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jan luis castellanos, bisexual, cismale + he/him ― hey look, it’s hector reyes! they’re twenty-seven years old, they’ve lived in shrike heights for one year, and they’re currently working at julio’s bar. i heard they’re pretty conceited, but i think they’re so driven at the same time. 

Triggers: mentions of adultery, brief death reference, sports related injuries

I enabled myself into going for a second chara so let’s see how this goes! As with Dhruv, Hector is a new character for me but will undoubtedly have remnants of characters I’ve played in the past but here are some basics:

Born in the Dominican Republic, raised partially in Bronx, NY before his family moved to Shrike a year before he started high school (something he truly has never gotten over). 

Really Hector is that jock who peaked in High School, had a chance of going pro in baseball and never shut up about it, got a devastating knee injury and was forced to return home a year ago to live in his parents pool house. 

Hector was that kid who was always running around, always the last one to come inside and often had his clothes filled with dirt. The middle of three kids, Hector always felt like he had to prove to everyone that he was the best at anything he did. But when it came to be clear earlier rather than later than he wasn’t as book smart as his siblings, he leaned on sports, particularly baseball which could always be heard in his house through the summer. 

Little league was where he shined and where he grew to have a better relationship with his father. His parents were hardworkers, his father a bus driver and his mother a receptionist at their local hospital. And for a while that was their life. Going to Hector’s little league games, his siblings studying hard while the house revolved around him and his dad practicing in the yard and going to games. 

That was until his father ruined it all by having an affair and before they knew it, Mrs. Reyes was packing up the house and moving them out, closer to her sister who had made it all the way out to Colorado. 

So to say Hector has daddy issues would be an understatement. 

After that, Hector fully formed into the slight heartthrob but mostly asshole jock he was always meant to be. He wasn’t so much a bully as he was hyper dedicated to baseball and used to making himself feel good by making others feel smaller. He worked hard and played hard, known for always being the first to do a keg stand at any party. And though he missed his extended family and the Bronx like crazy, though not as much as he missed DR, he saw Shrike Heights as a chance to reinvent himself a bit, getting through most of high school by telling people his Dad was dead, despite the many gifts and birthday cards he sent. 

As high school came to an end, Hector actually got some attention from a few Division I colleges that seemed like a sure track into the minor then major leagues. And it was for a while. He got a scholarship to play at Texas A&M as the first Dominican short stop their team had ever seen and in Texas he got another chance to re-invent himself, even having a relationship that lasted for the majority of his time in college (not that either of them remained the most faithful to each other.) 

But as with most men who fly too close to the sun, Hector only enjoyed minor success, tearing his ACL two years into the minor leagues and a week before he was supposed to start spring training with the first major league team that had given him a shot. To say the least, Hector was devastated and spent a year in physical therapy in Texas before it was clear that the injury would alter the way he played forever. He spent the year after trying his hardest to make it back into the league but all of them were dead ends and no major team wanted to take him. 

So last year, he returned to Shrike Heights with his legs between his legs, his pride absolutely demolished and his future totally up in the air. He spent most of the first year in the pool house of his mom and step father’s home until about four months ago when he finally found a decent one bedroom apartment that has felt like his first little slice of moving on after everything that happened. 

He got a job at julio’s bar as a barback so he could make a bit of money at first and lowkey so he could always have access to a free drink. Being back home has brought a little bit of the party boy out of him and as he gets back in shape, he’s kind of a bit of a menace, especially since he’s convinced no killer will ever catch him. Obviously he hasn’t really learned his lesson. 

Possible Connections:

People he went to HS with old friends, the few friends he stayed in contact with, old enemies, exes, old crushes and flings.

Old teammates as well!! 

His College partner, maybe? open to it being a gf or bf if they happened to go to texas a&m or were in the texas area

Co-Workers @ julio’s or regulars there 

Anyone who needs a running or training buddy

Neighbors? TBH have not established where he lives. 

Someone who is not at all to call him on his shit and still lowkey love him. 

And anything else you can think of!!

