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Tamzin Merchant   will be co-starring with Shane West ( Nikita ) in WGN America 's new original scripted period TV drama series  Salem , which will premiere on Sunday, April 20th . Watch the first trailer and read more info. of  Salem info. via Dead Central below...

The top U.S. mega Box-Office grossing film of 2013, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire  starring  Jennifer Lawrence  ( Katniss Everdeen ),  Josh Hutcherson  ( Peeta Mellark ),  Liam Hemsworth  ( Gale Hawthorne ),  Sam Claflin  ( Finnick Odair ),  Donald Sutherland  ( President Snow ) and  Jena Malone  ( Johanna Mason ) , is coming to DVD and Blu-ray combo packs  and HD Digital on March 7th ! The mega successful film is still and currently playing in theaters nationwide since last November 22nd, 2013 and according to Box Office Mojo, its impressive  domestic total as January 26, 2014 is over $420 Million  (the #1 Box Office hit of 2013 !) and counting...while its foreign total (as of Jan. 26 2014) is now $435.8 Million with a worldwide total of $855.9 Million (and counting...getting closer to a billion $)! Read my full  Film Review: The Hunger Game: Catching Fire  in my other blog,  In The Mood For Movies . More DVD and Blu-ray combo packs (with attached artwork) details below

It is a truth universally acknowledged that    Jane Austen 's  "darling child,"  PRIDE AND PREJUDICE , originally titled, "First Impressions," celebrates its 201st Anniversary of publication   today, January 28, 2014! Last year, I posted and celebrated the big   200th Anniversary here .  See my  Pride and Prejudice 200  extra page for all things  P&P ! Happy 201st Anniversary Pride & Prejudice  and  Elizabeth & Darcy!!

Today ( January 27th ) is the lovely and ethereally beautiful  Rosamund Pike  (aka Pride & Prejudice 's own Jane Bennet )'s  35th Birthday ! Born  Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike  in London, England, UK.  Miss Pike  is  an only child , her  parents  are  Julian  and  Caroline Pike . Her father  Julian  is a  professional opera singer , whilst her mother  Caroline  is a  concert violinist .  Read more of Rosamund Pike's Biography here . Miss Pike has 5 upcoming films  ( Gone Girl , Return To Sender , What We Did  On Our Holiday , Hector and the search for Happiness , and A long Way a Down ) slated for 2014 theatrical release! Happy Birthday Rosamund Pike!!!

  After watching Downton Abbey ( Season 4 - Episode 4 ) tonight, I saw a preview of the ITV's  two-part crime drama  Murder on the Home Front starring  Tamzin Merchant   (as Molly Cooper ) and Patrick Kennedy , which   will premiere on PBS (after Downton Abbey ) on February 16th ! Finally, I'll get to see this on PBS next month! Murder on the Home Front makes its US broadcast premiere on Sunday, February 16,  at 10 PM ET on PBS (check your local listings), and its online debut the next day on the PBS Video Portal. Here's more info. (via TV Equals ) and Murder On The Home Front promotional stills of Tamzin Merchant as Molly Cooper below...

Tonight  Downton Abbey  ( Penelope Wilton  co-star as  Isobel Crawley ) continues its  fourth season  with  Episode 4  on  PBS Masterpiece  at 9/8c. Check your local listings for air times in your area. Episode 4   (60 minutes) Questions of estate management pit Mary and Tom against Robert, while Bates' questions about Anna's suffering pressure Mrs. Hughes. Thomas installs a new ally, Violet hires a new gardener, and Alfred cooks up some ambition. Watch a  preview clip , a scene from  Episode 4  below...

