Showing posts from October, 2014
Interview With The Vampire author
Anne Rice, whose new book,
Prince Lestat (
The Vampire Chronicles) just had a midnight launch Wednesday October 29th at the British Library in the UK.
Matthew Macfadyenattended the event and read the "
Blood Genesis" passage from
Prince Lestat. Rice is a fan of
Matthew's TV and film work and even had him in mind as Prince Lestat in her dream cast for the possible film adaptation. Also, Universal Picturesacquired the motion picture rights to
The Vampire Chroniclesnovels in August 2014. Producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will helm the potential film franchise.
Lestat is back – 30th October UK | 28th October USUK/International order:
http://bit.ly/1vTOBBZUS order:
http://bit.ly/1v6WANb
Read more info on Prince Lestat here.
Watch
MM reading
Prince Lestat via a video clip from
Anne Rice's official Facebook page this morning:
Updated 11/24/14:‘True Detective’ Co-Stars Taylor Kitsch, Rachel McAdams, Kelly Reilly Confirmed By HBO For Season 2 via
Deadline
According to
Deadline, former
Black Box star
Kelly Reillyis finalizing a deal for a
regular role (as
Morgan) in
Season 2 of HBO's hit series True Detective, which just assembled new cast including
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. This is great news because
Kelly is going to be back on TV and reuniting with Rachel McAdams (love her!). Looking forward to this one now that both Kelly and Rachel are going to be in the same series!
Read more info. via Deadline below...
‘True Detective': Kelly Reilly, Michael Irby, Abigail Spencer, Leven Rambin Eye Roles
The
first image from the upcoming
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (currently
filming, which started
September 24th) has been released today via
EW, and the photo is of the
Bennet sisters:
Elizabeth (
Lily James),
Lydia (
Ellie Bamber),
Mary (
Millie Brady),
Jane (
Bella Heathcote), and
Kitty (
Suki Waterhouse).
via EW:
When it comes to her character, (
Lily)
James doesn’t think that’s too much of a stretch.
“Even in the original story, Elizabeth’s a fighter and beyond her contemporaries in her ambitions and her ideas of women,” she says.
“She’s a badass warrior. She’s a ninja.” Sam Riley (
Mr. Darcy),
Jack Huston (
Mr. Wickham),
Douglas Booth (
Mr. Bingley),
Emma Greenwell (
Caroline Bingley), Lena Headey, Charles Dance, and
Matt Smith (
Mr. Collins) also star.
Also,
Screen Gems acquired the distribution rights for its
U.S. theatrical release.
Sony Pictures Worldwide will distribute the movie in Latin America, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Iceland; the feature is also being shopped around to othe…
The
final trailer for
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1(
Donald Sutherlandas
President Snow and
Jena Maloneas
Johanna Mason co-star) has been released by Lionsgate. It features a quick glimpse of President Snow, but no Johanna Mason.
Mockingjay: Part 1, the penultimate chapter of the third film (from
The Hunger Games trilogy) will be opening in theaters nationwide
November 21st (
Jena's birthday!). The film also stars
Jennifer Lawrence,
Josh Hutcherson,
Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Stanley Tucci, and
Julianne Moore.
Watch the
final trailer below via Lionsgate...
Tonight on BBC America,
A Poet In New York starring
Tom Hollander premieres at 8/7c.
See related articles via Collider...
Tom Hollander Talks A POET IN NEW YORK, Playing Dylan Thomas, the Grueling Shooting Schedule, JUNGLE BOOK: ORIGINS, and MoreWriter Andrew Davies Talks A POET IN NEW YORK, Working With Guillermo del Toro On BEAUTY, Adapting WAR AND PEACE, Not Writing BRIDGET JONES 3, More“
A Poet in New York,” starring
Tom Hollander. Hollander plays Dylan Thomas, the famous poet known for his wild, hard-drinking lifestyle. Written by screenwriter Andrew Davies (“House of Cards”), the drama explores how Thomas’ experiences made his life virtually untenable and examines how his destructive personality played into his own demise. The film is directed by Aisling Walsh and also stars Essie Davis, as Dylan’s wife Caitlin, Ewen Bremner and Phoebe Fox.
It premiered on BBC Two in the UK recently, see more info., watch the BBC
trailer and
production stills featuring
Tom Hollander below...
's recently released romantic-comedy/musical film
Begin Again(formerly titled as
Can A Song Save Your Life? which was released in theaters last
July 2nd) is released on
DVD and
Blu-ray today.
Mark Ruffalo,
Catherine Keener,
Hailee Steinfeld, and
Adam Levine also star.
More
DVD & Blu-ray info. including artwork covers below via
DVD Active...
