UPDATE: Just got an update on Austenland. The deal is north of $4 million, midway between $4 million and $5 million, and Sony Pictures Classics will release the film in the summer, and they will rely ...

What is your own experience with Jane Austen and being an Austenite? How did you get into that fandom? I studied English at university and I read many of her works and watched many of the shows… I ...

Jane Austen fans can be an intense bunch. From blogs to fan clubs and Web sites packed with Jane-o-philia, many Austen devotees not only read her novels, they immerse themselves in her fictional ...

With the runaway success of the British TV drama Downton Abbey, audiences have developed a ravenous appetite for stately period costume dramas. Jerusha Hess’s Austenland,making its premiere at the ...

Best known as the author of The Twilight Saga novels, Stephenie Meyer has brought the first feature from her Fickle Fish Films to the Sundance Film Festival this year. Based on Shannon Hale’s novel of ...

Jane Hayes (Keri Russell) is a complete romantic who is obsessed with Mr. Darcy as portrayed by Colin Firth in the BBC miniseries “Pride and Prejudice”. She keeps his life-size cutout image in her ...

Listen up all you Jane Austen fans – the brand new AUSTENLAND trailer is here. AUSTENLAND is a romantic comedy about 30-something, single Jane Hayes (Keri Russell), a seemingly normal young woman with ...

The following is a reprint of our review from the Sundance Film Festival. “Austenland” opens in theaters on Friday. Jane is just too underdeveloped and is forced to take a backseat through the first ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

Talk of unrequited – and fictional — love heated up the Aug. 12 Gotham screening of Sony Classics’ “Austenland,” as the cast and filmmakers, inspired by the movie’s lead character’s obsession with Mr.