The 2013 comedy starring Keri Russell comes to the streaming platform as part of its ‘Austen Forever’ celebration, which ...
Directed by Jerusha Hess, the 2013 rom-com, Austenland follows the drama-filled experiences of a woman named Jane who goes to a Jane-Austen-themed party in England. On reaching there, she encounters ...
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 ...
One of the constantly bemoaned problems in the filmmaking world is how to get more non-white non-men behind the cameras. It’s equal parts coincidence and trend, but this week sees two indie comedies ...
The missed opportunities in “Austenland” are more numerous than dowry-less sourpusses at a ball in a Jane Austen novel. Which is a shame. While this chintzy-looking romantic comedy thinks just a few ...
How quickly a good idea becomes a bad one when a filmmaker doesn’t trust his or her subject. Jane (Keri Russell) begins “Austenland” totally fixated on ye olde England as captured by Jane Austen, to ...
Keri Russell, she of “Felicity” and “Waitress” and many others, is such a winning actress, even in a flat soda of a comedy like “Austenland.” She’s there, doing all she can to carbonate things.
Jerusha Hess’s light, breezy, modestly funny “Austenland” should have no trouble attracting a major distributor due to its crowd-pleasing subject matter and a couple of familiar names in the cast, ...
It is a universally acknowledged truth that one should not try to beat Jane Austen at her own game. Demure but feisty, Austen has fended off pretenders for two centuries. Some channel her with success ...
It may not seem like your typical rom-com duo: Keri Russell, known as a clandestine Russian spy in FX’s retro thriller “The Americans,” and Bret McKenzie of New Zealand’s comic-music duo, “Flight of ...
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 ...
Keri Russell is taking an obsession with Jane Austen to the next level in the new trailer for "Austenland." The "Americans" star plays Jane, a contemporary New Yorker who has practically devoted her ...