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Keira Knightley made her debut in the early 2000s, where she had a series of iconic roles. Whether it was her brief but cult classic-worthy appearance in Love Actually, her badass role in Pirates of the Caribbean, or the iconic Elizabeth Bennett in Pride & Prejudice, Knightley owned the 2000s.

Just before she played Elizabeth to perfection in almost everyone's favorite version of the Jane Austen novel, she played another iconic character: Guinevere. Knightley starred in the highly underrated historical fantasy King Arthur in 2004, a film that didn't live up to her usual success. However, 21 years later, King Arthur has a new chance to be discovered by a new generation as it's officially heading to Hulu on July 1, per When to Stream.

King Arthur reimagined the legendary hero as a Roman officer instead of the typical medieval knight. The producers attempted to sell the film as a more historically accurate...

The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise helped make Keira Knightley a massive star... but she still has mixed feelings about them, even though they're long since over and done with.

Knightley explained as much to her Pride and Prejudice co-star Rosamund Pike during an interview with Vanity Fair. Pride and Prejudice marked a big breakthrough for Knightley, as she got nominated for an Oscar for her role as Elizabeth Bennett, but at the time she was still reeling from her bad Pirates reviews.

"Pirates of the Caribbean had already come out, but I think in the public consciousness, I was seen as a terrible actress," Knightley remembered. "But I had this phenomenally big success with Pirates. And I think [Pride and Prejudice] was the first one that was a phenomenally big success, but was also critically acclaimed. So I remember it coming out maybe the same year, maybe around the same time as Pirates 2.

Keira Knightley is getting frank about her fame before “Pride & Prejudice.” The actress, who is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Jane Austen adaptation this year, told Vanity Fair alongside former co-star Rosamund Pike that the film changed how she was viewed in the industry. Knightley had previously starred in “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Bend It Like Beckham” before being Oscar-nominated for playing Elizabeth Bennett in “Pride & Prejudice.”

“Yes, it was pretty big for my career. If people will come up to me, it’ll be about that one,” Knightley said of the film. “‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ had already come out, but I think in the public consciousness, I was seen as a terrible actress. But I had this phenomenally big success with ‘Pirates.’ And I think this [‘Pride & Prejudice’] was the first one that was a phenomenally big success, but was also critically acclaimed.”

She continued,...

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It always seems like Netflix has an unending library of great movies and TV shows, but at the same time, it is also quite difficult to figure out what you actually want to watch. So, we thought why not let Netflix make it easy for you, as it removes movies and TV shows from its library every month, and we decided to pick the best of the best films and TV shows you should watch before you can’t anymore.

Closer (June 1) Credit – Sony Pictures

Closer is a romantic drama film directed by Mike Nichols from a screenplay by Patrick Marber. Based on Marber’s 1997 play of the same name, the 2004 film explores love and relationships through the perspectives of four different but interconnected people. Closer stars Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen.

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The millennial urge to revisit one's youth is being satisfied in recent months, with a string of theatrical re-releases designed to facilitate just that. This weekend, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith delivered a haul so massive that it could put new releases to shame. In fact, the film's 20th anniversary re-release outperformed Ben Affleck's The Accountant 2, which made $38 million worldwide as compared to Revenge of the Sith's $42 million haul. But a week before that, Focus Features re-released Pride & Prejudice in celebration of its 20th anniversary, generating about as much as the movie did in its original opening weekend back in 2005.

After 10 days in theaters, Pride & Prejudicehas grossed over $5 million at the domestic box office, taking its domestic haul past the $40 million mark, and its global haul past the $130 million milestone. Directed by Joe Wright, the movie made stars of Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen,...

Pride & Prejudice, the 2005 classic starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfayden, followed Elizabeth Bennet (Knightley) and Mr. Darcy (Macfayden) as they worked through their pride and prejudice towards each other while simultaneously developing a true love connection.

Leaving the audience with angst, humor-filled moments and period piece fashion that has now become mainstream in the Bridgerton era, director Joe Wright shares with The Hollywood Reporter how he interwove the story’s themes into the movie adaptation.

“We were trying to give an authenticity to the costumes, a sense of how lived-in they were,” he says.

