Neither Priscilla Presley nor Riley Keough are expected to attend any events during Elvis Week. Jerry Schilling will speak at a public tribute titled 'A Celebration of Lisa Marie Presley' set for 5 p.m. August 15th at the Graceland Soundstage. Schilling said the "Celebration" will showcase photographs of and recordings by Lisa Marie, and will feature music from singer Andy Childs.
Weinshanker said that Priscilla Presley and Riley Keoughey were taking a break from public Elvis-related appearances during this tumultuous year, but “Riley will be involved in any number of Elvis media projects in the future. When you see Riley’s involvement with Graceland, I think it’ll be movies and events. I don’t think she’ll be doing a lot of public speaking.”
The next Elvis movie is Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley biopic 'Priscilla', set to hit theaters October 27, 2023 but “that movie is not something the estate is involved with in any way, nor did the estate allow any of the (Elvis) music to be used,” Weinshanker said.
However, two other major Elvis media projects are on the way, he said. He described them only as a “network Christmas special coming this year” and “another Elvis movie that’s probably two-and-a-half years away.”
“The estate has a great track record of being involved in great things for people to see,” he said, citing Luhrmann’s 'ELVIS' as a prime example. “So if something’s coming from the estate, you know it has an honest point of view and it’s something that Elvis would be of.”
Weinshanker also said that the Graceland attendance for this year likely will be close to the pre-COVID highs of 400,000 to 500,000 visitors, a big upswing from 2020, the year of the pandemic shutdown, when about 190,000 people made it to the mansion. He said the 'ELVIS' movie was a factor, especially in boosting Elvis' appeal among teenage boys and young men, who apparently admired and identified with Austin Butler's Elvis. "That's the one demographic we're seeing more of," he said.
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Erik Lorenzen announced that there will be a name-change for his upcoming triple concert book set.
He posted: Two of the world's most famous Elvis historians, Jean-Etienne Baduel and Keith Flynn, have concluded that all the shows Elvis did from 1969 to 1977 were 1124, and not 1126. Some web sites show a special 3.00am show on September 7/8, 1970, but this didn't happen!
So the new title for the book will be 'Eleven Hundred and Twenty-Four'.
(Source: Commercial Appeal / Erik Lorenzen)