The latest musical biopic is not a gleaming hagiography seeking to lionize the glamorous lives of rock stars or fawning fan service mythologizing their lavish escapades. Instead, Song Sung Blue, from ...

Hugh Jackman plays one half of the Neil Diamond tribute band Thunder & Lightning in the upcoming "Song Sung Blue," which hits theaters on Christmas Day. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Nov. 4 (UPI) - ...

Performing and getting to know Diamond’s music was new for Hudson, who says he “wasn't someone that I grew up with” “Having Neil Diamond's music as the backdrop to play these real-life people, who ...

Jackman and Hudson were keen to work on a story about lifting up those sorts of scrappy underdog artists. Craig Brewer, who ...

Hugh Jackman was genuinely touched by a gift that Neil Diamond sent him, following his performance as a member of a Diamond tribute act in the new movie Song Sung Blue. It was an autographed guitar ...

Neil Diamond, you could say, is a believer in Song Sung Blue. So when filmmaker Greg Kohs got a cease-and-desist letter from Diamond's record label just before his 2008 documentary about the Sardinas, ...

A ping pong hustler for the ages, a Neil Diamond interpreter for the '80s, choral music both comic and spiritual, plus tormented teens, twisted families, and a giant snake on the loose. It's quite the ...

This image released by Focus Features shows Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, right, in a scene from "Song Sung Blue." (Focus Features via AP) Writer and director Craig Brewer’s eccentric musical drama, ...