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The stage musical adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, with songs by Elton John and Shaina Taub and a book by Paul Rudnick, will make its pre-Broadway world premiere next summer in Chicago, presenter Broadway In Chicago announced today. Directed by Anna D. Shapiro (a Tony winner for August: Osage County), Devil will…

UPDATE:  Elton John is “mistaken” about LGBT rights in Russia, claims Vladimir Putin. The Russian President was responding to an Instagram post from John, who said that he was deeply upset by prior remarks from Putin that liberal values were “obsolete” and that Putin’s claim of non-interference with LGBT rights seems…

Elton John is calling out Russian President Vladimir Putin’s disingenuous statements about gay rights by noting that Russian film distributors heavily censored Rocketman “by removing all references to my finding true happiness” with husband David Furnish. In an open letter released by John’s publicist, the iconic rock…

Rocketman has run into a roadblock in Samoa. The South Pacific nation has banned the Elton John biopic over its depictions of homosexuality. The film was banned last week because it clashed with Samoa’s “culture and our Christian beliefs”, the censor, Leiataua Niuapu Faaui, told the Samoa Observer newspaper on…

UPDATED WITH PARAMOUNT STATEMENT: Central Partnership, the Russian distributor of Rocketman, has edited out all scenes depicting drug use and gay sex to conform the Russian Federation’s legislation against homosexual propaganda. This afternoon, Elton John, an EP on his own Paramount/Marv Films biopic, and the pic’s…

Elton John claims that he had to fight to tell his story his way in Rocketman. "Some studios wanted to tone down the sex and drugs so the film would get a PG-13 rating. But I just haven't led a PG-13 rated life," John said in an article he wrote for the UK’s Guardian. "I didn't want a film packed with drugs and sex…

“Even if the movie doesn’t make one penny — which will kill Jim Gianopulos — it is the movie I wanted to make, and that doesn’t happen often,” said no one other than Elton John on Thursday as he proceeded to sing his signature “I’m Still Standing” at the Carlton Beach after-party for the world premiere of the movie…

UPDATED with “I’m Still Standing” video, Elton John and Bernie Taupin reaction: As Deadline exclusively reported this morning, no shocker here: Elton John and Rocketman star Taron Egerton performed a duet of the Paramount film’s iconic title song together at the film’s world premiere after-party at the Carlton Beach…

EXCLUSIVE: From the minute Rocketman landed an out of competition spot at Cannes, it’s been buzzed that Elton John could perform at tonight’s after-premiere party, the same spot some 37 years ago where he shot the music video for his hit 1983 song “I’m Still Standing.” Well, it wouldn’t be a shocker if that happens: A…

Actors love to boast about their range, but in a pair of movies releasing in 2019, Jamie Bell will get to demonstrate his. Premiering at Cannes is Rocketman, directed by Dexter Fletcher. In the musical biopic of the life of Elton John, Bell plays John's longtime songwriter Bernie Taupin. And in a complete 180, Guy…

Following a global backlash and an outcry from celebrities including George Clooney, Elton John and Ellen DeGeneres to boycott the nine luxury hotels he owns around the world, the Sultan of Brunei today pulled back on extreme laws against LGBTQ citizens of his country, extended a moratorium on a death penalty that…

It’s official: Dexter Fletcher’s Elton John biopic Rocketman is making its global debut at the Cannes Film Festival in a special out of competition Gala screening on May 16. The Paramount release hits U.S./Canada on May 31 and the early footage that’s been seen by the media and exhibitors in recent weeks at CinemaCon…