Mick Jagger can’t resist a good dance groove. Accompanied by many of his children and grandkids, Mick danced up a storm on Monday at the after party behind the Apollo Theater for the movie “Get On Up.” The film had its premiere earlier in the night, with several members of James Brown’s family in attendance. The movie is about the Godfather of Soul, and features an absolutely stunning Oscar worthy performance by Chadwick Boseman.

Also in the audience at the legendary Apollo: Rachel (Mrs. Jackie) Robinson, Al Roker, “Mad Men” star John Slattery with wife Talia Balsam and their son Harry; plus songwriting legend Valerie Simpson, and other cast members including Dan Aykroyd (with wife Donna Dixon); Nelsan Ellis, Fred Melamed, Craig Robinson, Jill Scott, and Brandon Smith.

There was also a nice contingent of agents and managers including Fred Spektor, Adam Schweitzer, Emily Gerson Saines, and Bryan Lourd. No less than Ron Meyer and Donna Langley were there from Universal, and of course Brian Grazer, for whom this was a passion project.

The movie jumps around a bit and is not told in a linear order. But you can put that aside. The music is wonderful. The performances are each spot on, with Viola Davis turning in her usual tour de force as James’s abandoning mother. Nelsan Ellis is a real find as Bobby Byrd, although I wish director Tate Taylor had given him a chance to perform Byrd’s big solo hit “You Got Soul.”

There will be some carping about the storyline. But James Brown was a highly eccentric and unsympathetic person. He was not Ray Charles. His patois was a language unto itself. I give the filmmakers credit for trying to capture some of Brown while still immortalizing his fierce talents. This was not an easy assignment. The movie also kind of sputters out, when it should have ended in 1985 with Brown’s resurgence as a star and his song “Living in America.” That’s a big miss.

But we do get a sizable helping of Mr. Brown through Boseman. The actor is simply remarkable re-creating Brown’s footsteps and singing. Considering how hard it’s been to get movies made about Jackie Wilson, Marvin Gaye, and so on, it’s amazing this one has been done at all. It absolutely should not be missed.

I did ask Jagger about meeting Brown, and he said over the years they had several interactions. Before the film screened, Jagger joked about coming to the Apollo and seeing James Brown for the first time. “I was offered a very large joint,” he joked. The drugless Rolling Stone declined, but had a good laugh.

Considering what Jagger’s been through this year, he looked pretty damn good. He relaxed at the party and enjoyed his large family, jumping onto the dance floor to a Chaka Khan song while Robinson– who’s in the movie and was in “The Office”– did some emceeing and freestyle rapping. At one point, Jagger had a dance off with James Brown’s young son, James Brown II, who’s 12 and has his father’s dance moves. If you’re looking for the next Michael Jackson, this kid may be the one.

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Exclusive: Scarlett Johansson has a busy second half of the summer. Her movie “Lucy” opens Friday with Morgan Freeman. And five weeks from now the Oscar nominee and Tony winner will give birth to a baby girl on around Labor Day. How appropriate!

Looking back at some clips from the winter, TMZ declared that Scarlett was five months pregnant back on March 3rd. That was almost 5 months ago. And still, no baby! What the heck happened? Did they send the baby gifts or what?

Today the New York Post says Scarlett will marry father of the baby Romain Duriac in the next month. The whole thing should be a close call. They also say that the baby was due in March. I’m thinking maybe Scarlett just stayed pregnant to thwart all the tabloid speculation! Eventually, she will have to give birth. She has a lot of movies lined up!

As for “Lucy” no one’s seen it yet, and Universal is holding reviews back to the last minute. I have no idea why French producer-director Luc Besson is still hot in Hollywood. His resume is littered with disasters. Maybe people like saying his name. His last movie, “The Family,” was roundly panned and made only $36 million in the US. Of course, it was cheap. Relatively.

Zach Braff’s “Wish I Was Here” finally made it into theaters this weekend in a limited release. You may recall this film was launched as a Kickstarter project that raised $3.1 million from 46.520 donors. The donors, at different levels, were supposed to receive a variety of perks from a free t shirt to a live online screening hosted by Braff.

But now hundreds of them are voicing their disappointment on the Kickstarter comments page. Apparently, the online viewing has been a disaster. And the t-shirt, commonly described as “flimsy,” was sent to foreign donors with such a high value printed on its customs declaration that the fees for accepting it have almost equaled the donors’ original pledge.

Of course, similar problems happened when “Veronica Mars” was released this past winter. On that Kickstarter page, there are dozens of complaints about not receiving gift rewards or the inability to view the movie on the Flixster service.

But the “Wish I Was Here” furor is pretty strong right now. One common theme is a screw up over the online viewing of the movie prior to its release. International donors weren’t able to stream the whole film. There was short window in which the link to the film was “live.” But it didn’t account for time zone changes and something called “geo blocking.” Again, hundreds of donors were left high and dry.

A donor named Thomas Hempel wrote on July 13th: “Geoblocking? What the heck…I can’t remember that you had any problems taking money from outside the US. To be honest, I feel cheated.”

It’s also unclear whether the movie had all three of its showings. It seems like only one online hosted screening occurred. And again, many donors missed it, and then it was gone, with no repeats.

And the t shirt business didn’t make people happy when they had to fork over big customs fees for a shirt that was supposed to be a perk of their donation.

One fan named Ricardo wrote on the Kickstarter comments: “It feels like we were asked to a party with all the cool people, then got there and the bodyguard didn’t find our names on the guest list. The cool people get in and enjoy the party, we stay outside in the cold listening to them partying in the distance. It sucks :/”

Another fan who didn’t his merchandise wrote to Kings Road Merchandise. This is the response he got:

“Our site quoted a June ship time and we apologize if there was different communication around these orders and being a little bit behind on the schedule. We have 30,000 customers with different bundles. These bundles will be shipping at different times as our inventory dictates. We fulfill the physical items as the WIWH team fulfills all screenings and soundtracks with email notifications. Your order will ship as soon as possible and we thank you for your patience and understanding.”

That answer was met with scorn from customers who are used to dealing with Amazon and other online retailers.

All the comments can be found at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1869987317/wish-i-was-here-1/comments

On a personal note, if it makes the donors feel better, almost none of the links sent by studios to reviewers for any movie, work at all. Between the passwords, signing in, downloading plug-ins, it’s extremely aggravating. You wish the DVD was here!