There's no sign of the British invasion slowing down, with more than half of the Golden Globes small-screen wins Sunday going to shows or talent from the other side of the pond, while the film side produced the Best Picture – Drama and Best Director.
Fleabag creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Succession's Jesse…
The surprises started early at the 77th Golden Globes when Ramy Youssef from his Hulu series Ramy was the upset winner of night’s first award, best television actor in a comedy/musical, but most of the shocks were saved for the show’s third hour, when Taron Egerton and Awkwafina won top acting awards in categories…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
After the surprise success last year of Bohemian Rhapsody, when he stepped up as a last-minute stand-in for exiting director Bryan Singer, Dexter Fletcher is getting go-round with Rocketman. A musical fantasy based on the tempestuous life and times of Elton John, the Paramount film stars Taron Egerton as the rock…
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…
As we launch into the second half of the 2019 movie calendar today with Spider-Man: Far From Home and upscale horror entry Midsommar, we now inch closer to actually coming up with some legitimate Oscar contenders in this year’s Best Picture race. Not that either one of those movies has a prayer for that, or pretty…
With the worldwide success at the box office and the Academy Awards of the Queen flick Bohemian Rhapsody, musical biopics are all the rage right now. But none of them likely will be as warts-and-all honest, compelling and inventive as Rocketman, purposely R-rated because, as its subject Elton John says, “I haven’t…
Typically when a rock star or his estate is heavily involved in the production of their auto-biopic, they take the safe way out, diluting what really occurred offstage.
Not Elton John who is an EP on Paramount/Marv Films’ Rocketman. He gave star Taron Egerton and director Dexter Fletcher full reign to deep dive and…
At today’s Cannes press conference for Paramount’s Rocketman, the media was eager to compare the Elton John musical biopic to Fox’s Freddie Mercury multi-Oscar winner Bohemian Rhapsody.Â
A journalist asked wither Taron Egerton could see himself at the Oscars in February, just like Rami Maleck earlier this year who…
