Who’ll Get Elvis Most Wrong — Filmmakers or Critics? Crowning the King on a Throne of Lies (Column)

Manchester United have opened talks to sign Matthijs de Ligt from Juventus, according to reports.

​Peta Murgatroyd has started her first round of IVF treatments. The  alum, took to Instagram Wednesday to share a video, where she gave herself the first of many injections of in her and Maksim Chmerkovskiy's journey toward baby no. 2.The video begins with a fresh-faced Peta in a gray cropped longsleeve shirt and sweats, leaving just her stomach — the injection site — exposed. «So, this is it, I'm in my bathroom the first night that I'm gonna be doing my IVF treatment,» Peta began.

YouTuber David Dobrik is being sued for $10 million in damages by a former member of his Vlog Squad who was critically injured during a disastrous stunt involving a massive excavator that was filmed for Dobrik’s channel.

EXCLUSIVE: Adrienne O’Riain is leaving the Turner networks after 11 years, most recently as SVP, original programming for TNT, TBS and truTV, serving as co-head of scripted development for the TNets.

A civil wrongful death lawsuit involving Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight has ended in a mistrial.

Sylvester Stallone is taking on the role of his lifetime. The actor, 75, shared with Entertainment Tonight at the U.K. premiere of "Tulsa King" that he is excited to take on the role of Dwight "The General" Manfredi.

Ryan Reynolds got candid on stage while speaking at a discussion called “Creativity at the Pace of Culture” during the 2022 Cannes Lions held at the Lumiere on Wednesday (June 22) in Cannes, France.

Friendship doesn’t always last forever. David Dobrik is being sued by former friend Jeff Wittek – who ended up in the hospital after a stunt went horribly wrong.

Telly legend Phillip Schofield’s enjoyed yet another bumper year despite the Pandemic. The star’s TV firm Fistral Productions Ltd equity now stands at £2,464,251, which includes £1,686,171 cash in the bank.

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CHRIS Evans has revealed legendary TV show TFI Friday is returning — but it will not air on Channel 4. The series was a huge hit in the late Nineties with its mixture of music, stars and entertainment.

reached 4.429 million signatures as of Wednesday morning — with the originally announced target set at 4.5 million. The Change.org petition was created by fan Jeanne Larson in 2020: “Do the right thing. Remove Amber Heard from Aquaman 2,” she wrote in the list description.Heard, 36, has been intertwined in a controversial court battle with her ex-husband Johnny Depp, 58. The former couple have been at war in a Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom for a $50 million defamation trial.

OLIVIA DeJonge and Austin Butler left fans thrilled at a special screening of the new Elvis Presley biopic last night. The film, Elvis, documents the King’s life and music seen through his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

filming “Barbie” for Simu Liu.The “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” star, 33, revealed he underwent a painful beauty regimen for the upcoming movie, confessing that he had to wax all of his body hair.“Waxing has been an education, to say the least,” Liu told the Independent in a new profile. “It was one of the most painful experiences of my life.”The Canadian native continued, “I have such a newfound admiration for the incredibly brave women who go through this on a monthly basis.”Warner Bros.

Måneskin have spoken to NME about working with director Baz Luhrman on their cover of ‘If I Can Dream’ for upcoming Elvis biopic.Elvis, the upcoming Presley biopic directed by Baz Luhrmann that’s set to arrive in cinemas next month, comes with a soundtrack of covers along with “original songs and recordings” by Presley himself and the film’s star, Austin Butler. Artists to have contributed include Eminem, Tame Impala, Stevie Nicks, Jack White, Swae Lee, Diplo, Chris Isaak, Denzel Curry, Jazmine Sullivan, Pnau and more.Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story, Måneskin told us about recording their version of Evlis’ “huge ballad” ‘If I Can Dream’.“We were talking about it with Baz Luhrmann, who had this really cool, super-smart idea, because it would have been so easy to give us an up-tempo song and go super rock-ish,” said frontman Damiano David.

upcoming biopic “Elvis.”The 65-year-old Oscar winner discussed why he decided to portray him — and how director Baz Luhrmann convinced him to do so — at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.“I’m not interested in playing a bad guy just for the sake of, ‘Before I kill you, Mr. Bond, perhaps you’d like a tour of my installations.’ That’s OK, I get it, but that’s for other stuff,” the “Forrest Gump” actor noted via People.Hanks donned prosthetics and hefty cosmetics to become the real-life legend, though he confessed at the French film fest that he “did not know what Colonel Tom Parker looked like.”He added that Luhrmann described the Colonel as a “great carney,” or carnival worker.“The carney’s job is to bring people to the glittering lights on the outside of town, promise them something they’ve never experienced before, and then, almost giving it to them, at a cost,” he said.

