On November 1, 1996, young people across America began packing movie theaters—not to see an action movie or a teen comedy, but to watch Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (spelled “Romeo + Juliet” for those in the know). And to get very, very horny, possibly for the first time ever.
If you’re the sort of Bard devotee who loves to indulge in adaptations of his plays, it’s time to plan a fall trip to NYC. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) will host “Breaking Bard: Shakespeare on Film” from October 12-24.
Movie musical impresario Baz Luhrmann is deep into the 1970s Bronx—that era and place in which city blight and rampant poverty led young people to get beyond creative, inventing hip-hop, punk, salsa and disco—and finally, his Netflix show about it will debut August 12.
Netflix has released its first look at its upcoming drama, The Get Down, which follows a crew of South Bronx teenagers in the 1970s.
If you loved Empire and can’t wait for more “music-driven” TV, you’re in luck. While Cookie and the gang (mostly Cookie, though; she is the best) won’t be returning to your screens as soon as you’d like, Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix series about four kids in the Bronx just cast the main leads.
Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Baz Luhrmann, Joel Edgerton: Looking good, old sports.
Here's something you never knew you wanted: Robert Redford giving smoldering eyes while a Kanye West track plays.
Having his Words with Friends movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby pushed from a December 2012 release date to this weekend might have been the best thing to happen to Baz Luhrmann, since it’s given him a chance to expatiate on how Gatsby is the ultimate summer movie for the ultimate summer partygoer. You want to…
By Jordan Asher Major Brogan III, age 16
You know what's a really nice way to cool off in the summer? Watching one of your many, many servants chip away from a giant tractor tire of ice so that your mint julep can be nice and chilly. Nobody likes a lukewarm mint julep, least of all Tom Buchanan. Moving The Great Gatsby back to an almost-summer release…
To the chagrin of high school teachers across America, Baz Luhrmann's glamorous, color-saturated adaptation of The Great Gatsby will soon offer a fun shortcut for 10th grade English classes trying to slog through Fitzgerald's classic. And it'll have Jay-Z songs in it!
Oh, and Jay-Z. High school required reading never looked so good — it's a spectacle worth waiting for! And wait we will, until May 17th, which is almost my birthday, and so you might think about buying me some tickets. I'd like to go somewhere with fancy food before and decadent cocktails afterwards. In return, I'll…
It's all happening! Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford (otherwise known as the Sith version of Michelle Williams and Jason Segel) are getting married on top of a mountain, and there's going to be flutes playing and trombones and flowers and garlands of fresh herbs. And they will dance until the sun rises. And then…
Literary classic The Great Gatsby is not a twisted work of science fiction. It's not an epic fantasy full of made-up creatures, or a gory horror tale designed to scare the crap out of you. But like recent sci-fi, fantasy and horror movies, the new Great Gatsby film will be in 3D. And director Baz Luhrmann thinks it…
David and Victoria Beckham are expecting their fourth child together. Beckham says they're really happy it's not a boy again because they already have three of those.
Baz Luhrmann has cast Carey Mulligan as the "manipulative heroine" in his version of The Great Gatsby.
As previously mentioned, director Baz Luhrmann is working on a film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, with Leonardo DiCaprio possibly playing Gatsby. Guess who had dinner Tuesday night in New York? Baz, Leo… and Blake Lively.
Baz Luhrmann — know for his vivid, colorful, theatrical films like Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge — is tackling F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby next, and the female lead, Daisy Buchanan, has not been cast.
