Jane Eyre DVD set for release

Inquiring minds wanted to know when they could purchase the DVD
starring Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska as Rochester and Jane
Jane Eyre will be available August 16, 2011

Jane Eyre (2011) - another video preview

Here's yet another video preview for the upcoming Jane Eyre
with Wasikowska and Fassbender.

Jane Eyre (2011) - costume design

Check out the wedding outfits for Jane and Rochester, thanks to costume designer Michael O'Connor. (He's also designed the wardrobe for period dramas: The Eagle, Wallis & Edward, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, and Tom Brown's Schooldays and The Duchess for which he won an Oscar.)

These are the outfits worn by Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender in the 2011 film.

Check them out at Hollywood Movie Costumes & Props!

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Jane Eyre (2011) - musical score by Dario Marianelli

Dear Focus Features,
it's swell that you wish to share so much information with those of us eager to see the new adaptation but if you keep up this pace, I'll feel like I've already seen the entire film. Great to see a video which includes a taste of the musical score but it's accompanied with more scenes from the film which I'd like to enjoy for the first time while seated at the cinema!

Dario Marianelli has previously done the musical score for Atonement, The Brothers Grimm, Pride & Prejudice (2005) and I Capture the Castle.

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Jane Eyre (2011) - new video interviews with Mia, Michael & director

There seems to be a plethora of press for this film! Here are new interviews found on TrailerAddict.com for upcoming Jane Eyre (2011).

Michael Fassbender, Mia Wasikowska, Cary Fukunaga


Interview with Michael Fassbender

Interview with Mia Wasikowska

Interview with director Cary Fukunaga

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Jane Eyre wallpaper, Mia tops at box office

Wallpaper for Jane Eyre (2011)

From WalletPop:
"For the highest-grossing actress in the world, according to Forbes.com, Jane Eyre lead Mia Wasikowska doesn't seem too concerned with salary amount when choosing a film. "It's not like I would ignore it, but it depends," she told WalletPop recently. "It always depends on what the project is. Firstly and primarily, I would rather do something that is fulfilling." Easy to say when your movies have earned a cool $1.03 billion at the box office within a year. Easy to say when you're able to mix a mega-blockbuster like Alice in Wonderland with a hit indie like the Oscar-nominated best picture, The Kids are All Right. Wasikowska next inhabits everyone's favorite empowered governess, Jane Eyre, in a new cinema version that opens March 11.

Only Leo DiCaprio (Inception, Shutter Island), at $1.1 billion, stood in Wasikowska's way as the top ticket-earner last year. It should be noted that Forbes based its list on nothing other than what the actors' movies made when they were in the lead. So please spare us the comments that Alice director Tim Burton or costar Johnny Depp perhaps had more to do with putting butts in the velvet seats. Those figures still carry a lot of digits and she was Alice."

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Mia Wasikowska - profiled in AnOther Magazine

MIA WASIKOWSKA is one of 4 promising actresses featured in the 10th anniversary edition of AnOther Magazine. She'll be seen this year in Restless, directed by Gus Van Sant as well as in the much anticipated Jane Eyre. She's also reported to have signed on to do the Prohibition-era film, The Wettest County in the World with Shia Lebeouf, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, Tom Hardy & Jessica Chastain. Other reports link her to Stoker with Colin Firth & Nicole Kidman. Possible scheduling conflicts might mean she won't do both.

Photo: AnOther Magazine

Jane Eyre (2011) - video interviews, behind the scenes

I've posted new video interviews for Jane Eyre with Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender and Judi Dench courtesy of TrailerAddict.com. There are also 4 videos which include a peek at behind-the-scenes, I've posted one below.

Also found on Trailer Addict's site are video interviews with actors: Sally Hawkins, Tamzin Merchant, Jamie Bell, Holliday Grainger, Imogen Poots, as well as director Cary Fukunaga, screenwriter Moira Buffini and producer Alison Owen.

