Pride & Prejudice (2005) Blog

A big CONGRATULATIONS to Oscar Nominee Rosamund Pike (as Amazing Amy Dunne image still via Gone Girl's official FB page ) for winning a BEST ACTRESS award for Gone Girl at the Jameson Empire Awards 2015 at the Grosvenor House Hotel on March 29, 2015 in London, England. Miss Pike was a no show at the award ceremony as there were neither red carpet photos of her nor award show photos of her accepting her award except for a couple screen captures (which looked like from when she was at the Oscars Luncheon last month) of her shown during the award show via Getty Images below. Here's her Empire Award acceptance speech that was sent in which she said: "I cannot believe that the one time I can’t attend an award ceremony is the one time I win, I’ve become so accomplished at losing I have no idea what to say now I’ve won." Ros beat out her former P&P co-star Keira Knightley (for The Imitation Game ) for the Best Actress category :

The first Pride and Prejudice and Zombies solo still of Lily James ( Cinderella , Downton Abbey ) as a well-armed with sword Elizabeth Bennet (See pic above!) has been released recently through the facebook page of PPZ film's production company, Cross Creek Pictures .

I recently saw The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel film (starring Judi Dench , Maggie Smith , Penelope Wilton , Bill Nighy , Celia Imrie , Dev Patel , and Richard Gere ) with my Mom and sister. I've seen the first one too with my mother (Read my full Film Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ). I just posted my full Film Review: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in my other blog, In The Mood For Movies , where I post my general movie reviews (of the movies I've seen in theaters). Read part of my film review of TSBEMH below...

As I've previously posted 5 days ago on P&P NewsBits here , Downton Abbey   ( Penelope Wilton   co-star as   Isobel Crawley ) is now officially ending its series after Season 6 . According to Deadline ,  NBCUniversal-owned Carnival Films, the producer of Downton Abbey , today announced that Season 6 will be the final season of the worldwide hit TV drama. The news isn’t entirely surprising, given that last January NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt told TV critics  Julian Fellowes long awaited NBC period drama The Gilded Age had been put on the front burner – disturbing news for Downton fans, given that he writes every episode of the PBS hit.

Today ( March 26th ) is the two-time Academy Award ® Nominee (for Best Actress performance of her iconic role, Elizabeth Bennet in the 2005 's Pride & Prejudice film and Best Supporting Actress as Joan Clarke for 2014 's The Imitation Game , which is coming to DVD and Blu-ray March 31st! ) and new Mom-to-be Keira Knightley 's 30th Birthday! Watch: Keira Knightley loves Coco in Chanel’s new Rouge Coco Lipstick Campaign TBT - Watch: Keira Knightley in new Chanel - Coco Mademoiselle 2014 mini-film directed by Joe Wright! Also, in 2013, Watch: Karl Lagerfeld's 'Once Upon A Time..." starring Keira Knightley (short film) .

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: Carey Mulligan , Judi Dench , Penelope Wilton , Tamzin Merchant , Donald Sutherland , and Jena Malone ), all in one post! First up...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sarah Price , author of First Impressions: An Amish Tale of Pride and Prejudice (a retelling of Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice and Book #1 from her Amish Classic series ). First Impressions was published last May 2014 . It's a great book. If you haven't read it yet, you can purchase your copy here . A big THANK YOU to Sarah Price (and Michelle Dawn  of  Destination Amish ) for this wonderful opportunity to interview her here on this blog relating to her book aforementioned above.  Read my P&P Blog author interview with Sarah Price below...

Focus Features (who distributed Joe Wright 's Pride & Prejudice , Atonement , and Anna Karenina films) has just acquired the North American distribution rights to Suffragette (starring Carey Mulligan , Meryl Streep , and Helena Bonham Carter ) directed by Sarah Gavron from a script written by Abi Morgan, for a Fall 2015 domestic release . Updated 3/27/15 : Focus Features has now slated for Suffragette to be released in US theaters on October 23rd (limited release)! (via Box Office Mojo ) More info. via Focus Features below...

Two-time Oscar nominee and Mom-to-be   Keira Knightley  is looking stunningly gorgeous in Chanel 's new and recently updated line of Rouge Coco lipstick  campaign. In Style has more info. about the new Chanel Rouge Coco lipstick ads and images featuring Miss Knightley and watch a few Chanel video teasers of KK 's Rogue Coco lipstick commercial ads below...

This Pride & Prejudice (2005) movie gets me every time whether re-watching it countless of times in nearly a decade or seeing its gorgeous movie poster, screen captures, and amazing stills, or listening to its timeless OST, and seeing a few of its beautiful filming locations in person. No matter how many times I've seen this movie, this P&P version just never gets old in my viewing. I can't believe this movie is almost 10 years old in September of this year. Time sure flies fast. It seems just like yesterday that I was anticipating, so excited and couldn't wait to see this movie. At the time, I was thinking, finally...there's a P&P movie version that I can actually get into, which made me go back and finished reading the book, and made me a huge fan of of all things P&P. Speaking of P&P movie , and since today's Thursday...here's a throwback to my favorite P&P version and OTP: Elizabeth & Darcy 's random, memorable and un...

