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Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, performing at Live Aid in the movie, Bohemian Rhapsody (Photo: Alex Bailey/20th Century Fox)
During their peak in the 70s and 80s, Queen divided audiences and critics. The band often prompted a cool response from the music press but still enjoyed huge commercial appeal around the world.
It seems strangely fitting that their biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, has continued that tradition.
When it hit movie theaters last year, the critics – again – were lukewarm or downright scathing. Audiences, however, lapped it up. Taking over $640million at the box office against a production budget of $52million, it’s the most successful music biopic in history. Read More
