Pride & Prejudice (2005) Blog

Tonight  Downton Abbey   ( Penelope Wilton   co-star as   Isobel Crawley ) continues its sixth and final season  on PBS Masterpiece  with  Episode 8  at 9/8c. Downton Abbey , the award-winning series from Julian Fellowes , spans 12 years of gripping drama centered on a great English estate on the cusp of a vanishing way of life. Nearly six years ago, America fell in love with Downton Abbey 's Granthams and their family of servants, and has followed them through sweeping change, scandals, love, ambition, heartbreak, and hope ever since. With Julian Fellowes' crackling writing and its stellar ensemble cast led by Maggie Smith , Downton Abbey delivers wit, warmth, passion and a phenomenon that is, at its heart, utterly human. Downton Abbey 's final season premieres on Sunday, January 3, 2016 through March 6, 2016 on MASTERPIECE on PBS!

Today, February 20th , is the 70th birthday  of  two-time Academy Award Award Nominee   Brenda Blethyn , best known to us  P&P fans  as  Mrs. Bennet , the five  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. Currently seen on ITV's Vera series, which is now on its sixth season. 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! ) Read more below...

ITV has released a Press Pack (featuring a press release , cast interviews including MM , and synopsis) upcoming feature length film, Churchill's Secret starring Michael Gambon , Lindsay Duncan , Matthew Macfadyen , and Romola Garai . It will premiere on ITV on Sunday, February 28th at 8 pm.  See the press release and MM's interview (from  Official Press Pack ) via ITV below...

As I previously posted here, Keira Knightley (photo via Getty Images) was in talks to star in Colette biopic earlier this month and recently, she and Kate Winslet were both in talks to join Will Smith and Helen Mirren in Collateral Beauty . Now, there's a third movie casting news (and I must say a more interesting one than the previous two) for the two-time Oscar Nominee Miss Knightley and according to The Wrap , she was in early talks to play Russian empress Catherine the Great in a biopic that two-time Oscar winner, actress, singer, and director Barbra Streisand will direct for producer Gil Netter ’s Netter Productions. Read more info. about this movie via The Wrap below...

The first trailer for Bastille Day starring Idris Elba (Luther), Richard Madden (Cinderella, Game of Thrones), and  Kelly Reilly   (no info. of her supporting role here, but it looks like her character works for the CIA and is Elba's character's boss) has just been released online via Studio Canal (one of P&P 2005 movie's production companies). Focus Features (a distributor for P&P 2005 movie) is distributing this action thriller film. It is directed by James Watkins (Woman in Black) and will open in UK Cinemas April 22nd . No US release date yet. Watch the trailer and see a few screen caps of Kelly below...

♥ Happy Valentines Day!!!! ♥  To all P&P fans, frequent readers and visitors of this blog, here are... 14 Must-See Romantic Movies for you to check out and watch on this Valentines Day...

Tonight  Downton Abbey   ( Penelope Wilton   co-star as   Isobel Crawley ) continues its sixth and final season  on PBS Masterpiece  with  Episode 7  at 9/8c. Downton Abbey , the award-winning series from Julian Fellowes , spans 12 years of gripping drama centered on a great English estate on the cusp of a vanishing way of life. Nearly six years ago, America fell in love with Downton Abbey 's Granthams and their family of servants, and has followed them through sweeping change, scandals, love, ambition, heartbreak, and hope ever since. With Julian Fellowes' crackling writing and its stellar ensemble cast led by Maggie Smith , Downton Abbey delivers wit, warmth, passion and a phenomenon that is, at its heart, utterly human. Downton Abbey 's final season premieres on Sunday, January 3, 2016 through March 6, 2016 on MASTERPIECE on PBS!

Elizabeth Bennet  and Fitzwilliam Darcy are arguably  Jane Austen 's  most beloved characters, moreover they are one of the most celebrated couples in literature.  Their story of Pride and Prejudice  (1813)  is one of the earliest models of the classic love/hate relationship seen often in novels and specifically in romantic comedies.

According to Deadline, Pride & Prejudice director Joe Wright is set to direct an episode of Netflix's new season of Charlie Brooker's anthology series, Black Mirror with Bryce Dallas Howard and Alice Eve . Read more info. about Blark Mirror via Deadline below...

Another new Jane Austen screen adaptation to look forward to! According to Screen Daily , Oscar-nominee Charlotte Rampling ( 45 Years ) is to star in a film adaptation of Jane Austen ’s never-before dramatised final novel Sanditon .  FYI: Charlotte Rampling previously co-starred twice with Keira Knightley in Never Let Me Go (along with Carey Mulligan ) and The Duchess movies. Read more info. via Screen Daily below...

Earlier this month, Keira Knightley was in talks to star in Colette biopic . Now, another movie casting news for Miss Knightley , as she's reportedly in negotiations to join the star-studded cast of Collateral Beauty , EW has confirmed. Kate Winslet in Talks to Join Will Smith, Keira Knightley in 'Collateral Beauty ' .  Read more info. about Keira 's role in Collateral Beauty via EW and THR below...

