'Elvis' is king, alone, of box office after final tallies
FIlm Review - Elvis This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Austin Butler in a scene from "Elvis." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) (Uncredited)NEW YORK — (AP) — "Elvis" has won its box-office dance-off with "Top Gun: Maverick." After the two films reported the same ticket sales Sunday, Monday's final numbers has "Elvis," alone, as king of the weekend. “Elvis” ultimately grossed $31.1 million from Friday to Sunday, according to Warner Bros.' final figures Monday. “Top Gun: Maverick" continued to hold remarkably well, dipping a modest 34% percent in its fifth weekend.
wftv.com‘Elvis,’ ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ in dead heat to top weekend box office
FIlm Review - Elvis This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Austin Butler in a scene from "Elvis." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) (Uncredited)Nearly 45 years after his death, the King of Rock ‘n Roll sits poised to dethrone the box office No. >> Read more trending newsBy Sunday afternoon, “Elvis” and “Top Gun: Maverick” were in a dead heat for the top spot with $30.5 million each, with the Elvis Presley biopic making its debut as “Maverick” entered its fifth week in theaters and joined the billion-dollar club at the global box office. (Tie) “Elvis,” $30.5 million. (Tie) “Top Gun: Maverick,” $30.5 million.
wftv.com'Elvis,' 'Top Gun' tie for box-office crown with $30.5M each
Britain Elvis Premiere Austin Butler, from left, director Baz Luhrmann, and Tom Hanks pose for photographers upon arrival for the premiere of the film 'Elvis' in London Tuesday, May 31, 2022. That it was this close at all was due to both a better-than-expected opening for "Elvis" and remarkably strong continued sales for "Top Gun: Maverick." This is the Baz Luhrmann show, a music, dance and sex appeal spectacular — it’s a hit.”Meanwhile, “Top Gun: Maverick” continues to soar. (Tie) “Elvis,” $30.5 million. (Tie) “Top Gun: Maverick,” $30.5 million.
wftv.com'Elvis,' 'Top Gun' tie for box-office crown with $30.5M each
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic “Elvis” shook up theaters with an estimated $30.5 million in weekend ticket sales, but — in a box-office rarity — “Elvis” tied “Top Gun: Maverick,” which also reported $30.5 million, for No. 1 in theaters.
'Elvis' and Austin Butler feel the temperature rising
France Cannes 2022 Elvis Portraits Austin Butler poses for portrait photographs for the film 'Elvis' at the 75th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP) (Joel C Ryan)On the day of Austin Butler's final screen test for “Elvis," director Baz Luhrmann threw everything at him. The one minute of “Suspicious Minds" that Butler was to perform in a Presley jumpsuit stretched to six. There would have never been an Elvis without a Col. Tom Parker, and, in his own mind, there would have never been a Col. Tom Parker without Elvis,” says Hanks. “But that terror of my whole career feeling like it was riding on this film, that’s exactly what Elvis was feeling,” says Butler.
wftv.com'Elvis' makes a splash at Cannes Film Festival premiere
France Cannes 2022 Elvis Red Carpet Director Baz Luhrmann, left, and Austin Butler pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Elvis' at the 75th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP) (Joel C Ryan)CANNES, France — (AP) — Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis" brought hip-shaking swagger to the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, debuting a grand and glitzy portrait of the Memphis rock 'n' roll legend on the French Riviera. Luhrmann's film, the largest and flashiest Hollywood film making its world premiere in Cannes, brought Tom Hanks and Austin Butler, who plays Presley, to Cannes' famed red carpet. At a festival seeking to shrug off two years of pandemic, expectations were high that Luhrmann, who also premiered “The Great Gatsby” in Cannes, would bring Cannes’ biggest and most extravagant party. “Elvis,” though, isn’t just a big-screen tribute to Presley.
wftv.comBack to normal? Cannes Film Festival prepares to party
After the 2020 Cannes Film Festival was canceled by the pandemic and the 2021 edition was scaled back — even kisses were forbade on the red carpet — the lavish French Riviera cinema soiree is set to return with a festival that promises to be something like normal.