4 h. ago Emma Thompson improvised unforgettable Charlotte Lucas line for Pride and Prejudice film script

We have Thompson to thank for Charlotte Lucas's memorable speech about marrying Mr Collins

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32 h. ago Emma Corrin and Olivia Colman to star in Netflix's new Pride and Prejudice series

The Crown stars Emma Corrin and Olivia Colman will finally be reunited on-screen as they have just been cast in Netflix’s new Pride and Prejudice series written by Dolly Alderton

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7 d. ago Olivia Colman to star in Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice written by Dolly Alderton

Latest adaptation of Jane Austen classic will include Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden as Elizabeth and Mr DarcyShe has played spies, detectives and two queens of England. Now Olivia Colman is to take the part of Mrs Bennet, the scheming mother of five daughters, in a Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.The six-part series will also star Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet, and Jack Lowden as Mr Darcy. The adaptation will be written by the author and Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice casts its Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy

New adaptation is being produced in the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth

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8 d. ago Pride and Prejudice: Jack Lowden, Emma Corrin and Olivia Colman cast in Netflix's Jane Austen adaptation

The six episode limited series will be written by author Dolly Alderton and directed by Heartstopper’s Euros Lyn.

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8 d. ago Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden, and Olivia Colman all set to take on leading roles in Pride & Prejudice as Netflix announces cast for the adaptation

Netflix has announced the cast for its upcoming six-part limited series based on Jane Austen's beloved 1800s novel Pride & Prejudice.

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8 d. ago Olivia Colman and Emma Corrin to star in Pride And Prejudice series on Netflix

Corrin said playing Elizabeth Bennet ‘is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’.

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9 d. ago Could we have a Scottish Mr Darcy? Jack Lowden in talks to star in Netflix's Pride and Prejudice adaptation

The Slow Horses actor could follow in the footsteps of stars such as Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen for Netflix.

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2 w. ago David Fincher to direct Brad Pitt in major sequel for Netflix written by Quentin Tarantino

Tarantino, who last year abandoned plans for his supposed final film, is reportedly attached to write the script for Fincher

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3 w. ago Academy board to meet as response to No Other Land director’s arrest decried

Meeting follows letter signed by prominent members urging more forceful response on Hamdan Ballal’s arrestThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has convened an extraordinary meeting to address a crisis over its tepid response to the arrest and detention of the Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal, of the documentary No Other Land, by Israeli authorities.The meeting on Friday morning Pacific time, first reported by Deadline, follows a strongly worded letter signed by many prominent members – including the actors Olivia Colman, Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Penélope Cruz and Emma Thompson, directors Ava DuVernay, Alfonso Cuarón, Adam McKay and Jonathan Glazer and writer Tony Kushner – calling for a more forceful response from the Academy’s board of governors than an initial statement that did not refer to Ballal or No Other Land by name and cited the Academy membership’s “many unique viewpoints”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Imelda Staunton’s daughter says growing up with actors ‘removed inaccessibility’

Bessie Carter is best known for playing Prudence Featherington in the hit Netflix Regency-inspired drama Bridgerton, along with her theatre work.

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3 w. ago One of Emma Thompson's most underrated movies is airing on TV tonight

The actress is one of the UK's most successful exports of all time

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4 w. ago ‘It was chaotic but beautiful’: Warda Mohamed and Kosar Ali on filming the British

As the award-winning short is released on BBC iPlayer, the director and star talk about grief, breaking Somali stereotypes and a career-changing social media postWhen Warda Mohamed posted a message on social media that she had completed her feature film script, she never expected it to change her career. “I genuinely thought it was just going to be a few people saying, ‘Oh my God, well done’,” she says. “I posted it at nine o’clock at night and thought nothing of it.” By morning, a commissioner at BBC Film had reached out, setting the wheels in motion for what would become Muna – an 18-minute short film that screened at more than 60 international film festivals, won multiple awards, and has now made its way to BBC iPlayer.Muna tells the story of a British-Somali teenager, played by Kosar Ali (Bafta-nominated for Rocks), who navigates a complex mother-daughter relationship while mourning a grandfather she never met. Her grief mirrors Mohamed’s own experience growing up. “There isn’t ...

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4 w. ago Ed Miliband is ridiculed for using Daisy Lowe to advertise heat pumps in bizarre Pride and Prejudice

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Labour minister in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a model to plug his heat pumps.

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