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 World’s Biggest Screens’

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• The Promised Range for ‘The Promised Land’ Is $87-$3,007, With Nearly Row-by-Row Variations In-Between 1 day ago See All Neon 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’s new and returning subjects are glad he did.
• “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert” opened exclusively in Imax theaters this weekend before going wider to slightly smaller screens on Friday.
• there was little doubt the audience for Presley is still there, or at least for an Elvis seen through the eyes of one of contemporary cinema’s biggest name-brand directors.
• Related Stories Robert Duvall, Star of 'The Godfather' and 'The Great Santini,' Dies at 95 Billy Steinberg, Songwriter Who Co-Wrote Smashes Including 'Like a Virgin,' 'True Colors,' 'Eternal Flame' and 'So Emotional,' Dies at 74 “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert” may not make it to the $151 million domestic gross achieved by the director’s 2022 biopic “Elvis” 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.