New Interview: Carey Mulligan talks The Greatest, Wall Street, Never Let Me, and more!

Another new interview of Carey Mulligan as she promotes her new film, The Greatest (which opens in theaters this Good Friday, April 2nd).

This time, the CM new interview is from Hollywood News.com...

Hollywood News recently spoke to Mulligan in Los Angeles at a press day for the film. In addition to speaking about the appeal of working on another modest project as she ventures tentatively into the world of big-budget filmmaking, she offered a few updates about some future projects, including Money Never Sleeps, the Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation Never Let Me Go, and My Fair Lady, a proposed remake of the acclaimed musical for which Mulligan is considered the perfect stand-in for her on-screen forebear, Audrey Hepburn.

Movie News: Rosamund Pike to star in Women In Love

According to Baz Bamigboye of  UK's The Daily Mail, Rosamund Pike is to star in a new version of the wildly erotic classic Women In Love, playing the same part that won Glenda Jackson her first Oscar 40 years ago.

In its day, Ken Russell's 1969 interpretation of D.H Lawrence's novel about sexual nature and grim industrial reality pushed the boundaries of sexual acts and nudity on screen.


Shooting on the new film, for BBC4, will begin in mid-April on locations in South Africa, standing in for a Midlands mining town. (Russell shot his movie in Derbyshire.)

The aim is to explore sexual relationships between men and women, and how World War I hurled a rural community into the harshness of 20th-century industrial reality.

The root of the project is sexual relations and animal passions involving two sisters - sculptress Gudrun Brangwen (the part Rosamund will play) and her sister Ursula, a timid teacher - and two men from opposite sides of the social divide, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich.

Read full article here!

P&P Blog Weekly Poll

New Poll is now up!

The current poll (#66) is now up (scroll down at the bottom) right side bar under Weekly Poll.

Which one of the following upcoming new Jane Austen/P&P film related adaptations are you looking forward to seeing when it is released in theaters?

Many thanks to all of you who voted in the last poll.

Below is the result from last week's poll...

Which one of the following Pride and Prejudice tv/film adaptations is your most favorite P&P version to watch?

Pride and Prejudice (film, 1940)	0 (0%)
Pride and Prejudice (tv miniseries, 1980)	0 (0%)
Pride and Prejudice (tv miniseries, 1995)	1 (12%)
Pride & Prejudice (film, 2003)	0 (0%)
Bride & Prejudice (film, 2004)	0 (0%)
Pride & Prejudice (film, 2005)	7 (87%)

Total Votes: 8

All previous Weekly Polls are archived here.

On DVD and Blu-ray Today: An Education

Today is the DVD and Blu-ray discs release for Academy Award® nominee Carey Mulligan's Oscar® Nominated film, An Education, which she co-starred with Rosamund Pike (her P&P co-star), Peter Sarsgaard, Dominic Cooper, and Emma Thompson.

If you haven't seen P&P Bennet sisters Carey (Kitty) and Rosamund (Jane) in this film...Go purchase (at target, best buy, fye, etc.), rent (at blockbuster, red box, netflix, etc.)or get your copy of either: standard DVD or Blu-ray at amazon.com 
today!

Here are DVD and Blu-ray more info below from DVD Active...


Title: An Education (IMDb)
Starring: Carey Mulligan
Released: 30th March 2010
SRP: $28.96 (DVD)

Further Details:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced DVD ($28.96) and Blu-ray ($38.96) releases of An Education for the 30th March. Extras will include a commentary with Director Lone Scherfig and Actors Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard, 2 featurettes ("The Making Of An Education", "Walking the Red Carpet"), and deleted scenes.


Here are the standard dvd and blu-ray cover arts...
  

(click images to enlarge!)

[source: DVD Active]

On DVD and Blu-ray Today: Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes (with Kelly Reilly co-starring) is released on DVD and Blu-ray today!

Go get your copy or rent it!

Here are more details of its DVD and Blu-ray discs...

Title: Sherlock Holmes (2009) (IMDb)
Starring: Robert Downey Jr
Released: 30th March 2010
SRP: $28.98 (DVD)

Further Details:
Warner Home Video has announced DVD ($28.98) and Blu-ray/DVD Combo ($35.99) releases of Sherlock Holmes which stars Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law. Each will be available to own from the 30th March. As far as we know, the only extra material on the DVD release will be a Sherlock Holmes: Reinvented featurette. The Blu-ray/DVD Combo will include that, along with a WB Maximum Movie Mode (Director Guy Ritchie Walk On, PIP, Focus Points, Storyboard Comparisons, Still Gallery Timeline), deleted scenes, and a digital copy of the film.

[source: DVD Active]

InStyle Video: New and old Rosamund Pike InStyle UK's Photo shoot

I just found this very interesting and new (or rather old from last year, but new in a way that it's never-before-seen...or at least I've never seen it before till now...have you?) InStyle photo shoot video of Rosamund Pike. She was featured in the magazine too and this was when she was probably promoting An Education. Odd, that I missed this last year when I was posting a lot of news and articles about An Education, lol.

