Mar 30th, 2009 · Jane Austen is one of the most popular writers to rip off — or expand upon — of all time. Whether you've read the original Pride and Prejudice or not, commentator Madhulika Sikka says you've probably heard the storyline anyway.
Mar 29th, 2009 · Jane Austen's original text has been ever-so-slightly altered to accommodate brand-new scenes of the Bennet girls forming "The Pentagram of Death" and taking on hordes of the undead, along with a ninja or two.
Feb 19th, 2009 · Author Jane Austen might be rolling over in her grave. A book called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies promises "all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action." And there's the film: Pride and Predator. The New York Times says it will "Juxtapose brooding aristocrats with a brutal alien that lands in 1800s-era Britain, attacking residents and leaving them with neither sense nor sensibility."
Jan 18th, 2008 · Andrew Davies is the go-to screenwriter for adapting classic literature for television and the movies. He adapts Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility as PBS prepares to air The Complete Jane Austen.
Sep 22nd, 2007 · Robin Swicord is the writer and director of the new film The Jane Austin Book Club. She talks about being one of a relatively few female directors in Hollywood -- and what it's like to make the transition from screenwriter to director.
Sep 3rd, 2007 · After a summer of pure escapism, Hollywood has decided that this fall, audiences are ready for something real. We look ahead to the autumn box office, with films that range from the war in Iraq, to Jane Austen, to corporate corruption.
Aug 3rd, 2007 · The dialogue in this fanciful "biography" certainly isn't up to the beloved novelist's standard, but the performances do sparkle and the look is Merchant Ivory-lush -- so there's plenty of pleasure to be had.
Jun 23rd, 2007 · In a modern twist to Jane Austen's classic novels, author Shannon Hale tells the coming-of-age story of a woman who grapples with her Jane Austen obsession at Pembrook Park, a British resort that caters to Austen-crazed women.