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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND May 3, 2019  - LONG SHOT, THE INTRUDER, UGLYDOLLS, EL CHICANO

This is another one of those infamous “lots of new movies taking on a juggernaut” weekends and surprise, surprise, I’ve actually seen three of the movies, although I’m going to recuse myself from actually reviewing them for reasons I choose not to get into.

Definitely my favorite of the three new movies is Lionsgate’s LONG SHOT, the new romantic comedy pairing Seth Rogen with Charlize Theron and directed by Jonathan Levine of 50/50 fame. It’s a fun politically-tinged comedy that surrounds Rogen and Theron with a great cast including June Diane Raphael, O’Shea Jackson, Jr, Bob Odenkirk, an unrecognizable Andy Serkis and Alexander Skarsgard. You can read my interview with Levine over at The Beat, and my interview with Jackson will go up sometime later this week.

I also liked director Deon Taylor’s THE INTRUDER (Sony/Screen Gems), a super-creepy psychological thriller, starring Dennis Quaid, Michael Ealy (keep an eye on this guy!) and Meagan Good, who I’ve been a fan of since she starred in Rian Johnson’s Brick. I’m really impressed with Taylor as a director, as he continues to crank out films via his Hidden Empire production company. He actually has about four or five movies in various stages of post-production, including two that will be released by Screen Gems, so if you aren’t familiar with Taylor’s work, don’t worry… you will be. The Intruderis certainly a fun introduction, a simple psychological thriller with three solid performances. If you’re looking for something to see this weekend, you could definitely do worse than this.

I’m not sure that Ben Hernandez Bray’s action-thriller EL CHICANO, released by new distributor Briarcliff Entertainment, is my cup-of-tea, though I’ve long been a fan of the movie’s co-writer and producer Joe Carnahan. It stars Raul Castillo in the dual role of an L.A. police detective investigating a brutal gangland murder, as well as his gangster twin brother who was killed years earlier. The title character is a vigilante who comes around to stop gang violence by any means necessary, and Castillo’s character believes that it was actually his dead brother. the movie  also stars George Lopez and a mostly-Latino cast, which is quite an achievement for Bray and Carnahan. I think some people will really dig the action scenes and the character, and I hope it does well because there’s definitely some more room to tell more stories about the characters. (You can read my interviewwith Bray and Carnahan on The Beat.)

Not sure if I have much to say about STXfilms’ UGLYDOLLS, which features a musical voice cast including Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas, Janelle Monae, Blake Shelton, Pitbull and Gabriel Iglesias. As you might guess, it’s the one movie this weekend I haven’t seen, and I have absolutely no interest or plans to see it ever. I just don’t care. Maybe there are kids or parents out there that do, so good for them!

Anyway, none of the above matters since Avengers: Endgame will still be doing huge business in its second weekend. By the way, I finally got around to seeing that and I quite enjoyed it, especially how it defied almost all of my expectations despite not really knowing anything about the movie in advance. In fact, the only scene I saw from the movie at CinemaConended up being a bit of a red herring, something you’ll totally understand if you’ve seen the movie.

You can see how I think those movies will do at the box office on my Box Office Preview at The Beat!

LIMITED RELEASES

I’m going to start with the docs this week, cause there are some good ones… okay?

Opening at the Metrograph Friday is Gretchen Hildebran and Vivian Vazquez’s timely DECADE OF FIRE about the South Bronx in the ‘70s and how Black and Latino neighborhoods were abandoned by the city government as building after building burnt to the ground, destroying those neighborhoods until the people stood together to rebuild. (If you saw Baz Lurhmann’s Netflix series The Get-Down, you could see some of the results of what happened.) I saw the movie at Doc-NYC last year and was blown away by how well the story was told. The screening will be accompanied by a number of related panels at the Metrograph over the weekend and also next week. You can learn more about those here.