Catherine ( Kate Middleton ), the Duchess of Cambridge made an official visit (her last official engagement before her maternity leave) to the set of Downton Abbey   ( Penelope Wilton   co-star as   Isobel Crawley , she was there on the set and was seated next to the Duchess , who's seated in the middle in the front in the above press photo ^ with DA's award winning writer/creator Julian Fellows ) at Ealing Studios today, March 12, 2015 in London, England. The Duchess met the cast (sans Maggie Smith , Allen Leech , and Lily James ) and crew of Downton and looked to have enjoyed herself. Downton Abbey is currently filming Season 6 . Watch the AP video of the Duchess of Cambridge with the cast and crew of DA and see on set photos below...

The nominations for the 2015 Olivier Awards has been announced earlier today at noon in London. Penelope Wilton   ( Downton Abbey , Pride & Prejudice ) and her play, Taken at Midnight scored 3 nominations including Best Actress for Penelope Wilton . Also,  Carey Mulligan 's revival play Skylight is nominated for Best Revival . The Olivier Awards will be held in London and handed out on April 12th . Here are the nominations for PW and Taken at Midnight in the Drama category...

After 2372  ( 1730  when it was 1M pageviews in 2012 ) posts, 209 ( 170  in 2012) blog followers, and almost 8 years of blogging, today, the  total Pageviews counter has amazingly reached over 2,001,980+ million pageviews this week ( 2M on Wednesday, to be exact)! Two million times THANK YOU to each and every one of you, my dear readers and visitors for visiting (and occasionally commenting here on) my P&P fan blog all these years.

Now showing in US Theaters nationwide is director  John Madden ’s ( Shakespeare in Love ) sequel  The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel  with the  cast from the 2011 film has reunited for the follow-up including  Judi Dench , ( Evelyn ), Maggie Smith (Muriel), Bill Nighy (Douglas), Dev Patel (Sonny), Celia Imrie (Madge), Ronald Pickup (Norman),  Penelope Wilton  ( Jean ), Diana Hardcastle (Carol), Tena Desae (Sunaina) and Lillete Dubey (Mrs. Kapoor). Making their debut in the sequel are Richard Gere, David Strathairn and Tamsin Greig. This is the first ever sequel made by Fox Searchlight, and the rare adult-themed prestige film to get an encore. The first film was a  surprise global hit  which grossed  $135 million  worldwide. A new poster (see above) and promo character still (with Dame Judi Dench as Evelyn ) has been released too. The sequel (from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ) was directed by  John Madden  ...

A  new US trailer for Ripper Street   starring  Matthew Macfadyen  (as  Detective Inspector Edmund Reid ) Season 3 has been released   via BBC America. Season 3 first premiered   on  Amazon Prime Instant Video 's online streaming last year , November 14th, 2014  at 9 PM (which aired every Friday , according to this  UK Mirror article ). Now, here's great news for US Ripper Street fans, mark your calendars as it's finally coming to America late next month and will be premiering on Wednesday, April 29th , at 10 PM ET on BBC America! Watch the S3 Ripper Street  trailer (and see screen captures of MM ) below...

Today ( March 4th ) is the 28th birthday of Tamzin Merchant (aka Georgiana Darcy in the 2005 Pride & Prejudice film). Tweet Miss Merchant your birthday wishes today on her twitter account here: tamzin merchant . Born:  Tamzin Claire Merchant March 4 , 1987 in UK Tamzin Merchant was born in the UK, but spent part of her childhood in Dubai. She attended Windlesham School and Brighton College, and had been planning to study at Nottingham University, when she was cast in Pride & Prejudice a year before finishing her A-levels. She deferred entry to university to work on TV   projects in the UK... See full bio (via IMDB)   Happy Birthday Tamzin Merchant !

I thought the awards season is over! But then, there's one more televised movie award show to see and looks like  Rosamund Pike   and  Gone Girl   are still going as today, they received 4 fun and interesting 2015 MTV Movie Awards nominations including Movie of the Year   (for GG )   and 3 individual nods for Miss Pike in the following categories (click on the links to vote for her): Breakthrough Performance , Best Villain , and Best Scared-As-S**t Performance . A well-deserved nominations for Ros as Amazing Amy ! The only thing missing is Best Female Performance, but apparently, she's still considered a "newbie," so Breakthrough Performance will do. At least MTV didn't snubbed her and GG . Win or lose, at least, it's the fans who vote for the winners. Vote for RP and GG here ! In other MTV Movie Award nominations,  The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 ( Donald Sutherland   as  President Snow  and  Jena Malone   as...

Last night Dame Judi Dench   was on  The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon promoting her new film  The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , which was recently released in UK Cinemas late last month, February 26th and will be opening here in In U.S. Theaters, this week, on Friday  March 6, 2015 . ( Judi Dench  stars as  Evelyn  with Penelope Wilton   as  Jean co-stars ). I missed her guest appearance on Fallon, but thankfully, with JF's website and YouTube channel, her interview segments were uploaded, which you can see below. Watch JD talked about her " worst audition " in the video clip plus 2 video clip interviews ...

Tonight Episode 9 of Downton Abbey   ( Penelope Wilton   co-star as   Isobel Crawley ) 's season 5 concludes on PBS Masterpiece  at 9/8c . Episode 9 (Season 5 finale) will be 120 minutes long! The new season starts with an  intimately interlaced stories centered on an English country estate—a deliciously entertaining formula that has made it the highest-rated drama in PBS history.  Downton Abbey , Season 5 , airs Sundays, January 4 - March 1, 2015 on MASTERPIECE on PBS. Episode 9 (120 minutes) The Crawleys go to a shooting party at a castle in Northumberland and return to Downton for a joyful Christmas holiday. Watch the Season 5 finale preview trailer and a two sneak peek scenes from Episode 9 and more below...