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Between the premiere of his new movie, Oz The Great and Powerful, receiving his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and defending the artistic merit of explicit gay sex to Australian film censors, we think everyone can agree that it's been a very busy month so far for James Franco in front of the spotlight!

However, this past weekend, the actor decided to focus on a project that allowed him to take a step behind-the-scenes, and was spotted hard at work on the El Lay set of the new film he's DIRECTING, called Bukowski, which focuses on the formative years of the iconic writer, which were complicated with an abusive father, alcoholism, and disfiguring acne!

Yeah! Heavy sh-t!

Kind of fitting, then, that such heavy material would be complimented by a pretty rare bad weather day in SoCal, right?

Ch-ch-check out James as he braved the elements with just a thick sweater, cap and coffee, all for the sake of his art (above)!

[Image via AKM-GSI.]

Tags: bad weather, biopic, bukowski, charles bukowski, development, director, formative years, gay sex, hollywood walk of fame, james franco, oz the great and powerful, production, rain, set

It’s all coming together!

Just last week, we mentioned that rapper Lil Mama would be playing the role of Left Eye in VH1’s upcoming TLC biopic and now it seems they’ve found their Chilli!

Actress Keke Palmer is set to play Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas and will star in the flick alongside Lil Mama and Drew Sidora, who will take up the role of T-Boz!

Though the 19-year-old was just six years old when Fan Mail was released — and only a year old when Crazy Sexy Cool came out — she still recalls looking up to the R&B threesome!

Keke stated:

Tags: biopic, chilli, drew sidora, fan mail, keke palmer, left eye, lil mama, no scrubs, rozonda thomas, tboz, tlc

LOLzzzz!!

Even the TITLE of the BBC bioflick sounds better than Lifetime's flop of a film!

It seems that Lindsay Lohan's portrayal of Elizabeth Taylor in Liz & Dick was NOT the end-all-be-all of Liz Taylor impersonations (HA!), as the BBC has decided to take another crack at telling the tale of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's tempestuous relationship…

With their upcoming film starring the INCREDIBLE, award winning Helena Bonham Carter and

Tags: bbc, biopic, burton and taylor, elizabeth taylor, helena bonaham carter, lifetime, lindsay lohan, liz and dick, richard burton

Lil Mama has some pretty big shoes to fill!

She's just been officially cast as the late Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes — who died in 2002 — in the new TLC biopic for VH1.

So, who spilled the beans on the casting decision?

Rap legend MC Lyte revealed the news on the red carpet for the VIBE Impact Awards where she said:

Tags: biopic, casting, lil mama, lisa left eye lopes, tlc, tlc biopic

We do, too!

Nothing like a little man-on-man face-sucking to brighten your day!

And lucky Michael Douglas had plenty of bright days while kissing Matt Damon in their biopic Behind the Candelabra which has Michael playing Liberace.

But we aren’t the only ones loving it — while still being a leeettle jealous — as Michael’s lovely wifey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, was all for the makeout sessions.

She opened up to Ellen DeGeneres about the two men locking lips and the one star Michael told her to “go for it” with in one of her films!

Ch-ch-check it out (above)!

Tags: acting, behind the candelabra, biopic, catherine zeta jones, ellen degeneres, kiss, kissing, liberace, matt damon, michael douglas, movie

We previously mentioned that Bradley Cooper was interested in playing Lance Armstrong in the upcoming biopic helmed by director J.J. Abrams.

That apparently is totally false.

At Sunday's SAG Awards, Bradley was interviewed about the biopic rumors and said:

Tags: awards, biopic, bradley cooper, email, film, interview, j.j. abrams, lance armstrong, movie, nuts, playing, rumors, weird

Ahmayzing director J.J. Abrams is going to be behind the Lance Armstrong biopic.

With such a great director telling this story, who better to play the lead than Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper??

No one! We think he'd be perfect!

Cooper said:

Tags: adaptation, biopic, bradley cooper, drama, film, inspiration, jj abrams, lance armstrong, movie