Last November 2015 , the first installment of our series of Pride & Prejudice Movie: FAN Addiction Stories was posted here . A few more additions have been compiled and added here for part 2, for your reading pleasure. I hope to receive more, for next time! Please tell me how you became a devoted P&P (2005) movie fan , how many times have you seen this movie? Do you do P&P movie theme parties? Wore a P&P movie costume for Halloween, and if you have attempted in  getting your families and friends hooked on watching the P&P movie. To  SUBMIT  your stories , please  contact me ,  comment  or  message me  (via  facebook ),  tweet me  or  DM  (direct message me if we're following each other) on  Twitter  or  leave a comment on this post . Thank You. I will share them here as long as you keep sending them in. In the meantime, here's the second batch of P&P Addiction Stories as confessed by the following P&P fans ...

With Pride and Prejudice and Zombies movie now showing in US theaters nationwide (I haven't seen the movie yet, but will do very soon and post my review of it here, once I've seen it) and having seen almost every P&P adaptations ever made, I thought I'd compile and rank (from my current top favorite to least favorite ) here, 7 ( modern retellings/inspired of/variations ) TV & Film screen adaptations of Jane Austen 's classic   Pride and Prejudice   novel sans the 4 main standard P&P  ( 1940 , 1980 , 1995 , and 2005 ) adaptations . They are not included here on this list because this post is all about the variations and modern take aspect of Austen's P&P. I'll probably do a separate post on the standard ones (or combine both) next time.

Tonight  Downton Abbey   ( Penelope Wilton   co-star as   Isobel Crawley ) continues its sixth and final season  on PBS Masterpiece  with  Episode 6 at 9/8c. Downton Abbey , the award-winning series from Julian Fellowes , spans 12 years of gripping drama centered on a great English estate on the cusp of a vanishing way of life. Nearly six years ago, America fell in love with Downton Abbey 's Granthams and their family of servants, and has followed them through sweeping change, scandals, love, ambition, heartbreak, and hope ever since. With Julian Fellowes' crackling writing and its stellar ensemble cast led by Maggie Smith , Downton Abbey delivers wit, warmth, passion and a phenomenon that is, at its heart, utterly human. Downton Abbey 's final season premieres on Sunday, January 3, 2016 through March 6, 2016 on MASTERPIECE on PBS!

Now showing in US theaters today, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies   f ilm  starring  Lily James ,  Sam Riley ,  Bella Heathcote ,  Douglas Booth ,  Jack Huston  and  Matt Smith .  Whether you like it or not. Just remember, no one is forcing you to see this movie. You have a choice to either watch it or skip it. I'm going to watch it, but not this weekend, as I have too many things to do. Probably when I get the chance or have the time to go to the movies, and I'll post my review if it, after I see it. Anyway, watch the trailer and see character posters and more below...

A first look of a new production still has been released (via Pathe) of  Rosamund Pike   with her  Jack Reacher  co-star  David Oyelowo  in their upcoming new film,  A United Kingdom  directed by  Amma Assante  ( Belle ) and produced by Oyelowo. Rosamund plays Ruth Williams , a white British bank clerk and married to David Oyelowo's character  Seretse Khama , a member of the royal family in Bechuanaland, a former English colony in Africa that would become Botswana. The interracial couple shocked the world in the late 1940s when they fell in love and got married. The film is slated for a 2016 release , but no theatrical release date has been set.  Jack Davenport  (Norrington of  POTC  movies),  Tom Felton  (Draco Malfoy in  Harry Potter  movies and most recently in  Belle  directed by Assante), and  Laura Carmichael  (aka  Lady Edith Crawley  in  Downton Abbey ) also star. Read more info. about A United Kingdom and how Rosamund was cast into this movie below...

I had a lot of fun with my Q&A with Teri Wilson, author of Unleashing Mr. Darcy and now I had another pleasure of interviewing the lovely and beautiful  Cindy Busby (above photo credit: Alaina Michelle Photography | courtesy of Cindy Busby. Thank you!), the lead star of Unleashing Mr. Darcy . She portrayed the female lead character  Elizabeth Scott in the movie. You may or may not have seen Cindy before Unleashing Mr. Darcy , but she did previously co-starred in two prominent TV series, Cedar Cove (Hallmark) as Rebecca Jennings and Heartland (UP) as Ashley Stanton. She also appeared in The Big Year movie with Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and Rosamund Pike . See an IMDB list of Cindy Busby's TV & film work here . A special THANK YOU to Cindy for letting me do an interview/Q&A with her, here on my P&P blog . I very much appreciated her for taking the time to do this and answering all my questions about her movie  (read my  Unleashing Mr. Darcy M

According to Deadline , Keira Knightley (photo ^ via Getty Images) is currently in talks to star in Colette , a period biopic about the French novelist who wrote Gigi and Chéri , which Stephen Frears adapted in a feature film starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend . Variety reports that filming will start in May in Budapest. Read more info. via Deadline below...