Rosamund Pike

The actress works this season's fierce tailoring on her InStyle fashion shoot. See her as you've never seen her before!

From InStyle UK website's main page...

InStyle Loves

An Education: Rosamund Pike

As much as we enjoyed Carey Mulligan's superb performance as Jenny in An Education, it was Rosamund Pike who we couldn't keep our eyes off due to the amazing wardrobe and portrayal of her character Helen.

Video: SEE Rosamund as she talks about her style and models for Instyle

or watch it below...

(source: InStyle UK)

Video Highlights: Rosamund mentions her Pride & Prejudice co-stars/film in the video here ^...

Here's the transcript (with photos)...

Favorite Red Carpet dress

"I think my favorite red carpet dress was the Pride & Prejudice...London (premiere). I had this Alexander McQueen dress, which is so beautiful."

On Keira Knightley (and P&P co-stars/Bennet girls)

"We do feel like sisters in a way...yeah, we definitely have a bond made in that film that's continued...with all of them."

A Beautiful Risk Taker

"And I never mind taking risk. I remember for the Pride & Prejudice Premiere in New York. I did this totally rock & roll hair...like massive. I thought why not in New York. But yes, I don't ever care about getting something wrong or something that someone doesn't like. It's fun. I'm in New York."

An Education (starring Carey Mulligan and Rosamund Pike) DVD and Blu-ray discs is out this week, on Tuesday (March 30th)! Go get your copy or rent it, if you haven't seen it yet!

Photos: Carey Mulligan at The Greatest Los Angeles Premiere

Carey Mulligan arrives at the premiere of The Creative Coalition's "The Greatest" held at the Linwood Dunn Theater on March 25, 2010 in Hollywood, California.

 The Greatest opens in theaters, Good Friday, April 2nd.

Check out new photos of Carey from The Greatest premiere below!

Also, click the links for more CM photos!

Premiere Of The Creative Coalition's "The Greatest" - Arrivals

(Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images North America | zimbio.com) 

'The Greatest' Los Angeles Premiere

(Photo by Photo Agency | zimbio.com) 

Premiere Of The Creative Coalition's "The Greatest" - After Party

(Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images North America | zimbio.com)

Happy Birthday Keira Knightley! (Update: P&P DVD Giveaway is now closed!)

Today (March 26th) is the Golden Globe and Academy Award® Nominee (for Best Actress performance of her iconic role, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice film) Keira Knightley's 25th Birthday!

Check out these interesting and Fun Facts about Miss Keira Christina Knightley!

Here's wishing our favorite Elizabeth Bennet...the lovely, beautiful, and talented Keira Knightley a fantabulous birthday today...and many more to come!

♥ Happy Birthday Keira!!!!! ♥   

Keira's upcoming film projects for 2010/2011 (via IMDB)...

1. The Emperor's Children (2011) (pre-production)
2.  The Talking Cure (2011) (pre-production) .... Sabina Spielrein
3. The Beautiful and the Damned (2010) (pre-production) .... Zelda Sayre
4. London Boulevard (2010) (post-production) .... Charlotte
5. Never Let Me Go (2010) (post-production) .... Ruth
6. Last Night (2010) (completed) .... Joanna Reed

P.S. Speaking of birthdays or in this case anniversary, my P&P (2005) Forum turns 4 years online today too! I created the P&P fan forum the same day as Keira's birthday 4 years ago today (of course, unaware at the time that it was her birthday, lol). So, yeah, there are 2 reasons to celebrate today and every year...KK's b-day and the P&P forum. How cool, eh?

Happy 4 Years Online P&P Forum!

Update: To celebrate Miss Knightley's birthday and 4 years of my P&P forum...I thought I'd do a lil' P&P DVD Giveaway contest here. It's a standard DVD (new) and two random lucky winners will each win a free P&P DVD prize sponsored and brought to you by yours truly. :)


For more details on how you can enter to win a free P&P dvd and, of course, find out what special features/bonus extras  is on the DVD.

Movie Rumors: Carey Mulligan cast as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady?

So, Keira Knightley's out (she was reportedly attached to the Eliza Doolittle role, but dropped out of it, because it was taking too long to get started on the film) and now Carey Mulligan's (or so blogs/media and Emma Thompson are saying she has been cast...but is she really...) in? Interesting...with Emma Thompson reportedly writing the screenplay and saying she is. 

Here's an article saying so, from...

Broadway World, via BBC Radio 5 Live:

…Carey Mulligan is set to play Eliza Doolittle in the upcoming remake of My Fair Lady, written by Emma Thompson. Previous rumors suggested that Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman were interested in the coveted role of Doolittle, however Thompson revealed that Mulligan has been cast.