Interview with Mia Wasikowska

Interview with Michael Fassbender

Interview with Judi Dench

On the film set

More videos at TrailerAddict.com

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Michael Fassbender interview & a Mock Poster for Jane Eyre

I wanted to share this lovely mock poster for Jane Eyre, created so skillfully by kf-creations!! Thanks kiteflier for allowing me to post it here! Love it!

In Michael Fassbender's interview with Jo Ellison of Vogue, there is mention of working with Mia Wasikowska in Jane Eyre..."If Fassbender is comfortable with his apparent overnight fame, it's because it's been a long, long time in the making. Having dropped out of drama college as a 20-year-old, he spent the best part of a decade struggling to get the small breaks before landing his golden ticket."

Fassbender: “The wilderness years…well, I was working. I mean, God, there are people in the wilderness who are really in the wilderness. [My life] was very sporadic; you know - a guest spot on Holby City. Six episodes on something here or there. Working behind a bar. A lot of thinking should I go home. And I made a balls of soooo many auditions.”

“Talent is a very small percent of success - there are massively talented people out there who will never be seen on screen or on stage. People always go on about talent, but you’ve got to have the chance; meet the person who will work with you, and with the script that just suits you. Timing is massive.”

[Fassbender] may argue that his process is boring and prosaic, but Mia Wasikowska paints a different picture. "To work with someone like Michael is to have an ally and friend," she says. "From the beginning I felt fiercely supported by him. He brings with him a worldliness that informs his performances, a depth of emotion that is both raw and beautiful, and an infectiously cheeky energy that would lift the whole crew." She talks also of his "honest curiosity," a trait writ large through all his conversations, and his sense of humour. "I had the most incredible fun working with him." The feeling's mutual: "She's phenomenal," he says of the 21-year-old actress. "She taught me so much."

"This year Fassbender will star in no fewer than four films: he plays Jung opposite Viggo Mortensen’s Freud and Keira Knightly in David Cronenberg’s psychoanalytical drama A Dangerous Method; he co-stars in Steven Soderbergh’s Dublin crime caper Haywire (with Ewan McGregor); ... as Mr. Rochester, opposite Mia Wasikowska’s Jane Eyre, in a sinister re-telling of the Bronte classic, directed by Cary Fukunaga. And right now, he’s donning the latex as Ian McKellen’s former alter-ego Magneto in Vaughn’s re-booted X-Men: First Class, filming at Pinewood, and due out this summer."

Article can be found at Michael Fassbender Online
Photo by: Boo George

"Stoker" with Mia, Firth & Kidman?

Watching the Oscar Roundtable discussion which included Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, I was thinking that it would be great to see the two of them in a film together. If current talks proceed, it looks like that just might happen! The LA Times reports that Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth are negotiating to join the film, which already has Mia Wasikowska confirmed for the leading role.

Colin Firth, Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman

Update (Mar 7): The role of the uncle initially only described as "enigmatic" now turns out to be a vampire? Guess the name Stoker did imply Bram Stoker's Dracula after all?!
Update (Mar 8): Wentworth Miller has denied in earlier interview at Comic-con that it's a tale of vampires:
“It’s not easy to describe. It’s a horror film, a family drama and a psychological thriller, all wrapped up in one. The jumping off point is actually Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt. So, that’s where we begin, and then we take it in a very, very different direction.”
and (Mar. 10): "It's got a lot of elements of the Dracula mythology in its story... It's not a vampire story. It's not about vampires at least with the teeth and the desire to s
Update: Colin Firth no longer attached to film, Matthew Goode negotiating for role of uncle

Based on a screenplay by Wentworth Miller (pen-name Ted Foulke)
To be directed by Park Chan-Wook.

“Stoker” is described as a fantastical, fairy-tale like family drama that follows the story of an eccentric teen, India (Wasikowska), whose enigmatic and estranged uncle returns to the family after the death of the girl’s father. People, however, start to go missing in her hometown at the same time and she soon discovers that her uncle may be the cause. Kidman would play India’s mother, and Firth would take on the part of the uncle.

Filming is planned for this spring.
(Colin Firth is still committed to 'Gambit' with Cameron Diaz which would likely shoot after Stoker.)

