Rosamund Pike: New Interviews and a cover girl of UK's InStyle Magazine's November 2011 issue!

Rosamund Pike is one super busy British actress in both the UK and Hollywood! She has two new comedy films out this month (The Big Year and Johnny English Reborn)! She has several new video interviews (via Digital Spy) promoting her new film, Johnny English Reborn (with Rowan Atkinson and Gillian Anderson, which will be in US theaters later this month, October 28th...looks like the theater release date has changed again for this movie. According to Box Office Mojo, it has been moved up to a week early from the 28th to October 21st! ). She also talked about her other upcoming films: One Shot (with Tom Cruise, which she is currently filming in Pittsburgh and you can see a link of candid pics of her seen walking around the city below), Wrath of the Titans (with Sam Worthington, which she will play Queen Andromeda and will be released next year, March 30th, 2012), and a new clip of The Big Year (with Owen Wilson, Jack Black, and Steve Martin, where she plays Owen Wilson's character's wife Jessica...and there's a Youtube clip link you can watch below as well. The new comedy film opens in theaters in wide release next Friday Oct 14th). In addition to all of that, Miss Pike is on the November cover of UK's InStyle Magazine (which you can see a sneak peek video, new RP photos and read excerpts of her new magazine cover interview in the compiled links of articles below). Not too mention, she has another film The Sea (with Rufus Sewell and Cirian Hinds) that she will start filming early next year after she finished filming One Shot. Plus on her IMDB filmography, there's a short film she was listed as part of that was just added and oddly titled The Organ Grinder's Monkey, which she co-starred with Kevin Spacey and Daniel Craig.  

Watch The Big Year - Audubon Clip
Rosamund in a scene with Owen Wilson starting at 1:01 she mentions the title of the film twice, lol...(If you have HBO, watch Making of 'The Big Year' | HBOe Tonight!)

RP's character in The Big Year (via The Big Year movie website)
Rosamund Pike as Jessica, Kenny's (Owen Wilson) wife, who has long supported her husband's record-breaking pursuits is now looking for Kenny to settle down so they can begin raising a family. Kenny assures Jessica that he's ready - but he finds that one more BIG YEAR is impossible to resist.

Read all the compiled Rosamund Pike interviews galore, watch her new video interviews, new photos, and more below!

Rosamund Pike 'Johnny English' interview

(source: Digital Spy)

Watch a Rosamund Pike video interviews in the following (via Digital Spy)...
Rosamund Pike: 'Wrath of the Titans like walking into chaos' 

Rosamund Pike Johnny English Reborn interview: 'I'm a Mr Bean kind of girl' 

Rosamund Pike on Tom Cruise's One Shot: 'Jack Reacher is electrifying'

Candid Photos...
Rosamund Pike dressed in a colorful jacket is seen walking around in Pittsburgh

(Photo by PacificCoastNews.com | zimbio.com) 

 
More Rosamund Pike Interviews...

Rosamund Pike: 'I was amazed that Rowan Atkinson even knew who I was' (via The Guardian)

It feels strange to say that Johnny English Reborn is something of a revelation. It isn't the film itself – a tepid spy spoof sequel starring Rowan Atkinson and Dominic West, with the occasional blast of amusement and much slapstick. The unexpected element here comes in the form of Rosamund Pike, playing a top MI7 psychologist named Kate Sumner.

Pike provides both comic foil and love interest for Atkinson – all wide eyes, earnest expressions and fitted shift dresses. But her presence is never less than amusing; it's there in the tilt of her neck, the set of her shoulders, and, more than anywhere, in her face – the faint creases around the eyes and the corner of the mouth breathe humour into that famously crisp beauty. The result is quietly intriguing: perhaps Pike isn't quite who you thought she was. Read full  RP Interview here!

Rosamund Pike on the November 2011 issue cover of UK's InStyle Magazine (via InStyle)

(The November 2011 issue of In Style features Rosamund Pike Photos: FREDERIC AUERBACH/INSTYLE)

  

Watch a Sneak Peek video of cover girl Rosamund Pike: InStyle's November Issue!


Rosamund Pike: women should be more ambitious (via The Telegraph)

She has acquired a reputation as a demure English rose, but actress Rosamund Pike has called on women to toughen up and flaunt their ambition.

“As a woman, you feel that you shouldn’t want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn’t it?” she said.

“But when you look up the definition, ambition is to achieve distinction in your chosen field and most of us would own up to that, wouldn’t we?

“So I’ve just decided to be a little bit less frightened and a bit less, ‘Please like me and please give me a job’, and a bit more, ‘This is my opinion and this is what I want to do.’”

