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EXCLUSIVE: Lee Hall has signed with CAA for representation. Hall is the screenwriter of such films as the Sir Elton John biopic Rocketman, as well as Victoria & Abdul, War Horse and Billy Elliot, the latter of which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He also wrote the stage adaptation…

Taron Egerton returned to play the lead in Mike Bartlett’s play Cock last night after fainting during Saturday’s debut performance. The Welsh Rocketman star passed out towards the end of the preview at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End and was replaced by an understudy, Joel Harper-Jackson, while a doctor in the…

Elton John’s ex-wife, Renate Blauel, is seeking an estimated £3M ($3.8M) in damages over claims the singer broke the terms of their divorce agreement. Blauel, who was married to the star for four years in the 1980s, is suing over sections of John’s 2019 memoir Me, and hit movie biopic Rocketman. Blauel claims these…

UPDATED with video Did anyone really think Hollywood wouldn’t choose a song called "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" as the year’s best? The song by Elton John and Bernie Taupin from the film Rocketman won the Oscar for Best Original Song, beating out four songs from Toy Story 4, Breakthrough, Frozen 2 and Harriet. “Being…

The publicity campaigns for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame, Netflix’s The Irishman, Warner Bros’ Joker, Columbia Pictures’ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Paramount’s Rocketman and Universal’s Us have been nominated for the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Picture Publicity Campaign for the 57th annual ICG Publicist…

UPDATED with video from speech: Rocketman star Taron Egerton picked up his first-ever Golden Globes award tonight for his portrayal of the legendary crooner Elton John. “I really wish I’d written something,” said a seemingly surprised Egerton after stumbling a bit before acknowledging his fellow nominees — Eddie…

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…

A Golden Globe nomination for Rocketman for Best Picture, Musical or Comedy caps off a banner year for actor-turned-director Dexter Fletcher, whose fourth feature at the helm—or "four and a half", quips Fletcher, after he stepped in uncredited to salvage Bohemian Rhapsody last year—was also his highest grosser to…

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…

"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.  But the latter was a long way from who he plays in Rocketman …

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…