Elvis

Elvis Presley was born running, and Baz Luhrmann captured the iconic figure’s spirit in a way no one has done before, hand in hand with Austin Butler. Luhrmann’s Elvis hit theaters on June 24 and what was once just a summer date now rings legendary in the realm of Presley fans. The film tells another version of Presley’s story — one filled with heartache, passion, and the burden of carrying the weight of everyone around you. Presley was larger than life — he is still larger than life — but Butler takes the myth and…

Credit: Warner Bros. / Universal Baz Luhrmann’s hip-swinging sensation piece Elvis is currently swaying its hips at the box office and creating some stellar movie magic as Austin Butler shines in the titular role, with the biographical film grossing $3.5 million in early previews from over 3,000 locations across the United States. To add, Luhrmann’s film currently boasts an 81 percent Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and looks to build its box-office repertoire over the weekend — where it’s projected to…

By Mark Meszoros | (Willoughby, Ohio) News-Herald “Elvis” isn’t your ordinary biopic. The new film about rock ’n’ roll icon Elvis Presley — told through the lens of his two-decade-plus partnership with his increasingly duplicitous manager, Colonel Tom Parker — is an elaborate web of complex shots, outside-the-box editing and exquisitely executed music integration. And you wonder why we don’t get movies from Baz Luhrmann more often? “Elvis” — directed and co-written by the Australian filmmaker whose last big-screen work…

For the film’s first half hour ‘Elvis’ is a revelatory nightmare fueled by capitalism and racism. But for most of the runtime, there are flashes of vibrant, beguiling entertainment A still from the film ElvisCast: Tom Hanks, Austin Butler, Dacre MontgomeryDirector: Baz LuhrmannRating: 3/5Flamboyant filmmaker Baz Luhrmann’s bio-pic of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel…

Easily one of the most-anticipated films of the year, ‘ELVIS’ by Baz Luhrmann arrives in cinemas today and it’s sure to be a box-office smash. With Austin Butler (‘The Carrie Diaries’) as Elvis Presley, the film tells the story of one of music’s most iconic performers and as you’d expect, it’s jam-packed with music. Running just short of 3-hours in length, it’s no surprise that the accompanying soundtrack is a sprawling 36-song collection that clocks in at almost 2 hours. A mix of Elvis recordings (polished up for the…

Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images Austin Butler is donning his blue suede shoes to become Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, and audiences worldwide are soon to be wowed by his performance. In the lead-up to the film, Butler has been speaking about the experience in interviews, and while it’s something he treasures so much, it also leaves him feeling a bit in awe of the process. He joined The Kelly Clarkson Show to talk about becoming Elvis Presley and his journey with Baz Luhrmann before landing the…

Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Tom Hanks is Colonel Tom Parker in Bazz Luhrmann’s Elvis, and the role is something almost otherworldly for the legendary actor. Playing the right-hand man to Elvis Presley was on another level entirely, one that allowed him more room for freedom in his role. In a chat with EW, Hanks talked more about the role of Parker and how playing Elvis was sort of like being Jesus, and his explanation of the statement makes a lot of sense. “Playing Elvis is like playing…

Thanks to Baz Luhrmann’s lavish new biopic, Elvis Presley is about to have a moment.He needs one.The second half of the 20th century, for those who came of age during it, was in essence one giant Elvis moment. He was at the epicenter of pop culture from the opening “well” of his first No. 1 hit, “Heartbreak Hotel,” in 1956, through his death in 1977 and beyond. John Lennon said, “Without Elvis, there be no Beatles,” encapsulating the seismic effect Presley had upon popular music. He had 18 No. 1 hits, including such…

On 16 August 1977, the death of Elvis Aaron Presley shook America all the way to the White House. “Elvis Presley’s death deprives our country of a part of itself,” announced president Jimmy Carter, in a statement that credited the snake-hipped singer from Tupelo with having “permanently changed the face of American popular culture”. Eighty thousand mourning fans turned out to line Presley’s funeral procession in Memphis, but even then there were those who wondered whether the flamboyant showman would genuinely establish a…

Image via Warner Bros. One of life’s less-indulged joys is learning about the wide array of creative processes employed by artists of all calibers. For Hollywood in particular, gaining insight on how today’s movie stars find themselves preparing for a role tends to be nothing short of fascinating. Such was the case for Austin Butler as he got ready to take up an absolute mammoth of a mantle in Elvis Presley, whom he portrays in Baz Luhrmann’s biographical drama Elvis. The actor drove his nose right into the…