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Madonna is constantly showing support and giving advice to her friends and family, most recently with fellow musician Doja Cat, during an Instagram Live where the rapper was opening up to her fans about her mental health and personal issues.During the Instagram Live, Doja was doing her makeup while reading some of the comments her fans were writing for her, however they didn’t know Madonna was also seeing the live video.“You look beautiful,” Madonna wrote, encouraging the singer to stop being so self-critical. “Don’t be so hard on yourself!,” she added.Madonna also had some motivational words on Doja’s career in the music industry.

three endings to the romance drama. “I originally set out to take the notion of the sweeping, ‘Gone With the Wind’-style epic and turn it on its head — a way of using romance and epic drama to shine a light on the roles of First Nations people and the painful scar in Australian history of the ‘Stolen Generations,‘” Luhrmann noted in a statement.“While ‘Australia,’ the film has its own life, there was another telling of this story; one with different layers, nuances and even alternative plot twists that an episodic format has allowed us to explore,” he said.“Drawn from the same material, ‘Faraway Downs’ is a new variation on ‘Australia’ for audiences to discover,” the “Great Gatsby” director added.“Australia” told the tale of an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a cattle station called Faraway Downs following the death of her husband on the brink of World War II.She teams up with a cattle driver (Hugh Jackman) when Australian barons want to infiltrate her land and take over the territory.

While out there promoting the hell out of his new film, “Elvis,” filmmaker Baz Luhrmann has made it no secret that he plans on re-editing his 2008 film, “Australia,” and turning it into a limited series. Well, now we finally have more details and it’s starting to sound like “Australia” is getting the full Snyder Cut treatment.

Elvis Presley's life is being celebrated in cinemas with the release of Elvis, a new biopic from director Baz Luhrmann. But while it tells the story of how the star met Priscilla Presley, it doesn't provide every detail. It is true that Elvis first met Priscilla (originally known as Beaulieu) in 1959 while he was stationed in Friedberg, Germany, for the US Army.

Austin Butler is opening up about his role in Elvis.

J. Kim Murphy It’s a 20th century showdown at the domestic box office this weekend, with the baby boomer epic “Elvis” contending against Gen X revamp “Top Gun: Maverick” for the top spot on domestic charts.Director Baz Luhrmann’s biopic about the King of Rock and Roll is projected to draw $30 million from 3,906 theaters in its opening.

Austin Butler shared a story about meeting Sir Paul McCartney on Thursday while promoting his Elvis movie on The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS.The 30-year-old actor, who plays Elvis Presley in the new biographical musical Elvis directed by Baz Luhrmann, said he was in awe when he sat across from Paul, 80, for a more than two-hour train ride.'Suddenly, I'm sitting on a trail across from Paul McCartney, the French countryside is going by and [Stella McCartney] plays the song that he listened to with Elvis,' Austin said. Elvis star:Austin Butler shared a story about meeting Sir Paul McCartney on Thursday while promoting his Elvis movie on The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS'And he's drumming it out on the table and singing the song to me and those are those moments where you just have to pinch yourself ''I can't believe this is my life right now.'' And then he gave me a hug and we went our separate ways afterwards.

Paul McCartney on Thursday while promoting his Elvis movie on The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS. The 30-year-old actor, who plays Elvis Presley in the new biographical musical Elvis directed by Baz Luhrmann, said he was in awe when he sat across from Paul, 80, for a more than two-hour train ride. 'Suddenly, I'm sitting on a trail across from Paul McCartney, the French countryside is going by and [Stella McCartney] plays the song that he listened to with Elvis,' Austin said.

Elvis Presley also locked down the woman beside him.Presley’s manager Colonel Tom Parker was so controlling, he pressured the rock star into marrying Priscilla Beaulieu on May 1, 1967. Determined to get those “I do’s” done, Parker even arranged the whole wedding at the Aladdin hotel in Las Vegas, where the inveterate gambler had a history of dangerous debts.“He wanted him tied down to a woman so there wouldn’t be any scandals about women,” said James L.

Bohemian Rhapsody,” and Elton John, who got his own movie with “Rocketman,” Presley comes with more pop-culture baggage than you could stuff into a million Gracelands.There’s the campy Vegas impersonators, the “thank you, thank you very much” catchphrase, the white jumpsuit, the late-in-life weight gain and, of course, dying on the toilet at age 42. For such a singular figure in music — still instantly recognizable to teens today in a way that Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon are not — he’s not allowed much dignity.Luhrmann’s hugely entertaining film and Butler’s sensational performance are dead set on righting that wrong. A movie that runs on jet fuel and confetti, “Elvis” is a tribute to Presley’s innovative spirit, deep passion for fusing blues, country and gospel music and the intense connection he had with his audience. Elvis taking inspiration from black musicians like B.B.

