Picture: The Roku Channel
“Weird Al” Yankovic has been part of popular culture for many years now, parodying among the greatest songs in historical past. Now, he’s the topic of a brand new film directed by Eric Appel. Sadly, nonetheless, the film isn’t accessible on Netflix and the possibilities are should you’re right here, you’re going to have a tough time discovering the film.
Produced by Funny or Die and Tango Entertainment, the brand new biopic (that itself is sort of a parody) is about Weird All and his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like ‘Eat It’ and ‘Like a Surgeon’
The film stars Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld), Rainn Wilson (The Office), Toby Huss (GLOW) and Julianne Nicholson (I, Tonya)
Will Weird: The Al Yankovic Story be on Netflix?
There aren’t any public plans to deliver Weird: The Al Yankovic Story to Netflix, provided that Roku solely distributes the film. They maintain the worldwide rights to the film and to our information, hasn’t offered them to different streaming networks exterior the US.
This isn’t unusual, after all with distributors not promoting their motion pictures internationally to Netflix however usually, there’s not less than someplace to observe their motion pictures following their theatrical launch.
But that’s not the case with The Roku Channel.
The film is undoubtedly going to be one among 2022’s hardest-to-watch titles, given the finicky and regional availability of The Roku Channel.
According to the Roku Channel web site, solely three areas even have the flexibility to observe the film. The US, the UK, and Canada.
In the United States, you’ll be able to watch the title the best, with the film being accessible on The Roku Channel’s web site or related apps largely unique to Roku gadgets.
In the United Kingdom, the web site is unavailable, that means you’ll want a Roku system or a handful of different gadgets, corresponding to Hisense TV or Sky Q, to observe by way of The Roku Channel.
In many areas, The Roku Channel doesn’t exist in any type in any respect.
Acknowledging that the film is difficult to observe is Al Yankovic, the topic of the film, telling individuals on a Roku-promoted Q&A that whereas Roku is engaged on it, you would possibly wish to take into account pirating it. Wild stuff.
Roku’s engaged on it. In the meantime there’s VPN (Very Probably No) solution to watch it legally. I’m certain you will have a TORRENT of different questions, however I’ve to maneuver alongside, sorry.
— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) November 5, 2022
Sticking with Al Yankovic for a second, he’ll be voicing within the new animated film The Soccer Football Movie coming to Netflix on November ninth.
Will you be testing Weird: The Al Yankovic Story on The Roku Channel, or will you be watching one other manner? Let us know within the feedback down under.