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Priscilla Presley is speaking out about her controversial relationship with Elvis Presley when she was 14.

A24 has released a new trailer for Priscilla!

Priscilla Presley’s iconic updo is hitting the screens in a fresh trailer for Sofia Coppola’s upcoming flick “Priscilla”.

There has never been a more obsessed-over American pop icon than Elvis Presley, right? So what does Sofia Coppola do as a kind of palate cleanser to the pop extravaganza of Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis”? Give space, time, and breathing room to tell the story of his overlooked and overshadowed wife, Priscilla Beaulieu, aka Priscilla Presley. READ MORE: ‘Priscilla’ Review: Sofia Coppola’s Understated Biopic Lets Us Draw Our Own Conclusions [Venice] With films like “Marie Antoinette” and “Lost In Translation,” Coppola has already excelled at telling girlhood stories of teenage alienation, and her latest film, “Priscilla,” which debuted at the Venice Film Festival earlier this fall and now makes its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival, looks as if it will do the same.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director 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. Spaeny won best actress honors at the Venice Film Festival for her performance.

Kirsten Dunst had a little hand in casting Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla.

The 61stNew York Film Festival opens Friday on a high note, with advance sales of passes and tickets at kickoff up 50% from last year, which was a record-breaking fest. It’s also a day of heavy rains and flooding in New York City.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter As New York Film Festival’s artistic director, Dennis Lim has become adept at multitasking. “Sometimes, I have to introduce one film and then run across the street to moderate a Q&A for different film,” he says. “If I have an hour or two free, I will sneak into a cinema and watch something as a way to hide out.” This year, he’ll be bouncing around Manhattan’s Upper West Side to host some of the buzziest movies from Cannes and Venice, like Todd Haynes’ soapy romantic drama “May December,” Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro” and Sofia Coppola’s “Elvis and “Me” adaptation “Priscilla.” NYFF will also showcase the world premiere of Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s genre-defying series “The Curse” and the Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal-led sci-fi story “Foe.” Ahead of the 61st edition, which takes place from Sept.

“A lot of very impressive people have led this festival and what connects them is a love for movies and culture and what that can achieve,” Kristy Matheson told Deadline of her new job as Director of the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival.

Sofia Coppola drew from her own experiences in telling the story of Priscilla Presley.

Dakota and Elle Fanning are enjoying an afternoon of fun and good food!

Sean Durkin’s wrestling drama, The Iron Claw, is the latest in a string of upcoming A24 theatrical releases to get cleared for a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement.

Olivia Munn & John Mulaney are stepping out to celebrate Sofia Coppola!

Sofia Coppola was joined by so many of her celebrity friends to celebrate the launch of her first book, “Sofia Coppola Archive: 1999-2023.”

Jaden Thompson Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sofia Coppola and her longtime collaborator and costume designer Stacey Battat will receive the second annual Variety Creative Collaborators award at the Middleburg Film Festival in October. The award will honor their achievements together on films such as “The Bling Ring,” “The Beguiled,” “On the Rocks” and the upcoming A24 release “Priscilla.” Middleburg Film Festival executive director Susan Koch said, “We’re delighted that these two immensely talented women — director Sofia Coppola and her longtime costume designer, Stacey Battat — will be receiving Variety’s Creative Collaborators Award and presenting ‘Priscilla’ at this year’s festival.

Her, the sci-fi romantic drama written and directed by her ex-husband Spike Jonze.Coppola discussed Jonze’s 2013 film during an interview with Rolling Stone, where she noted the comparisons with her 2003 film Lost In Translation. Both films are said to have been partly inspired by the couple’s divorce in 2003.Speaking about Her, Coppola said: “I never saw it! From the trailer, it looks the same too.

Film anniversaries are a great way to make someone feel old. Has it really been 20 years since Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation?” Apparently so.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director 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 dissolution of her marriage to fellow director Spike Jonze as inspiration for the film, which follows a college graduate (Scarlett Johansson) who accompanies her celebrity photographer boyfriend (Giovanni Ribisi) on a trip to Tokyo. While he’s out flirting with a Hollywood actress (Anna Farris), she befriends a faded movie star (Bill Murray) who’s in town to shoot a commercial. Since the film premiered in 2023, viewers have associated Johansson’s character with Coppola and Ribisi’s with Jonze.

Film anniversaries are a great way to make someone feel old. Has it really been 20 years since Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation?” Apparently so.

Jon Hamm and Beck are this NYFW’s biggest surprise show!

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent 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; while “Priscilla” world premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won best actress for Cailee Spaeny.

Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet are making their romance Fashion Week official!

EXCLUSIVE: A24’s Sofia Coppola directed movie, Priscilla, will now go wide on Nov. 3 instead of Oct. 27.

Director Sofia Coppola’s biopic “Priscilla” made its debut at the Venice International Film Festival, where Coppola was joined by the film’s subject, Priscilla Presley, and stars Cailee Spaeny (who plays Priscilla Presley) and Jacob Elordi (Elvis Presley).

Priscilla Presley is opening up about her and Elvis’ controversial age gap… But is she really telling the truth? Or trying to clean up history??

Priscilla Presley has insisted that she “never had sex” with Elvis when the pair first met when she was 14.The late icon was 24 when he first met his future wife in Germany in 1959, with the pair marrying seven years later in 1967 when she was 21.Speaking at press conference at the Venice Film Festival for the premiere of Sofia Coppola’s new biopic, Priscilla which depicts their relationship, Presley said Elvis never took advantage of her, despite their age gap of 10 years when they first met.“It was very difficult for my parents to understand that Elvis would be so interested in me and why,” she said, via Variety. “And I really do think [it was] because I was more of a listener.“Elvis would pour his heart out to me in every way in Germany: his fears, his hopes, the loss of his mother – which he never, ever got over. And I was the person who really, really sat there to listen and to comfort him.

Priscilla Presley went through an emotional experience as she watched “Priscilla,” the new film written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Priscilla Presley’s emotional reaction to Sofia Coppola’s film: ‘Only being 14, you look back and look ‘Why me?’’Priscilla Presley knew something was ‘not right’ days before Lisa Marie’s death: ‘I still can’t believe it’Premiering in Venice over the past week, “Priscilla” is based on the memoir “Elvis and Me,” written by herself and follows Presley’s life and romance with Elvis. “It’s very difficult to sit and watch a film about you, about your life, about your love,” said Presley.

Sofia Coppola’s new film about Priscilla Presley is earning rave reviews.

The tears flowed for Priscilla Presley following the world premiere of Sofia Coppola’s biopic, “Priscilla”, in Venice on Monday.

Total admissions to theatres at this year’s Venice Film Festival have hit 114,851, up 18% on last year, according to figures published by the Biennale this week, as the film event passes the midway point. 

1985 memoir “Elvis and Me.”In video obtained by TMZ, Presley admits that her parents had a hard time understanding why Elvis would be interested in her. But she said she was a “listener,” and the megastar would “pour his heart out” to her. “I was the person who really sat there to listen and to comfort him,” she explains.