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Dakota Johnson‘s new Netflix film Persuasion has some first look images and a debut date!

Vanity Fair, describing her love of Regency-era novels written by authors like Jane Austen. “They were defying odds in their time.” The Slumdog Millionaire star studied English literature in college, poring over classic works and envisioning herself one day portraying such characters in adaptations on the big screen. Now she is, in the romantic new drama Mr. Malcolm’s List, directed by first-time feature filmmaker Emma Holly Jones and costarring Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù as the titular hero.

Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) has signed on for a role in the drama Downtown Owl, from Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films, Deadline can confirmed. He’s set to star alongside previously announced cast members including Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, Finn Wittrock, Jack Dylan Grazer, August Blanco Rosenstein and Lily Rabe.

Where’s Mr. Darcy? While Duchess Camilla visited Jane Austen’s England residence to learn more about the beloved author’s literary collections, there was a certain Darcy-sized presence missing.

Sasha Urban editorWith a little more than two months to go until the release of “Fire Island,” a rom-com that Joel Kim Booster wrote as a gay adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” prospective fans are asking, “Where’s the trailer?” Although Booster says he’s asking the same question, he hinted at what audiences can expect from the film, trailer notwithstanding.Speaking to Variety at the premiere of “The Lost City” at the Regency Village Theatre on March 21, where Booster accompanied his friend and “Fire Island” co-star Bowen Yang onto the carpet, Booster said he expects people to see Yang as a “legitimate powerhouse actor” after watching the film.“I’m really excited for people to see Bowen, specifically, because I think everybody’s used to seeing Bowen do things like [‘The Lost City’] or ‘SNL,’” Booster said. “But Bowen really goes to some difficult places in the movie.” Directed by Andrew Ahn, the film stars Booster and Yang as two best friends on a weeklong summer vacation on Fire Island, the mecca of gay summer getaways.

Bridgerton is back for a new season full of swooning maidens and steamy sex scenes, and those 82 million households who watched the first series are once more all hot under the collar. But for some women, dressing in period costume – inspired in part by the hit show – has become a way of life. Sophie Andrews, 26, regularly dresses up in the full regalia of Bridgerton’s Regency era and says it’s a boost for her confidence.

SPOILER ALERT: The following story reveals major plot points from Season 2 of Netflix’s Bridgerton.

with the Sunday Times, stating, “I’m astonished by the appropriation issue. It would be very foolish for me to write, let’s say, a novel from the viewpoint of a black man, but I think I should be allowed to do it.”Tyler — who won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel “Breathing Lessons” — also hit out at cancel culture. “If an incredibly talented person has written novels in the 1930s or ’40s and all of a sudden it is discovered that there was something he said or did — even something as bad as sexual harassment — he should be condemned for it but I don’t see why you should withdraw his novels from publication,” she told the British publication.Tyler’s comments sparked debate on Twitter, with some claiming Tyler simply wanted to avoid any kind of criticism.

Sanditon on PBS might be the best evidence of all. Based on an unfinished Jane Austen novel, the show first aired on U.K. channel ITV in late summer 2019 but struggled to find an audience.

Within mere moments of the Sanditon season two premiere, fans found out just what happened to Theo James‘s Sidney Parker.

The second series of Jane Austen adaptation Sanditon debuts on PBS Masterpiece Sunday and BritBox Monday but, were it not for a fan-led campaign that the original author would have been proud of, the show could easily have slipped off TV altogether.

an unfinished Jane Austen novel of the same name, “Sanditon,” is set in the early 1800s England. Season 1 follows Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams), who travels to the seaside resort of Sanditon. There, she meets a slew of colorful characters including her surly love interest Sidney Parker (Theo James), his entrepreneur brother Tom (Kris Marshall), West Indian heiress and Jane Austen’s first black heroine, Georgiana Lambe (Crystal Clarke) and sassy Lady Denham (Anne Reid).

Searchlight Pictures on Friday dated three movies that will stream exclusively this summer as Hulu Originals: Andrew Ahn’s rom-com Fire Island, the Emma Thompson-starring Sundance pic Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, and Quinn Shephard’s Not Okay starring Zoey Deutch. All three had already been targeted to bow on the streamer.

Angelique Jackson Searchlight Pictures has set summer release dates for “Fire Island,” “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” and “Not Okay.”All three films will stream exclusively as Hulu Originals in the U.S. with “Fire Island” and “Not Okay” streaming internationally on Disney Plus as Star Originals.

