Tag: Cailee Spaeny
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‘Priscilla’ Set to Become Mubi’s Biggest Box Office Hit Ever With $5 Million Grossed Internationally in First Week (Exclusive)
After just one weekend of international release, “Priscilla” — Sofia Coppola’s biopic starring Jacob Elordi as Elvis Presley and Cailee Spaeny as The King’s (then) teenage bride “Priscilla” — has already hit several major milestones for arthouse streamer and distributor Mubi.Produced by Fremantle’s The Apartment, the film currently sits on a box office in excess…
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Sofia Coppola Almost Raffled Off a Pickleball Game with Jacob Elordi to Help ‘Priscilla’ Budget
Jacob Elordi nearly went to bat for “Priscilla,” literally.Sofia Coppola revealed that Elordi, who portrays Elvis Presley in the indie A24 film, was almost part of a raffle pickleball game to raise funds for the production budget.“He can play pickleball,” Coppola told the Wall Street Journal. “Our budget was always strained, low budget, and I…
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‘Priscilla’ Budget Was So ‘Low’ That Sofia Coppola Debated Raffling a Jacob Elordi Pickleball Game to ‘Raise Money for One More Day of Shooting’
Sofia Coppola told the Wall Street Journal that her “Priscilla” budget was so “strained” at times that she thought of raffling off a pickleball game with her star Jacob Elordi in order to raise funds for additional shooting days. “Euphoria” alum Elordi plays Elvis Presley in the film opposite Cailee Spaeny in the title role.…
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Kirsten Dunst Helped Cast Cailee Spaeny in Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’
Kirsten Dunst handpicked Cailee Spaeny to lead Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” as Coppola revealed in a new W magazine cover story.Dunst, who has collaborated with Coppola in “The Virgin Suicides,” Marie Antoinette,” and “The Beguiled,” worked with “Mare of Easttown” breakout actress Spaeny in upcoming Alex Garland film “Civil War.” Dunst recommended that Coppola meet with…
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Sofia Coppola Got ‘Scolded’ at ‘Lost in Translation’ Premiere by Spike Jonze’s Friend Michel Gondry, Who ‘Apologized’; She’s Never Watched ‘Her’
Fresh off the world premiere of her last directorial effort, “Priscilla,” at the Venice Film Festival (where star Cailee Spaeny won best actress), Sofia Coppola joined Rolling Stone to reflect on the 20th anniversary of her beloved “Lost in Translation.”Coppola, whose script for “Lost in Translation” won the Oscar for original screenplay, partly used the…
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France’s Arp Selection Buys Sofia Coppola’s Venice Prizewinning ‘Priscilla,’ Deauville Festival’s Big Winner ‘Laroy’ (Exclusive)
Paris-based leading distribution company Arp Selection has bought a pair of U.S. indie gems from the fall festival circuit, Shane Atkinson’s feature debut “Laroy” and Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla.”“Laroy,” a neo-noir Western comedy with Coen brothers influences, just won three major prizes at the Deauville Film Festival, including the Grand Prize, Audience Award and Critics Prize;…
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Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s ‘Poor Things’ Wins Golden Lion at Venice, Peter Sarsgaard and Cailee Spaeny Take Acting Prizes (Full List of Winners)
The closing-night awards ceremony of the 80th Venice Film Festival has concluded, with the critical favorite and presumed frontrunner, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Emma Stone-starring adult fantasy “Poor Things,” living up to the buzz — it has taken the Golden Lion from Damien Chazelle’s jury. Other winners include Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Agnieszka Holland, Matteo Garrone and U.S. actors…
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Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’ Rocks Venice With 7-Minute Standing Ovation as Priscilla Presley Cries
To borrow a lyric from her famous husband’s hit song, Priscilla Presley was all shook up at the Venice Film Festival premiere of “Priscilla.” The subject of Sofia Coppola’s drama wiped away tears from her face on Monday night in Italy as the audience on the Lido exploded in a 7-minute standing ovation for the…
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Venice Film Festival Red Carpet Photos
The Venice Film Festival looks a little different this year, as the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes mean there are fewer celebrities strolling down the red carpet. Working under approved interim agreements from their guild, Adam Driver is expected to promote “Ferrari,” while Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi will be coming for Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,”…