Speaking of the Bronx, the Netflix documentary KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE, directed by Rachel Lears, looks at some of the amazing women who ran for the House against incumbents last year, including the Bronx’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The movie won the Audience Award for documentary at Sundance in January, and it’s opening at the IFC Center and Film at Lincoln Center in New York on Weds and will also be streaming on Netflix. I really liked this documentary a lot, mainly because like many, I’m endlessly fascinated by the amazing Ocasio-Cortez and how the ardor towards her keep growing the more she gets out there. I certainly will vote for her if she ever runs in an election I can vote for her. Lears’ movie is quite fantastic as it’s on the ground with these women throughout the political campaign process.

The next two docs played at Tribeca this past week, but I just couldn’t find the time to see either. The first is Werner Herzog and André Singer’s MEETING GORBACHEV (1091, formerly The Orchard), which compiles three conversations that Herzog had with former Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev, who is now 87 years old, talking extensively about the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. It opens at the Film Forum in New York Friday.

I’m a little more annoyed with myself for missing Hulu’s ASK DR. RUTH, directed by Ryan White, because I’m definitely interested in learning more about Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the Holocaust survivor who became known as the country’s most famous expert, as it follows her leading up to the days of her 90thbirthday. This doc opens at the Landmark at 57 West and Quad Cinemas in New York on Friday, plus it will be on Hulu on June 1.

Also back this weekend is one of my favorite French filmmakers Olivier Assayas with the dramedy NON-FICTION (IFC Films), which I previously saw at the New York Film Festival. It’s about an author (Vincent Macaigne) who bases much of his work on his own life (kind of like Assayas?), and it once again teams Assayas with Juliet Binoche, who plays the wife of the author’s publisher who has an affair with him. What I liked about this over some of Assayas’ more verbose character-driven dramas is that it’s actually kind of funny, especially with its spoof of the publishing industry. I’ll probably try to see it again, but it’s opening in New York at the IFC Center and probably a few other places as well.

Normally, my favorite movie of the weekend would be a Zhang Yimou martial arts film like SHADOW (Well GO USA), because I’m such a fan of Heroand some of his other films in this ilk, but for whatever reason, this one just did not connect with me. Part of that was that I just found this story confusing, and it really dragged in between the action scenes, which certainly looked lovely, like a good ballet, but still kind of disappointing.

Abramorama is releasing Dan Pritzker’s BOLDEN about the life of jazz artist Buddy Bolden, known as the “first Comet King of New Orleans,” as played by Gary Carr, into select citiesFriday. The film also stars Ian McShane and Michael Rooker. I’m shocked that I hadn’t heard much about this movie, especially since I saw commercials during SNL over the weekend.

This week’s Bollywood release is Student of the Year 2 (FIP), directed by Punit Malhotra. As you might guess, it’s a sequel to the 2012 romantic comedy, this one involving a love triangle between a guy and two girls.

There’s lots of other odds ‘n’ ends, none of which I’ve had a chance to see including Tell It To the Bees (Good Deeds Entertainment), Clara(Screen Media), Hesburgh(O’Malley Creadon Productions), The Convent (Vertical Entertainment) and the movies Dead Trigger and Bardo Blues. I’ll be honest that I’m a little burnt out this weekend trying to cover Tribeca (which I hope to write about very soon) as well as all the other theatrical releases. I’m not sure any of these will make that big a difference in the grand scheme of things, and this is my column, so I decide what I write about and how much I write about it.

LOCAL FESTIVALS

The 18thTribeca Film Festival continues through the weekend but if you feel like going out to the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, you can check out Panorama Europe 2019, which runs from Friday through May 19. It also takes place at the Czech CenterAND the French Embassy. It opens on Friday night at MOMI with Barbara Albert’s Austrian drama Mademoiselle Paradis, starring Maria Dragus (The White Ribbon), who will be there in person. I haven’t seen the film but I love some of Albert’s previous films, Free Radicalsand Falling, both of which I think I saw at the New York Film Festival in years past? The festival continues through the weekend with new films from all over Europe, mostly playing at MOMI but with single repeat screenings at the other two venues. This is a festival I wish I had more time to cover, as I’m sure there are some great underrated films in the festival, but sadly, I just do not have the time right now.

