The Young Victoria News

The red carpet was rolled out Thursday night for Hollywood royalty and the Royal Family alike for the premiere of 'The Young Victoria.' Along with Martin Scorsese , Sarah Ferguson produced the biographical tale of Queen Victoria 's first years on the throne.

It seems as though when each new year rolls around in the world of filmmaking, there is a flurry to make the perfect period piece.

You read it here first. Great, great British actress Charlotte Rampling is headed our way next week to......wait for it.....shoot a French TV commercial.

The possibility of Avatar's success couldn't stop a hell rant by Bruno Ganz's Der Fanboy Fuhrer, dubbed in once again on YouTube by yet another anonymous prankster.

At this early point on the derby track, the race for best actress looks like a matchup between Gabby Sidibe and Carry Mulligan .

Dreaming of being a princess isn't quite the same as being one, a fact made quite clear in 'The Young Victoria,' starring Emily Blunt, December's featured film at Tom Long's Reel Talk, showing at 7 p.m. Dec.

Emily Blunt used to have a stutter. The 'Young Victoria' actress suffered from the speech impediment while growing up and admits she used to be reluctant to speak as a teenager.

The year's big holiday season brings a special cinematic gift on Dec. 18 with the limited release of "The Young Victoria," directed by Jean-Marc Vallee.

Heath Ledger died tragically during the shooting of "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus". Today is the eleventh and final day of the St.

In the spirit of the Festival de Cine Mexicano, there's a showing of Pixar's summer hit "Up" with Spanish subtitles at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at 2 p.m. Saturday.

The director of "An Education" recently lamented, good-naturedly, that she was tired of producers thinking of her for stereotypically female projects.

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Actor Robert De Niro has received the Stanley Kubrick award for excellence in film at the Bafta/LA Britannia awards.

THE little Aussie flick Mao's Last Dancer is a big hit in its own land - making $13 million in four weeks and about to bump Muriel's Wedding from the No.10 spot in the chart of highest-grossing Australian films.

So, as I sit down to write this, I've just come from a screening of The Young Victoria , in which Emily Blunt portrays the English queen at the beginning of her reign in the mid 19th century, with much pomp and pretty accents and costumes.

HUMANIZING: After her research into the part, Emily Blunt was determined to show the passion of 'The Young Victoria.' Avoiding haughtiness might keep the actress from being pigeonholed.

Reporting from Oxfordshire, England - Emily Blunt insists her new movie, "The Young Victoria," is "definitely not a history lesson.

THOUGH Michael Buble has done a lot of growing up in the past 18 months, there's still a puppyish energy and cheeky irreverence to the Canadian crooner, and he's come a long way since last year's split from celebrated British actress Emily Blunt.

Films made in Leicestershire have been nominated for key industry awards. Among films nominated for this year's British Independent Film Awards are Nicolas Winding Refn's biopic Bronson, filmed partly in Leicestershire, and Emily Blunt, who receives a best actress nomination for her role as The Young Victoria, filmed at Belvoir Castle near Melton.

The 45th Chicago International Film Festival takes place this year Oct. 8-22 at AMC theatre at 322 E. Illinois St., where 145 films from 45 countries will premiere.