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New poster for Return To Sender featuring Rosamund Pike; Set for U.S. Theater and VOD release August 14th!

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A new International poster (above via Rosamund Pike Fans on FB) has been released  for the upcoming psychological thriller  Return To Sender  starring  Rosamund Pike ,  Shiloh Fernandez ,  Nick Nolte ,  Rumer Willis ,  Camryn Manheim ,  Illeana Douglas , and  Scout Taylor-Compton . Last May, the trailer has been released and Image Entertainment has acquired the U.S. distribution rights for the film. It is set for a U.S. Theater release and VOD (video on demand) on August 14th ! In Return To Sender , Rosamund stars as Miranda , a small town nurse who gets attacked during a home invasion by a mysterious stranger (Shiloh Fernandez). Following his arrest, Miranda starts to regularly visit him in jail and build a relationship with her attacker. 

Photos: Jena Malone at The Hunger Games Exhibition in New York

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Jena Malone   attended today with co-stars Jennifer Lawrence , Josh Hutcherson , and Willow Shields at The Hunger Games Exhibition in New York. The THG Exhibition opens July 1st. Check out a couple new photos of JM at the THG exhibition via THG/Mockingly part 2 official twitter account and Jena's Instagram post below...

Rosamund Pike wins Best Actress and Gone Girl wins Best Thriller Film in Saturn Awards 2015!

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The 41st Annual Saturn Awards 2015 was held yesterday in Burbank, California and Oscar Nominee   Rosamund Pike  (as  Amazing Amy Dunne )   and her breakout film  Gone Girl   both won the Saturn Award for the following categories :  Best Actress in Film and Best Thriller Film Release . Yay, congrats to RP and GG film!

Academy invites 322 Members including Pride & Prejudice director Joe Wright and Rosamund Pike!

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released yesterday its list of new member invitees , 322 of Artists and Executives including Pride & Prejudice director  Joe Wright   (who should've been invited years ago after  P&P was nominated with 4 Oscars! ) and his former fiancée , also P&P star and recent Academy Award nominee   Rosamund Pike   (see a photo of her above via Getty Images with Joe at the 2008 Oscars when they were still together). They were both in the list of 2015 invitees to join the Academy as members .

Winners of Regina Jeffers' The Prosecution of Mr. Darcy's Cousin Giveaway!

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First, I would like to thank Regina Jeffers for making this blog her first stop of her new book, The Prosecution of Mr. Darcy's Cousin 's Blog Tour . Also, thanks Regina for guest blogging her and doing a giveaway here as well. And thank you to those of you, dear readers, for entering and leaving your comments on Regina's giveaway . The winners were picked via Random.org by Regina herself. Now, without further ado, the  two random lucky winners   of Regina's eBook copies of The Prosecution of Mr. Darcy are...

Film Review: Far From The Madding Crowd

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I recently saw Far From The Madding Crowd starring Carey Mulligan . I just posted my full Film Review: Far From The Madding Crowd in my other blog, In The Mood For Movies , where I post my general movie reviews (of the movies I've seen in theaters). Read part of my review of FFTMC movie below...

SDCC 2015: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies cast including Lily James, Sam Riley, and director Burr Steers to be at Comic-Con in July and will debut first footage of film!

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According to Deadline ,  Screen Gems confirmed yesterday that it will debut the first footage from its horror-lit mashup  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies   and action thriller  Patient Zero  at the Con. Its  July 11 panel  will feature  P&P&Z  cast including  Lily James ,  Sam Riley ,  Bella Heathcote , Douglas Booth , Jack Huston and Matt Smith along with director Burr Steers and the book’s author Seth Grahame-Smith .   The film's US Theater release date now has been moved up a week early from February 19th to   February 5th, 2016 ! The 2015 Comic-Con runs from July 9-12 at the San Diego Convention Center.

Watch: Rupert Friend as agent 47 in new trailer for Hitman: Agent 47

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A new  movie poster  (see above ^ via  IGN ) and new full-length trailer has been released yesterday (via IGN too)  for  Rupert Friend 's upcoming action-spy thriller  Hitman: Agent 47 , which will be released in theaters on  August 21st (moved up a week from the 28th )! Rupert  plays the lead title role,  agent 47 in the film. Watch RF in the new Hitman: Agent 47 trailer below...

