Month: August 2025

Daisy Edgar-Jones is set star in a new big-screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s 19th-century novel, Sense and Sensibility.

Edgar-Jones, 27, shared the news on Instagram, where she posted a photograph of herself holding up a paperback copy of the novel.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Edgar-Jone will play Elinor, with filmmaker Georgia Oakley (“Blue Jean”) directing the film from a script penned by novelist Diana Reid.

Originally published in 1811, “Sense and Sensibility” was the first novel by Austen, who later wrote such literary classics as “Pride and Prejudice,” “Emma” and “Persuasion.” The story of “Sense and Sensibility” follows sisters Elinor (Edgar-Jones) and Marianne Dashwood, who navigate love, loss and financial uncertainty as they are forced to leave their family estate in Sussex. The role of Marianne Dashwood hasn’t been announced yet.

“Sense and Sensibility” has been adapted for the screen a number of times over the years, most notably with director Ang Lee’s 1995 film starring Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood and Kate Winslet as Marianne.  Other prior remakes of Austen’s work, including the 2005 version of “Pride and Prejudice” with Keira Knightly and Matthew Macfadyen as well as 2020’s “Emma,” which starred Anya-Taylor Joy.

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The trailer for Ron Howard’s new thriller Eden was released, which stars Jude Law and Sydney Sweeney as island settlers fighting to survive.

The trailer shows the diverse group of settlers fighting for survival amidst a grueling backdrop of a deserted island where the only threat to themselves are the other people they share the colony with. Law portrays Dr. Friedrich Ritter, who moves to the island with his wife Dora (Vanessa Kirby), , who left Berlin for Floreana Island in 1929. But when Baroness Eloise Bosquet (Ana de Armas) arrives, chaos follows.

Daniel Brühl also stars in the feature, co-written, co-produced and directed by Howard. According to a synopsis, the film will follow “the shocking true story of a group of disillusioned outsiders who abandon civilization, settling on a remote, uninhabited island only to discover that the greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other. As tensions spiral and desperation takes hold, a twisted power struggle unfolds, leading to betrayal, violence, and the deaths of half the colony.”

The film, inspired by a true story, premiered in 2024 at the Toronto International Film Festival and debuted in German movie theaters in April. The film will debut in U.S. theaters Aug. 22; see the trailer for Eden: HERE.

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