Made with love! Jillian Harris and partner Justin Pasutto can’t get enough of their two children — and fans are right there with them.
16.07.2022 - 02:19 / deadline.com
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, a kind Cinderella story for older women with a Dior twist, arrives in 978 theaters this weekend with strong reviews and great word of mouth. The film is a known property among that demo given its prime trailer treatment before Focus Features’ fan favorite Downtown Abbey: A New Era — not a bad setup.
Deadline review here. The film by Anthony Fabian with Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert and Jason Isaacs has a 92%/critics, 94%/audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It shares the pond with a handful of strong studio holdovers and new wide releases Paw Patrol: The Movie and drama Where The Crawdads Sing. Like Crawdads, Mrs. Harris is based on a popular book – the 1958 novel by Paul Gallico – and book clubs are prominent in a large marketing push.
Manville plays Ada Harris, a British housekeeper and widow who dreams of buying her own couture Christian Dior gown. Marketing featured social media activations that dangled a trip to Paris and private visit to the iconic La Galerie Dior at 30 Avenue Montaigne, as well as national screenings with promotional giveaways from macarons to flowers and wine, and broadcast hits including premieres of The Bachelorette and Better Call Saul.
Focus Features acquired the worldwide rights to Mrs. Harris (which was financed by eOne) in March of 2021. Writers are Carroll Cartwright, Anthony Fabian, Keith Thompson and Olivia Hetreed.
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Also opening this weekend — an eclectic
Made with love! Jillian Harris and partner Justin Pasutto can’t get enough of their two children — and fans are right there with them.
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Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris grossed $1.35 million in week two with a mix of arthouse and commercial theaters among top ten locations and a nice hold from opening weekend (-31%). Cume to date is $4.65 million for the film starring Leslie Manville as a British housekeeper who dreams of owning a Christian Dior gown. It was no. 10 in North America in 1,001 theaters.
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Late Night Talking” will turn into late-night studying for some Texas college students.Texas State University in San Marcos is offering a class about Harry Styles starting in the spring of 2023.The course, titled “Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Pop Culture,” will be taught by Associate Professor of Digital History Dr. Louie Dean Valencia, who posted about it on social media over the weekend.“It’s official, official.
Prince Harry delivered a keynote speech on Nelson Mandela International Day, in which he referred to his wife Meghan Markle as his "soulmate." On Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived in New York City, where the British royal gave a special address to the United Nations.The couple held hands as they entered the building and Markle, 40, wore a pinky ring signifying women's empowerment, People magazine reported. After New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke, Harry addressed the assembly.
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, aside from whisking it's audiences away to the French capitol of dreams, takes viewers on a fashion tour that would make any archive-obsessed TikTok fanatic want to storm the halls of the Christian Dior boutique as if they were storming the bastille.
Focus Features’ Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris will hit an estimated $1.9 million weekend gross at 980 theaters drawing women with those 55 years of age and older repping 44% of the total. Turnout was best on the coasts for the drama starring Leslie Manville and Isabelle Huppert.
Wilson Chapman editorAs the title character of “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” Lesley Manville charms nearly everyone she encounters: homeless men on the streets of Paris, the heads of the Dior fashion house (including Christian Dior himself), models, dressmakers and racehorse track operators.
Tomris Laffly The joy of achieving a certain je ne sais quoi gleams in Anthony Fabian’s heartwarming “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” in theaters July 15, about a widowed ’50s-era cleaning lady—Lesley Manville’s affable Ada Harris — as she travels from London to Paris to purchase a Christian Dior gown. Designing the intricate costumes with exact Dior replicas was the job of Jenny Beavan, in another couture-centric film after her Oscar-winning designs for “Cruella.”As a storyteller in her own right, Beavan was charmed by Mrs.
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” out Friday, a plucky, kind-hearted cleaning lady (Mrs. Harris, played by Lesley Manville) working in 1950s London discovers a Christian Dior gown in a wealthy employer’s closet.