Pride & Prejudice (2005) Blog

Looks like we'll be seeing not just one or two, but perhaps all  five Bennet girls on either the small or mostly big screen this year of 2014 as all of them has at least one, a few, or more movies they starred/co-starred in, that are featured in various film sites with lists of most anticipated films of 2014 and are slated for mid to late 2014 release (with some already having official scheduled release dates in bold below...and others to be announced and awaiting theatrical releases. Release dates are subject to change though...).  The still  young  and very  talented actresses  ( Academy Award® and Golden Globe Nominee  Keira Knightley  28 ,  British Independent Film Award   winner  Rosamund Pike  35 ,  Young Artist Award Winner  Jena Malone  29 ,  Academy Award® Nominee  and  BAFTA winner   Carey Mulligan  28 ,  and  Talulah Riley  28 ) who played the  Bennet sisters  brilliantly and quite convincingly in the  2005 Oscar / Golden Globe / BAFTA  nominated film,  Pride  

Great news (and in this very early morning too, US east coast time!)!!! BBC America 's  crime mini-series   Ripper Street   starring  Matthew Macfadyen  (as  Detective Inspector Edmund Reid ) has been saved and will return for Season 3 with Amazon Prime Instant Video and BBC teaming up to revived the prematurely axed series in the UK. Meanwhile, the U.S. just started watching Season 2 (with episode 1 that premiered last Saturday, February 22nd ) on BBC America. This is great news,  indeed!  UPDATE: Here's a press conference photo of Matthew with Ripper Street co-stars via Total TV Guide: Total TV Guide   @totaltvguide Follow We're at the launch of #RipperStreet with Jerome Flynn, Matthew Macfadyen and MyAnna Buring 5:40 AM - 26 Feb 2014 Jerome Flynn , and  Adam Rothenberg   also star. Here's more info. via Digital Spy :

Tonight  Downton Abbey  ( Penelope Wilton  co-star as  Isobel Crawley ) wraps up its  fourth season  with  Episode 8, Season 4 Finale  on  PBS Masterpiece  at 9/8c. Check your local listings for air times in your area. Episode 8   (60 minutes) The drama and intrigue come to a head for the Crawley family and their servants in the exciting finale of  Downton Abbey , Season 4. Watch a  preview trailer  from  Episode 8 (Season 4 Finale)  below...

Tonight is the Season 2  U.S. premiere for  BBC America 's  crime mini-series   Ripper Street   starring  Matthew Macfadyen  (as  Detective Inspector Edmund Reid ).  Jerome Flynn , and  Adam Rothenberg   also star. Matthew Macfadyen  returns  as   Detective   Inspector Edmund Reid! Watch Ripper Street S2 trailer, read the synopsis, and see on set photos and promotional stills of Matthew below...

Today, February 20th , is the  68th birthday  of  two-time Academy Award Award Nominee   Brenda Blethyn , best known to us  P&P fans  as  Mrs. Bennet , the  Bennet girls '  mother  in the 2005  Pride & Prejudice  film. After twenty years of hard work on stage and both television and films, there are not many other actresses who deserved the success, recognition and stardom which  Brenda Blethyn  has now achieved. Born in (February 20th) 1946 in Ramsgate in Kent, England, she started her career at British Rail in the 1960s. Saving money during her time there, she took a risk and enrolled herself at the at The Guildford School of Acting in Guildford, Surrey, England and then left her British Rail years behind. Her risk had paid off, by the mid-1970s she was working on stage, eventually joining the National Theatre Company in 1975. ( Read more of her Bio on IMDB! )

ITV's  two-part crime drama  Murder on the Home Front  starring  Tamzin Merchant   (as  Molly  Cooper ) and  Patrick Kennedy  get its first U.S. broadcast premiere tonight (after  Downton Abbey ) at  10:15 PM ET  on PBS (check your local listings), and its online debut the next day on the PBS Video Portal. Tamzin plays an intrepid journalist turned assistant to a pathologist. Molly Cooper  is not only the first secretary to a pathologist (Patrick Kennedy), she is the first woman allowed into a very male world. Set during the Blitz, loosely based on the memoirs of writer Molly Lefebure . UK's The Telegraph reviewed and gave Episode 1 , 4 star s (out of 5) ! Tamzin Merchant  as  Molly Cooper

Tonight  Downton Abbey  ( Penelope Wilton  co-star as  Isobel Crawley ) continues its  fourth season  with  Episode 7  on  PBS Masterpiece  at 9/8c. Check your local listings for air times in your area. Episode 7   (65 minutes) Robert and Thomas return from America. Bates disappears for a day. Edith prepares to go abroad. Suitors flock to Mary. And Rose makes her move. Watch a  preview trailer  from  Episode 7  below...

♥ Happy Valentine's Day!!!! ♥ To all P&P/Austen fans, frequent readers and visitors of this blog, here are my recommendations of... 14 Must-See Romantic Movies for this Valentine's Day...

Pride & Prejudice (2005) film's own Darcy siblings  Matthew Macfadyen  ( Mr. Darcy ) and Tamzin Merchant   ( Georgiana Darcy ) will both be on U.S. TV this month of February . They'll be playing leads and solving crimes. Tamzin Merchant as Molly Cooper in Murder On The Home Front , which premieres on PBS this Sunday at 10 PM (after Downton Abbey 's Season 4 - Episode 7) and Matthew Macfadyen as Detective Inspector Edmund Reid on Ripper Street 's Season 2 ,  which premieres on BBC America later this month, on Saturday February  22nd, at 9 PM. Here are more info. on both Murder On The Home Front and Ripper Street - Season 2 below...

