Fox Searchlight will distribute Armando Iannucci's "The Personal History of David Copperfield" in North America. The film will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Cast: David Copperfield - Hugh Dancy Young David - Max Dolbey Mr. Micawber - Michael Richards Betsey Trotwood - Sally Field Mr. Murdstone - Anthony Andrews Jane Murdstone - Eileen Atkins Uriah ...

Uriah Heep's new album, "Chaos & Colour," is the veteran British hard rock group's 25th. Though never a critic's darling the band has soldiered on, with occasional hits ("Easy Livin'" and "Stealin ...

Even if you weren't there, Uriah Heep 's landmark album Demons and Wizards whisks you back to the heady, hazy days of the early '70s. It was a very inventive time for rock 'n' roll music, indeed.

Hugh Laurie, left, and Dev Patel in “The Personal History of David Copperfield.” (Dean Rogers/Twentieth Century Fox) <b>The Personal History of David Copperfield</b> (PG-13) Dickens’s ...

Despite the critical pans, however, Uriah Heep — named after a character in Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield” — is still with us.

In 1969, the band chose the moniker Uriah Heep, the name of one of the main characters from the Charles Dickens classic David Copperfield.

I thought it was a movie about David Copperfield, the magician.” Reading the script, and contemplating the chance to work with Iannucci, sold Patel on the project.

Micawber is a key character in the novel. He initially befriends David Copperfield as his landlord, before being sent to debtors’ prison. Later employed as a clerk for the scheming Uriah Heep ...

John Lawton, the vocalist for the long-running Uriah Heep during one of the British rock bands most popular eras, died June 29.

This “David Copperfield” is not, then, quite the film of the book. If you love the original, you may groan at times. But enjoy it for what it is: a loose, comic retelling of a great novel.

When I first read David Copperfield as an impressionable 12-year-old who had watched her fair share of films, Uriah Heep struck me similar to most villains on the silver screen – a man spurred ...