Kelly Reilly   attended the portrait session and after party of her upcoming film   Calvary  at the   2014 Sundance Film Festival  with writer/director  John Michael McDonagh . It had a premiere screening this past weekend ( January 19th ), which  Kelly attended as well (though no photos of her yet on Zimbio from the premiere) with 4 more scheduled screenings listed here . Update: This just in via Deadline :   Sundance: Fox Searchlight Lands Brendan Gleeson Pic ‘Calvary’ Calvary has reportedly sold to Fox Searchlight for $2.5 million! Calvary Father James is a good priest, driven by spiritual integrity. One day in confession, an unseen man tells James that he’s going to kill him precisely because he’s done nothing wrong. Given a week to make his peace with God, James ministers to sundry lost souls—visits that double as a guided tour of  suspects. His preparation for death is further  complicated by the arrival of his daughter, who has  recently attempted suicide. Check

Keira Knightley   attended the UK premiere of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit   with co-stars Chris Pine and Kenneth Branagh   on Monday, January 20, 2014 . The premiere was  held at the Vue West End, Leicester Square, London, England. The film opens in UK Cinemas this Friday, January 24th . Speaking of Jack Ryan , according to Box Office Mojo , it opened soft in its opening weekend  Domestic Box-Office here in the U.S.  at #4 with an estimated $18 Million (with a reported $60 Million production budget), but it did much better internationally in its foreign Box-Office weekend debut .  Coinciding with its domestic debut,  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit  opened to $22.2 million from 29 foreign markets . According to Paramount, it was about on par with  Jack Reacher  (starring Tom Cruise & Rosamund Pike) , which wound up earning $138 million .  Its top market was China , where it earned a solid $9.5 million . It also took first place in Russia with $2 million , which is somewhat disa

Tonight  Downton Abbey  ( Penelope Wilton  co-star as  Isobel Crawley ) continues its  fourth season  with  Episode 3  on  PBS Masterpiece  at 9/8c. Check your local listings for air times in your area. Many Congratulations to Dame Maggie Smith (Lady Violet Crawley/Dowager Countess of Grantham) for winning last night's 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Female Actor in a TV Drama Series!!! Episode 3   (60 minutes) Love is in the air at Downton Abbey and darker emotions too, as Mary, Edith, Tom, and Anna each struggle with a dilemma. Things are cooking for Ivy and Alfred, and heating up in London. Watch a preview clip , a scene from Episode 3 (featuring Penelope Wilton as Isobel Crawley)  below...

The  2014 Sundance Film Festival  has just started this week and  Keira Knightley 's upcoming film  Laggies  directed by  Lynn Shelton just had its premiere. A new  still  featuring  Keira  (above) has been released and she attended the Sundance premiere as well.  Updated 1/21/14:  Sundance: A24 Aquired Lynn Shelton’s ‘Laggies’ After Late Night Auction Here's the press release via  Deadline ... Park City, UT (January 18, 2014) – A24 has just picked up domestic rights to Lynn Shelton’s LAGGIES starring  Keira Knightley , Chloë Grace Moretz, and Sam Rockwell. The film, written by first time screenwriter Andrea Seigel, had its Sundance premiere on Friday. Film also co-stars Ellie Kemper, Mark Webber, Jeff Garlin, Gretchen Mol, and    Kaitlyn Dever. A24 is planning a summer theatrical release for the film.   The film was produced by Anonymous Content and The Solution Entertainment Group,

ABC has announced the premiere date of  Kelly Reilly 's new drama series  The Black Box   for  Thursday , April 24 at 10/9c , replacing  Scandal  (which is wrapping early due to Kerry Washington’s pregnancy, according to TVLine).  Kelly Reilly  was cast in a  lead role  (in which she was the top choice too) as  Elizabeth Black  in a new ABC limited ( 13 episodes ) drama series  The Black Box , her first TV series in America!  The Black Box  centers on  Elizabeth Black  ( Reilly ), a world-renowned neuroscientist who appears to have it all but is constantly haunted by her own struggle with mental illness. And that is not the only secret she’s kept locked away from her family and her new fiancé.  Also, check out new photos of Kelly Reilly 's with the producers and director of  The Black Box from the ABC's Winter TCA Tour below.

