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Friday, July 8, 2022 at 9:01AM 
Bradley Cooper & Carey Mulligan in character for "Maestro"
Thoughts? Here's how the real couple looked...
Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, De-Lovely, LGBTQ+, Maestro, biopics Monday, June 27, 2022 at 1:00PM Two mavericks, one real (Rock star Elvis Presley) and one fictional (Pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell), battled it out for the #1 position at the box office and until the actuals come in its a draw. Let's discuss...
1. ELVIS $30.5 -NEW. 3,948 screens
It's always worth celebrating when a non-franchise film opens big. Good on Baz for pulling it off again. Box office pundits seem shocked at how well it did but why? Elvis Presley is the best selling solo act of all time and when it comes to the best-selling musicians, movies about them have built in audiences. Bohemian Rhapsody was a behemoth at the box office. Rocketman was a hit. If they ever make a crowd pleasing bio about Fleetwood Mac or Mariah Carey or The Beatles, those will probably be huge, too. Who knows... maybe even the upcoming Whitney Houston and Madonna biopics will be blockbusters.
1. TOP GUN MAVERICK $30.5 - 5th weekend. 3,906 screens
Tom Cruise's legacy sequel is the $1 film of the year (domestically) with $521.7 in the US alone...
Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 1:00PM by Elisa Giudici
Two disappointing movies for me today. But at least they're the kind of disappointments that spark intense discussion among cinephiles. I was not blown away either by Claire Denis Stars at Noon or Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, but there has been a wide range of interesting opinions on both in the press room today in Cannes; The audience will be the final judge...
Austin Butler, Baz, Cannes Diary, Claire Denis, Elvis, Joe Alwyn, Margaret Qualley, Stars at Noon, Tom Hanks, biopics Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 1:04PM by Eric Blume
Showtime's limited series The First Lady kicked off its premiere episode last week. It's a bit of a mixed bag out of the gate. The episode consists of several 10-minute-ish scenes covering each of our protagonists: Michelle Obama (Viola Davis); Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer); and Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson). A ticker on the bottom of the screen whisks us backward and forward between these women whose stories are about forty years apart from each other.
There's not a great deal of grace in this back-and-forth execution, feeding us small glimpses of each lady in semi-satisfying increments that don't seem to have a meaningful connection between them outside of generic "I'm my own person" theme. It's probably easiest to tackle these three stories independently, because episode one doesn't give us much of a linking thread or powerful throughline yet, and because there are pleasures to be had within the confines of this awkward setup...
Emmys, Gillian Anderson, Michelle Pfeiffer, TV, The First Lady, Viola Davis, biopics, politics Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 9:00AM • The Guardian ranks Liza Minnelli's 20 best films. You can quibble with the order but there's so much good stuff in here; very happy to see the wildly underrated Lucky Lady make it all the way to #7
• IndieWire looks at the first take reactions to The Northman (which are wildly positive as first take reactions tend to be)
• AfterEllen here's something a bit unexpected. Pioneering lesbian rockstar Melissa Etheridge has released a graphic novel AND announced a week-long event in Mexico called Etheridge Island which is aimed where she and Ani DiFranco and other artists will perform
Upcoming music biopics, You Won't Be Alone, Killing Eve, Bridgerton, Pedro Almodóvar, Mad God, and more after the jump ...
