Elton John Slams Catholic Church for Investing in ‘Rocketman’ but Remaining Anti-Gay Marriage
Elton John won the Best Original Song Oscar last year for “Rocketman.”
Elton John won the Best Original Song Oscar last year for “Rocketman.”
For their first Oscar contender together, John and long-time lyricist partner Bernie Taupin merged a Tom Waits-like slow waltz with a Motown vibe.
Disney swept the sci-fi/fantasy costume category with all five nominations, and Ruth Carter becomes the frontrunner for her second consecutive Oscar with “Dolemite Is My Name.”
“Rocketman” scrambles the Elton John Songbook, while “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” uses the the playlist from popular ’60s LA radio station KHJ.
Check out our video interview with Egerton, for whom singing wasn’t the tough part of finding this complex, nuanced character.
The remarkable makeup/hairstyling and costuming helped Egerton and Zellweger pull off their spot-on performances as Elton and Judy.
“Booksmart” director Olivia Wilde earlier this week expressed dismay over the in-flight censorship of a key moment from her acclaimed film.
It took 12 years of development for Elton John to get “Rocketman” made and he couldn’t be happier with the result.
While the idea sounds enticing, director Dexter Fletcher ultimately chose to let Elton John’s movie be fully devoted to Elton John.
The not-so-secret life of sequels: They don’t always work.
They ultimately decided against it, but the massive box-office success of the Queen biopic complicated the path of the Elton John film.
Elton John’s movie beat expectations, and “Bohemian Rhapsody” was a smash, but the challenges of music biopics are more complicated than two box-office hits.