Pride & Prejudice (2005) Blog

For the last Wednesday of May (and #waybackWednesday ), here are some oldies-but-goodies  Behind The Scenes (some of them I have previously posted here , but it's worth re-posting them here as well as a throwback and in case you missed them and haven't seen them before) and on set photos of  Keira Knightley   and co-stars (with director  Joe Wright and P&P crew ) on Pride & Prejudice (2005) movie set, you may or may not have seen before. There are tons of P&P BTS and on set photos I've saved over the years and will compile them all in one album/gallery and add the link here for you all to see, very soon. See them all below!

Focus Features has released a poster , promo   still  (of Judi Dench as Victoria ), and the first trailer for Victoria & Abdul starring Dame  Judi Dench , who reprises her Oscar Nominated Queen Victoria role from her Mrs. Brown film. The film also stars Adeel Akhtar , Simon Callow , Michael Gambon , Eddie Izzard , Ruth McCabe , Tim Pigott-Smith , Julian Wadham , Olivia Williams , and  Fenella Woolgar . Victoria & Abdul opens in select theaters on September 22nd and expands to more theaters on September 29th . Watch the V&A trailer below...

Pride & Prejudice (2005) Fan Blog   celebrates 10 Years Online! On this day ( May 29th, 2007 ), exactly a decade ago, I started this little P&P fan blog . Wow, 10 long years !!! I can't believe it's been 10 years already! It seems just like yesterday, I was a newbie to Blogger...and was learning and figuring out how to post, let alone, add codes and contents to this blog. I never thought I'd be blogging about all things P&P , not too mention this long, but it's all because of my on going love for this 2005 movie version of  Pride & Prejudice   and the amazing actors who portrayed my favorite P&P characters brilliantly on this 4th-time Oscar nominated film. I've really enjoyed blogging here and posting all things  P&P (though in recent years it's been mostly about P&P actors and their TV & Film project news articles ) and Austen  related topics as frequently as I've been able to for all these 10 amaz

Today ( May 28th ), is the 32nd birthday  of  Academy Award Nominee  (and BAFTA award winner for  Best Actress  in  An Education ) and Tony Award nominee (for Broadway play Skylight as Kyra Hollis ),  Carey Mulligan ,  best known to us,  P&P movie fans,  as  Kitty Bennet  (and also as  Isabella Thorpe  in   Northanger Abbey )! Happy Birthday Carey Mulligan!!! Carey Mulligan's Mini-Biography  (via IMDB):

If you missed Thursday night's NBC Red Nose Day Special especially the airing of Red Nose Day Actually (a 10-minute 16:46 minute short film sequel to Love Actually , the 2003 romantic-comedy movie), in which Keira Knightley   with some of her original LA co-stars (including Colin Firth and Hugh Grant to name a few) reunited for the mini-sequel (with additional clip of co-star Laura Linney for the US version only), NBC has released the full short film on their YouTube Channel and you can now watch it below in HD! Watch Red Nose Day Actually short film and BTS videos below...

Filming begins this week in the UK, Hungary, and France for Keira Knightley 's upcoming film Colette , in which she stars with Dominic West . Keira plays the title role as a French novelist, Colette , overcomes an abusive marriage to emerge as a leading writer in her country and a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. More info. about Colette via Deadline below...

For fun and something to make you laugh today, here's a Dear Mr Darcy music video for all Darcy (especially Colin Firth 's Darcy ) fans brought to you by Sense and Spontaneity ( Esther Longhurts and Jess Messenger ). Watch their hilarious Dear Mr. Darcy music video with lyrics included below...

I'm late in posting this here, since I just noticed this and missed it, but thought I'd post it here anyway. The 2017 BAFTA TV Awards were handed out recently (last May 14th ) in London with Netflix’s epic period series  The Crown ,  which led the nominations with five, completely shutout as  Happy Valley  picked up two awards and Tom Hollander won Supporting Actor for BBC and AMC's TV  adaptation of John le Carré novel   The Night Manager , the show’s only nomination. Here's the list of Supporting Actor Category that Tom won (and see a few new photos of him above and below)...

Just yesterday I posted here that Rosamund Pike was set to star as Marie Curie in Radioactive , and today another movie casting news has been reported per Deadline that Rosamund (again adding more new films to her already long list of upcoming film projects) joining Clive Owen , Common , and Joel Kinnaman in Three Seconds . Read more info. via Deadline below...

Continuing from my previous posts ( Chapters 1-9 ) and moving on to Chapter 10 , which was a continuation of Caroline Bingley 's conversations with Mr. Darcy (as he writes a letter to his younger sister, Georgiana Darcy ) at Netherfield with Miss Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Bingley present in the last 2 chapters.

With three new films ( HHhH aka The Man With An Iron Heart , Hostile , and Hire Wire Act ) coming out this year, two coming up for 2018 ( Entebbe and The Bends ), a recently announced film titled Marie Colvin , and a few more in development films in the works, Miss Rosamund Pike adds another new movie title, Radioactive to her already full line-up of upcoming film projects. Rosamund will star as Marie Curie in the film, a Working Title (with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster producing) and StudioCanal joint production. Both production companies previously produced Rosamund 's Pride & Prejudice 2005 film. Read more info. per Variety below...

