Austenland

Austenland is an entertaining comedic film that will appeal to fans of Jane Austen and romantic comedies, examining the effects of loving Austen’s world.

Austenland is movie about a Jane Austen amusement park of sorts where women go to escape modern life. Their marketing campaign, perhaps unsurprisingly, is entirely focused on women.

Hollywood seems to have discovered Austen in the last two decades, but which adaptations and inspirations are the best Jane Austen movies?

Austenland, based on the Shannon Hale novel of the same name, will debut in theaters in Los Angeles and New York on August 14th. For every Jane Austen fan who wants to live in Austen’s world, this film may be the solution.

The first clip for the Stephenie Meyer-produced Sundance film Austenland, written and directed by Jerusha Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) and starring Keri Russell and Bret McKenzie, has been released.

The author, who is producing both Breaking Dawn movies, is now signed on to produce a new romantic comedy.