Miramax business setbacks won’t delay BRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Miramax has shelved a couple of previously scheduled films, but BRIDE AND PREJUDICE will open on Christmas as scheduled.
And the company has three films debuting on Christmas day: Mike Nichols’ Proof, Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice and Lasse Hallstrom’s An Unfinished Life.
It would be interesting if the film does well a few years after Harvey “John Thorpe” Weinstein shelved the big-screen Northanger Abbey project because, in his oh-so-humble opinion, the Jane Austen renaissance was over. Had he consulted the crack staff at AustenBlog Research and Testing Labs, Ltd., at their fabulous high-tech secret location, he might have been disabused of that notion. Or maybe not. 
September 2nd, 2004 at 4:16 pm
I am new to Austen blog, but is there any chance Northanger Abbey will be made into a movie still? Does this depend on the success of Bride and Prejudice? I truly enjoyed the book and was bummed there hasn’t been a decent movie made!
September 2nd, 2004 at 4:57 pm
BRIDE AND PREJUDICE is a Miramax project. They had an NA project but abandoned it some time ago, as I mentioned in the post above. ITV, a British television production company, is trying to get an NA TV film made but cannot get financing for it. If B&P (or more so P&P3) are successful, it might grease the skids a bit, but the two projects are not directly related to one another.