Madonna Says a ‘Falling Out’ With Universal Pictures Over Budget Killed Her Biopic Movie: ‘I’ve Had a Huge Life, So I Needed a Big Budget’

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/madonna-movie-universal-budget-dispute-1236787337/

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slazer2au@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 62d (5 replies)

Then perhaps you should pony up the money to do it?

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 62d (3 replies)

Or she could just not do it. It's not like the world desperately needs a Madonna biopic. I don't blame her for playing hardball with the Hollywood studios.

MimicJar@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 62d (2 replies)

Plus after the success of "Michael" I expect Madonna can play hardball. Madonna certainly has had a career on par with all the recent successful musician biopics. The success of "Michael" shows these films are still big money makers.

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 62d (1 reply)

If they she believes it is a money maker then she would invest the money herself.

She knows it is a risk and wants someone to risk their money for her profit. Capitalism 101. It's how Musk got to be the richest man on Earth.

prenatal_confusion@feddit.org · 9 pts · 61d

Regarding musk: yeah no. He is not a self made man. He got there by having a rich family (that got rich by exploiting people in a slave like setting) and then took risks with said capital. By knowing the right people these risks are lower than Madonnas and also the industry is a different one where the rewards are nucu higher than with a movie.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 61d

spent it all on comestic procedures.

el_hache@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 62d (2 replies)

Is there anything worthwhile not already covered on the documentary Weird: The Al Yankovic Story though?

TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 11 pts · 62d (1 reply)

That time she was in Dick Tracy?

LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 61d

Good for him.

Zier@fedia.io · 11 pts · 62d (2 replies)

There was a time when Madonna was a trailblazer. But we are at the point where she is just a mess. As someone who still loves her early works, I can't stand her music now. And what the hell is that MAGA face she has?

Bonus@piefed.social · 4 pts · 62d

One of her songs is just a whole-ass sample of an Abba song.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 61d

shes desperate to stay relevant and young, she went with all that plastic surgery all of the sudden.

Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 62d

Damn I would have loved to see how Hollywood handled her time as a drug kingpin.

GMac@feddit.org · 5 pts · 61d

Has she run out of her own money? Or does she not believe in it enough to put her hand in her own pocket....?

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 61d

shes so freaky now with all that plastic surgeries.

Marthirial@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 62d

Just the AI/CGI of fucking a horse is going to need deep pockets... If you know what I mean.

Also, isn't there a Maddona biopic already?

BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 0 pts · 62d

Well, pay for it yourself you miserable cunt.