'One Love' Sets Paramount+ Release Date

Bob Marley: One Love will soon be available on Paramount+.

The biopic will be released on the streamer on Friday, April 12, in the US and Canada. The film's international availability will be announced at a later date. It will also be available on MGM+.

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“Bob Marley: One Love” exceeded box office expectations when it hit theaters in mid-February on Valentine’s Day. Its opening weekend totaled $28.6 million and the worldwide box office has grossed over $175 million to date.

Kingsley Ben-Adir plays the reggae singer and songwriter and Lashana Lynch plays his wife Rita Marley. The cast also includes James Norton as record producer Chris Blackwell, Tosin Cole as keyboardist Tyrone Downie, Aston Barrett Jr. as Aston “Family Man” Barrett, Anthony Welsh as Don Taylor, Sevana as Judy Mowatt, Hector Lewis as Carlton, Carly Barrett and Michael Gandolfini as Howard Bloom, Nadine Marshall as Cedella Malcolm, Umi Myers as Cindy Breakspeare, Naomi Cowan as Marcia Griffiths, Jeff Crossley as Clement “Coxsone” Dodd.

diversity The film's chief critic, Owen Gleiberman, wrote: “Too often 'One Love' feels like the depressed, neurotic middle act of a conventional biopic – the hero lost in his identity crisis, hemmed in by fame – stretched out to feature length.” The film tells a lot about Bob Marley, but never fully gets to know what his journey is. Lynch's Rita is the film's most down-to-earth character; Her devotion to Marley, coupled with her understanding of his pain, is moving. But aside from the scene in which Marley violently attacks his manager for trying to exploit an African tour for profit, the Marley we see comes close to being a saint. The aim of the new Biopic mode was to portray totemic figures in a more complex way. “One Love” flirts with complexity but slides into the banality of hero worship.”

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