Ahead of its 20th anniversary and theatrical re-release, Wright looks back on bringing the historical looks to life by working with Barbie costume designer Jacqueline Durran, what that famous Darcy hand-flex scene actually meant and how Elizabeth’s feelings and fashion were interconnected in Pride & Prejudice.

Elizabeth’s style and attitude seem less colorful...

Does the world need another “Pride And Prejudice” adaptation? Perhaps not, but the castings for Netflix‘s upcoming six-part limited series based on Jane Austen‘s novel should make it fresh enough. Deadline reports that Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden, and Olivia Colman will star in the series, which plans to shoot in the UK later this year. Corrin plays Elizabeth Bennett, Lowden Mr.

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Meet the new Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy for the upcoming Pride & Prejudice series!

The works of Jane Austen have been fodder for movie and TV producers for decades. Every generation has grown up on her groundbreaking stories of strong female characters, lush romance and the inspiration for countless period TV shows.

Netflix is now getting into this with a six-episode new limited series based on Austen’s masterpiece Pride & Prejudice. The project has been teased for a while, but now Deadline has reported on the casting of the key leads, and it’s amazing!

Per Deadline, Emma Corrin, last seen in the acclaimed Nosferatu, will play Elizabeth Bennett, the heroine of the tale. Jack Lowden, known for his turn in the Apple TV+ spy show Slow Horses, will play her romantic foil Mr. Darcy.

Not only that, but Academy Award winner Olivia Colman returns to TV to play Mrs.

One of the most beloved adaptations of a classic Jane Austen novel is making its way back into theaters for its 20th anniversary. Focus Features announced that 2005’s period romance drama, Pride & Prejudice, will be re-released for a limited engagement beginning on April 20.

Keira Knightley was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Pride & Prejudice’s main protagonist, Elizabeth Bennett. In total, the film, directed by Joe Wright from a screenplay by Deborah Moggach, was nominated for four Academy Awards, including best achievement in art direction, best achievement in costume design and best original score.

Focus Features, ahead of the theatrical re-release, also dropped a special 20th anniversary Pride & Prejudice trailer. Tickets for the movie can be found on the Focus Features website.

The Soundtrack will Also Get a Special Release

The film’s milestone anniversary will also be marked with a new merchandise line.

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This March, Netflix is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated murder mystery series The Residence to the star-studded sci-fi adventure film The Electric State. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Netflix this month and have an 85% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the seven best films that are coming to Netflix in February 2025 with an 85% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Beginners (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86% Credit – Focus Features

Beginners is a romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Mills. The 2010 film follows Oliver, a young man still grieving the recent death of his father. He soon meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna and tries to use the memories of his father to motivate himself to open himself up to the...

Bridget Jones’s Diary started as a newspaper column by Helen Fielding, became a megabestselling novel in 1996 and was adapted as a 2001 movie that grossed close to $300 million worldwide. Of course producers and audiences have wanted to keep this franchise churning out more installments across multiple media — more books, more movies, even a stage musical that never quite worked out. If you’re like me and loved the first novel and movie, you probably can’t remember anything about subsequent additions to the franchise beyond moderate to severe disappointment: After all, most stories in this genre end on “happily ever after” for a reason. And while the original Bridget Jones’s Diary is untouchable among both romcom And Christmas movies, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy seems to have been made by people who know that, and know what you loved about it.

Bridget Jones’s Diary was winning for a lot of reasons,...

[This story contains some spoilers from Black Doves.]

It rarely ends well for spies who are in love in Hollywood movies and TV series. Inevitably, they betray or shoot their partners out of cold-hearted duty.

But that didn’t stop Joe Barton, creator of Black Doves, the Netflix Christmas spy thriller now streaming, from encumbering star Keira Knightley as dedicated wife and professional spook Helen Webb with Ben Whishaw’s Sam Young, a fellow spy and assassin, in all matters of love and relationships.

Barton tells The Hollywood Reporter that when writing the first season of Black Doves (the series has already been renewed), he wanted to get away from the glitz and ritz of John Le Carré’s Cold War spycraft to portray two “fallible human beings who just happened to be in this heightened world of espionage and murder and all that.”

For cloak and dagger skullduggery, tune in to Peacock’s 10-episode thriller The Day of the Jackal,...