Casting News: Matthew Macfadyen joins Michael Gambon and Romola Garai in ITV/PBS 'Churchill's Secrets'

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ITV announced today in an official  Press Release that  Matthew Macfadyen   has joined the stellar ensemble cast of their upcoming new drama, Churchill's Secret . I've read about this new drama and casting of Michael Gambon  (he previously co-starred with MM in Perfect Strangers aka Almost Strangers  TV Mini-series back in 2001 and in a play, King Henry IV in 2005) last week and was thinking MM should be on this and now he is! Wow, I couldn't believe it when I saw his name on the casting announcement...had to do a double check, haha! So glad he's part of this as I'm sure this will be a great drama to watch. I'm also glad that this will be showing on PBS next year! Another new period drama with Matthew  to look forward to! Read more info. via ITV's official casting announcement press release below...

Happy Father's Day!

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Happy Father's Day to (my own Dad) and to all the fathers around the world! (And old post worth reposting with new header ^!) A Father's Day tribute to Mr. Bennet

Wapping, the Setting for "The Prosecution of Mr. Darcy's Cousin" + Giveaway (Update: Contest Closed!)

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Wapping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org Though Execution Dock is long gone, this gibbet is still maintained on the Thames foreshore by the Prospect of Whitby public house. Much of the action of my newest Austen-inspired novel, The Prosecution of Mr. Darcy’s Cousin , is set in Wapping. But what do we know of the area? Wapping is a district in East London, in the Borough of Tower Hamlets. The north bank of the River Thames and the Highway (formerly called the Ratcliffe Highway) border the area. The Nazi bombings of England during World War II destroyed many of the original buildings.

On TV Tonight: Watch Matthew Macfadyen in Episode 8 - Season 3 Finale of Ripper Street on BBC America

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Tonight the third season of BBC America 's  crime mini-series   Ripper Street   starring  Matthew Macfadyen  (as  Detective Inspector Edmund Reid ) concludes with Episode 8 at 10/9c .  Jerome Flynn , and  Adam Rothenberg   also star. The Peace of Edmund Reid Episode 8 | Original Air Date : 17 June, 2015   The team of H Division inch ever closer to the truth about the train robbery. View More   Watch the Season 3 Finale - Episode 8 trailer for RS , stills , and more below...

Watch: Jena Malone as Richard Gere's daughter in trailer for Time Out Of Mind film

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A trailer has been released for  Jena Malone 's upcoming new indie film,  Time Out of Mind   with  Richard Gere . Time Out of Mind opens in limited release this September . Watch JM in the trailer below...

Pride & Prejudice Movie Fans Live Tweets on Twitter (Part 3)

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Last night ( June 12th ), there was another back-to-back airing of Joe Wright 's 2005 Pride & Prejudice movie starring Keira Knightley & Matthew Macfadyen on TV, back on Oxygen channel. I previously posted part 2 of this last week when it aired back-to-back on Bravo and had first  posted about this last May 24th , when it aired twice in a row on Oxygen. I guess this will be a series of posts whenever this movie is broadcast on TV (but of course, it depends, If and when I get a chance to see and live tweet it). Yesterday, I  live tweeted during both airings (starting from 5:40 pm and at 8:45 pm East Coast Time ), since it was on much earlier and as always, I had a lot fun with other fans who live tweeted and stayed up until midnight to watch this movie again (with all 3 of these hashtags : #pandp2005 , #Pride&Prejudice , and #PrideandPrejudice ) on Twitter, and to watch and live tweet at the same time with fellow fans of this movie. The first showing was s

On TV Tonight: Watch Matthew Macfadyen in Season 3 - Episode 7 of Ripper Street on BBC America

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Tonight the third season of BBC America 's  crime mini-series   Ripper Street   starring  Matthew Macfadyen  (as  Detective Inspector Edmund Reid ) continues with Episode 7 at 10/9c .  Jerome Flynn , and  Adam Rothenberg   also star. Live Free, Live True Episode 7 | Original Air Date : 10 June, 2015 The murder of a chemist leads the team into the shadowy underworld of illegal abortionists. View More   Watch the Season 3 - Episode 7 trailer for RS , stills , and more below...

Watch: Donald Sutherland and Jena Malone in the first teaser trailer of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2!