STREAMING AND CABLE

I’ve been wanting to see Joe Berlinger’s Ted Bundy movie EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE, starring Zac Efron, since I first heard about it, and I’m happy to say that it really lived up to my expectations. It’s as much about Bundy’s relationship with his girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall (Lily Collins) as it is about the trial against Bundy for kidnapping and murder dozens of women. I’m a big fan of Berlinger’s documentaries, and this is a fantastic second foray into dramatic work, working from a screenplay written by Michael Werwie based on the book by Kendall. Efron works well as the charming serial killer who is constantly in denial about his actions, but I also really liked Collins’ performance as the woman trying her best to support her man despite the horrible allegations against him.  Berlinger combines actual archival news footage with the performances by his cast to create something as compelling as any of Netflix’s crime docs. The film also stars John Malkovich, Jim Parsons, Haley Joel Osment, Brian Geraghty and more.

As mentioned above, Netflix will also stream the doc KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE starting Wednesday, and other movies premiering this week include William Bindley’s coming-of-age film The Last Summer and Gabriela Tagliavini’sDespite Everything (A pesar de todo) on Friday. Clearly, there’s a lot of variety and options on Netflix this weekend… but lots of stuff in theaters, too (as seen above and below).

REPERTORY

METROGRAPH (NYC):

A bit of slower weekend for repertory stuff but the latest episode of the Academy Presents takes place on Saturday with Costa-Gravas’ 1969 film Z. Late Nites at Metrograph  will screen Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film My Own Private Idaho, starring Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix on Friday and Saturday night, and Playtime: Family Matinees  will screen Henry Koster’s 1950 film Harvey, starring James Stewart.

THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):

At Tarantino’s rep theater, people will have a chance to see Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi (1958), based on Colette’s novella, in a matinee on Weds.  On Weds and Thurs, there’s a double feature of cool indies with Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know  (2005) and Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank (2009), starring Michael Fassbender. Friday and Saturday sees double features of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1987 vampire film Near Dark and Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body  (2009). The weekend’s KIDDEE MATINE is the 1994 Little Women, while Tarantino’s Death Proof (2007) will show at midnight on Friday. The Monday matinee is the Val Kilmer comedy Real Genius from 1985.

MOMA (NYC):

A couple new series start here on Wednesday, including the shorterModern Matinees: On the Move series, which will show Raoul Walsh’s 1930 film The Big Trail on Weds, Alfonso Cuaron’s Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) on Thursday, and Harold Ramis’ 1993 film Groundhogs Day on Friday. Abel Ferrara: Unratedwill also begin on Wednesday with screenings of Ferrara’s 2000 film Mulberry Street, his 1995 filmThe Addiction (with the filmmaker onhand for a QnA), Ferrara’s Chelsea on the Rocks (2008) and New Rose Hotel (1998) will screen on Thursday, then his 2014 films Welcome to New York and Pasolini on Friday. (Oddly, the latter will get its first official theatrical run at the Metrograph starting Friday, May 10.) This is a fairly extensive retrospective with Ferrara and many of his actors talking about the movies after they’re shown, and that alone might be enough to get me into midtown. MOMA is also in the midst of another series called Roberto Gavaldón: Night Falls in Mexico, running through Sunday and showing rare screenings of the works of the Mexican filmmaker’s work from the ‘40s, ‘50s and 60s.

EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):

The Egyptian continues to slaughter… in a repertory way … with its new series Cassavetes & Scorsese: Love is Strange, a series of double features starting Thursday with Shadows (1958 and Who’s That Knocking On My Door (1967), followed by The King of Comedy  (1982) and Opening Night  (1977) Friday and Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver and Cassavetes’ Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) on Sunday. Also, the Egyptian will have the great Jean Pierre-Jeunet on-hand to talk about his Oscar-nominated film Amelie (2001) after it screens on Saturday night.

