Paramount+ on Sunday released the official trailer for the second season of 1923. Season two of Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone prequel, starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, will premiere Feb. 23. The series also stars Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Michelle Randolph, Sebastian Roché, Timothy Dalton and Jennifer Carpenter. The logline for the second season of 1923: “A cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business to Jacob (Ford) and Cara (Mirren) back at Dutton ranch. With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer (Sklenar) embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana. Meanwhile, Alexandra (Schlaepfer) sets off on her own harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to find Spencer and reclaim their love.”

The archives have been updated with additional editorial photography, ranging from the late 1960’s, when Helen Mirren became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Comedy, all the way to 2010, when she was busy promoting “The Debt”, “The Tempest”, “Brighton Rock” and “Love Ranch” (what a year 🙂 ) A complete list of updates can be found below. Enjoy.

Happy New Year everybody. The photo gallery has been updated with additional appearances pictures from 2024. We’re heading into a fantastic Mirren year with a second season of “1923” in February, another television series coming up – Guy Ritchie’s “The Associate” co-starring Tom Hardy and Pierce Brosnan – as well as the much-anticipated screen adaptation of Richard Osman’s “The Thursday Murder Club” for Netflix, which will reuinite Helen with her former co-stars Ben Kingsley (“Pascali’s Island”), Celia Imrie (“Calendar Girls”) and Brosnan once more (“The Long Good Friday”) . If it’s only half as good as the books, we’re in for a treat. Last but not least, Dame Helen will turn 80 in July, so hopefully there’ll be a lot to celebrate. Enjoy the new additions.

Yesterday, Taylor Hackford and Helen Mirren attended a 40th anniversary screening of “White Nights” at the Teatro Niccolini in Florence, Italy. Hackford and Mirren met for the audition of “White Nights” in 1984, fell in love and married in 1997. “I recognized her talent. I did the casting and chose an artist for the film,” Hackford said speaking to the press on the sidelines of the screening, “then I saw that she was so good that I wanted to have her close to me forever”. “This film evokes incredible memories for me,” Mirren said. “I went to Russia to research my role, and then we shot in Finland and London. And then I had the pleasure of working with the great Mikayl Baryshnikov.” Pictures from the screening have been added to the photo gallery.

Paramount+ continues teasing the new season of “1923” with another teaser/trailer. In the upcoming second season, a cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business to Jacob (Ford) and Cara (Mirren) back at Dutton ranch. With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer (Brandon Sklenar) embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana. Meanwhile, Alexandra (Julia Schlaepfer) sets off on her own harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to find Spencer and reclaim their love. The series also stars Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Michelle Randolph, Sebastian Roché, Timothy Dalton and Jennifer Carpenter. 1923 season two is set to premiere on Sunday, February 23rd on Paramount+.

Essex raised Dame Helen Mirren, has given her support to the first Essex International Film Festival. The festival will take place across the county between 27 to 30 March 2025. The festival is keen to shine a light on local and international talent, as well as highlighting established movie makers and emerging talent from across the world. The event will also be one of the first countywide film festivals in the UK. Mirren says of her support: “I’m excited and proud that my home county of Essex will be hosting a countywide film festival. The Essex International Film Festival will remind the film industry that we have a thriving and talented film industry right on the doorstep of London. Echoing Dame Helen’s support is Charles Sharman-Cox. He’s the festival director and added: “Dame Helen Mirren backing the festival is a big confidence boost. She has unbelievable credentials starring on stage, TV and film productions. Plus, she’s from Essex and she recognises the real talent we have in the county. It’s an absolute honour to have Dame Helen on board, supporting the festival.” The festival will take place at the Curzon Cinema and Mercury Theatre in Colchester. Electric Palace CINEMA in Harwich, and the Chelmsford Theatre. The festival will also run at satellite venues in Rayleigh and Hadleigh. Shortlisted films will be revealed at the end of January. To discover more about the event, visit their official webiste.

Paramount+ has premiered the first trailers for the second season of Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” spin-off series “1923” starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. In the second season of 1923, a cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business to Jacob and Cara back at Dutton Ranch. With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana. Meanwhile, Alexandra sets off on her own harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to find Spencer and reclaim their love. Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Brian Geraghty, and Aminah Nieves. Michelle Randolph, Sebastian Roché, Timothy Dalton, and Jennifer Carpenter also star. “1923” returns on the Paramount+ streaming service on February 23rd 2025. The two teaser trailers can be found in the video archive.

All aboard! Season 2 of 1923 is finally here, and People has the exclusive first look! Fans of the Yellowstone prequel series will see season two follow Jacob and Cara Dutton back at Dutton ranch as a “a cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business.” “With harsh conditions and adversaries threatening to end the Dutton legacy, Spencer embarks on an arduous journey home, racing against time to save his family in Montana,” the official logline continues. “Meanwhile, Alexandra sets off on her own harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to find Spencer and reclaim their love.” 1923 stars Harrison Ford as Jacob, an ancestor of the character Kevin Costner played in the present-day series. With wife Cara (Helen Mirren) by his side, the series follows the Duttons as they navigate the hardships of the era, including Western Expansion, Prohibition and the Great Depression. In addition to Ford and Mirren, season two will see the return of Brandon Sklenar, Michelle Randolph, Jerome Flynn, Aminah Nieves, Julia Schlaepfer, Brian Geraghty, Timothy Dalton, Sebastian Roché, Robert Patrick, Darren Mann and Isabel May. The complete article and all first-look pictures can be found over at People.

The second update of film, tv and theatre stills features some great additions for two lesser-known and unseen projects: For the 1992 Los Angeles production of Alan Ayckborn’s “Woman in Mind”, for which we have never seen any production stills – we now have excerpts from the official theatre programme. There’s also a nice still from the 1993 Canadian series “The Hidden Room”, in which Helen guest starred in one episode. Other updates includes additions for “Cause Celebre”, various “Prime Suspect” episodes and new stills from the most recent “Golda”. Enjoy your Sunday.

Here comes another great batch of archival images for the archives, split into two updates. Updates included recently unearthed pictures of Helen Mirren at the Stratford Roundhouse, which was established in the gardens behind the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Between 1970 and 1972, actors and other theatre practitioners from across the RSC performed in a series of innovative, inventive pieces. Very little has been written about this project, which seems to have been erased from the RSC’s history. The complete research by Abigail Rokison-Woodall, titled “The Stratford Roundhouse: Stratford’s Forgotten Theatre” can be ordered over here. Other images include on-set pictures from “Blue Remembered Hills”, “Mrs. Reinhardt” and “White Nights”. The second batch of this update will be posted on Sunday.