Mr. Darcy Darcy have also been published, among them American writer Pamela Aidan's "Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman" trilogy, and English author Janet Aylmer's successful novel "Darcy's Story" published in the UK () and later in the United States (). Helen Fielding has admitted she "pillaged her plot" for "Bridget Jones's Diary" from "Pride and Prejudice". In "Bridget Jones's Diary" and its sequel "", Bridget Jones is constantly mentioning the 1995 BBC adaptation and repeatedly watches the scene in the fourth episode where Darcy (Colin Firth) emerges from a pond wearing a wet white shirt, and refers to the Darcy and Elizabeth of the
Pride & Prejudice (2005 film) $2.9 million on 215 screens. Two weeks later, it played on 1,299 screens and box office returns increased to $7.2 million; the film left cinemas the week of 24 February 2006 with a total US gross of $38,405,088. Jack Foley, the president of distribution of Focus Features, the film's US distributor, attributed "Pride & Prejudice"s success in America to Austen's appeal to "the boomer market" and its status as a known "brand". "Pride & Prejudice" was released in an additional fifty-nine countries between September 2005 and May 2006 by United International Pictures. With a worldwide gross of $121,147,947, it was