With the surprising news tonight of Zack Snyder’s untitled Superman/Batman film's release date being pushed back (from July 17, 2015 to May 6, 2016),  Joe Wright 's   upcoming “ Peter Pan ” origin tale tentatively titled  Pan , for Warner Bros. Pictures (which made The Black List) was originally slated for a  June 26, 2015  release...now, it's been announced that it's pushed back a month later to fill up the Superman/Batman's original release date of J uly 17th, 2015 . So, now it's set for that release date worldwide. Here's the  official press release  via  Deadline : Warner Bros Pushes Superman-Batman Movie To 2016 BURBANK, CA – January 17, 2014 – Warner Bros. Pictures announced today that the release of Zack Snyder’s untitled Superman/Batman film has been moved to May 6, 2016, allowing the filmmakers time to realize fully their vision, given the complex visual nature of the story. The decision was made following the shift of the start of productio

Now showing  Kenneth Branagh 's  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit   starring  Chris Pine  ( Jack Ryan ),   Keira Knightley   ( Cathy ) ,  Kevin Costner ,  Kenneth Branagh , Peter Andersson, David Paymer, and Colman Feore. Go see it! Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Synopsis Based on the character created by bestselling author Tom Clancy, “Jack Ryan” is a global action thriller set in the present day.  This original story follow a young Jack (Chris Pine) as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. The story follows him from 9/11, through his tour of duty in Afghanistan, which scarred him forever, and into his early days in the Financial Intelligence Unit of the modern CIA where he becomes an analyst, under the guardianship of his handler, Harper (Kevin Costner).  When Ryan believes he’s  uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to p

Keira Knightley  attended (with co-stars Chris Pine, Kevin Cosrtner, and co-star/director Kenneth Branagh) the LA premiere of Paramount Pictures' " Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit " at TCL Chinese Theatre on Wednesday,  January 15, 2014 in Hollywood, California.  Kenneth Branagh 's  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit   starring  Chris Pine  ( Jack Ryan ),   Keira  Knightley  ( Cathy ) ,  Kevin Costner ,  Kenneth Branagh , Peter Andersson, David Paymer, and Colman Feore.  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit  opens in theaters and IMAX today,  January 17  in the US and the following Friday,  January 24  in UK Cinemas. Check out a couple premiere videos and some new KK photos with her Jack Ryan co-stars Chris Pine, Kenneth Branagh, and Kevin Costner below...

The 86th Academy Award Nominations has just been announced earlier this morning and  Judi Dench   and her Philomena film were nominated for 4 Oscars including a Best Actress ( Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role ) nomination for Dench . In addition to the 4 Oscar nominations, Philomena was nominated for 3 Golden Globe Awards (including Best Actress for Judi Dench), 4 BAFTAs (including Best Actress for Judi Dench), 2 Critics Choice Awards  (including Best Actress for Judi Dench), and 1 SAG (a Best Actress nomination for Judi Dench). The 2014 Oscars will be on March 2nd, 2014 starting at 8 PM on ABC   and will be hosted by  Ellen Degeneres .  Congrats and best of luck to Judi Dench and her Philomena film on their 4 Academy Award Nominations! Her Philomena   Best Actress nomination is Dame Judi Dench 's 7th Oscar Nomination and her 3rd Best Actress nomination ( Mrs. Brown , Iris , Philomena ) with 4th Best Supporting Actress nomination  (

Paramount Pictures has released more clips (including a new one with Jack Ryan asking " Where is She? " featuring Keira as Cathy Muller briefly) for  Kenneth Branagh 's  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit   starring  Chris Pine  ( Jack Ryan ),   Keira Knightley   ( Cathy ) ,  Kevin Costner ,  Kenneth Branagh , Peter Andersson, David Paymer, and Colman Feore. Entertainment Tonight also did a special " Anatomy of a Cast: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit " interviews this past weekend. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit  opens in theaters and IMAX in 2 days, this Friday,  January 17  in the US and the following Friday,  January 24  in UK Cinemas. Watch the videos below...

Tonight is the 71st  Golden Globe Awards  on NBC.  Judi Dench   and her  Philomena  film has received  3 GG nominations  including  Best Actress  for  Judi Dench .  Downton Abbey  only got  one nomination .  Inside Llewyn Davis  and  The Hunger Games: Catching Fire  ( Coldplay 's song " Atlas " from the film's soundtrack) were also nominated. The  71st Golden Globe Awards  will be co-hosted by  Tina Fey  and  Amy Poehler  on  January 12, 2014 . See List of Golden Globe Nominations for Philomena, Downton Abbey, and more here .