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This December, Peacock is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated comedy series Laid to the streaming release of the hit horror film Speak No Evil. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Peacock this month and have an 85% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the five best films that are coming to Peacock in December 2024 with an 85% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Catch Me If You Can (December 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Credit – Amblin Entertainment

Catch Me If You Can is a biographical crime comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Jeff Nathanson. Based on the semi-autobiographical book of the same name by Frank Abagnale Jr., the 2002 film follows Frank Abagnale Jr, a young con man who cashes forged cheques while posing as a pilot,...

One of the all-time best Jane Austen books may be getting a new version on Netflix! Over 200 years after her death, the author is as beloved as ever. Generations have grown up on her novels, which were ahead of their time, exploring issues of feminism, class, and some wonderful romances. In just six books, Austen made herself a literary icon who’s influenced countless writers since.

Not surprisingly, adaptations of Austen’s works have been plentiful. There have even been adaptations of her two posthumous novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion and her unfinished book Sanditon.

Trying to narrow down the best Austen works is difficult as many will cite Sense and Sensibility, which was adapted into a 1995 film directed by Ang Lee and starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, with Thompson also writing the script, earning her an Oscar. Yet, to many, the topper of Austen’s works is Pride and Prejudice.

Movie-goers and bookworms alike have enjoyed the various film adaptations of Pride & Prejudice over the decades, and many have adored the original novel for even longer. Written in 1813 by the wickedly clever Jane Austenand adapted to screen numerous times, most notably in 1995 and 2005Pride & Prejudice follows the pursuits of the Bennett sisters in each of their attempts to secure their futures. And, as the sisters frenzied mother repeatedly reminds them, the best shot at a comfortable life for a woman of the time is through an advantageous marriage. After all, our heroine Elizabeth Bennett famously tells us, It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

A new Pride and Prejudice spinoff show is now in development from Doctor Who producer Bad Wolf. Written by author Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice was released in 1813, following Elizabeth Bennet and her budding romance with Fitzwilliam Darcy. The iconic work of English literature has been adapted many times into movies and TV shows, including a 1995 film starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, and a 2005 film starring Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen.

Variety now reveals that another Pride and Prejudice adaptation called The Other Bennet Sister is on the way from the BBC. The series, which is based on Janice Hadlows novel of the same name, will follow Marry Bennet, Elizabeth's sister and the oft-overlooked middle-sibling of the Bennet family. Check out the plot synopsis for The Other Bennet Sister below:

Unlike her sisters, Mary isnt your typical period drama heroine. She is awkward, anxious, preachy, full of facts, a...

Pride & Prejudice has long been one of the most critically acclaimed period pieces of all time. The original novel, written by Regency-era author Jane Austen, centers on an enemies-to-lovers dynamic between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet amid the frenzy of the English social season. The reason it still resonates with so many readers and viewers today is rooted in its modern female-led central story, in which women have a rare sense of agency during the Regency era.

The novel has been adapted for film and television a number of times, but the most famous out of all the Pride & Prejudice adaptations is arguably the 2005 rendition starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen in the titular roles. What makes Pride & Prejudice, despite its book differences, such a memorable watch is the organic chemistry between the leads, made stronger by one now famously improvised scene - Mr. Darcy's hand flex.

Matthew Macfadyen reflects on his role as Mr. Darcy in Pride & Prejudice, feeling miscast but happy about the recognition it brings. Despite mixed feelings, Macfadyen's role in the film was pivotal in his career, leading to a role in Succession. Macfadyen will soon appear in the MCU movie Deadpool & Wolverine.

Pride & Prejudice star Matthew Macfadyen reflects on his role in the film two decades later. Macfadyen played the male lead, Mr. Darcy, in the 2005 Jane Austen adaptation. Mr. Darcy is one of the most iconic love interests in literature, pulling at the heart strings of those who root for his romance with the lower-class woman, Elizabeth Bennett. Playing the role of Elizabeth was Keira Knightley, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Pride & Prejudice. Joining Macfadyen and Knightley in the cast were Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Brenda Blethyn, and Carey Mulligan.

Everyone loves a good period drama. It's fascinating to glimpse into the past and see the sort of lives people might have lived back then. In some ways, period dramas are escapism, providing audiences with a feast for the eyes when it comes to the dresses and the settings, but in other ways, these movies can serve as history lessons.

Britain has a lot of history to work through and that's where period dramas come in. Some of them are beautiful, some of them are informative, but they usually have something serious to say about class structure and the restrictions of British society.

