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From Whitney Houston to Elvis, there is no shortage of iconic singers who inspire sweeping films that dramatize their life stories. No matter the genre, cinematic features have captured the careers of the King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley to country singer Jonny Cash. Most recently, Back to Black (2024)…

“Thank you. Thank you very much.” A simple phrase, but actor Austin Butler admits it took him a while not to use his Elvis voice when talking. That’s after he spent months developing it for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic. To shake it, he had to hire a dialect coach. On Wednesday’s The Late Show, Butler…

On the final day of the year, Taylor Swift added one more accolade to her long list of accomplishments n 2023: She now holds the record for most weeks for a solo artist at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Related Stories …

Catherine Martin has worked with Baz Luhrmann for 30 years and the costume and production designer says that each project offers up its own unique set of challenges that make her feel like she's doing her "doctorate in film studies all over again."  Stepping into Deadline's Red Sea Studio at the Red…

Austin Butler has shared the key piece of advice he received from Tom Hanks, his co-star in last year's hit biopic Elvis. Butler, who was Oscar-nominated for the title role, told the UK's Times newspaper that he sat down for dinner with Hanks who told his younger co-star that he needed to dive deep…

EXCLUSIVE: Elvis Presley’s relationship with the women closest to him is to be revealed in an Amazon Prime Video documentary series. Premiering this week, Elvis’ Women aims to “uncover a man who was much more complex than the public perception of the titular American icon,” according to the show’s…

America may be deeply divided, but politics and the culture wars will not be center stage at this year's Oscars if the organizers have their way. "We're not interested in distractions or partisan debate, we're interested in Tom Cruise," a 95th Academy Awards ceremony insider says of this weekend's…

Blonde starring the Oscar-nominated Ana de Armas took the big prize — Worst Picture — as well as Worst Screenplay for writer-director Andrew Dominick among the winners announced for the 43rd annual Razzie Awards. Tom Hanks, meanwhile, now has two Razzie statuettes to pair with his Oscars. Hanks…

Baz Luhrmann says it would be "an amazing historical moment" if Elvis cinematographer Mandy Walker were to triumph at Sunday’s Academy Awards. To quote Lizzo, "It's been too long," the filmmaker tells me last night at the Australian Oscar nominees soirée held in the Chateau Marmont's penthouse…

Oscar-nomination afterglow for this year’s Best Picture contenders was largely felt more in the home than it was at the box office, with a majority of titles already available to be viewed on the couch except for 20th Century Studios/Disney’s 3D title Avatar: The Way of Water. Since noms were first an…

For the first time since 2020, just before Covid dealt a devastating blow to the industry, exhibitors and awards season, it feels like this year's Oscar show may return to some sense of normalcy. And with box office hits mixed with acclaimed indies among the 10 Best Picture nominees, this could be the…

For Elvis, prosthetic designers Jason Baird and Mark Coulier thought the bulk of their work would be transforming Tom Hanks into Colonel Tom Parker. They were surprised to find that the real challenge was the subtle changes for Austin Butler as Elvis throughout the film. Baz Luhrmann's biopic takes a…