Did Lana Del Rey Almost Star in 'Priscilla'? Director Sofia Coppola Talks Casting Rumor

Priscilla Presley is looking back at her marriage to Elvis Presley.

Radical with Eugenio Derbez built on its smash opening in Mexico to hit no. 5 at the U.S. box office with a super $2.7 million at 416 theaters. The Pantelion film had delayed its debut Stateside by two weeks to skirt The Eras Tour juggernaut, allowing word of mouth to build for the drama about a dedicated teacher in a troubled Mexican border town.   

If you’ve seen the new film Priscilla, you’ve likely noticed there were no Elvis Presley songs in it, despite him being a big part of the story.

Priscilla Presley opened up in an interview with Piers Morgan.

Elvis Presley‘s influence surpasses the music world, as the icon has impacted the film industry, too.

Tom Hanks is coming to Liverpool for a special book event this month.Hanks will be in the UK to talk about his debut novel, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece.The Oscar-winning star of Forrest Gump and Philadelphia will be live on stage for ‘An Evening with Tom Hanks’ to discuss his book and the inspiration behind it.An official description of the event reads: “Live on stage, Hanks will be in conversation to celebrate the publication of his debut novel, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: a wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film, and the humble comic book that inspired it all.“Exploring why he wanted to capture the changes in America and American culture over the past 80 years, Hanks will share the inspiration behind his colourful cast of characters. Taking the audience behind the scenes and offering a glimpse into how a story becomes a finished film, Hanks will also touch on how he drew on his own career in Hollywood.”The event will be held at Liverpool’s Empire Theatre on November 29 and each live ticket holder will receive a copy of the book along with their ticket.

Priscilla Presley is opening up about daughter Lisa Marie Presley‘s death.

Priscilla” into 1,344 venues after launching on four screens last weekend. The Meg Ryan-directed romantic comedy “What Happens Later” is arriving from Bleecker Street in 1,492 locations. And Roadside Attractions is putting the latest Neil Burger joint “The Marsh King’s Daughter” into 1,055 theaters.

Ellise Shafer SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Priscilla,” in theaters now. As the opening sequence of Sofia Coppola‘s biographical drama “Priscilla” unfolds, viewers meet a 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu (Cailee Spaeny) in 1959 West Germany to the tune of the Ramones’ 1980 hit “Baby, I Love You.” This time-bending choice may seem unexpected, but to those familiar with the work of Coppola — who famously soundtracked her 2006 historical film “Marie Antoinette” with the Strokes, Aphex Twin and the Cure — it won’t come as a surprise. After all, though the song is a subversion, it’s a cover of the Ronettes’ 1964 classic and carries much of the musical stylings of the period, courtesy of Phil Spector, who produced both versions.

Valerie Wu Intern Can someone say method acting? In a recent roundtable interview with Entertainment Weekly alongside “Priscilla” co-star Cailee Spaeny and director Sofia Coppola, Jacob Elordi revealed that he ate a pound of bacon a day to play Elvis Presley. “You ate a lot of bacon,” Coppola said to Elordi. She then explained, “Priscilla [Presley] told us that Elvis liked really burnt bacon.” “I averaged, like, a pound of bacon a day,” Elordi said.

Elvis Presley’s late daughter Lisa Marie was delighted with Baz Luhrmann’s biopic about her superstar father, but she expressed reservations about the forthcoming film focused on her mother, newly viewed emails reveal.

Jacob Elordi is making a surprising revelation about his preparation for playing Elvis Presley in Priscilla.

Priscilla.In an interview with E! News, director Coppola said she learned “people really connect Lana Del Rey with Priscilla”. Del Rey previously wrote a song for an Elvis documentary, and takes much of her style inspiration from Priscilla. She even got Presley’s blessing to play her in Baz Luhrmann’s recent Elvis biopic (the role went to Olivia DeJonge instead).Coppola said she “got a lot of requests about how [Del Rey] could be part of the movie”, and had asked the singer to write a song.

Naman Ramachandran Sarvnik Kaur’s documentary “Against the Tide” has won the Golden Gateway Award at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. The film previously won awards at Sundance, Sydney and Seattle. Diwa Shah’s San Sebastian winner “Bahadur: The Brave” received Mumbai’s Silver Gateway Award.

