How 'Elvis' and 'Weird' Breathe New Life into the Music Biopic
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.
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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.