Possible change in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2005 release date and other news
It’s a big news day for P&P3 today. Thanks to all the Alert Janeites who have sent in news and links today.
Firstly, Alert Janeite Julia sent in this link, which claims that the U.S. release date of P&P3 has been moved back to November 11. Julia speculates that the date change, if true, is intended to position the film for Academy Awards consideration, and we tend to agree. We have an e-mail in to our contact at Focus Features and will post the news as soon as we hear anything.
ETA: No official word yet on the release date. However, we received a note from Paul from KeiraWeb.com saying that today’s Variety reported that the date for the film DOMINO, also starring Keira Knightley, is being moved up from November to August so as not to compete with a November P&P release (and also possibly to grab the tails of the news of the untimely death of the real-life Domino Harvey earlier this week. Gotta love Hollywood). We will, of course, report any official information as soon as we receive it.
Paul also reported that an Observer reporter who has seen P&P3 wrote on June 19:
“…Could Keira Knightley be on the way to her first Oscar nomination? Watching a sneak preview of the new film version of Pride and Prejudice, I was bowled over by Knightley’s performance as Lizzie Bennet. She’s beautiful, fragile and funny in the role and handles the period dialogue with ease and modern attitude. It’s just the sort of thing to impress Oscar voters, as Kate Winslet did in Sense and Sensiblity.”
The Oscar buzz, she is starting.
Speaking of Focus Features, they have the beginning of the P&P3 Web site up and running. We hear that the full site most likely won’t be available for a few weeks yet.
In other P&P3 news, Alert Janeite Cordelia sent in this link to some behind-the-scenes photos from the filming, and Alert Janeite Lynn sent this link, which includes some shots of the various filming locations. Many thanks for the links!
June 30th, 2005 at 12:19 am
How dare they! I already told the women with whom I’m going to go to keep the 23rd of September open. ‘Tis too cruel.
June 30th, 2005 at 4:03 am
I was going to take my mother for her birthday, it’s not fair.
June 30th, 2005 at 10:35 am
And here I had November all reserved for Harry Potter 4. Yes, I’m a Potterholic, I admit it. 15 Days til release of HBP! *ducks head*
I suppose they are going along with their plan, then, to run it on test audiences and then release it wide if it does well? Or maybe, like you said, it’s for the nomination thing. Hmm. Either way, we’ll still have to wait an extra month and a half to see it.
Meh. Cheers.
Love from,
Lynn
June 30th, 2005 at 2:02 pm
Anyone else think its funny they’ve chosen Remembrance / Veterans Day for their release?
I too had dedicated November to Potter Mania… Oh dear.
Sophia
June 30th, 2005 at 6:22 pm
It’s awful! It is possible that the release date may not change from Semptember 23rd (and I hope it doesn’t, because I was going to go see it to celebrate my birthday). However, if the film is released later in the year, they might be “oscar hopefuls”…but who knows. I shall keep my fingers crossed and knock on wood that it released on the originally planned date.
June 30th, 2005 at 8:13 pm
*raises hand* also in the Pottermania club.
I really hope it’ll be released in September. I’m already having a hard time waiting that long….
Where are these test screenings? Are there ways for the general public to get in?
June 30th, 2005 at 9:56 pm
Lots of Potter fans amongst Janeites…and J.K. Rowling is a Janeite, after all! I hope they don’t think the audiences for the two movies don’t overlap. I’m already taking the day off for the GoF release.
July 1st, 2005 at 11:03 am
Speaking as a foreigner. I would be very upset if Focus Features moves the released date to November. Since adaptations take ages to come to Mexico I had planned to take a trip to the other side of the border in September just to watch P&P3 (well braced since I do not have high expectations about it, but I could not resist hearing all over it and not seeing it), November could be more difficult for my agenda.
July 1st, 2005 at 4:42 pm
A later release data seems to be confirmed by the latest new entry on Deborah Moggach’s site.
Only in the US, though. The British date is still the 16th of September.