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Lionsgate just released earlier this afternoon the first The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 ( Donald Sutherland   as  President Snow  and  Jena Malone   as  Johanna Mason  co-star) teaser trailer for director Francis Lawrence 's final installment of the THG franchise . The teaser trailer featured a quick (blink and you'll miss it) glimpse of Jena 's Johanna Mason character (who I didn't noticed was even there in this trailer until after I made a few screen captures...she appeared in the first 9 seconds of the trailer in a flash...with *gasp* no hair!...just behind Effie Trinket ...and that's about it! See screen cap of her above and below...) and Donald 's President Snow . In the conclusion, Panem has gone to war, Katniss Everdeen ( Jennifer Lawrence ) and President Snow ( Donald Sutherland ) have come to their final confrontation. A week ago, I posted here the first official Mockingjay - Part 2 poster featuring Donald Sutherland , and according to C

Watch: New 'True Detective' Season 2 trailer featuring Kelly Reilly

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Another glimpse of Kelly Reilly , who is returning to TV this summer with a  regular role  (as  Morgan ), in one of the two new 30 second trailers of Season 2  of HBO's hit crime drama series True Detective , with a new ensemble cast such as  Colin Farrell  ( Kelly 's co-star in  Triage  movie), Taylor Kitsch ,  Rachel McAdams  ( Kelly 's co-star in  Sherlock Holmes  1&2  movies), and Vince Vaughn .  True Detective 's Season 2 premieres on Sunday  June 21st on HBO! Watch a glimpse of Kelly in new S2 teaser trailer "Stand" for True Detective below...

Photos: Carey Mulligan at 2015 Tony Awards

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Last night, first time Tony Award nominee Carey Mulligan attended the 2015 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, 2015 in New York City. Unfortunately, Carey and co-stars Bill Nighy and Matthew Beard all lost their nominations for Best Performances by an Actress and Actor in Leading Roles and Best Performance in a Featured role respectively, but their play Skylight did win one Tony Award (out of 7 nominations ) for Best Revival Play . Yay, congrats to the Skylight cast and crew! See a full list of 2015 Tony Award Winners here . Miss Carey looked stunning and radiant in a maroon Balenciaga dress at the red carpet. See her red carpet arrival and backstage photos and watch the acceptance speech for Skylight cast & crew winning Best Revival Play award below...

Pride & Prejudice Movie Fans Live Tweets on Twitter (Part 2)

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Last night ( June 5th ), there was another back-to-back airing of Joe Wright 's 2005 Pride & Prejudice movie starring Keira Knightley & Matthew Macfadyen on TV, this time on Bravo channel. I previously posted about this last May 24th , when it aired twice in a row on Oxygen. I guess this will be a series of posts whenever this movie is broadcast on TV (and If I get a chance to see it and live tweet it). I didn't expect to have live tweeted , but I'm glad I did as I always have a lot fun with other fans who live tweeted and stayed up late just to watch this movie over and over again (with all 3 of these hashtags : #pandp2005 , #Pride&Prejudice , and #PrideandPrejudice ) on Twitter last night, to watch and live tweet at the same time with fellow fans of this movie. So many fans (and even a few non-fans) live tweeted randomly too during the back-to-back airing. UPDATE : Pride & Prejudice movie is scheduled to be broadcast (back-to-back) on TV on Ox

Lionsgate to release both in US/UK 'The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music' starring Matthew Macfadyen

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Great news for those of us in the US/Canada and UK who wants to see Matthew Macfadyen (new on set photo by Lionsgate) in his upcoming film The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music (there's finally a page for it on IMDB) movie in theaters/Cinemas as Lionsgate ( The Hunger Games Movies) has acquired both the US/Canada and UK distribution rights to release it for a planned Christmas 2015 theatrical release ! The movie was said to wrapped up filming this week in Salzburg with MM , director Ben Verbong and co-stars Yvonne Catterfeld , Eliza Bennett . Germany and Austria get to see it first as it will premiere there in November 2015 . By the way, I noticed that Vanessa Redgrave (who was originally mentioned as playing the older version of Eliza Bennett's Agathe Von Trapp role) is no longer in the cast list. Looks like it's Rosemary Harris (from all 3 Spider-Man movies with Toby Maguire...and FYI, she's P&P 1995 's Jennifer Ehle 's real-life mother

Watch: Keira Knightley in both UK & US Trailers for Everest film

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Both Universal Pictures and Working Title Films has just released today the first U.S. and International trailers for director Baltasar Kormakur 's ( 2 Guns ) epic survival drama Everest . Inspired by real events and written by Mark Medoff ( Children of a Lesser God ) and Simon Beaufoy ( Slumdog MIllionaire ), the movie documents on two different expeditions and climbers struggle to survive as they attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain. This is a Working Title Films produced film and Universal Pictures  will distribute worldwide. The film opens U.S. Theaters in 2D , 3D , and IMAX 3D on September 18th and stars Jason Clarke , Josh Brolin , John Hawkes , Jake Gyllenhaal , Sam Worthington , Robin Wright , Emily Watson , and Keira Knightley (as Jan Hall ). Watch both US/UK trailers below for Everest , read the official synopsis , see the movie poster and the first still of Keira as Jan Hall (including trailer screen captures ), and more bel

Watch: Carey Mulligan in first official trailer for Suffragette!