Sofia Coppola‘s “Priscilla” hits theaters today amid a great deal of buzz, partially thanks to star Cailee Spaeny winning the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her title role. But not everyone was thrilled Coppolla announced plans to adapt Priscilla Presley‘s 1985 “Elvis And Me” for the big screen last year.

Priscilla Presley has had her settlement with granddaughter Riley Keough, concerning her daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s estate, approved by the courts.The settlement states that Priscilla can now be buried as close to her ex-husband Elvis Presley as possible at the Graceland estate when she dies, and that her son Navarone Garibaldi can participate in the memorial ceremony.“Riley agrees to allow Priscilla to be buried upon her death in the Meditation Garden of Graceland. The burial location will be at the location closest to Elvis Presley without moving any existing gravesite,” reads the official settlement.As reported by Rolling Stone, the agreement has been confirmed in a probate court in Los Angeles County, and signed off by a judge, thereby avoiding a potentially long and costly legal battle.In addition, Priscilla is set to receive a $1 million (£810,000) payment from Lisa-Marie’s $25 million (£20.2 million) life insurance trust, as well as $100,000 a year for the next ten years for her services as “special advisor” to Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc.The settlement further states that Keough “agrees to use her best efforts to ask Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc., or any successor thereof, not to pursue litigation against Priscilla related to her name, image and likeness.”The conflict between Priscilla and actor Keough arose around the sudden death of Lisa Marie Presley in January this year, which threw the inheritance of the Presley estate into question.

A24’s Priscilla by Sofia Coppola catapults from four screens to 1,300, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers from Focus Features expands to 60 from six and two new indies have wide debuts — What Happens Later from Bleecker Street, directed by and starring Meg Ryan, opens at 1,400 locations and Daisy Ridley-starring The Marsh King’s Daughter from Roadside Attractions at over 1,000.

Angelique Jackson Priscilla Beaulieu was a 14-year-old Army brat when she met the world’s biggest star, Elvis Presley, sparking a love story that’s the stuff of rock ‘n’ roll legend. When “Priscilla” star Cailee Spaeny was 14, she developed a different kind of crush — a cinematic one — on Sofia Coppola. It all started when she watched “The Virgin Suicides,” Coppola’s 1999 feature directorial debut.

hyper-feminine coming-of-age biopic, , I couldn’t stop jotting down lyrics from GUTS.Though 25-year-old actor Cailee Spaeny has yet to listen to Rodrigo’s new album—she’s been a bit busy with one of the only major press tours occurring amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike—she gets it. “I just love angry woman songs,” Spaeny tells me over Zoom when I share my notes with her.

Austin Butler landed a highly coveted role in Hollywood when he was cast to bring Elvis Presley to life in Baz Luhrmann‘s biopic Elvis, and he faced stiff competition to book the Oscar-nominated role.

Sir Cliff Richard,who has released his new album today which celebrates an incredible six decades in the music industry, oncecaught the attention of Loose Women viewers - but not for the reasons he intended.

Priscilla movie at the Virginia Film Festival. On Thursday, debuted a jet-black dye job reminiscent of the look her grandmother Priscilla Presley became known for in the 1960s.

Jacob Elordi is opening up about brining the King of Rock and Roll to life in his new movie Priscilla.

her death in January, Lisa Marie Presley sent two emails to director Sofia Coppola, asking her to revise the script for Priscilla.In the emails obtained by Variety, the late Presley – the only child of Priscilla and Elvis Presley – expressed her shock and horror over the depiction of her father in the upcoming film.Priscilla is a biopic of Priscilla Presley, based on her 1985 memoir Elvis and Me. Set for release in January, the film has already sparked conversation among critics and fans due to its handling of the former couple’s relationship, which began when Priscilla was 14 and Elvis was 24.In the emails obtained by Variety, Presley asked Coppola to reconsider her depiction of Elvis, claiming it portrayed her father as “a predator and manipulative”.Presley called the script “shockingly vengeful and contemptuous,” and begged the Oscar-winning director to refrain from straining her fragile relationship with her mother, as well as drawing further attention to Elvis’ living grandchildren as they continue to grieve the loss of Lisa Marie Presley’s son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020.“My father only comes across as a predator and manipulative,” Presley wrote in one of the emails, which were both sent in September last year.

the devil in disguise.A mere four months before the singer died of complications resulting from a small bowel obstruction, Presley sent two emails to the director begging her to revise the script for “Priscilla,” according to Variety.The bio-pic, which is based on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me,” focuses on the courtship between the infamous pair which began in Germany in 1959.The issue? Priscilla was 14 and Elvis was 24. “My father only comes across as a predator and manipulative,” Lisa Marie wrote in a September 2022 email.

