The drums of “We Will Rock You” had Hollywood’s well-dressed elite on its feet from the opening beat, and “We Are the Champions” kept them smiling and head-bopping. Finally, a giant image of the late Freddie Mercury hovering over the stage got the crowd back to standing. The Oscars steered clear of topicality, snark…

Bohemian Rhapsody soars on the strength of a performance by Rami Malek, who got under the skin of iconic Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in a way that has made him the prohibitive favorite in the Oscar Best Actor race. The film chronicles the formation, rise, and adversity weathered by the band before its titanic 1985…

Adam Lambert finally confirmed his much-rumored, hiding-in-plain-sight cameo appearance in the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. If the bearded dude hanging out at a truck stop men’s room looked familiar, bingo. The former American Idol breakout and sometime Queen singer tweeted a photo of himself from the…

"It goes on forever,” says an unamused record exec after listening to “six bloody minutes” of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the operatic, over-the-top tour de force that would become Freddie Mercury’s signature tune (and the name of the new biopic teased in this clip). “I pity your wife if you think six minutes is…

Fox has replaced Bryan Singer on Bohemian Rhapsody with Dexter Fletcher, the director of the films Eddie the Eagle and Wild Bill. Fletcher will resume production next week. There are about two weeks left on the film, unless Fletcher decides to reshoot scenes. The filmmaker will then oversee postproduction as Fox hopes…

UPDATED at 8:05 p.m. Singer’s Fox offices shut down:  Bryan Singer’s production company, Bad Hat Harry, will depart the Twentieth Century Fox lot. The director had a three-year first look deal with the studio that ended Oct. 31 and was not renewed. He was allowed to remain on the lot while finishing the Queen biopic Bo…

EXCLUSIVE: Aaron McCusker has been cast as Freddie Mercury’s lover Jim Hutton in 20th Century Fox's Bohemian Rhapsody, which is being directed by Bryan Singer. Hutton was a key figure in Mercury's life — a hairdresser and boyfriend who was with Mercury for the last six years of Queen frontman’s life. Hutton nursed him…

EXCLUSIVE: In what amounts to his second big-screen association with the Queen tune “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Mike Myers is negotiating for a role in the Bryan Singer-directed film about the seminal British rock band, with Mr. Robot's Rami Malek playing frontman Freddie Mercury. Justin Haythe (Red Sparrow, Revolutionary Roa…

EXCLUSIVE: Allen Leech has been cast in the role of Freddie Mercury’s personal manager Paul Prenter in the Bryan Singer-directed feature biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. Prenter was very close to Mercury and wielded great influence but later became his Judas, literally selling him and the band out to UK newspapers about the…

EXCLUSIVE: The pieces are being put back together the pieces of the movie on Queen and the band’s iconic lead singer Freddie Mercury. The project has been adrift since Sacha Baron Cohen pulled out over creative differences with the surviving members of the band. GK Films has hired as its new writer Anthony McCarten…

EXCLUSIVE:  It’s back to the drawing board for a director on the untitled movie about Queen frontman Freddie Mercury that Graham King‘s GK Films is making at Sony. King has quietly parted ways with British actor-turned-helmer Dexter Fletcher, who got the job after directing the musical Sunshine On Leith. I’ve heard…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off directing the musical Sunshine On Leith, British actor-turned-helmer Dexter Fletcher has closed a deal to helm the movie on rock supergroup Queen, with  frontman Freddie Mercury to be played Ben Whishaw. GK Films’ Graham King is producing, and Sony Pictures has first crack at the film. This has been…