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Austenland Premieres at Sundance to Packed House
Posted on18. Jan, 2013 by lisa.
It was a HUGE day for the coolest creative trio on planet earth. (Well, at least if you’re a giddy fangirl.) Austenland premiered to the world at Sundance Film Festival to a PACKED house. The Eccles Theater in Park City, the largest of the city’s theaters used during the festival, seating 1,270 people, housed the [...]
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Shannon Hale and Jerusha Hess On How Austenland Came About
Posted on17. Jan, 2013 by lisa.
In a Deseret News article, AUSTENLAND author/screenwriter Shannon Hale and director/screenwriter Jerusha Hess reveal how the film adaptation for this book was actually the unintended result of a lunch they had together. “I happened to have a copy of ‘Austenland’ in my car, which is really weird because I never carry my books around,” Hale [...]
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‘Austenland’ Director’s Note from Jerusha Hess
Posted on17. Jan, 2013 by lisa.
Stephenie Meyer’s latest project AUSTENLAND makes its debut tomorrow at the Sundance Film Festival. The romantic comedy geared toward a specifically female audience is a slight departure from director Jerusha Hess’ previous predominantly masculine movies Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre, and Gentlemen Broncos. But in a director’s note she sounds all too happy she was able [...]
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“Austenland” Movie Premiering at Sundance Film Fest
Posted on29. Nov, 2012 by lisa.
If you aren’t familiar with author Shannon Hale by now, you need to hurry and get familiar asap! She is fabulous! Hale’s book, Austenland, a romantic comedy about a Pride & Prejudice obsessed woman, has already been made into a movie (directed by Jerusha Hess) and was produced in part by Fickle Fish Films, a production company owned by Stephenie Meyer & Meghan Hibbett.
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Austenland Wraps In England
Posted on01. Sep, 2011 by lisa.
Seven weeks of filming for Austenland officially wrapped August 26. The movie, directed by Jerusha Hess, is an adaptation of the brilliantly romantic and comedic book by author Shannon Hale, and is the first project to come from Fickle Fish Films, a production company geared toward “literature related film and media”, created by Stephenie Meyer and [...]
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