{"id":118278,"date":"2024-08-21T15:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/21\/elton-john-documentary-never-too-late-to-get-european-premiere-at-london-film-festival\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T15:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:03:37","slug":"elton-john-documentary-never-too-late-to-get-european-premiere-at-london-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/21\/elton-john-documentary-never-too-late-to-get-european-premiere-at-london-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John documentary &#8216;Never Too Late&#8217; to get European premiere at London Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-21\/M_EltonJohnatPianoRRHOF_122823.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Disney\/Jennifer Pottheiser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">Another day, another film festival premiere for the new <strong>Elton John<\/strong> documentary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"><em>Elton John: Never Too Late<\/em> will receive its European premiere Oct. 10 at the BFI London Film Festival. Elton and his husband,\u00a0<strong>David Furnish<\/strong>, the latter of whom co-directed the movie with <strong>R.J. Cutler<\/strong>, will be in the audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">The documentary follows Elton as he simultaneously gets ready for his final North American concert at LA&#8217;s Dodger Stadium and looks back at his impressive 50-year career, revealing how he overcame career challenges and personal struggles to rise to the top of the music biz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">BFI London Film Festival director <strong>Kristy Matheson<\/strong> says in a statement, &#8220;We\u2019re delighted to &#8230; give audiences a front row seat to one of the most electrifying creative careers of our age.\u201d The BFI London Film Festival begins Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">The documentary will receive its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival, which starts Sept. 27, and its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, which starts Sept. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney\/Jennifer Pottheiser Another day, another film festival premiere for the new Elton John documentary. Elton John: Never Too Late will receive its European premiere Oct. 10 at the BFI London Film Festival. Elton and his husband,\u00a0David Furnish, the latter of whom co-directed the movie with R.J. Cutler, will be in<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/21\/elton-john-documentary-never-too-late-to-get-european-premiere-at-london-film-festival\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}