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Director Julien Temple is set to make a biopic, tentatively titled Midnight Love/Sexual Healing , about legendary soul singer Marvin Gaye . The film is due to begin shooting in Ostend, Belgium later this year. EMI, which holds the rights to Gaye’s music, is understood to be ready to give the greenlight to the project. The story will focus on the Midnight Love album (including the song Sexual Healing) that Gaye recorded in Brussels in the early ’80s. At the time, Gaye - who was living in Ostend - was considered a spent force - a drug addict who had lost the confidence of the record companies. Against the odds, Gaye recorded what many believe to have been his greatest album. Here in Berlin, Jean-Luc Van Damme, producer and managing director of Banana Films (the outfit behind Goodbye Bafana), revealed details of the $8 million Sexual Healing. Jimmy De Brabant of Delux Productions in Luxembourg is also on board. Frederick Bestall for Auric Entertainment Pty. Ltd. is producing. Th...

Terrence Howard To Play Marvin Gaye In Upcoming Film Terrence Howard is in talks to star in a biopic about the late and great Marvin Gaye, the film has been in the works for the last three and half years according to director Cameron Crowe. The starring role was offered to Will Smith but he turned it down. The film is supported by Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr and they have secured all the rights to Marvin's music. Howard, of course, is a singer himself. Marvin Gaye was one of the influences on his debut album Shine Through It. “Nothing’s been signed on paper yet,” Howard tells me. “Everybody who loves music will hate me if I get this one wrong.” For those of you for some reason not familiar with Marvin Gaye heres a little summary of who he is and what he accomplished. Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a me...