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Last April the UK teaser trailer for Suffragette starring Carey Mulligan , Meryl Streep , and  Helena Bonham Carter was released. Now, the first full-length trailer (wow, it looks amazing and Carey 's knocking it out of the park and that's just the trailer! She's definitely going to get another Oscar nod for this role! I can't wait to see her in this movie!) has just been released today along with the news this morning, according to Deadline , it will open the 59th BFI London Film Festival . The film will receive its European premiere on Wednesday , October 7 at the Odeon Leicester Square , attended by the filmmakers and cast with a live cinecast from the red carpet and simultaneous screenings taking place at cinemas across the UK.

On TV Tonight: Watch Matthew Macfadyen in Season 3 - Episode 6 of Ripper Street on BBC America!

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Tonight the third season of BBC America 's  crime mini-series   Ripper Street   starring  Matthew Macfadyen  (as  Detective Inspector Edmund Reid ) continues with Episode 6 at 10/9c .  Jerome Flynn , and  Adam Rothenberg   also star. The Incontrovertible Truth Episode 6 | Original Air Date : 3 June, 2015 The corrupt streets of Whitechapel witness a new breed of tourist from the higher realms of society. View More   Watch the Season 3 - Episode 6 trailer for RS , stills , and more below...

Happy Birthday Penelope Wilton!

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Celebrating a birthday today ( June 3rd ) is the recent Olivier Award winner and Downton Abbey 's Penelope Wilton   ( co-stars as   Isobel Crawley ), best known to us P&P movie fans as Mrs. Gardiner , Elizabeth Bennet 's favorite aunt in the Pride & Prejudice (2005) film . She also played Tom Hollander 's mother in Wives and Daughters mini-series and co-starred with Rosamund Pike in W&D too as well as with her good friend Judi Dench in Iris and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel / The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel films. Miss Wilton turns 69 years young today! Happy Birthday Penelope Wilton! Born:   Penelope Alice Wilton June 3 ,  1946  in  Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK

New Matthew Macfadyen photos from The Trapp Family movie set!

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Matthew Macfadyen is back on set of his upcoming film The Trapp Family: A Life of Music as filming resumes with director Ben Verbong and co-stars Yvonne Catterfeld , Eliza Bennett , and the rest of the cast. Several new on set photos of MM and co-stars has been released via Salzburger Nachrichten and Rex Features . The film wraps up filming in mid-June of this month. It is planned for a theatrical release sometime later this year or early next year. It is scheduled to premiere in November 2015 in Salzburg Mozart Cinema. See a few new MM photos from on The Trapp Family set below...

Movie News: Joe Wright in talks to direct 'The Lifeboat' starring Anne Hathaway

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According to Deadline , director Joe Wright is in talks to direct Anne Hathaway ( Becoming Jane ) in the adaptation of Charlotte Rogan ’s historical novel The Lifeboat . Hathaway is also producing along with Working Title Films and Focus Features (both production company and distributor of JW 's Pride & Prejudice , Atonement , and Anna Karenina films). Read more info. via Deadline below...

New The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2's official poster featuring Donald Sutherland's President Snow!

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A new official poster  (see above) for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 ( Donald Sutherland   as  President Snow  and  Jena Malone   as  Johanna Mason  co-star) has been released by Lionsgate and it featured a broken statue of President Snow as played by Donald Sutherland , which contained an expected symbol (in red color) of resistance: a  Mockingjay in full flight, wings and feathers aflame. Starring Jennifer Lawrence , Josh Hutcherson , Liam Hemsworth , Woody Harrelson , Elizabeth Banks , Philip Seymour Hoffman , J effrey Wright , Willow Shields , Sam Claflin , Jena Malone , Stanley Tucci , Julianne Moore , and Donald Sutherland . The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 opens November 20, 2015 .

Watch: Pride & Prejudice's UK & US Trailers [10 years anniversary of its UK Trailer release!]

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I previously posted this here almost a few years ago, but I thought It's worth posting it here again as it's been exactly 10 years ago ( June 1st, 2005 ) today since the first UK trailer for Joe Wright 's  P&P   movie was released by Working Title Films (then Working Title Productions). So, in celebration today of  Pride & Prejudice  (2005)  film's  10 ten years anniversary  of its  first full-length  UK Trailer release  ( June 1, 2005 ), I am re-posting both the  UK and US trailers  here. In retrospect and for the nostalgia , watch both the UK and US trailers (with transcripts included, which I've transcribed and compiled a few years ago) for P&P movie below...