Blogoversary: Pride & Prejudice Blog turns 5!

Pride & Prejudice (2005) Blog
celebrates 5 Years Online!

Wow, 5 years! I can't believe it's been 5 years already! It seems just like yesterday, I was still new to blogger and learning how to add codes and contents. I never thought I'd be blogging this long, but it's all because of my love for this movie version of Pride & Prejudice and the amazing actors who portrayed my favorite P&P characters brilliantly on this 4th-time Oscar nominated film. I've really enjoyed blogging here and posting all things P&P/Austen related topics as frequently as I've been able to for these wonderful 5 years. And you know what they say, time flies when you're having so much fun. Indeed, it had flown by so quickly. I must say, I have loved and enjoyed blogging here and keeping this blog updated as often as I could (or have the time to).

[Note: scroll down to read on for a chance to win a free P&P DVD giveaway below...]


So, yeah, five years ago today (May 29th), I started this blog as just an archived for P&P movie news and articles...and now 5 years later, this blog has expanded to a much bigger and frequently updated blog with all things Pride & Prejudice (esp. the 2005 film and its actors/cast and their film projects' news and more) and Jane Austen related news/articles/movies (ie. Becoming Jane, The Jane Austen Book Club, Lost In Austen, Aisha, From Prada to Nada, A Modern Pride and Prejudice, etc.).
 
Here's one of my previous posts that relates to how I started this blog: Confessions of a P&P Blogger

Also, some of my interesting, recently posted, P&P movie related posts that you might enjoy viewing and reading (if you haven't already read them)...
16 Beautiful Things I love about the 2005 Pride & Prejudice film 
Watching Pride & Prejudice film on Blu-ray   
Photos: P&P Filming Locations (updated) 
Photos: Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall as Pride & Prejudice's Pemberley and Inn at Lambton (P&P/Derbyshire filming locations) 
My first European trip (September 2010)
My First European Trip (part 2)

Thanks to everyone especially to all the daily visitors, readers, subscribers, contributors (thanks a lot to all my friends over at P&P '05 Forum esp. JW, Liz, Stephie, Kate, Michelle (aka Mary Bennet) and these 3 multi-talented ladies: Antonella, Rachel and Giulia/Eowyn for all your help on the previous arts/banners used here in this blog and at the forum. I love, appreciate, and can't thank the 3 of you enough for your beautiful arts/wallpapers/P&P videos contributions to our lil' P&P fan forum/community), to all the P&P fans/friends on this P&P Blog's Facebook page (ie. fellow Devoted Fans of P&P FB co-founders/co-admins/friends Jessica Tapia and Audrey Lawrence. Thanks a lot ladies!

Special thanks to the following contributors and (over the years) to this blog:
(in no particular order)
Christy Farmer
Ashley Visco

Laurie Viera Rigler Austenprose)


Bonnie Mae 

And most of all, THANK YOU to all the P&P fans around the world who are fans of this amazingly beautiful film, of course, and all the P&P cast/actors featured on this blog (ie. Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Carey Mulligan, Talulah Riley, Brenda Blethyn, and Donald Sutherland  to name some as well as director Joe Wright) ...for without you all and the 2005 Pride & Prejudice film, this Blog wouldn't have started or made it this far. Hope to keep this blog around and to continue to blog for as long as I can.

Pride & Prejudice (2005) Blog stats by the #s:
Total Visitors: 598,288 (and counting)
Total Blog Posts/Articles: 1,535 (and counting...)
Total Blog Followers: 155
Total Comments: 842 (and counting...)
Total Pageviews last month: 41,952
Pageviews All Time History: 728,150 (since last year with 287,636 and counting...)

Now, onto the P&P DVD giveaway...I thought I'd do another free DVD giveaway here (see another one here: Enter to win 'An Education' DVD Giveaway! for a chance to win) in celebration of this blog's 5 years milestone and as a THANK YOU to you my dear regular Blog readers and visitors for visiting and reading here as often as you do.

Updated 6/13/12: Unfortunately, no one entered this (and the other two) DVD giveaways...I'm guessing everyone already owned their copies of these DVDs...and this giveaway has already expired...so ending all the giveaways, since no one here seemed interested in winning these DVDs. Oh, well...
Updated 6/5/12: I've extended this for another week...for those of you interested in winning this P&P DVD giveaway...

Pride & Prejudice DVD Giveaway

Enter for a chance to WIN one copy of Pride & Prejudice DVD by leaving a comment here by midnight on Sunday ET, June 10, 2012, stating why you love this version of Pride & Prejudice and what your favorite scenes, characters, and quotes from this movie. One lucky Winner will be drawn at random and announced sometime on Tuesday, June 12, 2012.


NOTE: Open to U.S. residents/entrants only. Good luck to all! 

Pride & Prejudice (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

 

The greatest love story of all time lives on in the Pride & Prejudice 2-Disc Collector's Edition! The Academy Award®-nominated film based on Jane Austen's masterpiece novel has been repackaged and expanded to a 2-disc edition with all-new bonus features. Academy Award® nominee Keira Knightley stars as heroine Elizabeth Bennet, who upon meeting the handsome Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen), believes him to be the last man on earth she could ever marry. But as their lives become intertwined, she finds herself captivated by the very man she swore to loathe for all eternity. And now, their romance shines brighter than ever before in this must-own collector's edition of the film critics said, "Makes you believe in true love and happily-ever-after" (Stephen Holden, The New York Times).

DVD SPECIAL FEATURES
Disc 1: Widescreen Main Feature

• 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
• English, French and Spanish DD5.1 Surround
• English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles
• Audio Commentary with Direcor Joe Wright
• Conversations with the Cast
• Jane Austen, Ahead of Her Time
• A Bennet Family Portrait
• HBO First Look: Pride & Prejudice

Disc 2: Full Frame Main Feature

• 1.33:1 Full Frame
• English, French and Spanish DD5.1 Surround
• English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles
• Audio Commentary with Director Joe Wright
• The Politics of Dating
• The Stately Homes of Pride & Prejudice
• Galleries of the 19th Century
• Pride & Prejudice Family Tree

P.S. New Layout: I changed the layout (as you may have noticed, not exactly the background and it's image, I kept it the same as I love it the way it is) slightly and switched the side bars as well as changed the header banner (see a screen shot of the previous one below). I thought it's time for a slightly new look and what better way to do so than today, on it's 5th year anniversary (which I tend to change the layout, at least once a year, or so...). I've been working on this blog most of today, updating and fixing some contents/pages, as you can see there's a new cool tool bar just added today below the main page with cool app links (check it out!)...so this will be a work-in-progress...

Previous header banner...

For now...hope you like the new header banner and re-organized side bars. What do you think? Like it? Yay or Nay? Feel free to comment post your feedback here. Thanks.