Though no one has been cast as male lead Henry Higgins, rumors have sugguested that Hugh Grant might be linked to the role. On this subject Thompson stated, “But we still don’t know about Higgins. I love Hugh so I’d love him to do it, he might want to, he might not want to, so we don’t know yet. But hopefully we’ll make it later this year.”

It's interesting that this casting news is all over the web, but Carey herself was just interviewed by Collider.com and said that she isn't signed or cast in this film, lol.

Here's a new interview of Carey from Collider.com:

Since her Oscar nominated performance in An Education, all eyes have been on British actress Carey Mulligan. With a role in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, recently pushed back to a September 24^th release date, and the intriguing dramatic thriller Never Let Me Go, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, everyone wants to know what she’ll be doing next.

According to the actress herself, she stated during the press day for her latest drama The Greatest (which we’ll have more on closer to the April 2^nd release date) that she has not signed on to play Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, nor has she received a call to do Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, at this point, but she is looking to play really interesting characters that challenge and terrify her.  She also talked to us about working for Mark Romanek.

Check out what she had to say...

Amazing Grace: Rosamund Pike recreates the timeless style of movie legend Grace Kelly

New beautiful photo shoots of Rosamund Pike (photo by Nicky Emmerson), recreating the timeless style of the late movie legend (and Princess of Monaco) Grace Kelly and an article from the UK's The Guardian...

Amazing Grace: The movie icon look for 2010

 From a major V&A exhibition to the look of Mad Men's leading ladies, Grace Kelly is everywhere this spring.

Actor Rosamund Pike pulls on her white gloves and travels to Monaco to recreate her timeless style

 Half a century later, there is something of the Kelly lineage in Rosamund Pike, the young actor with the cool-drink-of-water good looks who gamely agreed to model this season's take on the Grace Kelly look in Monaco for us. Pike wrote in Vogue last year about the experience of playing the adorable, childlike, Monroe-esque character of Helen in An Education – a comic role she played to delicious perfection – and how differently cast and crew related to her, compared with her experiences playing more arch, aloof blondes. "Kelly put a lot of space around her, which enabled audiences to project a lot," is how Pike pegs the Kelly magic. She's right: there's something self-possessed about Kelly, which seems subtly to reinforce her personal space. Those white gloves remind us to keep at arm's length. Mention iciness, however – Vogue, after all, dubbed Kelly "as remote as a Snow Queen" – and Pike comes to her defence: "I don't see icy at all. No. Icy suggests hardness. She had a way of being untouchable without being cold. She was intensely natural and fresh and feminine. What do I see? Grace, I suppose, as in the noun."

Read full article here!

Check out gorgeous new photos of Rosamund as Grace Kelly below...

Rosamund Pike recreates the timeless style 

of movie legend Grace Kelly
 (click images to enlarge!)

Cashmere and silk ­cardigan £439, by D&G, from Harrods.
Silk dress £4,445, leather belt, £535, and ­raffia wedge sandals, £500, all by Bottega Veneta.
Earrings £120, by Erickson Beamon.
Lace gloves £35, by Cornelia James.

Photograph: Nicky Emmerson

 

Dress £2,435, by Stella McCartney.
Straw hat £462, by Rachel Trevor-Morgan.

Photograph: Nicky Emmerson

  

  

Silk kimono £1,805, by Antonio ­Berardi, from Harrods.
Dress £800, by Antonio Berardi, from brownsfashion.com.
Necklace £288, by Basia Zarzycka.

Photograph: Nicky Emmerson 

 

Linen dress £1,335, by Yves Saint Laurent.
Glasses £295, by Oliver ­Peoples and Adam ­Simmons ­Opticians, 020-7813 1234. ­
Earrings £124, by ­Thomas Sabo.
Leather Kelly handbag £5,400, by  Hermès.

Photograph: Nicky Emmerson

Silk headscarf £355, made to order, by Prudence Millinery.
Sheer poloneck silk top £575, and cream double-breasted blazer, £1,260, both by Salvatore Ferragamo.
Leather gloves £550, by Yves Saint Laurent.

Photograph: Nicky Emmerson

Photographer's ­assistant: Jon ­Gorrigan.
Stylist: Alice ­Giannini.
Digital assistant: Sean Geraghty.
Hair and make-up: ­Liberty Shaw at Frank using Sisley and Paul ­Mitchell.

Rosamund Pike stars in Hedda Gabler
March 22 - 27 at Nottingham Theatre Royal
March 29 - April 3 at Oxford Playhouse

P&P Gallery Update: More Behind The Scenes photos of P&P 05 cast

I've updated the P&P Gallery with more on set/filming/behind the scene photos of P&P 05 Actors: Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike, Carey Mulligan, Brenda Blethyn, and Donald Sutherland. There are 100+ BTS photos in the BTS album.

Check out some previews of them below!

Pride & Prejudice (2005) - Behind The Scenes

Or check out the P&P BTS album for more below...

(click on the image to enter the P&P Bts Album!)

P&P Behind The Scenes

Also, as previously posted here and here, I've recently created and added a few new albums there as well.