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Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ named Best Film at Australian film awards ( Photo Credit – Facebook ; Elvis Poster ) Elvis, which earlier this week dominated the craft prizes at AACTA (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) awards, added four more prizes to the kitty, including ‘best film’ and ‘best director’ for Baz Luhrmann. The film also bagged the best lead actor (Austin Butler) and best-supporting actress (Olivia DeJonge) awards, Variety reported. Elvis had already won seven previous prizes at Monday night’s…

Baz Luhrmann’s film Elvis and ABC television series Mystery Road: Origin have swept this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema Television Arts (Aacta) awards, leading the way with 15 nominations each.Luhrmann’s musical biopic is nominated for best film, against Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife and George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing – which both have 13 nominations – as well as Thomas M Wright’s The Stranger, anthology film Here Out West and horror comedy Sissy.Luhrmann is also nominated for best director, while…

Austin Butler has revealed that he left the set of Elvis “in tears” one day after director Baz Luhrmann encouraged studio executives to heckle him while he was singing.The actor stars opposite Tom Hanks in the recent film about Elvis Presley’s life and career. Read The Independent’s four-star review here.One scene in the movie sees Butler, playing Presley early on in his career, being jeered at by an unimpressed crowd.In a new interview, Butler discussed singing in the RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee where Presley…

Image Bazmark Films/20th Century Fox, via YouTube Director Baz Luhrmann, whose film Elvis is now out in theaters, is set to revisit the past in his next project; his 2008 work Australia, famously a flop in the United States, is being reimagined for various Disney-owned streaming sites. News of the re-edit of the adventure drama film, which starred Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, being re-worked into a six-part limited series titled Faraway Downs is reported today in an article from Deadline Hollywood. The…

The Wonder of YouAustin Butler sparkles in the lead role, but perhaps Baz Luhrmann’s high-octane, live-action graphic novel should not be called a “biopic” at all. For a start, if you want to talk about the life of Presley, there are plenty of omissions: his time at Humes high school, most of his Sun Records career, his rockabilly peers, studio sessions, personal interest in mystic literature, Lake Tahoe residences, and, of course, the sorry descent of his final years.Other things, such as his love of martial arts, get…

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…

Baz Luhrmann has given us another pointless explosion of super-spangly sparkles in celluloid form – exactly the same sparkles he sprinkled over the Moulin Rouge and Jay Gatsby in previous films. And just as Alan Partridge said his favourite Beatles album was The Best of the Beatles, so Luhrmann has given us a film built around what he imagines is the best of Elvis Presley.It’s not a movie so much as 159-minute trailer for a film called Elvis – a relentless, frantically flashy montage, epic and yet negligible at the same…

Dir: Baz Luhrmann. Starring: Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Olivia DeJonge, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Shonka Dukureh. 12A, 160 minutes.If we were to pull back the curtain on Elvis Presley, what would we even want to see? A soul stripped of its performance? Something cold and real behind the kitsch? I’m not convinced. America’s pop icons aren’t merely shiny distractions. They’re a culture talking back to itself, constantly interrogating its own ideals and its desires. I don’t think who Elvis was is…

Taking on the life of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Rock, is a massive undertaking. Thankfully, Baz Luhrmann's upcoming movie about the music icon struck the right note with Austin Bulter being cast as the King as seen in the explosive Elvis trailer, which also stars Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker. Here's a fun tidbit of trivia regarding Butler's involvement: Luhrmann has revealed it was two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington who was totally responsible for the young actor being cast as Elvis.Denzel Washington…

The official Twitter account for Baz Lurmann’s upcoming Elvis biopic has just posted three new posters for the Warner Bros. project. All three feature star Austin Butler as the legendary rock n’ roller at various points over his career. All three bear the hallmark of Luhrmann’s baroque and over-the-top style. The first poster shows Elvis at the start of his career, firmly embodying his rockabilly persona of the mid-‘50s. The second shows Butler in the singer’s all black leather get up that he wore for his…