Pride and Prejudice Was a Hit With Critics

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Jane Austen's classic novel has been adapted many times, but this offering from director Joe Wright is one of the most beloved versions. Keira Knightley plays Elizabeth Bennett, one of five daughters who...

The BBC is celebrating the art of the literary adaptation by screening a variety of classics on BBC Four. More details here.

The BBC is quite rightly celebrated for its rich history of book to screen adaptations, such as the iconic 1995 version of Jane Austen’a Pride And Prejudice to Cbbc’s hugely successful adaptation of Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker series.

It has now put together a season of 14 adaptations from the BBC archive, some of which have rarely been seen since their original broadcast.

The dramas are:

The Great Gatsby

Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd lead the cast in this 2000 BBC adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel on the American dream in the jazz age.

Small Island

Naomie Harris, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ashley Walters star in this 2009 TV version of Andrea Levy’s novel focusing on the lives and...

Joel Kim Booster (Loot, Apple TV+) Joel Kim Booster

My character summed up in one sentence Overachieving gay bully with an impeccable sense of style.

The part of my character I relate to the most Deep-seated and far-reaching insecurity that manifests as near-constant snark. And the style.

And the part I don’t His general sense of apathy.

Show on which I’d love to guest star Industry. I understand roughly 30 percent of what they’re talking about, but I’m still riveted.

The last celebrity who had me truly starstruck The first and only time I ever met Julia Roberts, my nose literally started to bleed.

The best note from my director “Let’s try one as scripted.”

My go-to snack on set Believe it or not, deviled eggs.

What a spinoff for my character might look like There are lots of allusions to his bizarre upbringing on a farm,...

Well folks, it's that time yet again. With March coming to an end, that means that streamers like Netflix, Amazon Prime and HBO Max are shuffling their catalog around for April. HBO Max is consistently bringing great new things to the platform each month — and fan favorite series like "Succession," "A Black Lady Sketch Show," and "Titans," will make their return too — but I've always been more concerned with the films and shows that depart. The streamer's monthly cull with be an especially extensive one this moth; quite a few must-sees are leaving the platform in April. Landmark romantic comedies like "Bringing Up Baby," seminal classics like "Citizen Kane" and dystopian dramas like "The Book of Eli" will all be headed away this month. As ever, we do still have some time before some of these go bye-bye, so make sure to check out these titles before they're phased out.

Keira Knightley has said she felt “caged” after being in the blockbuster film franchise Pirates of the Caribbean.

The double Oscar nominee, 37, starred in the first film, The Curse of the Black Pearl, in 2003, alongside Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom.

She played heroine Elizabeth Swann in that movie and three sequels.

Her character goes through a transition from daughter of a gentlemen to pirate while pursuing a romance with Bloom’s character Will Turner, a blacksmith’s apprentice, until her last outing in 2017’s Dead Men Tell No Tales.

She told Harper’s Bazaar UK: “[Elizabeth] was the object of everybody’s lust, not that she doesn’t have a lot of fight in her, but it was interesting coming from being really tomboyish to getting projected as quite the opposite.

“I felt very constrained, I felt very stuck, so the roles afterwards were about trying to break out of that.

She Said cast and real life character guide. Directed by Maria Schrader from a screenplay by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, She Said is based on the investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual assault and abuse by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who also co-wrote a book with the film’s same title.

She Said is unlike most other biopics that detail the inner lives of musicians, actors, or athletes. In the vein of the 2015 film Spotlight, which followed a group of journalists at The Boston Globe who broke the story about child sex abuse by the area’s Roman Catholic priests, She Said is also focused on investigative journalists and their sources in the midst of trauma. Here is a full guide to the cast, which real-life characters the actors play, and in what films and TV shows they’ve been in before.

Related: She Said Review: Conflicting Yet Important...

In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be discussing Burr Steers’ underrated adaptation, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

She may not have been a best-selling author when she was alive, but later critics would recognize Jane Austen as one of the most important writers in all of western fiction. That’s why it’s no surprise that there are dozens of adaptations of her work, with some of them dating back to the very origins of cinema. However, one of the most interesting interpretations of her stories is Burr Steers’ Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s literary parody of the same name.

