Category: Baz Luhrmann

Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” Received A 12-Minute Standing Ovation At Cannes

May 26, 2022 / Posted by:

I’ve never been to the Cannes Film Festival, but I imagine there’s a lot of preparation and planning involved if you want to attend, even if it’s just as an audience member. Because The Cannes Clap is no joke and I’m not talking about the one that will have you dipping out to the nearest pharmacie for some antibiotiques. I’m talking about the standing ovations, like the 12-minute palm-punisher Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis received after its screening on Tuesday. As everybody knows, you don’t go to a Cannes screening without having done everything in your power to build up the thickest, gnarliest callouses required to endure the gauntlet of The Cannes Clap. And it’s no walk in the park for those on the receiving end either.

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Austin Butler Has Kicked Off His “Elvis” Oscar Campaign But Declined To Talk About His Ex Vanessa Hudgens

May 25, 2022 / Posted by:

Lady Gaga is probably kicking herself in the pants right now for not auditioning for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. Had she nabbed the role of Elvis Presley, she’d be the one telling British GQ how her “body just started shutting down” as soon as they wrapped because of the stress. Instead, Austin Butler gets to use that line in his march toward Oscar buzz, and so far, the best that Gaga can hope for is a Best Original Song nomination for Hold My Hand (Take My Whole Life Too) for the Top Gun 2: Gaga’s Turn soundtrack.

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Here’s The First Trailer For Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” Starring Austin Butler

February 17, 2022 / Posted by:

It’s been almost three years since relative newcomer Austin Butler was announced to star in Elvis, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic. At the time he won the role it was down to him, Ansel Elgort, and Miles Teller. Ansel went on to jinx West Side Story at the box office while ducking accusations of sexual misconduct, and Miles went on to star in Top Gun 2: Never Gonna Happen and get punched by a wedding planner while partying with Aaron Rodgers in Hawaii. So it looks like they made the right choice. But after seeing the trailer, I’m not so sure they made the right choice in casting Tom Hanks as Elvis’ manager Colonel Tom Parker, a role that clearly should have gone to Jared Leto based on the sheer amount of prosthetics they plastered on him to play a man nobody even knows or cares what he looked like anymore.

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Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Biopic Has Found Its Priscilla Presley

October 25, 2019 / Posted by:

And as you can see, it’s not Lana Del Rey. Thoughts and prayers to Lana Del Rey today, as she’s been training for this her whole life (or at least her post-Lizzy Grant life), only to be knocked out in the final round. If you need Lana, she’ll sadly sipping a Pepsi from the back of a 1968 Firebird while wearing a faded vintage pastel blue pleated chiffon prom dress. She was going to do that anyway, but today she has a reason for it.

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Austin Butler Nabbed The Role Of Elvis Presley In Baz Luhrmann’s Upcoming Biopic

July 15, 2019 / Posted by:

Today we bathe in the tears of the unwanted. Miles Teller probably threw something across the room, Ansel Elgort probably filmed himself crying in the mirror, Harry Styles probably cursed mildly and made himself a cuppa, and G-Eazy probably started a bonfire with his Hawaiian shirt collection this morning upon learning the news they had all lost out on the role of a lifetime. Elvis is about to re-enter the building in the body of Austin Butler, who has been cast as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming biopic. Austin’s girlfriend of about 8 years, Vanessa Hudgens, posted the news on Instagram.

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