I recently saw Kelly Reilly's recent released film, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, where she reprises her Mary Morstan role (from the first Sherlock Holmes film) and once again, she co-starred with Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams.
DOCKERY: Yes, I’d love too. I really would love too. I love America and I hope that the success of Downton Abbey may open some doors for us. I’m actually not available at the moment because I’m doing a part in a Joe Wright film. He’s doing an adaptation of Anna Karenina, which is another period piece. I have some lovely scenes to do with Keira Knightley.Read her full interview here via Collider!
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Kelly Reilly, Noomi Rapace, Rachel McAdams, Jared Harris, and Stephen Fry lead the weekend on top with $40 million from 3,703 locations. | Title | Weekend | Total | |
| 1 | Sherlock Holmes 2 | $40,020,000 | $40 |
| 2 | Alvin & the Chipmunks 3 | $23,500,000 | $23.5 |
| 3 | Mission: Impossible 4 | $13,000,000 | $13 |
| 4 | New Year’s Eve | $7,420,000 | $24.8 |
| 5 | The Sitter | $4,400,000 | $17.7 |
| 6 | Breaking Dawn Part 1 | $4,300,000 | $266.4 |
| 7 | Young Adult | $3,650,000 | $4 |
| 8 | Hugo | $3,625,000 | $39 |
| 9 | Arthur Christmas | $3,600,000 | $38.5 |
| 10 | The Muppets | $3,454,000 | $70.9 |
Remembering and celebrating her birthday today, Jane Austen, the woman who wrote the original Pride and Prejudice novel (which had been made into several TV and Film adaptations including the 2005 film, Pride & Prejudice), which was her first (can you believe unsuccessful?!) submission to a publisher back in 1797 (214 years ago) titled "First Impressions" (later changed to "Pride and Prejudice"). She revised "First Impressions" and published it entitled "Pride and Prejudice" in 1813 (198 years ago!). 
Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law returns as his formidable colleague, Dr. Watson, in "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows." Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room...until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large--Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)--and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective...More!
The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominations has been announced this morning and there were more snubs than nods. Shocking! Not! (LOL!) Interesting no Best Actress/Supporting Actress nods for Keira Knightley on A Dangerous Method, Carey Mulligan for either Drive or Shame, and Judi Dench for J. Edgar or My Week With Marilyn, but their frequent co-stars did get nominations such as Michael Fassbender for Best Actor in Shame (but not in Jane Eyre or A Dangerous Method? Hmm...), Viggo Mortensen for Best Supporting Actor in A Dangerous Method, Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor in J.Edgar, and Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh for My Week With Marilyn. 
Now, for the television nominations, Downton Abbey at least received 4 nominations: Best TV or Miniseries, Best Actress in a TV or Miniseries (Elizabeth McGovern), Best Actor in a TV or Miniseries (Hugh Bonneville), and Best Supporting Actress in a TV or Miniseries (Dame Maggie Smith). Congrats to DA cast and crew!!!
I've recently read Fitzwilliam Ebenezer Darcy by Barbara Tiller Cole and I am posting my book review here. A Jane Austen/Charles Dickens crossover story, Fitzwilliam Ebenezer Darcy takes the best of both classics and spins them into a delightful Holiday treat! F.E. Darcy has fallen into pitiful self-loathing and sorrowful angst-ridden despair; all of this due to his belief that he has lost forever the chance to marry the only woman he has ever loved—Elizabeth Bennet. Seeing her son in such a state, the Ghost of Anne Darcy reaches out to him; informing him that three ghosts would visit him and give him hope. Will these Spirits provide him with the courage to try again to win the esteem of his one true soul mate?
Kelly Reilly just attended (along with co-stars Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr., Noomi Rapace, and director Guy Richie) the UK/European premiere of her new film, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows at The Empire Leicester Square,
December 8, 2011 in London, United Kingdom.
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| Merry Christmas from Downton Abbey! |
Christmas 1919:
Downton Abbey is hosting a lavish Christmas party, yet despite being the season of goodwill, tensions are rife and Bates’s arrest has cast a shadow over the festivities. Will he be a condemned man or will he be found innocent in time to dance with his new wife at the annual servants’ ball?
Mary has to consider her future with Sir Richard Carlisle following a contretemps at the shooting party and Violet has concerns about Rosamund, whose new suitor - the dashing but raffish Lord Hepworth, is not all he seems.