The 2009 novel was already quite the oddity, having been originally commissioned by Jason Rekulak, an editor who wanted to pair popular genre tropes with famous public domain stories. In fact, Grahame-Smith’s book wasn’t so much a complete reimagining of Pride and Prejudice...

The internet is all a flurry the last couple of weeks with the Persuasion trailer release. It has elicited several reactions and criticisms from Austen fans, and to be honest that doesn’t come across as much of a surprise. Jane Austen’s novels are beloved and important timeless works. They are stories that comment on societal and economic differences as much as love.

Something Austen also made a point of incorporating were some dynamite heroines. There’s the young Marianne Dashwood in her idyllic romantic fantasies and then the sassy but classy Elizabeth Bennet. Every novel or short story has a quality, mentality, or lesson from these heroines that has left inspiration for the masses.

Director Emma Holly Jones makes her feature debut with “Mr. Malcolm’s List,” an adaptation of the novel by Suzanne Allain, who also wrote the screenplay. Jones and Allain also collaborated on a short film adaptation of the book in 2019, and the feature film sees many of the stars reprising their roles.

Set in Regency-era England amongst the high-stakes mating rituals of the upper class, “Mr. Malcolm’s List” will obviously call to mind the filmed adaptations of Jane Austen’s work and, of course, the Netflix smash hit series “Bridgerton.”

Following the lead of “Bridgerton” (even though the short film was released before the sexy series swept us off our feet in 2020), Jones’ film boasts a refreshingly diverse cast. These aristocratic families are racially blended, and the color-blind casting enables some wonderful performances.

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In the Andrew Ahn-directed Fire Island, odes abound to Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice. Not just in the dialogue or characters, who are modern queer spins on the Regency-era ensemble, but in entire scenes that serve as direct callbacks or references to the original book or its various screen adaptations.

In one notable sequence, the film recreates Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy’s iconic rain interaction from the 2005 Joe Wright-directed movie starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. Set between Noah (Joel Kim Booster, who doubles as writer) and Will (Conrad Ricamora) as they make their way through the meat rack, the verbal spar-turned-near-kiss is one of the clearest ways Fire Island pays homage to the Pride & Prejudice-adapted universe.

But it does so through a distinctly queer lens, from its director to its writer to its leading actors, delivering a...

Matt Rogers got to live the dream in the summer of 2021. That's when he and two of his very best friends - Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang - brought to life the script for "Fire Island," written by Booster and inspired by their real-life adventures. "I live under a lucky star," he tells Popsugar. "Seriously."

"When you're doing a movie that is about friendship and that is about chosen family, to be there with your literal sisters does a lot of the work," he explains. " I think we're good performers, but I also think we're great friends."

For "Fire Island," Booster mapped the plot of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" on a group of gay friends spending a week on Fire Island. The area is a historic gay vacation getaway on Long Island, partially because, for decades, it gave LGBTQ+ people a place to socialize outside of the eyes of straight society.

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[The following story contains mild spoilers for Fire Island.]

If a person’s Instagram can reveal even a bit about who they really are, then the profile of one Fire Island character is practically giving away his twist.

In the Andrew Ahn-directed and Joel Kim Booster-written take on Pride & Prejudice, Zane Phillips plays Dex, the modern gay spin on one of Jane Austen’s more duplicitous bachelors: George Wickham. The actor behind the attractive, sex-positive island visitor is first introduced to Booster’s Noah, a gay and expectedly bitey version of Elizabeth Bennett, while the duo are both shopping at the island pantry.

The two characters have head-spinning chemistry, but another one of the guys in Noah’s Fire Island orbit, Will — played by the dashing Conrad Ricamora, the Hulu movie’s take on Mr. Darcy — wants Noah to know something about his new suitor. While dropping a vague warning,...

Last year Netflix brought some semblance of light into a dark 2020 with the release of “Bridgerton,” a Regency-era romance series based off the novels by Julia Quinn. The show was stunningly beautiful, both in its cast and costumes, and led to more than a few embarrassed tweets from viewers who didn’t expect its Nsfw sexiness to be something they couldn’t watch alongside grandma. The over year-long wait for Season 2 has raised the stakes while also making audiences say, “Oh, that’s finally coming back.” All of that feels inescapable while watching this new season.

