2013 is now last year and we're now in the New Year 2014! You know what that means, right? New TV series/returning shows and movies to look forward to this Winter and Spring from ourfavorite P&P (2005) actors! Continuing my annual list of some P&P '05 alumni with a new movie and TV series or mini-series starting this month of January through April of 2014 (as well as a few upcoming films to see in mid to late 2014!).
The following P&P '05actors has new films (and returning TV series) to be releasedthis Winter/Spring...
Returning TV series/mini-series for Winter/Spring 2014The following P&P '05actors has new films (and returning TV series) to be releasedthis Winter/Spring...
Downton Abbey (Season 4) -January 5, 2014 at 9/8c (USA; PBS Masterpiece) - Penelope Wilton (co-star) as Mrs. Isobel Crawley
As they face new challenges, the Crawley family and the servants who work for them remain inseparably interlinked. Throughout the great house new arrivals rattle the established hierarchies, and the lives of the inhabitants are as shaped by romance, ambition, desire, shocks and heartbreak as ever. The secure, serene and ordered world of Downton is rocked by passions below the surface and there are changes above and below stairs.
The fourth series sees the family reeling in the aftermath of terrible tragedy but with new life, in the form of babies George and Sybbie, comes new hope, as the much-loved characters take tentative steps into the Roaring Twenties. Watch Downton Abbey's Season 4 ITV Trailer here!
Ripper Street – Second Season Premieres February 22, 2014 at 9/8c on BBC America.
BBC AMERICA’s Victorian London crime series returns with stars Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg and Myanna Buring as Inspector Reid, Sergeant Drake, Captain Jackson and madam Long Susan. The new season moves the action forward to 1890. As the century enters its final decade, the streets teeter on the brink of moral collapse, and nowhere is the declining British Empire’s problems felt more keenly than in its dark heart: the East End of London. Ripper Street is produced for BBC ONE by Tiger Aspect Productions, Lookout Point and BBC AMERICA.
Watch a teaser trailer for Ripper Street's Season 2 here!More Coming Soon (New & Returning TV Shows 2014)...
The Black Box (TV Series) Elizabeth Black (Kelly Reilly)* (New Limited 13-episode ABC Series)
Crossing Lines (TV Series) Michel Dorn (Donald Sutherland) (No news yet of a Season 2 renewal).
Homeland (TV Series) Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend) (Renewed for Season 4. Fall 2014).
Vera (TV Series) DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) (Season 4 in 2014 on ITV in the UK).
Upcoming Winter/Spring 2014 Films
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit - January 17, 2014 (Keira Knightley co-stars)
Watch the trailer for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit here.
Heaven Is For Real - April 16, 2014 (Kelly Reilly co-stars).
Based on Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent’s Heaven Is For Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip To Heaven And Back, which told Nebraska pastor Burpo’s account of his 4-year-old son’s return from near-death with stories of visiting heaven. Nobody believed the boy until he shared information learned during his experience that he couldn’t have known.
Coming Soon...
Belle - In theaters Spring 2014 (Penelope Wilton co-stars).
BELLE is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the illegitimate mixed race daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode). Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) and his wife (Emily Watson), Belle’s lineage affords her certain privileges, yet her status prevents her from the traditions of noble social standing. While her cousin Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon) chases suitors for marriage, Belle is left on the sidelines wondering if she will ever find love. After meeting an idealistic young vicar’s son bent on changing society, he and Belle help shape Lord Mansfield’s role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England.Watch the trailer for Belle here.
Gone Girl - In theaters October 3, 2014 (Rosamund Pike co-stars).
Nick (Ben Affleck) and Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) have a difficult marriage. When Amy goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, and her husband becomes the prime suspect. Based on the novel, "Gone Girl" by Gillian FlynnCan a Song Save Your Life? - No US Release date yet. Will Premiere at Sundance Film Festival January 2014 (Keira Knightley)
Laggies is a coming of age story about a 28-year-old woman stuck in permanent adolescence. Unable to find her career calling, still hanging out with the same friends, and living with her high school boyfriend, Megan must finally navigate her own future when an unexpected marriage proposal sends her into a panic.
Calvary - In UK/Ireland Cinemas in April 2014. Will be screening at Sundance Film Festival, January 2014 (Kelly Reilly co-stars)
Calvary is a blackly comedic drama about a priest tormented by his community. Father James is a good man intent on making the world a better place. When his life is threatened one day during confession, he finds he has to battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Watch the trailer for Calvary here.
Far From The Madding Crowd - No release date yet. 2014 (Carey Mulligan co-stars).
Watch the trailer for Calvary here.
Far From The Madding Crowd - No release date yet. 2014 (Carey Mulligan co-stars).
Far From The Madding Crowd is the story of an independent, beautiful and headstrong woman (Carey Mulligan) who attracts three very different suitors: the stolid Oak; the handsome and reckless Troy; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
More TBA Films for 2014...
Hector and the Search for Happiness(Rosamund Pike)
The Wait(Jena Malone)
The Calling (Donald Sutherland)
Jappeloup(Donald Sutherland)
The Best Offer (Donald Sutherland)
What Remains (TV series) (Claudie Blakley)
The Mimic (TV series) (Peter Wight)
The Look of Love (Peter Wight)
The Security Men (TV movie) (Peter Wight)
Copenhagen (Tamzin Merchant)
Innocence(Kelly Reilly)
Chinese Puzzle(Kelly Reilly)
Henry Hugglemonster (TV series) (Brenda Blethyn)
Suffragette (Carey Mulligan)
The Imitation Game (Keira Knightley)
The Other Typist (Keira Knightley)
Return to Sender (Rosamund Pike)
What We Did on Our Holiday (Rosamund Pike)
Angelica (Jena Malone)
Inherent Vice (Jena Malone)
Submerged (Talulah Riley)
Epic (Matthew Macfadyen)
Enemy Way (Brenda Blethyn)
A Poet in New York (Tom Hollander)
Esio Trot (TV Movie) (Judi Dench)