AERO  (LA):

Meanwhile, at the Egyptian’s sister theater, we get “The Fiction and Non-Fiction of Olivier Assayas” including a double feature of Irma Vep (1996) and Summer Hours (2008) on Thursday. Edward Zwick’s 1989 film Glory will be screened on Saturday followed by a QnA with Zwick, while Jean Pierre-Jeunet appears on Sunday to show his recent film The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet as well as a double feature of The City of Lost Children (1995) and Delicatessen (1991).

FILM FORUM (NYC):

The Film Forum’s “Trilogies” series continues with Aki Kaurismäki’s “Proletariot Trilogy” of Ariel, Shadows in Paradise and The Match Factory Girl, Roberto Rossellini’s “War Trilogy” and Satyajit Ray’s “Apu Trilogy” screening screening one final time next Tuesday. You’ll also have one final time to watch Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Three Colors Trilogy” over the weekend. The weekend’s Film Forum Jr. is the 1962 monster battle movie King Kong vs. Godzilla.

QUAD CINEMA (NYC):

James Ivory’s 1981 film Quartet is getting a 4k restoration rerelease via the Cohen Films Collection, and Ivory himself will be there Friday night for a QnA. Isabelle Adjani won the Best Actress Award at Cannes for her performance as a woman who finds shelter with a couple played by Alan Bates and Maggie Smith after her husband is imprisoned in this adaptation of Jean Rhys’s 1928 novel set during Paris of the ‘20s.

BAM CINEMATEK (NYC):

Starting Friday and running through the month is Black 90s: A Turning Point in American Cinema, beginning with Charles Burnett’s 1990 film To Sleep with Anger, starring Danny Glover, and running along with Burnett’s short When it Rains. (Burnett will be there on Friday for a QnA after his films.) Also showing Saturday is Zeinabu Irene Davis’ Compensation (1999), Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust(1991) and Haile Gerima’s 1993 film Sankofa and the series will run through May 22.

IFC CENTER (NYC)

Waverly Midnights: Parental Guidance  shows the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist this weekend, while Weekend Classics: Love Mom and Dad  goes with Mike Nichols’ Postcards from the Edge (1990) and Late Night Favorites: Spring shows John Waters’ Female Trouble (1974).

FILM OF LINCOLN CENTER (NYC):

The newly-renamed uptown is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year by taking part in a FREE program of classic films as part of the Block Party celebrating Lincoln Center’s 60th Anniversary this Saturday.

Next week, we get more new movies including Warner Bros’ Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, the Anne Hathaway-Rebel Wilson comedy The Hustle from U.A. Releasing and STXfilms’ Poms.

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Police: Doctor hunted ex-colleague before Bronx hospital shooting rampage

Police officers using all the Tactical Response Unit line up outside Bronx Lebanon Hospital after a gunman opened fire subsequently took his own life there on Friday, June 30, 2017. Associated Press/Mary Altaffer

NEW YORK (AP) — A physician mad that his career was derailed at a new york hospital toted an assault gun beyond security seeking a colleague he was likely to hold accountable. When that person was not there, he opened fire anyhow, murdering a physician who was there covering a change as a favor, authorities said Saturday.

The new particulars of Dr. Henry Bello’s rampage appeared together with the email rant against colleagues he blamed for forcing him to resign in Bronx Lebanon Hospital amid sexual harassment allegations two decades earlier. The email was delivered to the New York Daily News just two weeks before the shooting Friday afternoon that left six other people wounded and Bello dead from a self-inflicted shot.

“This hospital terminated my street to your licensure to practice medicine,” the email said. ” First, I was told it was because I always kept. Then it was due to the altercation with a nurse.”

In addition, he blamed a physician for obstructing his chances at practicing medicine.

Bello had cautioned his former colleagues when he was pressured in 2015 which he would return to kill them.

A law enforcement official told The Associated Press which Bello arrived at the hospital using the assault rifle hidden beneath his lab coat and requested for a particular physician whom he blamed for his having to step, but the physician was not there at the time. The official spoke on anonymity because the person was not authorized to talk about an ongoing investigation.

