Pride & Prejudice (2005) Blog

Pride & Prejudice (2005) Fan Blog Celebrates 11 Years Online! On this day ( May 29th, 2007 ), exactly eleven years ago, I started this little P&P fan blog . Wow, it's been 11 long years !!! I can't believe it's been 11 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 P&P/Austen  related topics as frequently as I've been able t

Today ( May 28th ), is the 33rd 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):

The first trailer has been released by IFC Films for Wildlife starring Carey Mulligan   and Jake Gyllenhaal , whom she previously co-starred with in Brothers  (along with Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire ). Wildlife is a directorial debut for Carey 's fellow actor Paul Dano . The film (which premiered  to rave reviews at Sundance Film Festival last January and recently at Cannes Film Festival) opens in U.S. Theaters October 19th . Watch the trailer for Wildlife below...

20th Century Fox just released the official teaser trailer for the upcoming Freddie Mercury/Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody . The trailer looks and sounded great! You can see a glimpse of Tom Hollander , who plays Jim Beach who took over as manager from John Reid in 1978 and stayed on for years. Rami Malek stars as Freddie Mercury , Gwilym Lee as Brian May, Ben Hardy as Roger Taylor, and Joseph Mazzello as John Deacon aka the legendary rock band Queen . Mike Myers, Allen Leech (Tom Branson of Downton Abbey ) and Max Bennett also star. The film opens in UK Cinemas October 24th and in U.S. Theaters November 2nd! Watch a glimpse of TH (with a few screen caps included of him below) in Bohemian Rhapsody teaser trailer below...

An official preview trailer and poster  has been released by Hallmark Channel for  Marrying Mr. Darcy  (starring  Ryan Paevey  as  Donovan Darcy ,  Cindy Busby  as  Elizabeth Scott , and   Frances Fisher  as  Violet Darcy ) , the upcoming sequel to  Unleashing Mr. Darcy , which  will premiere early next month,  June 2nd  at  9/8c ! It's part of  Hallmark's June Weddings  season. Tammy Gillis (Jenna Scott), Lini Evans (Linda Scott), Yasmeene Ball (Zara Darcy), and Ryan Kennedy (Henry Robson) also star. Watch the preview trailer for Marrying Mr. Darcy (including trailer screen captures ) plus  Trends & Traditions Promo Videos with Cindy & Ryan below...

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

EW recently released a first look still of Rupert Friend (who plays Ernest Donovan ; read more info. of his character here !) with co-star Jack Reynor in the upcoming CBS All Access series Strange Angel , which premieres June 14th ! Bella Heathcote (aka Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 2016 film) also star along with Greg Wise ( Sense And Sensibility 1995 's very own Mr. Willoughby and married to S&S 1995 co-star Emma Thompson ) who just recently joined the cast as as Alfred Miller , The Grand Magus of the Agape Lodge, the occult group that Parsons gets pulled in to. Attractive and alluring, though a changeling, you never quite know where he stands. So, we got Wickham, Willoughby, and Jane Bennet all in the same series...interesting! Read more info. and watch the first look teaser trailer for Strange Angel below...

According to New York Times , Carey Mulligan ( see image above in “Girls & Boys” at the Royal Court Theater in London. Photo Credit : Marc Brenner) is returning to New York for her Girls & Boys show (which I previously posted here last November 2017 for the London play that premiered in February of this year) from the Royal Court Theater in London to the Minetta Lane Theater in New York. Previews will begin this Saturday, June 12th with an opening night scheduled for June 20th ! Read more info. below...

According to Variety , a theatrical release date for A Private War (starring Rosamund Pike , Tom Hollander , Jamie Dornan , and Stanley Tucci ) has been set by Aviron Pictures for November 2018 ! It'll start with November 2nd select openings in Los Angeles and New York with a November 16th nationwide release. Rosamund just recently finished filming this movie and she said (in April in one of her latest interviews for the current film releases Entebbe and Beirut press junkets) to be currently filming one of her upcoming film projects: Radioactive (about Marie Currie). Miss Pike sure has been steadily busy with several films she had done since her Oscar Nominated film (and performance) Gone Girl . Read more info. about A Private War   (which Oscar winner actress Charlize Theron is co-producing under her Denver and Delilah Productions company) below...

Hallmark Channel now has a page for Marrying Mr. Darcy (starring  Ryan Paevey  as  Donovan Darcy ,  Cindy Busby  as  Elizabeth Scott , and   Frances Fisher  as  Violet Darcy ) , the upcoming sequel to Unleashing Mr. Darcy , which will premiere early next month, June 2nd at 9/8c ! It's part of Hallmark's June Weddings season. The MMD page has been updated with some new promotional stills and plot/storyline for the movie. The trailer hasn't been released yet, but you can check out Unleashing Mr. Darcy - The Beginning (just a quick refresher of the first movie). Tammy Gillis (Jenna Scott), Lini Evans (Linda Scott), Yasmeene Ball (Zara Darcy), and Ryan Kennedy (Henry Robson) also star. See some new Marrying Mr. Darcy stills of Cindy & Ryan as Elizabeth & Darcy and other cast as well as more info. about the new movie below...

As previously posted here , a few Downton Abbey cast just had a mini reunion in the currently UK released (April 20th) period historical drama, The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society starring Lily James (aka Lady Rose in DA),  Penelope Wilton  (Isobel Crawley),  Matthew Goode (Henry Talbot), and Jessica Brown Findlay (the late Lady Sybil Crawley). Based on the New York Times best-selling book by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, the film is finally getting a U.S. release date, which is this coming summer in August 10th on Netflix . Watch the official The Guernsey trailer below...