Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Get Down’ Canceled By Netflix After One Season
EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that Netflix has opted not to proceed with a second season of Baz Luhrmann’s ambitious musical drama The Get Down. The decision comes after the second six-episode part of Season...
View Article‘The Get Down’ Choreographers On The Sequences That Emerged From Baz...
The opportunity to collaborate with Oscar-nominated director Baz Luhrmann would be enough in itself for many artists to sign on to a project without so much as reading a script, but for The Get Down...
View Article‘Will’ Review: TNT’s Young Shakespeare Drama Not So Dynamic, Not So Bawdy
Despite its esteemed Elizabethan pedigree behind the camera, the July 10-debuting Will on TNT is not the stuff of which Peak TV stardust is made. With a late-20th century soundtrack and grand ambitions...
View ArticleLive ‘Moulin Rouge’ Sets Beantown Premiere As Boston Reclaims Tryout Status
Broadway’s latest screen-to-stage adaptation, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, has booked Boston for its Broadway tryout next summer, restating Beantown’s status as a shake-out city for Gotham-bound shows....
View ArticleOlympic Figure Skating Heats Up ‘Moulin Rouge!’ Soundtrack Sales
Attention on the figure skating events in the Winter Olympics in South Korea has done wonders for the soundtrack of the Baz Luhrmann-directed Moulin Rouge!. This is the first Olympics that has allowed...
View Article‘Moulin Rouge!’ Stage Musical Sets Date For Broadway Run
The Broadway adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! will begin its run on the boards next summer, producers announced, with previews starting June 28 and opening night set for July 25. Producer...
View ArticleTom Hanks In Talks To Play Colonel Tom Parker In Baz Luhrmann Untitled Elvis...
Deadline has confirmed that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is in talks to play the iconic Colonel Tom Parker, manager of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s untitled Elvis Presley movie for Warner Bros....
View ArticlePeter Bart: ‘Rocketman’s Strong Start Will Launch Exotic Mix Of Musical...
With Rocketman opening strongly this past weekend at 3,500 theaters, and with a dozen other music-driven movies huddled at the starting line, one movie milestone is being studiously ignored: the 50th...
View ArticleTop Young Talent Vying For Elvis In Baz Luhrmann Film; Ansel Elgort, Miles...
EXCLUSIVE: Baz Luhrmann is testing a top group of young actors for the role of Elvis Presley in his Warner Bros film about the legendary singer and his manager Colonel Tom Parker. Luhrmann filmed a...
View ArticleBaz Luhrmann Sets Austin Butler In Starmaking Elvis Presley Role Opposite Tom...
EXCLUSIVE: Director Baz Luhrmann has found his Elvis. He has set Austin Butler to play the starmaking role of Elvis Presley in the untitled drama that covers the seminal legend’s growth from dirt poor...
View ArticleWarner Bros. Dates Baz Luhrmann ‘Elvis Presley’ Movie, Shifts ‘Dune’ & More
Warner Bros. on late Friday pushed Denis Villeneuve’s Dune by a month from Nov. 20, 2020 to Dec. 18, 2020. The pic will receive an Imax release. The studio is still going to hold onto that Nov. 20 date...
View ArticleBaz Luhrmann’s Elvis Movie Finds Its Priscilla Presley In Netflix ‘The...
EXCLUSIVE: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley movie at Warner Bros. has cast Australian actress Olivia DeJonge in the role of his wife Priscilla Presley. Priscilla Ann Presley nee Wagner, was born in...
View ArticleBaz Luhrmann Sets Classic Mikhail Bulgakov Russian Novel ‘The Master And...
EXCLUSIVE: As Baz Luhrmann readies to direct the untitled Elvis Presley project for Warner Bros, he has secured the long sought after rights to the cult Russian novel The Master and Margarita. Luhrmann...
View ArticleDirector Baz Luhrmann And Family Head Into Quarantine After Tom Hanks’s...
Australian director Baz Luhrmann has taken himself and his family into voluntary quarantine after coming into contact with Tom Hanks on the set of his new, untitled Elvis film. Luhrmann, his wife and...
View ArticleProduction Suspended Indefinitely On Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Movie As Tom Hanks...
Baz Luhrmann has confirmed that his Elvis Presley movie, which is set to star Tom Hanks and Austin Butler, will not begin production next week in Australia due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The...
View ArticleBaz Luhrmann Records New ‘Sunscreen’ For Coronavirus Pandemic 2020, With Help...
EXCLUSIVE: Baz Luhrmann has recorded “Sunscreen,” a new pandemic-relevant version of “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen),” his 1998 spoken-word song that featured a common sense essay written as a...
View ArticleBaz Luhrmann Talks Pandemic, Elvis, Tom Hanks & Reapplying ‘Sunscreen’ With...
EXCLUSIVE: Director Baz Luhrmann was days from starting production on his untitled Elvis Presley film when his Col. Tom Parker, Tom Hanks, came down with the coronavirus symptoms that shut down...
View Article‘Elvis’: Baz Luhrmann-Tom Hanks Movie Returning To Production In Australia...
Baz Luhrmann’s Warner Bros. Elvis movie is back on track, and will resume filming on Sept. 23 in Queensland, Australia. The news comes six months after the production was forced to shut down after...
View ArticleKelvin Harrison Jr. To Play Blues Icon B.B. King In Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’...
EXCLUSIVE: Kelvin Harrison Jr. has landed a supporting role in the upcoming Elvis film from director Baz Luhrmann and Warner Bros. The pic resumed shooting back in September after star Tom Hanks came...
View ArticleNewcomer Alton Mason To Play Little Richard In Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’
EXCLUSIVE: Following a lengthy search, director Baz Luhrmann has tapped up-and-comer Alton Mason to play legendary musician Little Richard in Warner Bros’ Elvis. Sources tell Deadline that even as the...
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