To my MOM and all the MOTHERS around the world! We LOVE you and APPRECIATE you!!! Happy Mother's Day!!!

BBC has just released a Pure Drama 2017: Trailer - BBC featuring a series of teaser clips from their various upcoming BBC Dramas including the BBC (UK) and Starz (USA) upcoming TV adaptation, a limited (four-part) series  Howards End starring Hayley Atwell & Matthew Macfadyen (as Henry Wilcox ) and another four-part BBC drama Collateral starring Carey Mulligan (as DI Kip Glaspie ). No air dates for these two upcoming BBC dramas as of yet, but will keep you posted as soon as they do. In the meantime, check out and watch the Pure Drama 2017 Trailer featuring screen captures of MM in Howards End and CM in Collateral below...

Continuing from my previous posts ( Chapters 1-8 ) and moving on to Chapter 9 , which was about Mrs. Bennet embarrassing Jane and Lizzie in a conversation with Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy in addition to Elizabeth & Darcy 's banter at the Meryton Ball . Plus, Lydia suggested a ball to Mr. Bingley (at Netherfield in the movie). It's interesting that the one long conversation in the same chapter in P&P novel, like this chapter (9) was made into two separate key scenes in the movie, but the dialogue was pretty much similar (for the most part) in both novel and film.

The Red Nose Day Actually (a 10-minute short film sequel to Love Actually , the 2003 romantic-comedy movie), in which Keira Knightley   with some of her original LA co-stars reunited for the mini-sequel already aired in the UK last March 24th and is coming to the U.S. for NBC's Red Nose Day Special later this month, May 25th . NBC has just released the US trailer  yesterday for Red Nose Day Actually , the short film sequel from Love Actually writer/director and Red Nose Day founder Richard Curtis . Watch the new RNDA trailer  (featuring new promo clip of Keira with a red nose and a new clip of her co-star Laura Linney for the US version only) below and read more...

A couple new set photos (see above and below) of Matthew Macfadyen filming at Godalming, Surrey this Monday ( May 8th ) emerged via UKNip ( see more set photos here ) in the BBC (UK) and Starz (USA) upcoming TV adaptation, a limited (four-part) series  Howards End , which is currently filming in and around London. Matt hew 's co-star Hayley Atwell mentioned on her Instagram account that this week will be the last week of filming for HE . No air date has been announced as of yet this mini-series. Updated (5/13/17) : See a couple more new photos of Matthew with Howards End co-stars Hayley Atwell and crew and a few more below...

It's been two years (on ITV in the UK and over a year ago on PBS Masterpiece here in the USA) since the very last episode aired on TV of Downton Abbey 's ( Penelope Wilton   co-starred as   Isobel Crawley ) sixth and final season. Now, a movie version is finally happening according to UK's The Sun , who is both reporting and confirming that a movie is in the works for DA and filming is said to start in September. This is great news for DA fans (like myself), of course. Though, I wonder if the original main cast will return including Dames Penelope Wilton and Maggie Smith . We shall see. Read more info. below...

The first official still has been released today by Starz of Matthew Macfadyen  and  Hayley Atwell in the BBC (UK) and Starz (USA) upcoming TV adaptation, a limited (four-part) series  Howards End , which is currently filming in and around London. See the HE still above or below of MM & HA and read more info. via Deadline below...

The first official photos has been released via EW of Sir Kenneth Branagh 's new film adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1934 mystery novel , Murder on the Orient Express , which featured one still of Dame  Judi Dench as Princess Dragomiroff with Olivia Colman (see pic above and below). The film with starry cast such as its director Kenneth Branagh , Johnny Depp , Penélope Cruz , Daisy Ridley , Michelle Pfeiffer , Josh Gad , Willem Dafoe , and more will be released in US Theaters later in the year, November 10th (moved up from November 22, 2017)! See the full still and read synopsis below...

Continuing from my previous posts ( Chapters 1-7 ) and moving on to Chapter 8 , which was about Elizabeth & Darcy 's fun banter at Netherfield with the Bingley ( Charles and Caroline ) siblings in the mix.

Matthew Macfadyen has either read / narrated a chapter or two of a few well known literary novels such as the first proposal passage of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice novel , Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina , and Anne Rise's Prince Lestat . He also had done voice-overs for several TV commercials/adverts such as Haagen Daz and M&S Food Adverts to name two, even read a few poems (ie. When You Are Old , This Is Just To Say , and Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 ), and many more (see an extensive list of MM's Audio/Voiceovers via Darcylicious ). Basically, Matthew can read/narrate just about anything even the entire P&P novel (if only...at least he did read the first proposal part and did a bit of voice-over for Darcy's letter in the movie) or phone book and I could listen to his beautiful, soothing, and velvety voice all day! Now, looks like there's another new wonderful narration by MM , which is for an audio CD of Raymond Briggs 's classic The Snowm