The 32-year-old actress landed her breakthrough role as a Bond girl in the 2002 film Die Another Day. She went on to win plaudits for her performances in Pride and Prejudice and An Education.

In 2007, Pike became engaged to Joe Wright, who directed her in Pride and Prejudice. But Wright jilted her a month before their 2008 wedding, a humiliation for the actress who had already sent out save-the-date cards.

They have not crossed paths since but Pike told InStyle magazine that she has moved on. Read more here!

The full interview is in the November 2011 issue of UK's InStyle magazine, on sale now! 
 
Related articles...
Rosamund Pike craved normality after heartbreak (via UK's Film-News) 
Even my grandma thinks I won't get married now, says Rosamund Pike (via The Evening Standard)

Other Interesting RP related articles...

Rosamund Pike: People thought I was a boy (via Belfast Telegraph)

Rosamund Pike - Rosamund Pike's Fan Date After Friend Confusion (via The Post Chronicle)
Rosamund Pike Loves To Party (via Contact Music)

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P&P NewsBits: Casting Updates for 'One Shot' and 'Flight' films, Jena Malone cast in 'Hatfields and McCoys,' and more!

Here's this week's quick news round up of various TV and film news (including casting calls, a film synopsis, trailers, release dates, festival news, etc.) of the following P&P actors (Rosamund Pike, Kelly Reilly, Jena Malone, Carey Mulligan,  Keira Knightley and P&P 95's Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle), all in one post!

Here are a few TV and Film casting news updates... 

As previously posted here, Rosamund Pike landed the female lead role opposite Tom Cruise in One Shot!

Kelly Reilly was in negotiations for the lead female role in Robert Zemeckis’ Flight opposite Denzel Washington.



First, let's get to Rosamund Pike's One Shot...

Richard Jenkins Will Take 'One Shot' With Tom Cruise (via The Playlist)
Variety reports that Jenkins has joined the upcoming “One Shot.” Based on the best-selling book by Lee Child (one of many in the series), and set to be directed and written by Christopher McQuarrie,the story finds ex-military man and drifter Jack Reacher (Cruise) drawninto the case of a military sniper accused of five murders anddiscovers a twisty cover-up along the way. Rosamund Pike is onboard as Helen Rodin, the attorney who defends the accused man andJenkins will play her father Alex Rodin, the District Attorney in townwho is prosecuting the case. David Oyelowo rounds out the current cast, playing a homicide detective in charge of investigating the killings.UPDATE: Alexia Fast Joins Tom Cruise's 'One Shot' (Exclusive) (via Hollywood Reporter)

  
Don Cheadle and Bruce Greenwood Join Robert Zemeckis’ FLIGHT; Kelly Reilly Confirmed as Female Lead (via Collider)

Director Robert Zemeckis is filling out the cast for his return to live-action. Denzel Washington is set as the lead in Flight,where he will play an a pilot who is heralded as a hero after safelylanding a damaged plane. His newfound hero status comes under scrutinyas an investigation is launched to determine whether or not he wasdrunk while flying. Now Movieholereports that Don Cheadle and Bruce Greenwood have joined the cast. Noword on what their roles entail. The report also confirms that KellyReilly (Sherlock Holmes), who was in negotiations to take on the female lead, is officially onboard as a drug addict who befriends Washington’s character. Filming on the project is set to get underway next month in Atlanta. 

Jena Malone latest to join 'Hatfields and McCoys' (via CN's The Marquee Blog)

The History Channel’s upcoming project “TheHatfields and McCoys” is sounding better all the time. Jena Malone hassigned on to the star-studded miniseries about America’s biggest familyfeud, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Malone (“Bastard Out of Carolina,” “Stepmom,” “Into the Wild”) willplay Nancy McCoy, a conniving cousin who exacts revenge on theHatfields for murdering her father.

Kevin Costner (Anse Hatfield) and Bill Paxton (Randall McCoy) lead the cast as the heads of the clashing clans. Tom Berenger, Powers Boothe and Lindsay Pulsipher have also joined the cast.

Kevin Reynolds (“Red Dawn,” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “RobinHood: Prince of Thieves”) is on board to direct the dramaticminiseries, which will shoot in Romania.

The project will air next year to coincide with the 150thanniversary of the bloody Hatfield and McCoy battle, which attractedinternational headlines.

Carey Mulligan changes gear in Drive (via BBC)

Nicolas Winding Refn'snew film Drive has brutal killings, nerve-jangling car chases andbone-breaking violence. So why did fresh-faced Carey Mulligan beg forpart in it?