Tonight  Downton Abbey  ( Penelope Wilton  co-star as  Isobel Crawley ) continues its  fourth season  with  Episode 6  on  PBS Masterpiece  at 9/8c. Check your local listings for air times in your area. Episode 6   (60 minutes) Downton's drove of pigs arrive, Robert departs, and illness descends. Mary and Blake may have found common ground, but Edith faces her troubles alone. Watch a  preview clip , a scene from  Episode 6   below...

The first trailer has been released (via Collider ) for another movie with Rosamund Pike   on it is Hector and the Search for Happiness with her The World's End 's co-star Simon Pegg  starring as Hector. The film also stars Christopher Plummer, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgard, and Jean Reno and will open in UK Cinemas this fall. No U.S. release date yet. Watch the first trailer here . ( Note : Will post here an embedded YouTube link as soon as it's available.) See the trailer screen captures (featuring Rosamund Pike ) and read the official synopsis for  Hector and the Search for Happiness :

Last September 2013,  Keira Knightley ( BTS photo  ^ of Keira by Steve Sands/Bauer Griffin | zimbio )   attended the TIFF premiere of her new film, Can A Song Save Your Life?   Soon after it premiered on TIFF 2013, The Weinstein Company has acquired the  US distribution rights   to   John Carney ’s romantic film   Can a Song Save Your Life?   Today, according to  Box Office Mojo , the movie will open in limited theaters on the 4th of July . Expansions for more theaters planned for July 11th and 18th .   Can a Song Save Your Life? Can a Song Save Your Life?  finds  Gretta  ( Keira Knightley ) alone in New York City after being heartbroken by her musician boyfriend (Adam Levine). She finds laughter and rejuvenation with a down-on-his-luck record producer (Mark Ruffalo) who recognizes her musical talent and opens up an entire city of possibility for both of them.

An international trailer has been released recently for one of Rosamund Pike 's  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: A Long Way Down starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collete, Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots, Rosamund Pike , and Sam Neill. It'll open in UK Cinemas March 21st . No U.S. Release date yet. A Long Way Down Four people meet on New Year's Eve and form a surrogate family to help one another weather the difficulties of their lives. Watch the international trailer  (and see a few screen captures of Rosamund ) for A Long Way Down below...

I just noticed that one of this year's  Oscar Nominated short films (Live Action), The Voorman Problem stars  Tom Hollander   and Martin Freeman (PBS' Sherlock ). In the 13 minute short ,  Tom plays a man, Mr. Voorman , who believes he's God . Interesting. Watch the trailer and clip (via USA Today) below. See The Voorman Problem stills here . Also, read more via USA Today article... Watch a clip of Tom Hollander as Mr. Voorman, a man who believes he is God! Martin Freeman, who plays Watson in the PBS hit series  Sherlock , might have met his match in this clip from the Oscar-nominated short  The Voorman Problem .

Kelly Reilly 's upcoming new limited ( 13 episodes ) TV series, Black Box will premiere on ABC on April 24th , which is about a little over 2 months from now. The official website for the series is now up and has been added on ABC's site  (under shows section). Looks like Kelly 's character's first name Elizabeth (as first mentioned when the new series was announced last year), is no longer that name as it's been changed to Catherine (as now listed on the series' website). So, her character's name is now Dr. Catherine Black and not  Dr. Elizabeth Black (as it was previously referred to). The "The" on the title has been dropped as well and is now just called Black Box . Watch the preview trailer for Black Box here . ( Note : UPDATED 3/14/14 - An embedded YouTube video  link will be posted here as soon as it's  is now available! Scroll down to watch it below Black Box Premieres This Spring Tune in for the premiere of Black Box,

Tonight  Downton Abbey  ( Penelope Wilton  co-star as  Isobel Crawley ) continues its  fourth season  with  Episode 5  on  PBS Masterpiece  at 9/8c. Check your local listings for air times in your area. Episode 5   (60 minutes) Pride and prejudice mark Robert's surprise birthday party when Rose's potentially scandalous recruit raises eyebrows and Mary clashes with an instantly antagonistic man of the people. Bates and Anna step out, and Edith gets troubling news. Watch a  preview clip , a scene from  Episode 5 featuring Isobel Crawley with Lady Mary , and Tom Branson  below...

While promoting their currently released film   Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit ,  Keira Knightley  and her co-star and director Kenneth Branagh stopped by the Graham Norton Show and talked about the movie. Also,  Keira talked about her other films like Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace , where she had a cameo role Natalie Portman' s Queen Amidala's decoy Sabe , Bend It Like Beckham , Pirates of The Caribbean movies, and Pride & Prejudice to name   few. Speaking of P&P movie, Graham brought up Keira's famous pouting and she mentioned how director  Joe Wright banned her pouting while filming the P&P movie , lol...Then, they all did the pouting, haha! The episode was hilarious. It just aired tonight on BBC America and they also showed a preview (twice) of  Matthew Macfadyen 's Ripper Street series 2 , which will premiere later this month, February 22nd ! Watch the full episode of  Keira and Jack Ryan co-star/director Kenneth Branagh on Grah