“This is the first chapter in a happy story,” the audience is told by Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley). Kate, her mother, and younger sister Edwina (Charithra Chandran) are new to the ton from India. Edwina hopes to make her debut and find a husband, while Kate seeks financial security for her family. Kate has...

Anyone still giddy on fumes having devoured the whole of sexy, sexy Bridgerton, might well be looking for more love machinations, posh dresses and ladies attending dances. You may well be tempted then by 2005’s Pride and Prejudice which is available to stream on Netflix. After all, this is one of the starriest and most lavish period productions around, packed with stone cold talent. The Bennett family alone boasts Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike, Jenna Malone, Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland as well as the movie’s star Keira Knightley. It’s directed by Joe Wright who knows his onions when it comes to period movies after Anna Karenina, Atonement and The Darkest Hour. And it goes without saying that Austen’s text is a classic romantic tome which is always a joy. Get involved!

But not if you’ve watched Succession. After that masterpiece of TV, Matthew MacFadyen’s Mr Darcy is officially ruined.

Pride and Prejudice isn't just a novel that is propagated throughout most high school English classes. It is also one of Jane Austen's most beloved searing satires of 18th-century English society, and it has been adapted into many films, mini-series, and modern adaptations. The protagonist, Elizabeth Bennett, gives a biting, yet hilarious insight into the life of her family and how they get by in 1800s England.

Related: Pride And Prejudice: 10 Most Memorable Quotes, Ranked

The BBC's 1995 mini-series is not only known for its phenomenal casting, but also for including a scene that involves Colin Firth and a lake that launched him into intense popularity. Having said that, the film is clever in many other aspects, including costuming and narrative storytelling.

Classic novelist, Jane Austen, is responsible for some of the most quintessential pieces of literature in history. The characters in her books are complex and multi-faceted people with lives that converge and grow constantly, throughout several film and television adaptations.

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Some of Jane Austen’s most recognizable characters, like Emma and Elizabeth Bennett, have survived through many forms of media, and have influenced a lot of modern-day characters. Due to her novels being iconic works of art, the memes that are based on her characters match that high standard in hilarity. Here are 10 hilarious memes based on Jane Austen’s characters on film.

Welcome to Career Watch, a vocational checkup of top actors and directors, and those who hope to get there. In this edition, we take on Keira Knightley, who plays with gender identity in the title role of fall hit “Colette,” which is focused on the early career of the flamboyant French literary star.

Bottom Line: Ever since 2002, when Keira Knightley popped at age 17 in TV’s “Dr. Zhivago” and on-screen in Gurinder Chadha’s girl-power soccer movie “Bend it Like Beckham,” the actress has picked her projects well. Still only 33, the screen beauty has earned an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) and is equally capable of carrying bodice-ripping dramas and athletic action roles. Perhaps her most charming performance was in Richard Curtis’ holiday comedy “Love Actually,” juggling expressions of affection from swains Chiwetel Ejiofor and Andrew Lincoln.

Although she grew up in London as the child of two actors,...

Much to Sex and the City fans’ chagrin, Chris Noth has made it clear that his run playing Mr. Big is finished.

“I don’t think there’s anything left for me to say about that,” Noth, 62, told Us Weekly at the premiere of Manhunt: Unabomber last week. “I want to tell other stories.”

Noth portrayed the suave, on-again-off-again boyfriend of Sarah Jessica Parker‘s Carrie Bradshaw from 1998–2010, including the HBO hit’s entire six-season run and in two films.

And Noth takes exception to how many lovers of the show think of Big, saying, “The thing that I don...

A love of Jane Austen is a habit the world just can’t seem to kick.

This week marks the 200th anniversary of famed author (and hopeless romantic) Jane Austen’s death. The author continues to bring England’s Regency period to life (and romanticize it) to her countless fans. In a sign of her legacy’s tremendous influence, the Bank of England debuted a 10 pound note with her face on it this week.

But to call Austen lovers simply “fans” is underselling their devotion. Fanatics, perhaps, is more accurate. They join clubs for Austen lovers in droves — the Jane Austen...

The woman behind Sex and the City isn't so sure Carrie Bradshaw would've had her happy ending if she lived in the real world.

"Well, I think, in real life, Carrie and Big wouldn’t have ended up together," Candace Bushnell -- who wrote the books that inspired the beloved TV and movie series -- admits to The Guardian. "But at that point, the TV show had become so big. Viewers got so invested in the storyline of Carrie and Big that it became a bit like [Pride and Prejudice's] Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet."

