Elvis
Baz Luhrmann Teases Upcoming Elvis Concert Film With “All That Footage We Found in the Vaults”
At the Met Gala on Monday night, Baz Luhrmann teased that he may not be quite done with Elvis Presley-related projects, following his 2022 Austin Butler-starring film. The director told The Hollywood Reporter, “The fans really want to know if all that footage we found in the vaults is going to become a concert film […]
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Timothée Chalamet Wants Austin Butler’s Elvis in His Bob Dylan Biopic: “Musical Cinematic Universe”
Timothée Chalamet wants the world’s next musical biopic to build on its predecessors. The actor, set to play Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s forthcoming film A Complete Unknown, said he’d love for Austin Butler’s Elvis to make a cameo in the movie. “I was kind of wishing we could create a musical cinematic universe,” Chalamet […]
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Austin Butler Wanted to Respect Vanessa Hudgens’ Privacy When He Called Her a “Friend”
Austin Butler is clearing the air about the time he referred to his former longtime girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens as a “friend,” which many people felt minimized their nine-year-long relationship. During The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Actor Roundtable — which featured last year’s awards season’s leading men including Butler, Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, Jeremy Pope, Ke Huy […]
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Austin Butler on Tom Hanks’ ‘Masters of the Air’ Pitch and “Deeply” Loving ‘Dune: Part Two’
As Austin Butler put the finishing touches on his eventual Oscar-nominated performance as Elvis Presley, his Elvis co-star Tom Hanks was already envisioning the budding superstar’s next move. In early 2021, just weeks before Elvis was scheduled to wrap, Hanks took Butler to dinner and pitched him Masters of the Air, the spiritual follow-up to […]
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Austin Butler Says He Hired a Dialect Coach to Help Get Rid of Elvis Accent for ‘Masters of the Air’
Austin Butler revealed that he only had a week between filming Elvis and Masters of the Air, which means he had to work extra hard to drop his Elvis Presley accent. During a Wednesday night appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the Oscar-nominated actor said he “had a dialect coach just to help […]
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Baz Luhrmann Admits He Hasn’t Watched ‘Priscilla’ Yet
Among the big-name Hollywood titles screening at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is Sofia Copolla’s Venice-bowing Priscilla, starring Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi, that tells the story of Priscilla Presley and her tumultuous relationship with Elvis. Of all the high-profile attendees at the festival who many might expect to have watched […]
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How Elvis Presley’s Spirit Lives On in Netflix’s ‘Agent Elvis’
Elvis Presley made a return to the zeitgeist this past year. On the heels of the Oscar-nominated 2022 drama Elvis, starring Austin Butler, the adult animated series Agent Elvis, featuring a “retro cool” look and the voice of Matthew McConaughey as the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, arrived in April on Netflix. Created by Priscilla […]
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Oscars Snubs: ‘Elvis,’ ‘Banshees of Inisherin’ Shut Out as ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘Avatar 2’ Only Win One Award Each
Perhaps Tom Cruise and James Cameron were onto something. The superstars behind two of the biggest films from the past year, Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water, didn’t attend the 2023 Oscars, where their blockbuster movies, despite being nominated for multiple awards, went home with only one award each, both in the […]
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Razzie Awards: ‘Blonde’ Named Worst Picture; Other “Winners” Include Tom Hanks, Jared Leto and the Razzies Themselves
Blonde has been “honored” with two Golden Raspberry Awards — aka the Razzies — which also bestowed an award upon themselves for the first time in the group’s history. Andrew Dominik’s film, which led the Razzies with eight nominations, won worst picture of the year along with worst screenplay for Dominik. The Razzies called the film […]
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THR’s ‘Behind the Screen’ Takes Final Look at the Oscar Crafts Categories
Still filling out your Oscar ballot? The Hollywood Reporter‘s executive awards editor Scott Feinberg joins THR tech editor and Behind the Screen host Carolyn Giardina to take a last look at the crafts categories before the 95th Academy Awards. In this new episode of THR‘s Behind the Screen, they discuss questions such as, will Elvis […]
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Priscilla Presley Makes First Event Appearance Since Daughter Lisa Marie’s Death
Nearly two months after the sudden death of her daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, on Jan. 12., Priscilla Presley made her first public appearance on Tuesday for a special screening and conversation around her new Netflix series Agent Elvis. Presley, who co-created and voices herself in the adult animated comedy, took part in a Q&A alongside […]
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Where to Watch Oscar-Nominated Film ‘Elvis’ Online
Even after embodying Elvis Presley on the big screen in Baz Luhrmann’s splashy awards-nominated biopic, Austin Butler still can’t shake the King of Rock ‘n Roll’s electrifying influence — one that has made him a first-time Oscar nominee. At press tours, interviews and most recently the Golden Globes (where he accepted the award for best […]
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