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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... PG-13. 97 minutes. At the Esquire. We have seen movie updates of Jane Austen novels before, acknowledged ones such as “Clueless,” and others that have worn ...

As the writer of 2009's "Gentlemen Broncos" and now the writer-director of "Austenland," Jerusha Hess accomplishes the seemingly impossible – she makes the brilliant Jennifer Coolidge completely ...

“Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer is moving on. She’s put a stake in the heart of her megahit vampire franchise, and saw modest results ($48 million worldwide) earlier this year from an adaptation 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 ...

Eight years ago, novelist Shannon Hale read an interview with a writer who was on the verge of publishing her first book. “Ohhh,” Hale sighed sympathetically. “It doesn’t sound like she has writer ...