Tonight  Downton Abbey  ( Penelope Wilton  co-star as  Isobel Crawley ) continues its  fourth season with Episode 2  on  PBS Masterpiece  at 9/8c. Check your local listings for air times in your area. ‘Downton Abbey’ Hits Series High With Season 4 Debut   There were also a lot of people watching: Airing at 9 PM, the two-hour episode, which is set in 1922 and takes place six months after the sudden death of  Downton  heir Matthew Crawley, pulled in 10.2 million viewers . That’s up 22% from the Season 3 debut and a series high for the show, eclipsing the previous record of the Season 3 finale on PBS last February. The third season of the British aristocratic period drama  debuted on January 6, 2013, to 7.9 million viewers , which was a strong leap from the 4.2 million who watched the second-season launch on January 9, 2012. Even before this latest cycle started,  Downton Abbey  has been  the highest-rated drama in PBS history . Episode 2   (60 minutes) The fates of several

Some new movies, casting, release dates, and filming news info. featuring some  P&P actors  here that I thought I'd post them all in the same post... Here's this weekend's quick  news round up  of  TV  and  film news  (including  casting calls , a  film synopsis ,  trailers ,  release dates ,  festival news ,  etc. ) of the following  P&P (2005) actors   Kelly Reilly ,   Jena Malone ,  Donald Sutherland ,  Rupert Friend ,   Judi Dench   and  Penelope Wilton ), all in one post! First up...

Paramount Pictures has released more clips and mini Character Profile featurettes and 16 images (via Collider ) for  Kenneth Branagh 's  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit   starring  Chris Pine  ( Jack Ryan ),   Keira Knightley   ( Cathy ) ,  Kevin Costner ,  Kenneth Branagh , Peter Andersson, David Paymer, and Colman Feore. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit  opens in theaters and IMAX next Friday,  January 17  in the US and the following Friday,  January 24  in UK Cinemas. Watch Keira 's Character Profile mini featurette and see 5 HQ stills from the movie featuring her character as Cathy Muller , aka the future Mrs. Jack Ryan below...

As the January 17th  theatrical release date fast approaches, Paramount Pictures has been kicking its marketing in high-gear and has released more TV spots (saw a lot of them on my various TV channels lately), IMAX character posters (including one for KK 's character Cathy Muller ), and a couple new clips including one titled a " couple's therapy " (featuring Keira , in her very clear American accent, with Chris Pine) in   Kenneth Branagh 's  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit   starring  Chris Pine  ( Jack Ryan ),   Keira Knightley   ( Cathy ) ,  Kevin Costner ,  Kenneth Branagh , Peter Andersson, David Paymer, and Colman Feore. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit  opens in theaters and IMAX next Friday,  January 17  in the US and the following Friday,  January 24  in UK Cinemas. Watch the new Jack Ryan: Shadow Recrui t clips below...

The 2014 Preview  Entertainment Weekly  magazine was unveiled today and the eye-catching cover featured a creepy (corpse) image of  Rosamund Pike  (in character as Amy Dunne ) with co-star Ben Affleck , who plays her character's husband Nick Dunne in  Gone Girl . The films director David Fincher photographed the cover, which will be on magazine stands tomorrow. When I first saw this cover, I was like, WTF?! It scared me, LOL! Then, I thought...ok, this cover, while creepy, looks to be oddly inspired by that infamous John Lennon/Yoko Ono's naked RollingStone magazine cover...just in a Gone Girl creepy way... Gone Girl  opens in theaters October 3, 2014 .  Check out the full EW cover  and preview article below...

Updated: April 9th, 2014 Looks like this year of  2014 will be a big year for  Kelly Reilly , with 4 films ( Heaven Is For Real , Calvary , Chinese Puzzle , and Innocence ) scheduled to be released in US theaters this year here and a limited 13-episode TV series ( The Black Box ) she's lead starring on ABC (her first US based TV  series) sometime this year (no air date has been announced yet). There are US theater release date  for 3 of her 4 films, with Heaven Is For Real ( Watch the trailer for Heaven Is For Real her   opening  in theaters April 16,   Chinese Puzzle on April 25 May 16 , and Innocence opening this Summer on August 15 . You can watch both trailers for Chinese Puzzle and Innocence below But first..