Title:Begin AgainStarring:Keira KnightleyReleased: 28th October 2014
SRP: $34.99, $29.98
A
trailer for
Ripper Streetstarring
Matthew Macfadyen (as
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid)
Season 3 has been released
via
Amazon Instant Video.
Season 3 premieres on
Amazon Prime Instant Video's
online streaming next month on
Friday,
November 14th at
9 PM (every
Friday, according to this
UK Mirror article). It's also premiering in both UK's BBC One and BBC
America sometime in
2015. No TV broadcast dates has been announced as of yet. I'll keep you posted here as soon they are announced.
Watch the
trailer (and see
screen captures of
MM) below...
The U.S. premiere is finally here (10 months later after it first premiered in the UK last December 2013) and it starts tonight with
Episode 1 for
Death Comes to Pemberley starring
Matthew Rhys(as
Mr. Darcy) and
Anna Maxwell Martin (as
Elizabeth Darcy...
née Bennet)
at
9 pm ET on
PBS Masterpiece Mystery! I had the pleasure in seeing this early via YouTube last December 2013, the UK unedited (3 episodes) version. You can read my long
P&P 200: Death Comes To Pemberley (2013) Review here. I'll still be watching this though on my TV screen tonight and if you're following me:
@pandp2005 on Twitter, I'll be live tweeting as I watch from 9:00-10:30 PM ET (east coast time)!
Death Comes to PemberleyEpisode 1(120 mins)
Six years after the end of
Jane Austen's timeless classic,
Pride and Prejudice,
Elizabeth and Darcy plan a ball...with fatal consequences. A family enemy takes charge of the case.
Death Comes to Pemberley comes to
MASTERPIECE Mystery! in two thrilling episodes, Sunda…
Another strong third weekend for
Gone Girl starring
Rosamund Pikeand
Ben Affleck at this weekend's U.S. Box Office chart with
$17.8 Million (estimate) dropping to a spot to
#2 (though the new #1 movie,
Fury starring Brad Pitt, only made less than $25 M...whereas GG made $26+ on its second week at #1 last weekend) and a small
33% drop from last week! That's another impressive hold! Yay,
Pikemania continues...as it's another winning weekend at the domestic box office for
Gone Girl (as it crosses the
$100 million mark in just less than 3 weeks of its released!) and the lovely
Miss Pike! Its
17-day total for her biggest film to date is now
$107 million in domestic (with
$94.5 Million in foreign and over
$201 Million worldwide total)
! If you haven't seen this movie yet, go see it!
Here's the current
Top 10 US Box Office chart via
Collider...
This isn't by any means confirmed just yet by Warner Bros. Pictures, but since yesterday
Jena Malone has been all over the CBM news and today has been trending on facebook and various social media of her possible casting (with so many multiple sources reporting and some confirming...) for a
mystery role in
Zack Snyder's (director of her
Sucker Punch film)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (starring
Henry Cavill,
Amy Adams, and
Ben Affleck) film, which is currently filming right now.
Now, neither
Jena nor
Snyder have confirmed this, but speculations have been floating around of her
BVS casting when she recently dyed her hair red and posted the following photo two weeks ago on her Instagram account hinting to her casting in possible female Robin role with a quote from
The Dark Knight Returns (which BVS'
Batman character was inspired from):
Today (October 17th) is
Matthew Macfadyen's
40th birthday!
Matthew, best known to us
P&P Fans as
Mr. Darcy of the
2005 Pride & Prejudice film, was born David Matthew Macfadyen in Great Yarmouth, Northfolk, England, UK in
1974 (40 years ago today!).
Happy Birthday Matthew Macfadyen!!!
(Mr. Darcy!)
Some interesting
MM quotes talking about his iconic
Darcy role/character (while you watch an
MM Birthday tribute video...though in Spanish, but it included an English translation/subtitles below) worth re-posting again here...
I saw
David Fincher's
Gone Girl starring
Rosamund Pikeand
Ben Affleck last Friday, on its opening day, and I just posted my full
Film Review: Gone Girl in my other blog,
In The Mood For Movies, where I post my general movie reviews (of the movies I've seen in theaters). This was one of my most anticipated films to see this year. It was worth the wait and worth watching too (at least for me). I highly recommend you see this especially if you want to see
Rosamund in her first lead starring role in the current
#1 movie in America right now. You will be mind-blown by her amazing performance as
Amy Dunne in this movie. Go see it, if you can or get a chance, this weekend! It looks like it's going to top this weekend's domestic Box Office chart again for the second weekend in a row (but, of course, we'll find out tomorrow afternoon when BO results is released).
Read part of my
Gone Girl film review below...