"I'm in a film with guns - which is rare!" says Carey Mulligan of her role in the Danish director's crime thriller.
"Iwanted to do something that would be a bit of a stretch," adds the starof An Education and Never Let Me Go, "like playing a mother, andexploring a different genre."

Drive is now showing in theaters near you and at #3 (with $11M+) in its first weekend of release. 

In other P&P/Austen Actors' related news...

Blake Lively Offered Lead Role in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES?

Oscar Hopeful Shorts Screening in LA - Colin Firth, Keira Knightly, Julia Stiles
(via the Examiner.com)

Out of the 12 shorts shown, Steve with Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) and Keira Knightly (Pride and Prejudice)was one of the highlights. The story follows a middle-age man, whoregularly visits his neighbors for very odd reasons with surprisingtwists. This event was held as part of the Oscar qualifying process,which requires three consecutive days (Tuesday-Thursday) of paidscreenings at least twice a day in a Los Angeles County theater.

Jennifer Ehle: A Gifted Man's Leading Lady (via The Daily Beast)

Many viewers will forever associate Jennifer Ehle with her career-making role as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC’s Pride & Prejudice, the sumptuous adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel. But the 41-year old actress, the daughter of the actress Rosemary Harris and the writer John Ehleand now a mother of two, has been producing a steady body of work forboth the stage and film, since she first donned a curly black wig toplay Austen’s outspoken romantic heroine back in 1995. On Broadway, shewon a Tony award in 2000 for The Real Thing and another in 2007 for The Coast of Utopia.

The Daily Beast sat down with Ehle, and in these excerpts we discussed A Gifted Man, why she left Game of Thrones, attachment parenting, why she’s never recognized on the street, and ghost sex. Read her full interview here!

Speaking of JE, Tonight (and every Friday nights at 8/7C) watch Jennifer Ehle (Pride and Prejudice 1995's Elizabeth Bennet) on the series premiere of A Gifted Man on CBS!

Colin Firth claims to have 'no memory' of winning best actor Oscar
(via Metro)

Firth said it was 'completely extraordinary' that he could notremember receiving the statuette, but added: 'I think when major thingshappen to us, whether good or bad, there's a slight shock.
'It has a slightly numbing effect.'

 Colin Firth, Helen Fielding Confirm Bridget Jones 3 (via Lez Get Real)
Can lightning strike a third time? Colin Firth has let it slip thatthere will be a Bridget Jones 3. So far, there has been no confirmationas to whether or not Hugh Grant, who was in the first and secondmovies, will be back for the third, but Firth has had something of aninsider’s knowledge about the direction of the script.

Talking to Marie Claire, the Oscar winner did indicate that theentire cast will be returning saying that “It does become a bit of afamily at the time, it’ll be like one of those rather fraught familyreunions at Christmas.”

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Casting News Update: Rosamund Pike gets her 'One Shot' lead role opposite Tom Cruise!

UPDATE #2  8/29/11 Script Details for Tom Cruise Movie 'One Shot'

UPDATE 8/18/11: Pike a "Great Piece of Casting" for "One Shot" With Cruise, Says Author Lee Child

“I think that's a great piece of casting, but then, I wouldn't expectanything less from (writer-director Chris) McQuarrie," Child toldPopcornBiz via email. 

Great news! Rosamund Pike landed the female lead role opposite Tom Cruise in One Shot!  

As I previously posted here, Rosamund Pike was reportedly testing/reading to get the female lead role along with Hayley Atwell (Captain America) and Alexa Davalos (Clash of the Titans) for Tom Cruise's One Shot this past weekend. And looks like Miss Pike won the part! (The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed!) According to Deadline, Rosamund is now in negotiations to play the lead role. Congrats to RP!!!

Here's the Deadline article:

EXCLUSIVE: Rosamund Pike is negotiating for the female lead opposite Tom Cruise in One Shot, the Christopher McQuarrie-directed adaptation of the bestselling Lee Child novel series for Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions. Pike was among a small group of actresses vying for the role. The British actress played Andromeda in Clash of the Titans 2, and she recently wrapped the David Frankel-directed The Big Year opposite Owen Wilson, Jack Black and Steve Martin, and the Rowan Atkinson comedy Johnny English Reborn.

Cruise is playing Jack Reacher, the retired military policeman who wanders the country with only his passport, bankbook, toothbrush and the clothes on his back. He finds his way into scrapes, taking the side of the underdog. In One Shot, Reacher investigates a case in which a lone sniper murders five victims before being captured. Reacher discovers it's more than a simple open-and-shut case.

