{"id":2294709,"date":"2026-02-23T03:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2294709"},"modified":"2026-02-23T03:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:05:12","slug":"viva-baz-vegas-baz-luhrmann-on-the-burning-love-that-went-into-epic-we-are-giving-elvis-the-world-tour-he-dreamed-of-playing-on-the-worlds-biggest-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/viva-baz-vegas-baz-luhrmann-on-the-burning-love-that-went-into-epic-we-are-giving-elvis-the-world-tour-he-dreamed-of-playing-on-the-worlds-biggest-screens\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva Baz Vegas! Baz Luhrmann on the Burning Love That Went Into \u2018EPiC\u2019: \u2018We Are Giving Elvis the World Tour He Dreamed Of, Playing on the World\u2019s Biggest Screens\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Baz Luhrmann<\/a> is about to dive back into his long-aborning Joan of Arc<\/a> movie. But before he does, he had to return to the Elvis well, and the King\u2019s new and returning subjects are glad he did. \u201cEPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert<\/a>\u201d opened exclusively in Imax theaters this weekend before going wider to slightly smaller screens on Friday. there was little doubt the audience for Presley<\/a> is still there, or at least for an Elvis seen through the eyes of one of contemporary cinema\u2019s biggest name-brand directors.<\/p>\n

\u201cEPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert<\/a>\u201d may not make it to the $151 million domestic gross achieved by the director\u2019s 2022 biopic \u201cElvis\u201d in 2022, but weekend results were strong in the initial 325 Imax theaters that played it this weekend, with a $10,000-per-screen average, the highest of any film on the chart. So Luhrmann can already claim victory in his crusade to immerse contemporary…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baz Luhrmann is about to dive back into his long-aborning Joan of Arc movie. But before he does, he had to return to the Elvis well, and the King\u2019s new and returning subjects are glad he did. \u201cEPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert\u201d opened exclusively in Imax theaters this weekend before going wider to slightly smaller […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2294710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2294709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Viva-Baz-Vegas-Baz-Luhrmann-on-the-Burning-Love-That.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294711,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294709\/revisions\/2294711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}