UPDATED with video from speech: The massively prolific songwriting tandem of melody-man Elton John and lyrics-master  Bernie Taupin won the honor for the best original song  in a 2019 feature film for “I’m Gonna Love Me Again” from the classic rock biopic hit Rocketman.
“It’s a 52-year-old marriage,” Taupin said of…
1917 director Sam Mendes and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight are among the Brits to score a prestigious award as part of the New Year's Honours List 2020.
The distinguished awards are handed out once a year and recognize the outstanding achievements of 1,097 people across the UK.
Neal Street co-founder Mendes…
Director Dexter Fletcher and star Taron Egerton reflected on their hit musical movie Rocketman, their non-biopic biopic of Elton John, in front of a packed room at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles awards-season event.
The Paramount movie, which has grossed $195.2 million at the worldwide box office, traces the…
Tony Award winner Beth Leavel has been cast in the pre-Broadway production of The Devil Wears Prada as tyrannical fashion editor Miranda Priestly, while Taylor Iman Jones (Broadway’s Head Over Heels) will take the role of her put-upon assistant Andy Sachs, producers announced today.
The casting announcement comes as…
"To have somebody make a movie about you must be even for Elton, quite weird. It's like you're putting your childhood on sale, all your misdemeanors, your success, and all of that. Given all of that, he was incredible, and a real generous spirit. I showed him the [costume] concepts, and he gave his seal of approval…
With Rocketman, Taron Egerton got the role of a lifetime — or at least so far for this young actor, who already has made a big cinematic splash in the Kingsman movies, as well as another true-life role as Olympics ski-jumping phenomenon Eddie the Eagle.Â
But the latter was a long way from who he plays in Rocketman …
Facebook Watch will stream an interview between Elton John and Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams, filmed at The Hammersmith Apollo in London earlier this week.
An Evening With Elton John was produced by Whitecoat TV and will launch on Facebook Watch on November 25, with Elton John promoting the interview on…
Who knew Stephen Colbert was a Gossip Girl fanboy? The Late Show host tonight went all shipper as he talked about others talking about Tuesday’s first television hearing in the Donald Trump impeachment inquiry.
He showed a clip of Kellyanne Conway on Fox News’Â Fox & Friends lamenting what she perceived as a lack of…
Paramount presented the Elton John biopic Rocketman at The Contenders Los Angeles today. Director Dexter Fletcher and star Taron Egerton were there to speak about representing the singer's life as a musical set to his catalog. Sir Elton was involved in developing the film and throughout the making of it. Egerton felt…
Elton John took to Instagram Saturday to say that he is postponing his concert at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The news comes a day after the death of his mother-in-law Gladys Furnish.
To my dear fans in Indianapolis, it is with the heaviest heart that I’m forced to deliver the news that I am extremely…
A couple surprise guests stopped by L.A.’s Greek Theatre last night, though few would need any hints about their identities: Following a screening of Rocketman, in which the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra played live to the film, the subject and star – Elton John and Taron Egerton – hit the stage for an encore…
Elton John, who won an Oscar for his music on the original Lion King, is not a fan of Disney’s remake, calling it a “disappointment”.
In an interview this week with GQ magazine, the pop icon lamented that the studio had "messed the music up" in the latest version, which was released earlier this year.
John said…
