Aretha Franklin was in the mood for celebrating, and not just because she had a birthday party.

"Good news, we're ready to sign for the movie," Franklin said Thursday night of the biopic about her life she has been trying to arrange with Straight Outta Compton producer Scott Bernstein. "We've agreed on all the key points. There's very little left now (to negotiate), very little. They have given me creative control and that's all I wanted."

Franklin, who turned 74 on March 25, spoke to The Associated Press in the first floor lounge of the Ritz-Carlton hotel, where she has held parties before, as some 100 of her friends gathered Thursday to wish her a happy birthday.

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