie was so bad in casting, thought, mind and deed that while watching the movie with all of social media, when aaliyah showed up dating a person nobody knew, twitter spent considerable time trying. New episodes fridays at 98c watch family followups now.
The family wanted no part of it, cast members were dropping out left and right wendy williams very involvement basically doomed this thing from the start. Shipp joined the film late, taking on the role after zendaya. Wendy williams is proud of her aaliyah lifetime movie. Alexandra shipp stars as aaliyah in the allnew lifetime original movie, aaliyah. Timbaland slams bullst lifetime aaliyah movie with. Storm over tv film on aaliyah shows shes still beloved. The story of music and video star aaliyah, whose life ended tragically in a 2001 plane. The actor playing young aaliyah is the only one who even remotely studied her character.
Lifetimes aaliyah movie is as bad as you expected it to. The film premiered on the lifetime channel on november 15, 2014 and was met. Following her movie success, aaliyah moves to new york city where she. The good news is that it executes those expectations flawlessly. Lifetime is basing its movie on the bestselling biography, aaliyah.
Following its whitney houston biopic announcement, lifetime has announced that it is also planning aaliyah movie starring disney channel star. With alexandra shipp, elise neal, lyriq bent, morgan kelly. On saturday, lifetime will air its aaliyah biopic, aaliyah. Lifetimes aaliyah biopic should never have been made. Aaliyahs family announced later this summer, when it was clear the lifetime movie would go forward, that the family was negotiating a deal to make its own bigscreen biopic, possibly starring b.
Watch your favorite lifetime movies, commercialfree. Aaliyah biopic coming to lifetime a movie about aaliyah, who died in a plane crash in 2001, is expected on the lifetime channel this fall. For all the accomplishments that filled aaliyahs tragically short life, theres not much, dramatically speaking, upon which to hang a movie even a. Lifetimes stiff treatment of the life of aaliyah haughton, aaliyah. This world focuses so much on negativity, and this movie has none of it, she says. She mastered every last gesture from the star search clip in a way that gave us just enough hope that the film wouldnt be a total mess. The lifetime television cable network will soon release a movie on the life story of aaliyah, the singer and actress of the 90s who lost her life at just 22yearsold in a plane crash.
After disney star zendaya coleman quit aaliyah amid a cloud of controversy aaliyahs family, for one, didnt want lifetime to do the biopic in the first place, lifetime announced that they. Aaliyah and seven other people, including the pilot, were believed to have died instantly, while a ninth passenger died later at a bahamian hospital. As the executive producer of lifetimes controversial aaliyah biopic, which premiered on nov. The film was then shelved for nearly five years until lifetime picked it up. Timbaland continued to put up posts throughout the night criticizing the film, and fans of aaliyah, who died at 22 in 2001, also took to twitter to.
Along with her rise to stardom, the film also explores aaliyahs relationship with singer r. Phoenix native alexandra shipp plays aaliyah in tv movie. From the very start of the project, lifetime had issues with aaliyahs familys objections about the film. Lifetime presents a biopic of a singer who had it all. Aaliyah at your best you are love official video duration. The controversial tv movie finally gets its premiere based on christopher john farleys book aaliyah. Zendaya wont play aaliyah in lifetime tv movie after all. Lifetimes aaliyah biopic is the laughingstock of the internet. If were to believe the movie, it was always aaliyah never a famehungry momager or. Seriously, give it up for kamaia fairburngrant, the little girl playing 10yearold aaliyah. The lifetime network doesnt have the best track record when it comes to black biopics. No one is more aware of that than the producers of aaliyah. Since her passing, controversy has surrounded the use and manipulation of her material by artists like drake and chris brown, who have jumped on unreleased aaliyah tracks to add verses and have copped her voice for their own respective songs.
Lifetime had said that the tentative title of the movie was aaliyah. Lifetimes tvmovie about late singer aaliyah received widespread disdain on twitter fans critiqued the casting, which they felt was all. Lifetimes aaliyah movie is as bad as you expected it to be complex. Before beyonc and rihanna, selfproclaimed street but sweet aaliyah was poised to become a global icon. L ifetime will air their muchmaligned aaliyah biopic, aaliyah. Check out the full movie at and movie photos below. Aaliyah biopic starring zendaya in the works at lifetime. Lets just face facts lifetimes aaliyah biopic, aaliyah. Aaliyah was a gogetter, and lifetime made sure that was apparent. Aaliyahs lifetime movie will soon be on tv guardian.
Everything i liked about lifetimes terrible aaliyah movie. Much like the 22yearolds legacy, the lifetime movie aaliyah. Twitter was not happy with lifetimes aaliyah biopic. Aaliyah, who died at the age of 22 in august 2001, was the subject of lifetimes aaliyah.
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