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In Honor of the “ELVIS” Movie’s 8 Academy Award Nominations, HBO Max Serves Up Elvis Presley 8 Different Ways
Make the Streamer Your One-Stop Shop to Experience a Specially Curated Lineup of Entertainment Showcasing the Global Icon
BURBANK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Starting Wednesday, March 1st, Elvis aficionados can find a newly collected array of exciting Elvis Presley-based entertainment streaming on HBO Max through March 14th—The Elvis Presley Collection.
“ELVIS” director/producer/writer Baz Luhrmann stated: “Having spent years researching Elvis’s life and his life’s work, I then had the privilege of telling his remarkable story on the big screen, along with my wonderful crafts teams, Tom Hanks and the phenomenal Austin Butler, who truly brought this rebel to life. That’s why it’s really exciting to see HBO Max embracing all that Elvis Presley had to offer, and in turn offering that to its subscribers. Whether you love Elvis the global music icon and incomparable stage performer, or Elvis the actor who attempted to take Hollywood by storm—or if you want to learn what a deeply spiritual, private and complex man he really was—they’ve made it available all in one place.”
The Elvis Presley Collection includes:
About “ELVIS”
Four-time BAFTA Award winner “ELVIS” was not only the highest-grossing non-franchise feature of 2022, but it has also garnered eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor in a Lead Role for star Austin Butler, and Best Cinematography—making director of photography Mandy Walker only the third woman in history to be nominated in the category. It was also nominated for Film Editing, Costume Design, Production Design, Makeup and Hairstyling and Sound.
The film’s star, Austin Butler, won a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award, and is nominated for an Oscar for his performance. “ELVIS,” which won BAFTAs for Costume Design, Casting and Makeup and Hairstyling as well, was also included on 22 Top Films of the Year lists, including AFI’s Top Ten Films of the Year, and continues to garner such accolades as the Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Period Film and the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Feature Motion Picture.
Starring alongside Butler and Tom Hanks are Helen Thomson as Elvis’s mother, Gladys, Richard Roxburgh as Elvis’s father, Vernon, and Olivia DeJonge as Priscilla. Luhrmann directed from a screenplay by Baz Luhrmann & Sam Bromell and Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce and Jeremy Doner, story by Baz Luhrmann and Jeremy Doner. The film’s Oscar-nominated producers are Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss. Toby Emmerich, Courtenay Valenti and Kevin McCormick executive produced.
The director’s behind-the-scenes creative team includes Oscar-nominated director of photography Mandy Walker, Oscar-winning production designer and costume designer Catherine Martin, Oscar-nominated production designer Karen Murphy, Oscar-nominated editors Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond, Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor Thomas Wood (“Mad Max: Fury Road”), and Grammy-nominated music supervisor Anton Monsted and composer/executive music producer Elliott Wheeler.
A Warner Bros. Pictures Presentation, A Bazmark Production, A Jackal Group Production, A Baz Luhrmann Film, “ELVIS” is distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Contacts
For additional media inquiries, please contact:
Candice McDonough
candice.mcdonough@warnerbros.com
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