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Apple TV+ is nearing a series order for In With the Devil, a six-hour adaptation of a true crime memoir by James Keene that has Taron Egerton set to star as the author and Richard Jewell‘s Paul Walter Hauser in talks to join him as a suspected serial killer. Michael R. Roskam will direct a script by Dennis Lehane. It…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple has slotted into Tetris: The Movie, the story of the groundbreaking video game that has Taron Egerton starring and Stan & Ollie filmmaker Jon S. Baird directing, I can reveal. Egerton is playing Henk Rogers, a Dutch video game designer who first secured the rights to distribute Tetris on consoles…

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.  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…