The new Sofia Coppola movie Priscilla, based on Priscilla Presley‘s memoir, is now in theaters around the country following a limited release.

With Sofia Coppola‘s Priscilla on the verge of its theatrical release, a new report reveals what the late Lisa Marie Presley thought of the film about her mother Priscilla‘s relationship with her father, Elvis Presley.

The marriage between Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson was certainly controversial and unexpected when it occurred in May 1994. After all, it lasted less than two years before the couple split in January 1996. And now, decades later, we’re learning more about the ill-conceived union.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Before her death earlier this year, Lisa Marie Presley expressed shock and horror over the depiction of her father Elvis Presley in the script for Sofia Coppola’s new film “Priscilla.” Described in two emails obtained exclusively by Variety, the late Presley asked Coppola to reconsider her vision for the character and to spare her family public embarrassment. The messages were sent four months before Presley suffered fatal cardiac arrest in January.

Priscilla Presley is reportedly still reeling over the death of her only daughter, Lisa Marie Presley. The former wife of the late King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley‘s most recent interview with Piers Morgan found the talk show host taking a break to comfort the grieving mom.Priscilla Presley became so choked up and overcome with emotion during her interview with Piers Morgan that the 78-year-old broke down in tears and asked the TV host to stop the camera until she could compose herself.Regarding great loss, Priscilla has had more than her share. She was utterly devastated when the love of her life, Elvis Presley, died unexpectedly at the age of 42.Despite being divorced, Priscilla says that she and Elvis always care very deeply for each other.

Priscilla Presley broke down during an interview with Piers Morgan as she opened up about the death of her daughter Lisa Marie. Lisa Marie, who was the only daughter of Elvis Presley, passed away earlier this year at age 54 from a small bowel obstruction caused by previous weight-loss surgery. Now, Priscilla, 78, has revealed that her daughter was suicidal in the months before her death, as she struggled with the loss of her son Benjamin Keough, who took his own life in 2020.

The reviews for Priscilla are in!

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nom Maria Bakalova has signed on to star in the genre pic God’s Country, marking the American directorial debut of Egor Abramenko (Sputnik), which will go into production in Romania under a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement in March.

Though Francis Ford Coppola is known best as the filmmaker behind iconic movies such as “The Godfather,” “Apocalypse Now,” and “The Outsiders,” he’s also known as a guy who loves to tinker. In fact, it’s not uncommon to hear that he’s releasing another new cut of one of his films.

Lana Del Rey fan had the most unexpected encounter on Halloween night, running into the singer herself while dressed as her.The fan, who goes by @sandyganzer on Instagram, decided to dress up as the singer in a Waffle House uniform, a popular American restaurant chain, for her costume. She wore a grey Waffle House uniform, a name tag that read “Lana”, and a wig that resembled Del Rey’s long brown hair.The fan’s costume was inspired by Del Rey herself, who was spotted serving coffee at a branch of the US restaurant chain in Birmingham, AL back in July.The fan shared the photo of her and Del Rey on Instagram, writing: “Waffle House employee shirt purchased on Ebay: $28.60.

Lana Del Rey fan had the most unexpected encounter on Halloween night, running into the singer herself while dressed as her.The fan, who goes by @sandyganzer on Instagram, decided to dress up as the singer in a Waffle House uniform, a popular American restaurant chain, for her costume. She wore a grey Waffle House uniform, a name tag that read “Lana”, and a wig that resembled Del Rey’s long brown hair.The fan’s costume was inspired by Del Rey herself, who was spotted serving coffee at a branch of the US restaurant chain in Birmingham, AL back in July.The fan shared the photo of her and Del Rey on Instagram, writing: “Waffle House employee shirt purchased on Ebay: $28.60.