Pike will play Helen Rodin, a local defense attorney defending the man arrested for the shootings. She works with Reacher to bring the true culprits to justice. Don Granger and Cruise will produce through Mutual Film Company and C/W Productions. Skydance's David Ellison and Dana Goldberg are producing as is Gary Levinsohn and Paula Wagner, and Ken Kamins is exec producer. UTA reps Pike with Shelly Browning and UK-based Dallas Smith.

More about One Shot (via Collider)...

Christopher McQuarrie (Way of the Gun) wrote the script and will direct the adaptation of Lee Child’s novel. Paramount plans to begin shooting this fall and release One Shot on February 8, 2013.

Here’s the synopsis for Lee Child’s One Shot:

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me.

And sure enough, ex—military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shooter–a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is certain something is not right–and soon the slam-dunk case explodes.

Now Reacher is teamed with a beautiful young defense lawyer, moving closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. Reacher knows that no two opponents are created equal. This one has come to the heartland from his own kind of hell. And Reacher knows that the only way to take him down is to match his ruthlessness and cunning–and then beat him shot for shot. [Amazon]

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Casting News: Rupert Friend gets into 'The Haunted' while Rosamund Pike is testing to get cast in 'One Shot' with Tom Cruise

In two interesting casting news this weekend, Rupert Friend in The Haunted and Rosamund Pike in One Shot...

First, we have Rupert Friend, who is set to star in Intandem Films' The Haunted, a blend of psychological thriller with supernatural. Rupert will co-star with Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) in the lead. No info yet of what role Rupert will play. Based on the synopsis, I'm guessing he could be playing the ghost tormenting Kurylenko's character or another character. Hmm, It would be interesting to see if he was the former, lol. The Haunted is currently in pre-production with 2012 the likely completion date. 

Here's a lil' more info about the film including synopsis (via The Film Catalogue)

Synopsis

Recently widowed Audrey moves to a small village in the English countryside. She soon discovers the old house she is renting is not as empty as she thought... Her presence has awakened a spirit. Yet she decides to stay, and through the unusual friendship she strikes with the apparition, she begins getting over her grief. But is the ghost benign or malevolent? And is he real, or the product of her fractured mind?

Completion Year: 2012.
Director: Axelle Carolyn.
Cast: Olga Kurylenko, and Rupert Friend.

Source:  The Film Catalogue 

In other film casting news...

According to Hollywood Reporter, Rosamund Pike (along with The Pillars of the Earth, Any Human Heart, and Captain America's Hayley Atwell and Clash of the Titans' Alexa Davalos, whose Princess Andromeda has been replaced by Rosamund in the sequel of Clash of the Titans 2, now titled: Wrath of the Titans, which will be released March 30th, 2012) is reportedly screen testing and vying for a female lead role opposite Tom Cruise in one of his upcoming films, One Shot. Will Rosamund get the One Shot part? Best of luck to her! We'll find out soon, if she gets the part or not...

For now, read the THR article for more info...

Tom Cruise's 'One Shot': Three Actresses Testing to Play His Leading Lady (Exclusive)

Tom Cruise may find his latest leading lady this weekend. 

Cruise is gearing up to make One Shot, a Paramount-Skydance adaptation of a 2005 Lee Child crime thriller. Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote Cruise's Valkyrie movie, penned the script and is directing

On Saturday, McQuarrie and the studio were reading at least three actresses for the female lead: Hayley Atwell, Alexa Davalos and Rosamund Pike.

Atwell is best known to US audiences as the female lead opposite Chris Evans in Captain America.
Davalos last appeared in Clash of the Titans as Andromeda and counts Defiance, The Mist and The Chronicles of Riddick amongst her credits.
 
Pike drew acclaim for her work in the British movie Made in Dagenham and Barney’s Version. She also appeared with Carey Mulligan in An Education.  

One Shot centers on a Jack Reacher, an ex-Army cop who gets sucked into the mystery surrounding the arrest of a sniperaccused of killing five random people in a shooting. The female role is that of tough lawyer and daughter of the discrict attorney.
 
 The studio is eyeing a fall shoot in Pittsburgh. Paramount had no comment.

Speaking of Rosamund Pike, there's another film that isn't listed on her IMDB profile, which this article has mentioned her to co-star with Samuel L. Jackson and Kristin Scott Thomas in "Running Wild."

Here's part of the RP mention:

He (Director Kevin Kerslake) is currently attached to direct J.G. Ballard's "Running Wild," starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kristin Scott Thomas and Rosamund Pike.      

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