Pride & Prejudice (2005) Blog

Last October (12th) 2016, UK fans got to see the fifth and final season premiere of Ripper Street   starring  Matthew Macfadyen  (as  Detective Inspector Edmund Reid ) on Amazon Prime Video . Early next month, the North American fans of RS will finally get to bid farewell and see the fifth and final season of the series on BBC America! Today, BBC America announced the fifth and final season of the TV series will debut in March. The fifth and final season of  Ripper Street premieres on  March 8th   at 11 p.m. ET/PT . Watch the final Season 5 Trailer for Ripper Street and read the press release below...

As previously posted here last week, a mini (10 minutes long) sequel for Love Actually (2003 romantic-comedy) movie, which Keira Knightley was one of the returning cast announced and confirmed to be returning for the upcoming short film especially made for the Red Nose Day Special in March 24th (UK) and May 25th (USA). Today, LA script editor Emma Freud tweeted a Red Nose Day Actually contest for you to get a chance to visit the last day of filming in March 7th , the short film sequel to LA. You could be watching as cameras roll for a scene between Keira and Andrew and you get to meet and take photos with them too and more! How you could win these awesome contest prize pack? Read more details below...

Today, February 20th , is the 71st 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...

Another (mini) cast reunion, this time from two of  Any Human Heart and Pillars of The Earth stars Matthew Macfadyen and Hayley Atwell are set to co-star in BBC (UK) and Starz (USA) upcoming TV adaptation, a limited (four-part) series Howards End . Read more info. via Deadline below...

Great news for fans (myself included) of Love Actually (2003 romantic-comedy) movie, which Keira Knightley co-starred with a big ensemble cast including Colin Firth , Hugh Grant , Emma Thompson , Liam Neeson , and more. According to Deadline , Love Actually cast and director Richard Curtis are reuniting for a British charity Comic Relief with a short ( 10-minutes long) film sequel, Red Nose Day Actually in support of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day fundraiser, which will air on BBC One March 24th , in the UK and on NBC on May 25th , in the U.S. Many LA cast members are returning except for the late Alan Rickman (of course). Also, looks like Emma Thompson and Laura Linney are not returning either as they are not mentioned in the list of cast returning. Read more info. via Deadline below...

Okay, I'm beyond late in posting my film review of Screen Gems' Pride and Prejudice and Zombies   film  starring  Lily James & Sam Riley , which was released one year ago this month  (February 5th, 2016). I was going to watch this movie when it was released, but I got busy and didn't get a chance to see it when it was still showing in theaters. So, I missed it. I thought I'll just wait to see this when it's released either on premium cable or Netflix. Of course, it took several months before it finally premiered on Starz. So, yeah, I just saw this movie recently and finally got to write down here what I thought about this movie. Better late than never, right? Here's my PPZ Movie Review ...

greeting-card- elizabeth -bennet- mr - darcy It’s Valentine’s Day and on such an occasion it’s only appropriate to recognize arguably the greatest love story ever told. It is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride and Prejudice is a very romantic novel. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are literature’s greatest lovers and remain the standard by which all couples in a love story are compared. When Jane Austen created the spirited Elizabeth and the brooding Mr. Darcy she probably had no idea that she was setting in motion two hundred years of fascination. Very few pieces of writing have entered our cultural consciousness and have remained as fresh and captivating as this tale.

♥ 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...

As I previously posted here (last October 2016), Matthew Macfadyen was cast in a new pilot for ( Succession ) HBO, which was said to be filming in New York. Now, here's a new update,  Variety reports that HBO has given a 10-episode series order to “Succession , ” a political drama from executive producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay . Matthew co-stars with Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, and Sarah Snook. Read more info. about Succession via Variety below...

In select theaters today is Belle  director  Amma Asante ’s latest film  A United Kingdom  starring  Rosamund Pike   with her  Jack Reacher  co-star  David Oyelowo  (who co-produced the film). Watch the trailer , see the stills , synopsis , and more below...

Pride & Prejudice / Jane Austen Fans , mark your calendars! The 9th Annual Jane Austen Festival will be July 14-16, 2017 in Louisville , Kentucky. If you're interested in attending this year's festival, you'll have plenty of time to plan and schedule your trip to Louisville. In honor of the 200th Year Anniversary of Jane Austen 's death (which was July 18th , 1817 ), there will be a Regency Mourning Procession , which you can join on Saturday, July 15th . NOTE: You do not have to be a member of the Jane Austen Society to attend the Festival . Here's the Press Release for more details on the upcoming 2017 JASNA Louisville festival below...

This Friday is finally the US Theatrical Release for  Belle  director  Amma Asante ’s latest film  A United Kingdom  starring  Rosamund Pike   with her  Jack Reacher  co-star  David Oyelowo  (who co-produced the film). Yesterday ( February 6th) , Rosamund attended the world premiere of " A United Kingdom " at The Paris Theatre in New York City. Check out some new photos of RP from the NYC premiere below...

Former Pride & Prejudice star Carey Mulligan recently attended the premiere of her new film Mudbound at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Her film received an "enthusiastic standing ovation" at the festival according to Variety . It also reported that Netflix just bought a multi-territory rights to Mudbound , which will release it in theaters and online simultaneously here in the US. More info. via Variety and new photos of CM from Sundance below...