Keira Knightley attended the
opening night gala screening of
The Imitation Gameduring the
58th BFI London Film Festival at Odeon Leicester Square on
October 8, 2014 in London, England.
The Imitation GameEnglish mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, helps crack the Enigma code during World War II.
Also starring
Matthew Goode,
Allen Leech,
Rory Kinnear,
Charles Dance, and
Matthew Beard, the film opens in US Theaters
November 21st, 2014.
Check out
new photos of
Keira from
The Imitation Game screening, photo call, and press conference below...
A few new
Season 3 Stills for
Ripper Streetstarring
Matthew Macfadyen (as
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid) has been released
via
BBC America. As previously posted
here last February, this series has been saved and will return for
Season 3 inAmazon Prime Instant Video online streaming next month on Friday, November 14th at 9 PM (every
Friday, according to this
UK Mirror article). Also, great news for those who are not subscribed to Amazon Prime, it is said to be airing on TV after all, in both UK's BBC One and BBC America sometime in
2015. No broadcast dates has been announced as of yet. I'll keep you posted here as soon they are announced.
In the meantime, check out a few new
Ripper Street S3 stills of
Matthew below...
A
UK trailer has been released by Studio Canal for
The Imitation Gamestarring
Keira Knightley (as
Joan Clarke),
Benedict Cumberbatch (
Sherlock), and
Mark Strong (
Sherlock Holmes,
The Young Victoria). Also, a new
promo still of
Keira and Benedict as well as a
character poster of
Keira as
Joan Clarke had been released. See them above and below.
The Imitation GameEnglish mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, helps crack the Enigma code during World War II.
Also starring
Matthew Goode,
Allen Leech,
Rory Kinnear,
Charles Dance, and
Matthew Beard, the film opens in US Theaters
November 21st, 2014.
Watch the official
UK trailer for
The Imitation Game below...
A strong
opening weekend debut at
#1 for
David Fincher's
Gone Girl starring
Rosamund Pikeand
Ben Affleck at this weekend's U.S. Box Office chart with an impressive
$38 Million and
$24.5 Million in (39 markets thus far in) Foreign Box Office! Yay, a big congrats to
Rosamund!!! This movie is her very first lead starring (title) role and first #1 at the US box office (where she's the main star). I'm so happy for her! Good for her. It's about time she's in the spotlight and getting the recognition and success that she so most certainly deserves. I saw this movie on its opening day last Friday and loved it.
Miss Pike's performance as
Amy Dunne was
A+ AMAZING! I'll post my review of this movie here very soon.
Here's more Box office report via
Box Office Mojo...
Season 4 of Showtime's
Emmy Award winning series
Homeland premieres tonight at
9 PM ET/PT on Showtime. It will be a
2-hour premiere with
2 new episodes airing back-to-back starting at 9 pm.
Emmy Award nomineeRupert Friend (
Outstanding Guest Actor for
Homeland) returns in his second regular season as agent
Peter Quinn.
Homeland starring
Claire Danes,
Mandy Patinkin, and
Rupert Friend.
Watch the
S4 trailer (and see a few
screen captures of
Rupert Friend) along with
S4 promo poster featuring
Claire Danes below...
Today is the day,
October 3rd is finally here! Now showing in nationwide release is
Gone Girl starring
Rosamund Pikeand
Ben Affleck. Go see our dear and lovely
Jane Bennet...
Rosamund as amazing
Amy Dunne in this movie!
Official synopsis for
Gone Girl:
GONE GIRL –
directed by David Fincher and based upon the global bestseller by
Gillian Flynn – unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage.
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben
Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife,
Amy (
Rosamund Pike),
has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media
frenzy, Nick’s portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his
lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark
question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? Watch the new
Gone Girltrailer (and see
screen captures of
Rosamund Pike), see
production stills, and more below...
Today (October 1st) is the 33rd birthday of
Emmy Award NomineeRupert Friend (aka
P&P 05's own Mr. Wickham).
RupertFriend was born
October 1st, 1981 in Oxfordshire, England, UK.
Rupert is currently
seen on TV weekly in the
10th-
time Emmy Award and 5-time Golden Globe winning drama seriesHomeland (Season 4), which will premiere on Sunday,
October 5th at
9PM ET/PT on Showtime with a back-to-back episode (2-hour episode premiere!). He plays agent
Peter Quinn, which he scored an
Emmy Award nomination for
Outstanding Guest Actor.
Rupert, officially joined
Twitter (last year):
@rupertfriend and blogs on
WhoSay. He's also now on
Facebook. If you're a fan, you can now follow him in social media and be sure to wish him a Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday Rupert Friend!!!
Worth re-posting here are these
interesting
RF info I previously posted...