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Biopic

A biographical film that dramatises the life of an actual and usually famous person. It's a biographical documentation that tells a person's life storey through the most historically important years of his or her life. The Oscar-winning film The Social Network is a semi-biographical film of Mark Zuckerberg who founded the social networking company Facebook.

Sony Pictures has apparently secured film rights to produce the Steve Jobs biopic which is based on his biography written by Walter Isaacson, the managing editor of Time magazine and former head of CNN. Issacson's book is the only biography authorised by Jobs.

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