The long wait (for US fans) is over! Tonight  Downton Abbey   ( Penelope Wilton   co-star as   Isobel Crawley ) kicks off its   fourth season  on PBS Masterpiece  at 9/8c. Episode 1 will be 120 minutes long! The new season starts six months on from the death of   Downton  heir  Matthew Crawley  ( Dan  Stevens ), son of   Isobel Crawley . Episode 1 (120 minutes) Six months after Matthew's death, family and servants try to cure Mary and Isobel of their deep depression. Meanwhile, O'Brien causes a final crisis. Watch the early Season 4 preview trailer and a scene from Episode 1 and more below...

Paramount Pictures has released an action-packed extended scene/mega clip  of Kenneth Branagh 's  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit   starring  Chris Pine  ( Jack Ryan ),   Keira Knightley   ( Cathy ) ,  Kevin Costner ,  Kenneth Branagh , Peter Andersson, David Paymer, and Colman Feore, which will be released in theaters and IMAX, this month,  January 17  in the US and January 24 in the UK. David Koepp wrote the script. Watch the action-packed Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit mega clip below...

Today, January 4th , former  Pride & Prejudice star Claudie Blakley 's (best known to P&P Fans as Charlotte Lucas turned Mrs. Collins in P&P movie ) birthday. Claudie , born Claudia , Blakley is the sister of Kirsten Blakley, the lead singer with indie band Little Spitfire, and their father was  Alan Blakley , bassist with Brian Poole's Tremeloes, who had several pop hits in the 1960s. Sadly Alan died of cancer in 1996 and missed seeing his daughters' success. Claudie graduated from London's Central School ...  See full bio  (on IMDB). Besides Pride & Prejudice , you may or may not have seen Claudie in the following costume dramas in TV and Films...I've seen them all and she was very good in all. I recommend you check them out, if you haven't already... Larkrise to Candleford ( with Downton Abbey 's Brendan Coyle and P&P '95 's Julia Sawalha) Cranford ( with Judi Dench and Simon Woods ) and Return to Cranfor

2013 is now last year and we're now in the New Year 2014 ! You know what that means, right? New TV series/returning shows and movies to look forward to this Winter and Spring from our favorite P&P (2005) actors! Continuing my annual list of some P&P '05 alumni with a new movie and TV series or mini-series starting this month of January  through April  of 2014  (as well as a few upcoming films to see in mid to late  2014 !). UPDATED 3/23/14 : Added theatrical  release dates for Laggies , Begin Again (formerly known as Can A Song Save Your Life? ), Calvary and Inherent Vice films and trailer links, synopsis, and more here. The following P&P '05 actors has new films (and returning TV series ) to be released this Winter/Spring...

Just noticed that  BBC America has quietly updated its page recently for  Ripper Street   (starring   Matthew Macfadyen  as  Inspector Edmund Reid ) and now has listed a new US premiere date for Season 2 (which was originally to air last December 1st, 2013 , but due to BBC One canceling the series after 2 seasons in the UK, citing their reasons for axing it was due to poor ratings). It is now going to premiere next month on Saturday,  February 22, 2014 at 9/8c on BBC  America.

2013  has been a really  GREAT  year for this  P&P '05 Blog  and it's all because of  YOU .  Thank YOU all so much  for  visiting ,  reading , and commenting here and for making this year, an  amazing year!  Like last year, I had a great time posting, updating, and keeping this  Blog  and  P&P movie  alive all year. One of my favorite moments and posts this year has to be:  Pride and Prejudice 200 Anniversary celebration posts.  Hope to continue and keep going this year ( 2014 ) and beyond...well  hopefully for many more years to come (or for as long as I can). I would like to wish all the  P&P/Jane Austen fans  around the world,  visitors , and faithful  readers  of this blog   here a...