Source: Playlist, LATimes

Guessing that the rumour mill has jumped the gun?
Waiting to hear full details of film from credible source...

Jane Eyre (2011) - 2 MORE film clips including proposal scene

If Focus Features keeps up this pace, the whole film will be released before its release! Here are 2 more film clips besides the ones that appeared online yesterday.

Mia Wasikowksa & Michael Fassbender in Jane Eyre
March 11 [limited release]

Proposal scene...

Watch 2nd film clip on iVillage

2 previous film clips

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Jane Eyre (2011) - 2 new film clips

Focus Features has released 2 film clips from Jane Eyre, due in cinemas on March 11th, 2011 starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender.

The first clip shows an oh-so-tender moment between Jane and Rochester. I'm surprised that the producers are revealing that scene to us already! The second clip features Jane with the Rivers family.

2 additional film clips

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Jane Eyre (2011) - Image gallery 4

New images from upcoming Jane Eyre

with Mia Wasikowska & Michael Fassbender...
Source: Monsters & Critics

Jane Eyre (2011) - new images & info

More information can be found regarding the highly-anticipated Jane Eyre, starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender on the official site of Focus Features!

Here's an excerpt from article: A Classic Novel, A Passionate Adaptation: The Production of Jane Eyre

Producer Alison Owen, an Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner, offers, "If you say to someone, ‘What’s the definitive film version of Jane Eyre?’ no one really has an answer. Having made a number of movies from or about women’s fiction, I wondered, ‘Why not?’"

"We’re a company that is rapidly building a healthy reputation for being able to successfully convert well-known written works into big- and small-screen entertainment. Taking on Brontë seemed like the natural next step up the literary ladder," adds producer Paul Trijbits. "It’s a book we already knew had an enormous fan base, so the responsibility was also a major consideration. We wanted to move this interpretation forward into the 21st Century whilst maintaining the story’s haunting beauty."

Owen and Trijbits’ Ruby Film & Television began work on the project, which they took to one of the U.K.’s most prolific film funding organizations, BBC Films, to begin the development process.

Owen adds, "It’s timely in that Charlotte Brontë, seen as ‘the darker sister’ when compared to Emily and Anne Brontë, is being rediscovered much like Jane Austen was nearly 20 years ago.

"As a producer, I make sure to have general meetings with my favorite writers all the time; right after I’d thought about Jane Eyre, I was meeting with Moira Buffini. I happened to mention it and it turned out to be one of Moira’s favorite books, if not her favorite."

Buffini seized on the chance to adapt the book, and she and Owen quickly outlined their vision for a full-on big-screen approach to the story. They knew it had to differ from adaptations that had gone before. Buffini’s approach was to draw out the gothic elements of the story, and make them engines of the piece.

"Moira wanted to make it dark and spooky on an intensely romantic journey. That was her take, which I wholly supported," recalls Owen.

Further, as the novel would be adapted into a two-hour movie, Owen found that "what was brilliant about the script Moira delivered was the structure she’d chosen. The book is quite difficult in some ways to translate to film. Everyone remembers the sections of Jane’s childhood, of Jane being a governess at Thornfield and falling in love with Mr. Rochester, and then bolting.

Sally Hawkins as Mrs. Reed

"But from then on, there’s another set of characters introduced – the Rivers family. You can do that in a novel, but it’s harder to do two-thirds of the way through a movie. Moira’s stroke of genius was that instead of abbreviating or losing this part entirely, which previous adaptations have done, she put it right at the beginning – and turned the novel’s early sections of the young Jane at Lowood and her initial days at Thornfield into flashbacks. Therefore, midway through the third act, we catch up with Jane and you get the emotional punch of being in real time at the end as she comes to terms with everyone and everything."

Jamie Bell as St. John Rivers

Buffini comments, "I hope this will please the many who love the book; while we may not be faithful to the original structure, our version does include every key stage of Jane’s story. Giving the complete picture was also meant to help the uninitiated – those coming to this story for the first time – to understand and identify with Jane all the more."

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Judi Dench as Mrs. Fairfax

Imogene Poots as Blanche Ingram

Photos: Laurie Sparham