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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.

AS FAMILY resemblances go, theirs could hardly be closer. But would Queen Victoria be amused to know Princess Beatrice is her spitting image.

William Kunstler spent most of October 1978 in a Burlington courtroom defending activist Kristina Berster, who had crossed the Quebec-Vermont border illegally.

Emily Blunt is Queen Victoria and Rupert Friend is her husband, Prince Albert, in the historical drama "The Young Victoria." Buzzworthy movies will open and close the Three Rivers Film Festival next month but four dozen-plus other features will be sandwiched between.

Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Michelle Devereaux, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, Johnny Ray Huston, Louis Peitzman, Lynn Rapoport, Ben Richardson, Matt Sussman, and Laura Swanbeck.

After playing Meryl Streep's cruel first assistant in The Devil Wears Prada , Emily Blunt is clearly moving up in the world.

Screen gems aplenty, including the real ones on the crown of Emily Blunt, starring as "The Young Victoria." It's a romantic glimpse into the lives and loves of the mid-19th-century royals.

In its 17th year and with the economic crisis swirling all around it, the just-wrapped Hamptons International Film Festival showed few signs of stress.

VANCOUVER a ' Twilight fans may have to bend their knees to the moviedom's most vaunted vampire as producers cast about for a cinematic Prince Harry.

The Mill Valley Film Festival announced Tuesday that British star Emily Blunt, the actress who starred opposite Ann Hathaway and Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada," is expected to attend the closing night screening of her new movie, "The Young Victoria." In the film, to be shown as the festival wraps up on Oct.

Clive Owen. Uma Thurman. Woody Harrelson. The guest list of the 32nd Mill Valley Film Festival reads more like a Hollywood Oscar party's. But there's much more to the festival than big names.

CHICAGO - The Chicago International Film Festival is not immune to the spate of "glass half full or empty" thinking going on in the movie world.