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The long-gestating project between the director Peter Berg and the multi-hyphenate pop star and beauty/fashion mogul was one of several high-profile celebrity films delayed by the pandemic. The as-yet-untitled film promises to provide an intimate, characteristically disarming look into the Barbadian star’s expansive career as she transitioned from her most critically claimed album, 2016’s Anti, to launching her own Fenty beauty line, and becoming the first black woman to head a luxury line for LMVH. Berg reportedly amassed more than 1,200 hours of footage over five years, and the cameras are still rolling – “every time we think we’re going to finish the movie and put it out, she does something like start a fashion line like Fenty, or her lingerie line, or her skin care line,” he said in an interview – but is aiming for a release date on Amazon in summer 2021 (the streaming service acquired the project for a whopping $25m in 2019).