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Austin Butler is now officially an Oscar-nominated actor due to his show-stopping performance as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. One of the most-talked-about aspects of this performance, of course, has been the voice he used while playing the part. While it is common for actors to change their manner of speaking when taking on a role (especially of someone as iconic as the singer), The King has seemingly stuck with Butler, whose regular speaking voice still seems to emulate the legendary rock and roll singer's.…

Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for Warner Bros. The internet can always be counted on to give its collective opinions, especially fandoms such DC. One Reddit user took to the popular DC Cinematic forum to get over people’s hot takes on Baz Luhrmann as the perfect director of Gotham City Sirens, which will would on the popular characters Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman. Fans reactions were a mixed bag with many thinking this pairing is a great idea. While others had some questions about…

I grew up in a tiny country town in New South Wales, about 180 miles north of Sydney. It was like living on an island. There were 11 or so houses, and a gas station, and a farm. For a while we ran the local cinema. When my father came out of the Vietnam war we were forced to have extremely short hair. This was the 70s, when if you didn’t have long hair you were a dead person, so it was a big problem. My parents broke up, I got estranged from my dad, and ended up in Sydney with the freedom to grow my hair. I’ve got really…

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, John Travolta, Nicolas Cage and more are paying tribute to Lisa Marie Presley, who died at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center on Thursday at 54. Presley was rushed to the hospital earlier in the day after she experienced cardiac arrest in her Calabasas, California, home. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” her mother, Priscilla, said in a statement. “She was the most passionate strong…

Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann is renowned for putting together lavish and intricate films featuring gorgeous details, and that makes him pretty much the perfect person to create the new movie release Elvis. Austin Butler plays the titular music icon, and his performance in the film has been praised by fans. Interestingly, it sounds like the actor got some solid advice from none other than Luhrmann film vet Leonardo DiCaprio ahead of working with Luhrmann on his music-infused biopic.While you’d…

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…

Image via Warner Bros. To even attempt to capture the spirit of a cultural figure as enormous as Elvis Presley is a herculean task on its own; being the one to decide which parts of that story will capture said figure is even less enviable. Nevertheless, it was an honorable labor for Elvis director Baz Luhrmann, who revealed in an interview with RadioTimes that over an hour and a half of footage had to be cut from the film’s theatrical release. Luhrmann, who has access to the uncut version of the film, had to…

Elvis director Baz Luhrmann has claimed that his forthcoming Elvis Presley biopic originally had a runtime of around four hours.The film, which is released in cinemas this week, stars Austin Butler as the rock ‘n’ roll singer, and Tom Hanks as his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.While the theatrically released film clocks in at around two-and-a-half hours, Luhrmann revealed his original cut was substantially longer – and detailed some of the material that had been cut.Speaking to Radio Times, the Moulin Rouge filmmaker said:…

Image via Warner Bros. It’s hard to imagine a more iconic American rock star than Elvis Presley aka The King of Rock and Roll. He’s sold more than 500 million records worldwide and changed the face of popular music forever. But Baz Luhrman wasn’t crazy about having a less-popular but still iconic young pop star play the King in his new biopic of Presley. Harry Styles is just too Harry Styles to be Elvis, according to the director. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp2BNHwbwvI Styles, arguably the single most…

Image via Warner Bros. Elvis director Baz Luhrmann says it was never his intention to make a straightforward biopic, but instead it was his opportunity to take a historical figure to explore a larger theme. There’s little doubt Luhrmann, known for his razzle-dazzle style, would be taking a larger-than-life approach to at least some aspects of his film, which is releasing next month. But what is surprising is some of the more grounded dramatic elements early reviews of the film have pointed to, particularly in…