Watch: Sarah Jessica Parker Stylishly Reunites With Sex and the City Co-Stars at Divorce Premiere

Bushnell adds that Sex and the City became too much of a phenomena not to have Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Noth's characters end up together. "They had become an iconic couple and women really related to it. They would say, 'I found my Mr. Big' or, 'I...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that while romantic comedies are usually marketed towards women, they aren’t always so great when it comes to female representation. And in a new long-form piece for BuzzFeed, Bim Adewunmi digs into the history of one of the most problematic rom-com archetypes: the rom-com bitch. Adewunmi traces the history of the “Rcb” back to Caroline Bingley, Elizabeth Bennet’s catty romantic rival in Pride And Prejudice. But since those early days, the Rcb has evolved in a whole number of complex ways.

From the pure Rcb (Miss Bingley, Lara in Bridget Jones’s Diary) to the Rcb you love to hate (Fiona in Four Weddings And A Funeral) to the Rcb-heroine hybrid (Amy Schumer in Trainwreck, Sandra Bullock in The Proposal), Adewunmi offers an in-depth analysis of the ever-evolving trope. “It’s far more gratifying for the audience,” she writes, “if the obstacle...

Bridget Jones’s Baby star Colin Firth greets Fred Schepisi in the Lotos Club library Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Universal Pictures and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films celebrated Sharon Maguire's Bridget Jones’s Baby, co-written by Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer, and Emma Thompson, starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey with Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, Sally Phillips, and Shirley Henderson at a lunch in New York at Lotos Club organized by Peggy Siegal.

Savannah Guthrie, Eric Fellner, Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Sharon Maguire, Helen Fielding Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

At the cocktail reception earlier, attended by The Wolf Of Wall Street screenwriter Terence Winter, The Eye Of The Storm director Fred Schepisi, Bill Blakemore (Rodney Ascher's Room 237 doc on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining) and Celia Weston, I spoke with Colin Firth about clothes making the man, revisiting Mark Darcy and Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy,...

In 1813, renowned writer Jane Austen published a book called Pride and Prejudice, which tells the story of the Bennet sisters, who are gussied up and married off to wealthy suitors, one by one. The only sister who seems to question this system is Elizabeth, the rebellious member of the family, who feels strong disdain for the system that treats her more like property than a proper citizen. In 2009, author Seth Grahame-Smith put a new twist on the old tale by creating a parody novel called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which loosely follows the same basic outline, but adds an entirely different obstacle to the tale: the living dead.

In Grahame-Smith’s story, the girls are not only fighting for the right to be married into regal families, but also battling for their lives on a daily basis. An outbreak has occurred within these humble streets, and now flesh-eating zombies...

The month of May’s home entertainment releases are ending on a strong note, especially if you’re a purveyor of cult cinema. This week boasts an incredible selection of classic films resurrected on high definition including Blood Bath, Venom, The Terror, Psychic Killer and a 12-movie collection from Film Chest.

Sony Home Entertainment is releasing Pride and Prejudice and Zombies on various formats on May 31st and, for those of you who may have missed it in theaters, Alex Proyas’ Gods of Egypt is also coming home this Tuesday as well.

Blood Bath: 2-Disc Limited Special Edition (Arrow Video, Blu-ray)

The films of Roger Corman are often as well-known for their behind-the-scenes stories as they are the ones unfolding on the screen. He famously made Little Shop of Horrors in just two days using sets left over from A Bucket of Blood and shot The Terror over...

Jane Austen’s classic novel about love and manners gets a macabre twist in Burr Steers’ Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. If you missed the living dead action drama in theaters, don’t despair—Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release the film on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on May 31st, following the film’s May 10th digital debut:

Press Release: Culver City, Calif. (Mar. 28, 2016) – Based on the best-selling novel by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen, Pride + Prejudice + Zombies debuts on digital May 10 and on Blu-ray™, DVD and next-generation 4K Ultra HD™ May 31 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. In this reimagining of the classic tale, the Bennett sisters and Mr. Darcy must unite to fight a zombie outbreak that has taken over 19th century England. Lily James (Cinderella) leads an ensemble cast featuring Sam Riley (Maleficent), Jack Huston (The Longest Ride), Bella Heathcote (Dark Shadows), Douglas Booth (Jupiter Ascending...

