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Daniel Radcliffe is hilarious as Weird Al

The new movie spoofs music biopics, but a few of the wilder details have some basis in reality.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and Flux Gourmet

Plus: The scheme to sneak Pablo Escobar past the studio, why "Weird Al" Yankovic regrets not letting Daniel Radcliffe sing in the movie, and why director Eric Appel hopes Madonna’s reaction to Weird is a positive one.

This biopic parody of a parodist delivers exactly what Weird Al’s most ardent fans want.

A look at the genre of the music biopic and how Baz Luhrmann's film Elvis and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story breathe new life into a stale formula.

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week. MOVIES — Elvis, Elton John and Freddie Mercury have all gotten the biopic treatment. Now, it’s finally Weird Al’s turn. In “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” Daniel Radcliffe plays the…

Be sure to stick around for one of the best end-credit sequences ever conceived which, go figure, features the new (non-parody) Yankovic song “Now You Know.”

NPR's Scott Simon talks to the man who puts "weird" both in his name and the new tongue-in-cheek biopic about him: "Weird" Al Yankovic.

We break down that star-studded scene from “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” the sorta kinda true portrait of the pop star’s life, now on the Roku Channel.