Beyoncé and Clint Eastwood Team Up for Remake of 'A Star is Born'

Beyoncé and Clint Eastwood at the 2007 Academy Awards.

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Clint Eastwood has signed on to produce and direct a new version of A Star is Born starring Beyoncé Knowles for Warner Bros. No male lead has been cast yet, though Warner Bros has had an interest with pairing Knowles with Will Smith.

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This could be the highest profile film of Knowles' career as an actress. She has previously starred in the thriller Obsessed, the musical Dreamgirls and Cadillac Records, in which she portrayed a young Etta James.

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This will be the fourth version of A Star is Born made by Hollywood. The original from 1937 starred Janet Gaynor and Frederic March, and the second, from 1954, featured Judy Garland and James Mason. The third iteration, with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, was released in 1976 and is perhaps the most famous version of the film.

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While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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