A Mr. Collins of a movie: fatuous, self-important, and nowhere near as smart or as elegant as it thinks it is. There isn’t a lick of wit to be found here. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): found the book deeply terrible

I have read the source material (and I hate it)

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Even more so than something comparable could be said about the unreadable “novel” it is based on, this is the cinematic equivalent of that Chinese-restaurant game, the one where you add “in bed” to whatever it says on your fortune cookie. Pride and Prejudice… and zombies. That is the entirety of the joke, and it’s just as stale as your fortune cookie. Of course, the germ of a potentially interesting idea is contained in this concept: Why do zombie apocalypses always seem...

So, we’ve had a taste of Set Grahame-Smith’s historical/horror mash-up style before with the 2012 adaption of his novel, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. But here we are with the book that started it all, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which, as the title suggests, mixes the class divide commentary and the tangled relationships of Jane Austen’s beloved tome with the brain eating undead, creating a mash-up of classic literature and modern zombie fiction that, unfortunately, worked far better on paper. The movie transports us to a 19th century England in the grips of a zombie apocalypse that still hasn’t put a damper on the class structure of the time, so while defending yourself against the undead is important, marrying into a much better social standing is still top of most families agenda. Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) scoffs at her mother’s attempts to marry off her...

The zombie apocalypse works as comic foil and conversation starter as well as horror story of the moment. The gore factor is continually being upped by ever more imaginative splatters and gruesome depictions of deterioration from “The Walking Dead” and the crop of zombie media shuffling in its wake. And, much like the vampire fatigue of years past, the zombie may be overstaying its welcome. Zombies aren’t my favorite monster, but I enjoyed “Zombieland” enough to own it, I still think “Shaun of the Dead” is hilarious, and I watch “The Walking Dead.” So, if anyone is to blame, it’s me, because I’ve done it to myself.

I scored tickets for an advance screening of “Pride + Prejudice + Zombies”, and figured, as much as I like genre mashups, I was willing to see what could become of a romance of manners and the monster du jour. I wasn’t ambivalent,...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a fresh twist on Jane Austen’s widely celebrated novel. A mysterious plague has fallen upon 19th century England, the land is overrun with the undead and feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is a master of martial arts and weaponry. Casting aside personal and social prejudices, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy must unite on the blood-soaked battlefield to rid the country of the zombie menace and discover their true love for one another.

Directed by Burr Steers and starring Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote, Douglas Booth, Suki Waterhouse, along with Matt Smith and Charles Dance, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is released by Lionsgate across the UK and Ireland today…...

Spoiler Warning: The following article contains spoilers for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. If you haven.t yet had the opportunity to see the film, and still wish to go in knowing nothing, we recommend clicking away to another one of our wonderful articles. Those of you who stayed through the end credits of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies know that the end of the narrative is hardly the end of the full story for Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy. As we see in the mid-credits sequence, the zombie George Wickham (Jack Huston) actually managed to survive his duel with Darcy, and has assembled an army of the dead as well as the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse for revenge. Right now it.s a question mark as to whether or not we will ever see the end to this impressive charge, but director writer/director Burr Steers did recently...

The delightful Pride And Prejudice And Zombies is playing in theaters now and Wamg has your free Run-Of-Engagement passes to catch the film.

A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England.

Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) is a master of martial arts and weaponry and the handsome Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley) is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper class prejudice. As the zombie outbreak intensifies, they must swallow their pride and join forces on the blood-soaked battlefield in order to conquer the undead once and for all.

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The hit animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 3 ended the first month of 2016 on a high note at the box office, taking in $48 million in its opening weekend. In the first frame of February, this adventure will face three new movies, Universal's Hail, Caesar!, Sony's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Lionsgate's The Choice. As expected, none of these new releases could beat Kung Fu Panda 3, which won for a second weekend in a row with an estimated $21 million.

The animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 3 currently has a solid 80% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and it opened in 3,955 theaters, which will still make it the widest release in theaters this weekend, by a long-shot. Kung Fu Panda 3 marks the return of one of the most successful animated franchises in the world, with its biggest comedy adventure yet. When Po's (Jack Black) long-lost panda father (Bryan Cranston) suddenly reappears,...