The audience at the Cannes Film Festival was trembling for Austin Butler as the King in Baz Luhrmann’s world premiere of "Elvis." The film received an uproarious 12-minute standing ovation, the longest of this year’s festival so far. As the cheers went on and on, a teary-eyed Butler hugged an equally-emotional Priscilla Presley, who flew to the South of France to give her blessing for the movie about her late husband. The Warner Bros.

in a tweet. “The film is dazzling, bold and moving. Austin Butler absolutely nails it- all the shades: voice, moves, emotion.

Johnny Depp has denied that he tried to get ex-wife Amber Heard fired from Aquaman.During the ongoing defamation trial against Heard, Depp was questioned on Wednesday (May 25) as a rebuttal witness by her legal team.Asked about allegations that he tried to get his ex-wife fired from the 2018 film, Depp claimed he contacted Warner Bros. about his split from Heard and the domestic violence allegations to warn the studio about potential negative press around Aquaman and the Fantastic Beasts franchise.Speaking at the trial (via TheWrap), Depp said: “I felt that it was my responsibility to get the truth to Warner Bros.

“fizzy, delirious, impishly energized, compulsively watchable” — reviews have been mixed with one critic all shook up.IndieWire writer David Ehrlich published his review of the Austin Butler and Tom Hanks-led film Wednesday and trash-talked the flick, calling it a “nightmare” as well as “deliriously awful.”The journalist dove right into “Elvis” — out June 24 — writing that the “159-minute eyesore” is more about Hanks’ Colonel Tom Parker, the longtime manager of the “Love Me Tender” star, and less about Butler’s Elvis.He gave “Elvis” a grade of “D.”IndieWire described the Oscar winner’s character as the “Kentucky Fried Goldmember” and is “possibly the most insufferable movie character ever conceived.” The Hollywood Reporter seemed to agree, dubbing the “Forrest Gump” actor’s role as “arguably the least appealing performance of his career.”But for IndieWire’s Ehrlich, the problem seemed to lie in the pudding: the writing.“Luhrmann’s dizzying script (co-written by Sam Bromell, Jeremy Doner and Craig Pearce) frequently returns to the idea that Presley’s life was caught in the crossfire between two different Americas: One gyrating towards freedom, and the other snuffing it out,” he penned in his review.The critic also compares scenes in “Elvis” to Luhrmann’s other “sensory overload” and “swooningly electric moments” such as the fish tank sequence in his 1996 romance “Romeo + Juliet” and the wild party scene in 2013’s “The Great Gatsby.” “The hyper-romantic energy of those films helped braid the present into the past in a way that made them both feel more alive,” he wrote. “’Elvis’ discovers no such purpose.

CANNES – Following its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival the reviews for Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” are in. So far most critics have raved about Austin Butler’s performance as the King of Rock and Roll and complicated Luhrmann’s staging of the movie’s musical performances.

There’s really no overstating the sociocultural impact of Elvis Aaron Presley, whose music and celebrity cleaved the twentieth century in half as an Ozymandias colossus foretelling the future of fame: merchandising, overexposure, descent into self-parody. That’s all in Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic “Elvis,” though mostly because he’s jammed everything he possibly can into its million-millennia run time.

Kaia Gerber and Austin Butler are packing on the PDA!

Cannes Film Festival was trembling for Austin Butler as the King in Baz Luhrmann’s world premiere of “Elvis.”The film received an uproarious 12-minute standing ovation, the longest of this year’s festival so far.As the the cheers went on and on, a teary-eyed Butler hugged an equally-emotional Priscilla Presley, who flew to the South of France to give her blessing for the movie about her late husband.The Warner Bros. musical drama had Cannes spontaneously erupting into applause as Butler recreated some of Presley’s greatest hits including “Jailhouse Rock,” “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Suspicious Minds.”“Elvis” is one of the biggest titles to screen at Cannes, with a star-studded carpet that included Sharon Stone, Shakira, Kylie Minogue, Diplo and Jeremy O. Harris.

Refresh for latest… Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis strutted its way up the Cannes Film Festival red carpet this evening for the film’s world premiere which was greeted by explosive applause inside the Palais.

The cast of Elvis has arrived for the premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival!

Committed to the role. Austin Butler found himself in a scary situation after he wrapped filming on Elvis last year.

This summer one of the big blockbuster movies is set to be Elvis, a biopic of the hip-shaking '50s idol from maximalist director Baz Luhrmann and starring Austin Butler in the title role. Naturally, music will play a big part in the movie and details of its star-studded soundtrack have been confirmed, with an eclectic array of artists lined up to contribute to the party.

Warner Bros. is giving fans a new look at Elvis!

Elvis Presley, has spoken about the “emotional experience” of watching Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis at Cannes Film Festival.“It’s very intense to watch when it’s your family,” the actor/director told Variety. “The first movie I ever watched in the theater and said I wanted to make movies was ( Luhrmann’s) Moulin Rouge when I was 12. It was a real honour to know Baz was doing this movie.

Baz Luhrmann isn’t one for understatement. The Australian director’s appetite for glamour and hallowed material (“Romeo + Juliet,” “The Great Gatsby”) has gained him a reputation as one of the industry’s most audacious auteurs.