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+.

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.

Today, Helen Mirren has been a guest on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” to promote the theatrical release of “White Bird” in the United States. On the show, she was presented with a “Helen F****** Mirren” cocktail from the Pal’s Lounge New Orleans, the bar owned by her late step-son Rio. She also read a poem called “Love” by the recently executed Marcellus Willams. You can watch her appearance in the video archive. Screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery.

Very sad news today as a true one-of-a-kind legend of film and the theatre, Dame Maggie Smith, has died. Throughout her long career, Smith dazzled generations of fans, either for her acclaimed stage work, the lavish Merchant Ivory adaptation, the Harry Potter series or the unparalleled success of “Downton Abbey”. “Maggie Smith was a truly great actress and we were more than fortunate to be part of the last act in her stellar career. She was a joy to write for, subtle, many-layered, intelligent, funny and heart-breaking. Working with her has been the greatest privilege of my career, and I will never forget her.” – Julian Fellowes, who created, wrote and produced “Downton Abbey,” in a statement to the AP. Helen Mirren, who shares only one credit with Smith – 2001’s “Gosford Park”, in which they didn’t share a single scene, but were both Oscar nominated as Best Supporting Actresses, also remembered her colleague during the recent press junket for “White Bird”.

Maggie Smith, rather like the Queen of England, you know, has been a part of my life ever since I was a student in London and she was an Icon even then so she’s someone I’ve watched and admired and loved eventually. I had the great honor of working with her um so it’s a very sad day for for the the whole culture of theater and Cinema in in England. It’s a very sad day. She was one of the greatest actresses of the past Century without a doubt. She had a career in Hollywood as well, she won an Oscar, so she had a very successful film career as well. But the real magic of Maggie was on stage, and if if you ever saw her on stage, you never forgot it. (Helen Mirren, September 27, 2024)

Netflix has given The Thursday Murder Club fans another teaser ahead of the film’s release. The upcoming murder mystery film, based on Richard Osman’s beloved novel of the same name, has now officially wrapped. Celebrating the movie milestone, the streaming giant has released a behind-the-scenes cast and crew group photo. The snap features many famous faces, with cast members Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie posing alongside the film’s director Chris Columbus. Eagle-eyed fans may also notice Naomi Ackie in the group photo. This marks the first look at the actress in costume as her character PC Donna de Freitas. This comes just days after Osman confirmed the movie, which has been in production since late June, completed filming on September 11. The Pointless star turned author, recently shared his excitement for the upcoming film, which he hopes “should be out next year”. Chatting on The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X, Osman confirmed that despite visiting the set on several occasions, he won’t be making an on-screen cameo. “I might do one little voice thing, but I can’t be [in it],” he insisted. “People going, ‘Why is the guy from Pointless in a Sussex police station?’. It’d be a bit odd.” “The Thursday Murder Club” does not yet have a release date.

Netflix has dropped a first-look photo of The Thursday Murder Club cast to confirm the start of production. Richard Osman’s much-loved book series is being given the big screen treatment, with the all-star cast including Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Sir Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie. The four leads are seen dressed in character in the first-look photo, gathered around Osman on what appears to be the set of the retirement home’s games room – where the characters meet up every Thursday to solve cases. Bridget Jones and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel star Celia Imrie will be playing the role of Joyce. Mirren will star as former spy Elizabeth alongside Pierce Brosnan as trades union official Ron and Sir Ben Kingsley as psychiatrist Ibrahim. “The Thursday Murder Club is officially in production!” reads the tweet caption shared on the official Netflix X account. The Thursday Murder Club movie started filming on June 27. Other cast members include David Tennant, Naomi Ackie, Jonathan Pryce, Richard E Grant, Danny Mays, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Tom Ellis, Geoff Bell and Paul Freeman and Sarah Niles. The Thursday Murder Club is the first of Osman’s crime series released in 2020. The story follows four pensioners at the Coopers Chase Retirement Village in Kent as they investigate the murder of a property developer.

A scandal upon release, 1979’s Caligula was destroyed when porn scenes were sliced into the cut, unbeknownst to its director or stars Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren. But now rediscovered footage and painstaking work has rescued this raucous Roman epic. The first thing you learn about the film is that it’s shocking, disgusting, immoral. Keep going and soon enough someone dismisses the film – less as shocking, disgusting, and immoral, more as a slog. As Time magazine put it, the film enjoyed “all the success of an open-air orgy in Antarctica”. Such bad reputation’s persisted for nearly 45 years, making so much more commendable Thomas Negovan’s efforts to give Caligula new life. Hence Caligula: The Ultimate Cut, which uses more than 100 hours of footage to create a 173-minute revision. The new cut, among other things, gives more life to Mirren’s Caesonia, whose role was heavily cut for the 1979 theatrical version. As Malcolm Dowell mentions in a new interview with Total Film, “I never thought my full performance would ever be seen or Helen Mirren’s moving, commanding Caesonia would at last be unearthed. It is an unprecedented odyssey.”

Donald Sutherland, whose performances in such films as M*A*S*H, Ordinary People and The Hunger Games proved he could portray sinister, sympathetic, comedic or tragic with equal aplomb, has died. He was 88. Sutherland died Thursday in Miami after a long illness, CAA’s Missy Davy told The Hollywood Reporter. Remarkably, Sutherland was never even nominated for a competitive Oscar, though the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made up for the oversight by giving him an honorary statuette in November 2017 at the Governors Awards. He twice collaborated with Helen Mirren – the first time in the long-forgotten “Bethune: Making of a Hero”, about the life and death of Norman Bethune, a Canadian physician who served as a combat surgeon during the Chinese Civil War. More recently, Sutherland and Mirren shared the screen in 2017’s “The Leisure Seeker”. Helen Mirren paid tribute to Sutherland via The Hollywood Reporter:

Donald Sutherland was one of the smartest actors I ever worked with. He had a wonderful enquiring brain, and a great knowledge on a wide variety of subjects. He combined this great intelligence with a deep sensitivity, and with a seriousness about his profession as an actor. This all made him into the legend of film that he became. He was my colleague and became my friend. I will miss his presence in this world. (Helen Mirren, The Hollywood Reporter, June 20, 2024)

Earlier today, Helen Mirren attended the premiere of at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, accompanied by fellow L’Oréal Paris ambassadors Andie MacDowell and Iris Berben. Pictures from the red carpet have been added to the photo gallery.

Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford are the testimonials of the “Centro Ilma”, the multidisciplinary institute for the prevention and fight against tumors that the Lilt of Lecce is completing on the outskirts of Gallipoli and which will deal with applied research on environmental causes of cancer, early diagnosis, physical rehabilitation and psychological support, as well as home health and social care for terminally ill patients and scientific dissemination. A “popular initiative” project, financed entirely thanks to the donations and solidarity of the Salento population. The golden couple of cinema, husband and wife in life, will support the awareness campaigns on the prevention of oncological diseases promoted by the Lecce Cancer League, as well as the completion of the Ilma Center directed by the oncologist Giuseppe Serravezza. The couple also created two video messages to support the Institute and research. Hackford also underlined in particular the need to say a firm “no” to smoking as the first fundamental prevention action. “The contact with the two artists took place in a few days”, explained the oncologist Serravezza. “When we presented them with the Ilma Center and the activities carried out by Lilt of Lecce, the couple, despite being abroad and busy on set in different places, immediately and willingly accepted our invitation. A demonstration of extraordinary sensitivity and commitment, translated into concrete action in no time. For this we extend our most sincere thanks to them.”