Rocketman
A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.
Rocketman
- Golden Globe Awards
Nominee Profile 2020: Taron Egerton, “Rocketman”
Taron Egerton remembers the moment quite vividly. On a warm May evening in Cannes, Rocketman was having its World Premiere at the prestigious French film festival.
- Box Office
World Box Office May 28 – June 2, 2019
Godzilla: King of Monsters stomped into theaters this weekend with $179 million in global receipts. Its US take of $49 million, while good enough for first place, wasn't exactly earth-shattering.
- Festivals
Rocketmen in Cannes
This year a musical took Cannes by storm. Rocketman was out of competition here but it certainly was the talk of the Croisette in the early days of the festival, bringing a bit of rock n’ roll glamour to the proceedings.
- Festivals
Rocketman, Dexter Fletcher
When the lights came back up in the cavernous Grand Theatre Lumière after the world premiere of Rocketman, applause was thunderous and emotions ran high – especially in the central seats reserved for dignitaries and the film’s cast, gathered around its subjects: Bernie Taupin and Elton John. The thunder was commensurate with the spectacle which had just concluded on the GTL’s widescreen which was augmented by the unique feeling of having absorbed a biographical celebration of someone actually present right there in the theater.
- Festivals
Elton & Taron & ‘Rocketman’
I was lucky to meet Elton John in London in October 1970 as I was starting my journalistic career. He had just returned from Los Angeles after his explosive American debut with 6 nights at the legendary West Hollywood Troubadour.