It was not clear if Bello knew Dr. Tracy Sin-Yee Tam, 32, who was killed in the shooting on the 16th and 17th floors of the hospital was, like him, a family medicine physician. Hospital officials said that Tam generally worked in one of the hospital’s satellite clinics and was covering a change in the main hospital as a favor to somebody else.

“It gets you believe anything could happen to anyone,” said Tam’s neighbor, and Alena Khaim, 23, who watched Tam’s sister outside the house overcome with grief, shaking and not able to walk. “She was a sweet woman. You would never think something like this would happen but it occurred.”

The six other people who were hurt — a patient, two health care students and three physicians — mostly suffered gunshot wounds to the chest, torso and stomach. 1 physician remained in critical condition and the remainder were secure, officials said Saturday.

This Friday, June 30, 2017 photo released by the New York Police Department reveals the AM-15 assault rifle used by Dr. Henry Bello at a shooting Bronx Lebanon Hospital in New York. NYPD through Associated Press

Hospital vice president Errol C. Schneer said his team responded heroically.

“Many of our staff risked their own lives to save sufferers,” Schneer told colleagues at the hospital in which the 16th and 17th floors remained shut, along with staffers were still recovering in the rampage that shipped people begging for cover and huddling in patients’ rooms while the gunman was on the loose. Adding to the madness, authorities said, was a fire alarm that went away when Bello tried to place himself ablaze, the flames extinguished by sprinklers, shortly before he shot himself.

Detectives searched the Bronx house where Bello was most recently living and discovered the box where the gun came out. Investigators were checking serial numbers and trying to determine where it was purchased.

His former co-workers explained a guy who was aggressive, loud and threatening.

“All of the time he was a problem,” said Dr. David Lazala, who trained Bello as a family medicine physician. When Bello was driven outside from 2015, he delivered Lazala an email requesting him for its dismissal.

Dr. Maureen Kwankam told the New York Daily News that “he promised to return and kill us”

Based on New York State Education Department documents, Bello graduated from Ross University and needed a permit to practice within a global medical graduate which was issued on July 1, 2014, and died last year on exactly the exact same day.

In 2004, the physician pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment, a misdemeanor, after a 23-year-old girl told police Bello grabbed her. He was detained back in 2009 on a complaint of unlawful surveillance, after two distinct women reported he was attempting to look up their sleeves using a mirror. That case was eventually sealed.

Schneer told the New York Times that the hospital did not understand regarding Bello’s criminal history when he was hired.

“At that time, and as a consequence of a human assets and safety department history check, which includes fingerprinting, there wasn’t any record of any conviction for sexual abuse,” he said.

Associated Press writers Larry Neumeister, Rebecca Gibian, Steve Peoples and Karen Matthews contributed to the story.

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Raised in the Bronx by his outspoken mother Afeni (Danai Gurira), a member of the Black Panther Party, Tupac Shakur (Demetrius Shipp Jr.) confronts police brutality at an early age when FBI agents raid his home on Christmas Eve in search of his activist stepfather. Moving to Maryland in his teens, Tupac attends Baltimore School for the Performing Arts, where he befriends a young Jada Pinkett (Kat Graham). But just as Shakur begins thriving in this creative environment, his now-drug-addicted mother ships him off to live with relatives in Oakland, California.

Discovered at a Bay Area poetry workshop, Tupac joins Digital Underground and tours with eccentric leader Shock G (Chris Clarke) during the group’s “Humpty Dance” heyday. Tupac soon lands a solo deal with Interscope Records and his first movie role, in Juice. Despite the breakout success of his second album “Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z…,” Tupac’s personal life becomes entangled in a string of arrests, financial problems, gunfights and sexual assault charges. The problems culminate in November 1994, when Tupac is shot five times in the lobby of New York City’s Quad Recording Studios. The next day he checks himself out of the hospital and goes to court in a wheelchair.

Eventually found guilty of sexual abuse and imprisoned in February 1995, Tupac became the first inmate to score a No. 1 album when “Me Against the World” soars to the top of the charts.

