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Review: Elvis

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Austin Butler's split from Vanessa Hudgens after nine years due to Elvis Presley role

Austin Butler has taken on the iconic role of Elvis in the movie which is released today - but the amazing job is allegedly what caused his split from Disney star Vanessa Hudgens

Daily Mirror

Review: 'Elvis' gives little sense of the King of Rock 'n' Roll — it's barely about him

Wise men say only fools rush to make biopics.

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Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is super-spangly, explosive, narratively unhinged – and an artistic triumph

A new Baz Luhrmann film caused a stir this year at Cannes – again.

The Conversation

Was there anything real about Elvis Presley?

In Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” there’s a scene based on actual conversations that took place between Elvis Presley and Steve Binder, the director of a 1968 NBC television special that signaled the singer’s return to live performing.

The Conversation

'Elvis' review: Austin Butler is a great impersonator, but Baz Luhrmann doesn't capture the complicated King

The first shot of Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis" isn't Austin Butler in the titular role, or blue suede shoes: It's a chintzy gift shop snowman-shaped snow globe, only seen for a moment, before Luhrmann takes us inside the glass of his tragic tale, Rosebud-style.

Tribune News Service

Film show: Baz Luhrmann brings Elvis to life in bold biopic

From new biopic "Elvis" by Australian razzle-dazzle director Baz Luhrmann, to the "Toy Story" spinoff from Disney-Pixar that's been banned in a number of countries in the Middle East because of a same-sex kiss, critic Lisa Nesselson speaks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news.

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Explaining Hollywood: How to get a job as a costume designer

LOS ANGELES — Whitney Anne Adams remembers bawling on the set of Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" during the filming of a lavish party scene in Gatsby's 1920s New York mansion.

Los Angeles Times

Elvis review: Baz Luhrmann brings The King to life in his signature pop style, with star turns from Austin Butler and Tom Hanks

Presley’s unusual origin story and formative phase as a "carnival attraction" are centred in a tale narrated by his svengali manager, played by Tom Hanks.

ABC News

'Elvis' and Austin Butler feel the temperature rising

When “Elvis” opens in theaters Friday, it will resurrect one of the most iconic figures in American music in the biggest, most bedazzled film to ever try to capture the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll

The Independent UK

Director Baz Luhrmann had to make a few moves to make sure ‘Elvis’ was in tune

On a recent Saturday afternoon, Baz Luhrmann is at a famous tourist attraction in Memphis, Tennessee, a place that has become quite familiar to him.

Tribune News Service

Movie review: ‘Elvis’ is a wildly inventive biopic from Baz Luhrmann with one drawback (cough, Tom Hanks)

“Elvis” isn’t your ordinary biopic.

Tribune News Service

Baz Luhrmann says Tom Hanks committed to ‘Elvis’ role in 20 minutes

It didn’t take long for Tom Hanks to get all shook up about joining the new “Elvis” biopic.

Tribune News Service

‘Elvis’ director Baz Luhrmann says film humanizes the icon, shares how Elvis Presley’s family reacted to it

Director Baz Luhrmann is ready for a little more conversation about Elvis Presley.

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Movie review: Dazzling biopic a reminder of what made 'Elvis' King of Rock 'n' Roll

Why hasn’t there been a great Elvis biopic yet? Well, Austin Butler wasn’t around to star as the King of Rock 'n' Roll. At the center of Baz Luhrmann’s sprawling pop epic “Elvis,” a film as opulent and outsize as the King’s talent and taste, Butler delivers a fully transformed,…

Tribune News Service

What to stream: Get all shook up with the best Elvis Presley movies, documentaries

Baz Luhrmann’s sprawling pop biopic “Elvis,” starring Austin Butler as the iconic King of Rock 'n’ Roll hits theaters this weekend, and it’s likely that the wild portrait of Elvis Presley might spark a desire to revisit, or discover, some of his best work. There’s of course his discography, but…

Evening Standard

Baz Luhrmann made a four-hour cut of new film Elvis... and it’s ‘wackadoo’

The longer cut explores Elvis’s addiction to barbiturates and his infamous meeting with Nixon

Daily Mirror

Mystery of Colonel Tom Parker - the mastermind behind Elvis Presley's success

Rock 'n' Roll icon Elvis Presley was managed during the height of his career by Colonel Tom Parker, with the talent agent often debated over whether he was a scoundrel or a marketing genius

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Chicago Sun-Times

In ‘Elvis,’ Baz Luhrmann brilliantly floods our senses with arresting sights and sounds

The director’s trademark razzle-dazzle surrounds Tom Hanks as an oily Colonel Tom Parker and Austin Butler, electrifying as The King.

The Independent UK

Elvis director Baz Luhrmann reveals original cut of the film was ‘four hours long’

Filmmaker decided the biopic needed a little less conversation...

Daily Mirror

Austin Butler says he'd only ever sung to girlfriend before playing Elvis Presley

Austin Butler, star of Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis - out this Friday - only sang in front of his girlfriend before the film and feared he wouldn't be able to honour the singer

The Guardian - UK

What links Elvis to LA Galaxy, via Mr Oizo?

With Baz Luhrmann’s Presley biopic in cinemas this week, dive down the rabbit hole with a one-hit wonder turned film-maker and a pair of Shues

Evening Standard

Tom Hanks shouts ‘back the f*** off’ as fan nearly knocks over his wife Rita Wilson

Tom Hanks has been filmed screaming “back the f*** off” at a fan who almost knocked his wife Rita Wilson over.

Daily Mirror

Tom Hanks fans fear for actor's health as he's unable to control shaking hand on stage

Tom Hank was making a speech at the movie premiere of Baz Luhrmann's biopic of Elvis when he had to clutch his microphone with both hands to stop them from shaking

Daily Mirror

Elvis star Austin Butler all shook up as obsessed fans 'throw themselves at him'

Heartthrob former Disney actor Austin Butler is playing Elvis Presley in a new Baz Luhrmann film and is having the same effect on girl fans as the King of Rock'n'Roll did in his hip-swivelling heyday

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