A comedy of manners. The Courtship might seem similar to plenty of other reality dating shows, but there’s one major twist: it’s set in Regency England.

“Bridgerton” on NBC’s new dating show “The Courtship,” which premieres Sunday, March 6 at 8 pm. The show follows Nicole Rémy, a Seattle-based engineer and former Seattle Seahawks NFL dancer, and 16 suitors who go all-out with old-fashioned flourishes to charm her.Unlike regular dating shows, it’s set against the backdrop of a Jane Austen-like setting: They’re in Castle Howard in the rolling hills of England.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentModern dating is tough. With endless swiping, unanswered DMs and app fatigue, everyone can relate to the trials and tribulations of finding your match in 2022.

The Courtship, NBC’s bonkers and highly enjoyable new dating show in which 16 men move into a castle, cosplay as characters, and try to date a software engineer?Was it when the heroine–Nicole Remy, 26, NFL-cheerleader turned programer–arrived at her castle in a horse-drawn carriage as a string quartet played “Don’t Stop Believin”? Was it the moment when a suitor looked around —the same estate where filmed the home of Simon, Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page)—and muttered, “Where can I get a corndog around here?” Was it when Remy, trying to describe a suitor with extravagantly styled eyebrows, used the one phrase that would have improved Jane Austen’s great prose? (“He’s kind of…a lot.”)This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Let me be clear: Nothing makes me feel more insane than when women are nostalgic for the courtship traditions of the past, particularly in the period when Bridgerton and Austen’s novels are set. “Modern dating is not working for me," Remy explains, articulating I have heard from thousands of women in person and online.

Hulu has debuted the first photos from the upcoming movie Fire Island, a new rom-com written by and starring Joel Kim Booster.

A blast from the past. NBC’s The Courtship takes the typical dating show with many competitors fighting for the heart of one person and throws in back to Regency-era England — and Us Weekly has an exclusive first look.

“Bridgerton” meets “The Bachelor” in NBC’s newest reality show dating competition, “The Courtship.”The regency-era-inspired series is dropping on NBC and its streaming service Peacock on March 6.The show takes a page out of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” as a modern spin on the classic game of love. It features Nicole Remy, a Seattle woman who is looking for her own Mr.

Dakota Johnson is headed to the Spider-Verse!The actress is set to to become the first female-headlining hero in the Sony-Marvel cinematic universe, as multipleoutlets report she is in talks to play the titular character in the upcoming. S.J.

inside that room, and they’re not leaving. Jared Leto is hilarious as one of the criminals, Forest Whitaker is aces as a conflicted thief and Dwight Yoakam (of all people) is absolutely chilling.If you’re in the mood for a great period drama, you can’t go wrong with “Sense and Sensibility.” Director Ang Lee’s 1995 Jane Austen adaptation was written by Emma Thompson, who also co-stars and picked up an Oscar for her adapted screenplay.

PBS and WGBH’s Masterpiece released the trailer for the highly anticipated second season of “Sanditon” on Thursday. Inspired by Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, the historical drama tells the story of Charlotte Heywood, a high-spirited young woman who happens upon the seaside town of Sanditon during a time of social change, and becomes intrigued by the town’s inhabitants and their secrets.The first season of the fan-favorite British series ended on a giant cliffhanger in early 2020, and having been canceled in the UK by ITV, it wasn’t clear if anything would ever be resolved.

A unique collection of classic literature - including originals by Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters - amassed by a Rochdale businessman has been saved from going under the hammer after £15 million was raised to buy it.

David Benedict “Young hearts, to yourself be true.” It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen never sang along with Candi Staton. But among the many things that the frankly sensational “Pride and Prejudice (sort of*)” proves is that she not only would have, but should have.

Rose Williams is spilling the first teases for Sanditon‘s upcoming seasons two and three.

Bridgerton hit Netflix last winter, of viewers tuned in to its antics, sucked into the sexy period piece’s easy frills and thrills.

Bowen Yang and Joel Kim Booster are teaming up for their first feature film together. The two actors will star in “Fire Island”, written by Booster and helmed by “Spa Night” director Andrew Ahn. From Searchlight Pictures and produced by JAX Media, the comedy will exclusively debut on Hulu in the U.S.