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Released after eight months, Tupac teams with volatile Death Row Records mogul Suge Knight (Dominic Santana) and artist-producer Dr. Dre (Harold House Moore) in Los Angeles, where he records the world’s first hip-hop double album, “All Eyez on Me.” But he is also embroiled in a bitter feud with East Coast rival Biggie Smalls (Jamal Woolard), claiming in a song that he slept with the rapper’s wife, Faith Evans (Grace Gibson).

Amid the escalating war, Tupac falls in love with Quincy Jones’ daughter Kidada Jones (Annie Ilonzeh). A few weeks after a now-legendary House of Blues concert in West Hollywood, Tupac travels with Kidada to Las Vegas for a Mike Tyson fight.

Stopped at a red light after the match, with Knight at the wheel, Tupac is shot on September 7, 1996 by unknown assailants and dies six days later. Simultaneously triumphant and tragic, All Eyez on Me tells the untold story of incendiary talent Tupac Shakur, dead at 25, who has sold more than 75 million records worldwide.

All Eyez on Me stars Demetrius Shipp Jr., with Danai Gurira (“The Walking Dead,” The Visitor), Kat Graham (“The Vampire Diaries”), Dominic Santana (Dead Heist, Love for Sale), Annie Ilonzeh (“Person of Interest,” “Empire”), Grace Gibson (Black Nativity) and Chris Clarke.

All Eyez on Me is directed by Benny Boom (S.W.A.T.: Firefight, Next Day Air).

Written by Jeremy Haft & Eddie Gonzalez (“Empire”) and Steven Bagatourian (American Gun). Director of photography is Peter Menzies Jr. (Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Incredible Hulk). Music is composed by John Paesano (The Maze Runner, “Daredevil”). Production designer is Derek R. Hill (The Magnificent Seven, Into the Wild, Olympus Has Fallen). Produced by L.T. Hutton. Producers are David Robinson and James G. Robinson. Executive producer is Wayne Morris (“Blood and Oil,” Miami Vice).

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An Untold Story

A riveting blend of music, sex, violence, betrayal, family turmoil, politics, drama and poetry, All Eyez on Me sheds fresh light on Tupac Shakur’s meteoric rise and tragic fall. “I feel like Tupac wrote his own movie,” producer Hutton says. “Tupac wanted to be the light that shined. He wanted to be the person who gave hope. This movie, it’s not just a bunch of partying; it’s not just a bunch of rhetoric and buffoonery. Of course it’s entertainment, but there’s also this undertone of wanting to change society and solve problems. This film is not just for black audiences. It’s for all people in showing that we’re all connected at so many different levels. All Eyez on Me is a journey that walks through all of it.”

The young man who plays Tupac Shakur onscreen hopes All Eyez on Me gives audiences a richer understanding of the gifted rapper. “I want people to get a broader view of who Tupac really was,” Shipp Jr. says. “Everybody loves Pac the ‘thug,’ but there’s so much more. I love the ‘Thug Life’ Pac but I also love the poetic Pac, I love the philosopher Pac and the lover Pac. I want audiences to see all of those aspects in a way they’ve never seen before.”

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Directed by: Benny Boom

Starring: Kat Graham, Lauren Cohan, Hill Harper, Jamal Woolard, Danai Gurira and Demetrius Shipp Jr. as Tupac Shakur

Produced by: L.T. Hutton, David Robinson and James G. Robinson

Synopsis: ALL EYEZ ON ME tells the true and untold story of prolific rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur. The film follows Shakur from his early days in New York City to his evolution into being one of the world’s most recognized and influential voices before his untimely death at the age of 25. Against all odds, Shakur’s raw talent, powerful lyrics and revolutionary mind-set propelled him into becoming a cultural icon whose legacy continues to grow long after his passing.

About The Tupac Shakur Biopic ‘All Eyez On Me’ Raised in the Bronx by his outspoken mother Afeni (Danai Gurira), a member of the Black Panther Party, Tupac Shakur (Demetrius Shipp Jr.) confronts police brutality at an early age when FBI agents raid his home on Christmas Eve in search of his activist stepfather.