P&P NewsBits: Mockingjay - Part 1 remains at #1 at US BO for a third week with $21.6 M, Gone Girl stays on top 10 for 10 weeks, Keira Knightley on Actors on Actors with Ethan Hawke, Matthew Macfadyen join cast of The Last Kingdom, and more!

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 today'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: Matthew Macfadyen, Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike, Rupert Friend, Donald Sutherland, and Jena Malone), all in one post!

First up...

(in random order...)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (Donald Sutherland as President Snow and Jena Malone as Johanna Mason co-star) 

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 took in an estimated $21.6M this weekend. Domestic total stands at $257.73M. #Mockingjay
— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice) December 7, 2014

'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1' held on to 1st place this weekend with $21.6 million: http://t.co/HpSq5zDYUp pic.twitter.com/94sQyksv0G 

— Box Office Mojo (@boxofficemojo) December 7, 2014

'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1' has now earned over $560 million worldwide: http://t.co/fYb7r5t7w3 pic.twitter.com/wpg9lv8Dc8
— Box Office Mojo (@boxofficemojo) December 7, 2014

The Imitation Game (starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley)

THE IMITATION GAME took in an estimated $401,570 this weekend from 8 locations. Domestic total stands at $1.01M. #TheImitationGame

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice) December 7, 2014

Also, here's an update on...

Actors on Actors: Keira Knightley and Ethan Hawke

“Imitation Game” actress Keira Knightley and “Boyhood” star Ethan Hawke talk reviews and dealing with criticism at the Variety Studio: Actors on Actors presented by Samsung Galaxy.

Watch a preview video here or below...

SEE MORE: Awards: The Contenders

The full interview will air on PBS SoCal on Dec. 28 as a part of the Variety Sotudi: Actors on Actors series and on PBS stations nationally beginning in January; check local listings.

Actors on Actors, Episode 3 – December 28th – 7PM
Reese Witherspoon and Michael Keaton
Keira Knightley and Ethan Hawke
David Oyelowo and Jack O’Connell
Jenny Slate and Felicity Jones

Gone Girl (starring Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck)

Gone Girl remained at #8 on this weekend's US Box Office chart with $1.5 million and domestic total of $162.8 million, a foreign total of $173.4 million and a worldwide total of $336.2 million. (source: Box Office Mojo) The movie is still on the top 10 for ten weeks since it's opening week last October 3rd. It also spent 8 weeks at the top 5!

Interesting Facts: Since 2000, GG is the only the R-rated movie to spend 8 weeks at the top 5! It could also be the only R-rated #1 peaking film to spend since 2000 with 10 top 10 weekends. If its run were to end this weekend with 8 T5s/10 T10s, it would join Cast Away, Dark Knight, Croods, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Hunger Games.

Speaking of Rosamund Pike... At $942k, looks like Relativity is attempting to push Hector and the Search for Happiness over the $1 million mark this weekend by adding 52 screens to the remaining 5.

Also, Miss Pike just gave birth to her second baby last Tuesday, December 2. It's (another) baby Boy! Congrats to RP!

Congrats to Rosamund Pike on the birth of her second child! http://t.co/yBFDZft0ci pic.twitter.com/le7jIt6hFk
— JustJared.com (@JustJared) December 5, 2014

Vanessa Redgrave, Rosamund Pike Honored at Women in Film and TV Awards

LONDON — Vanessa Redgrave received the lifetime achievement award at the Women in Film and TV Awards Friday in London, while Rosamund Pike picked up the performance award for David Fincher’s thriller “Gone Girl.”  (source: Variety)


Plus Rosamund is nominated for Best Actress (for Gone Girl) category in 2014 Washington (D.C.) Area Film Critics Association:

Best Actress: 
Scarlett Johansson (Under the Skin)
Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
Reese Witherspoon (Wild)

also, GG film is nominated in the following...

Best Film:
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Boyhood
Gone Girl
Selma
Whiplash

Best Director:
Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)
Ava DuVernay (Selma)
David Fincher (Gone Girl)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance))
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl)
Graham Moore (The Imitation Game)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Inherent Vice)
Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything)
Nick Hornby (Wild)

Best Editing:
Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione, ACE (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance))
Sandra Adair, ACE (Boyhood)
Kirk Baxter, ACE (Gone Girl)
Lee Smith, ACE (Interstellar)
Tom Cross (Whiplash)

Best Original Score:
Antonio Sanchez (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance))
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (Gone Girl)
Hans Zimmer (Interstellar)
Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory of Everything)
Mica Levi (Under the Skin)

2014 Satellite Nominations (include: Gone Girl, The Imitation Game, Belle, and Inherent Vice):

Actress in a Motion Picture 
Rosamund Pike 
GONE GIRL (Fox)

Gugu Mbatha-Raw
BELLE (Fox Searchlight)

Actress in a Supporting Role
Keira Knightley
THE IMITATION GAME (The Weinstein Company)

Motion Picture 
GONE GIRL (Fox)
THE IMITATION GAME (The Weinstein Company)

Screenplay, Adapted
GONE GIRL
Gillian Flynn
Fox

INHERENT VICE
Paul Thomas Anderson
Warner Bros.

THE IMITATION GAME
Graham Moore
The Weinstein Company

Director
David Fincher
GONE GIRL
Fox

Morten Tyldum
THE IMITATION GAME
The Weinstein Company

Original Score
GONE GIRL
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Fox

THE IMITATION GAME
Alexandre Desplat
The Weinstein Company

Cinematography
GONE GIRL
Jeff Cronenweth, ASC
Fox

INHERENT VICE
Robert Elswit
Warner Bros.

Film Editing
THE IMITATION GAME 
William Goldenberg 
The Weinstein Company

Sound (Editing and Mixing) 
GONE GIRL 
Ren Klyce, Steve Cantamessa 
Fox

Costume Design
BELLE 
Anushia Nieradzik 
Fox Searchlight

Art Direction & Production Design 
HE IMITATION GAME 
Maria Djurkovic, Nick Dent
The Weinstein Company

(source: Yahoo! Finance)

Rupert Friend is reportedly engaged to his girlfriend actress/model Aimee Mullins. Congrats RF!

Aw! @rupertfriend & his new fiancee look super happy after announcing their engagement: http://t.co/FhaGEPDTNe pic.twitter.com/dUeFRjTIUN
— JustJared.com (@JustJared) December 5, 2014

And last, but most certainly not least...

Matthew Macfadyen joins The Last Kingdom cast and started filming in UK and Hungary!

BBC, BBC American and Carnival Films have unveiled the lineup for the new Viking TV drama "The Last Kingdom."

"The Last Kingdom" is based on Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series The Saxon Stories.  The drama has begun filming with production in Hungary and the U.K.

The cast lineup includes Matthew Macfadyen, David Dawson (Fred Best in Ripper Street), Rutger Hauer, Alexander Dreymon, Emily Cox, Ian Hart, Tobias Santelmann, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Peter Gantzler, Joseph Millson, Alexandre Willaume, Rune Temte and Henning Valin Jakobsen.

Set in the 9th century, when much of what is now called England is under the rule of the Vikings, The Last Kingdom focuses on the Kingdom of Wessex, the only remaining outpost holding out against the foreign invaders. Dawson will play King Alfred the Great, while Dreymoon plays the main protagonist Uhtred, the son of a Saxon nobleman who is orphaned by the Vikings and brought up as one of their own and forced to choose his path.

There are 8 planned 60 minute episodes to air next year. (source: Darcylicious | Big News Network)