Pride & Prejudice (2005) Blog

Today ( January 27th ) is the lovely and ethereally beautiful, Golden Globe , BAFTA , and Academy Award nominee for Best Actress (for her outstanding performance as Amy Dunne in Gone Girl )  Rosamund Pike  (aka Pride & Prejudice 2005 's very own Jane Bennet )'s  39th Birthday !  All the best to her on her upcoming film projects slated to be released starting with the US theater release of  Hostiles ( January 26th ) this month and more films ( 7 Days in Entebbe - March 16, Beirut - April 13, and Three Seconds - August 17) sometime this year. Born  Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike  in (Hammersmith) London, England, UK.  Miss Pike  is  an only child , her  parents  are  Julian  and  Caroline Pike . Her father  Julian  is a  professional opera singer , whilst her mother  Caroline  is a  concert violinist .  Read more of Rosamund Pike's Biography here . Happy Birthday Rosamund Pike!!!

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: Keira Knightley , Matthew Macfadyen , Rosamund Pike , Carey Mulligan , Kelly Reilly , and Rupert Friend with director Joe Wright all in one post!   First up...

Keira Knightley covers the Sundance 2018 (January 2018) issue of Variety as she promotes her 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. The film will world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 20th, 2018 . Keira did a Variety photo shoot (including a cover shoot above; CREDIT: Nadav Kander for Variety) and was interviewed by Brent Lang for Variety. Great interview, which you can read an excerpt below...

Bleeker Street has released the first trailer and poster for the political thriller Brad Anderson's political thriller Beirut (previously titled High Wire Act ) starring  Rosamund Pike   & Jon Hamm . Beirut is a bout A U.S. diplomat (Hamm), who flees Lebanon in 1972 after a tragic incident at his home. Ten years later, he is called back to war-torn Beirut by CIA operatives (Pike) to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind. Written by Tony Gilroy (the Bourne films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ), the film is set to open on  April 13, 2018 . The film also stars Dean Norris, Larry Pine, and Shea Whigham. Watch the trailer for Beirut (featuring screen captures of RP) below...

Continuing from my previous posts ( Chapters 1-21 ) and moving right on to Chapter 22 , which was about Elizabeth Bennet getting a surprise news from her dear old friend Charlotte Lucas , who suddenly got engaged to Elizabeth's ridiculous distant cousin Mr. Collins , whom she just rejected a marriage proposal to previously. Read more here...

2017 has been a  wonderful  year for this  P&P '05 Blog  (as it turned 10 years online  this year!) and it's all because of  YOU .  Thank YOU all so much  for  visiting ,  reading , and  commenting here and for making this year, a great year!   Like last year, I had a great time posting, updating, and keeping this  Blog  and  P&P movie  alive, at least for most of this year.  Hope to continue and keep going this year ( 2018 ) and  beyond...well  hopefully for many more years to come (or for as long as I can). Special THANK YOU to my friend and P&P Blog Contributor : Natasha Shubrick   (many thanks for joining me here since 2015 and for all your monthly blog posts for this blog) ! I would like to wish all the  P&P/Jane Austen fans  around the world, frequent visitors , and faithful  readers  of this blog   here a...