The director of the new Elvis biopic, Baz Luhrman, and the man who played theKing of Rock and Roll,Austin Butler, surprised moviegoers at an AMC Theater in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank.The duo have been appearing together, and at times separately, in interviews and talk shows in the final push leading up to the release of the much-hyped and much-anticipated film.The movie, which also stars Tom Hanks and Olivia DeJonge, chronicles the life and career of Elvis Presley from his early days as a child to becoming one of the first rock and roll stars, as well as his complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Surprise riles up moviegoers: Elvis director Baz Luhrmann and leading man Austin Butler made a surprise appearance at a special screening of the much-anticipated biopic at an AMC theater in the Los Angeles suburb of BurbankLurking in a hallway entrance to the theater, Luhrmann took to his camera-phone and set-up his surprise entrance.'I am at the AMC Theaters in Burbank with one of my first audiences for Elvis,' the Australian director whispered into the camera.

The Presley family made history on Tuesday.Three generations of Presleys - Priscilla, 77, Lisa Marie, 54, and her daughter Riley, 33, as well as her twins Harper and Finley, 13 - were seen side by side at theHand and Footprint Ceremony held outside the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.Also in attendance was Austin Butler, who plays the rock star in the new movie Elvis, and the film's director Baz Luhrmann. Five strong women:The Presley family made history on Tuesday.

daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, and her own daughter, Riley Keough. “It was such an emotional [experience],” Lisa Marie said in a teaser for “Exclusively Elvis: A Special Edition of 20/20,” airing at 10 p.m. ET Tuesday on ABC.

Elvis film exists, including scenes that show the legendary singer meeting Richard Nixon.Speaking to Radio Times in a new interview published yesterday (June 20), Luhrmann explained that the longer version exists, but needed to be worked into a smaller cut to for audiences.“I have a four-hour version, actually,” he said. “I do.

Eight Elvises, was sold by the Italian art collector Annibale Berlingieri in a private sale for $100m to an unidentified buyer, thought to be the Qatari royal family. In 2014, another Warhol painting, Triple Elvis, sold for nearly $82m at an auction at Christie’s in New York. In the years since his death, the character of Elvis has featured in some 31 feature films, played by actors including Kurt Russell, Harvey Keitel and Don Johnson.

According to director Baz Luhrmann, a longer version of his newest biopic, Elvis. 

Elvis Presley.Baz Luhrmann — director of the upcoming biopic “Elvis” — recently revealed that he has a much longer cut of the musical drama.“I mean, I have a four-hour version, actually,” the Australian filmmaker, 59, told Radio Times.He also noted that there were a lot of extra scenes he wanted to include that would have helped complete the story of Elvis, portrayed by Austin Butler. However, there are serious time constraints. “You have to bring it down to 2 hours 30 [minutes],” he said.“I would have liked to lean into some of the other things more,” Luhrmann went on.

were at the Memphis mansion that Elvis called home, to introduce director Baz Luhrmann’s biopic starring Austin Butler as the icon.As Riley, 33, has previously stated, she broke down in tears while watching the movie for the first time with her mom and grandma. “I started crying five minutes in and didn’t stop.

Olivia DeJonge adds some sparkle to the premiere of her new movie, Elvis, held at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Theater in Toronto, Canada on Friday (June 17).

Måneskin have shared their cover of ‘If I Can Dream from the soundtrack of the Baz Luhrmann-directed new movie Elvis.The band previously teased the track, which you can listen to below, during their performance at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin last month.Elvis, which is released on June 24, comes with a soundtrack of covers along with “original songs and recordings” by Presley himself and the film’s star, Austin Butler. Artists to have contributed also include Eminem, Tame Impala, Stevie Nicks, Jack White, Swae Lee, Diplo, Chris Isaak, Denzel Curry, Jazmine Sullivan, Pnau and more.Speaking to NME for their recent Big Read cover story, Måneskin frontman Damiano David said of their cover: “We were talking about it with Baz Luhrmann, who had this really cool, super-smart idea, because it would have been so easy to give us an up-tempo song and go super rock-ish.

Tom Hanks brushed off his recent woes as he performed an energetic dance routine onThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday.The 65-year-old Hollywood legend has made headlines in recent days after sparking concerns over his health when he was filmed visibly shaking, while he was also caught in an altercation with an aggressive fan.Yet Tom proved he was still limber and in good spirits as he teamed up with Stephen, 58, for a sketch about dads filming TikTok dance routines. Having fun:Tom Hanks brushed off his recent woes as he performed an energetic dance routine on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on ThursdayThe skit saw Tom and Stephen playing embarrassing fathers trying to be down with the kids by filming a viral dance routine.