Must-See Winter/Spring 2014 TV & Films starring Pride & Prejudice (2005) Actors (Updated)

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 our favorite 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!).

UPDATED 3/23/14: Added theatrical release dates for Laggies, Begin Again (formerly known as Can A Song Save Your Life?), Calvary and Inherent Vice films and trailer links, synopsis, and more here.

The following P&P '05 actors has new films (and returning TV series) to be released this Winter/Spring...

Returning TV series/mini-series for Winter/Spring 2014

Downton Abbey (Season 4) - January 5, 2014 at 9/8c (USA; PBS Masterpiece) - (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 (Season 2) - February 22, 2014 at 9/8c (USA; BBC America) - Matthew Macfadyen (starring) as Inspector Edmund Reid.

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)...Rev. (TV Series) - The Reverend Adam Smallbone (Tom Hollander) - Season 3 premieres March 24th on BBC2!

Salem (TV Series) Anne Hale (Tamzin Merchant) - Premieres on Sunday, April 20th on WGN America.

Watch Tamzin Merchant in first trailer to WGN America's period TV drama series 'Salem'

Black Box (TV Series) Elizabeth Catherine Black (Kelly Reilly)* (New Limited 13-episode ABC Series)
Updated 1/17/14: ABC announced an April 24, 2014 (Thursday at 10/9c) premiere date for The Black Box!

Kelly Reilly starring in 'Heaven Is For Real' movie and 'Black Box' TV series this month of April!

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. October 5th, 2014).
Vera (TV Series) DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) (Season 4 in premieres on Sunday, April 27th, at 8 PM on ITV in the UK).

Watch: Brenda Bethyn in Season 4 preview trailer for 'Vera'

Upcoming Winter/Spring 2014 Films

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit  - January 17, 2014 (Keira Knightley co-stars)

Based on the character created by bestselling author Tom Clancy, “Jack Ryan” is a global action thriller set in the present day. This original story follow a young Jack (Chris Pine) as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. The story follows him from 9/11, through his tour of duty in Afghanistan, which scarred him forever, and into his early days in the Financial Intelligence Unit of the modern CIA where he becomes an analyst, under the guardianship of his handler, Harper (Kevin Costner). When Ryan believes he’s uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that’s more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fiancée Cathy (Keira Knightley).

Watch the trailer for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit here.

The Wait - In limited US theater release January 31, 2014. (Jena Malone co-stars). 

Two sisters decide to keep their deceased mother in their home after being informed that she will come back to life.

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.

Watch the trailer for Heaven Is For Real here.

Chinese Puzzle - May 16, 2014 (Kelly Reilly co-stars).

A comedy on love and friendship set in the Big Apple, and from the director of THE SPANISH APARTMENT, RUSSIAN DOLLS and PARIS. Xavier’s life is turned upside down when his wife Wendy (Kelly Reilly) announces she’s moving to New York and taking the kids. A few months later, he’s on a trans-Atlantic flight as well. From fathering child to a lesbian couple, marrying a Chinese-American to get papers, to reigniting a flame with his first love who comes for a visit, Xavier and his world really do seem like a Chinese Puzzle…

Watch the trailer for Chinese Puzzle here.

Coming Soon...

Belle - In theaters May 2, 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.

Can a Song Save Your Life? Begin Again (new title)- In US theaters June 27th July 4th. (Keira Knightley co-stars).

A dejected music business executive forms a bond with a young singer-songwriter new to Manhattan.
 
Calvary - In UK/Ireland Cinemas in April 2014. In US theaters August 1st, 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.

Innocence - August 15 29 September 5, 2014 (Kelly Reilly co-stars).

After the untimely death of her mother in a Montauck surfing accident, Beckett, 16, and her father, novelist Miles Warner, move to the city to begin a new life. Enrolled at the exclusive Hamilton 
preparatory school in Riverdale, Becekett finds first love and discovers that the school is run by a coven of beautiful and seductive women who perpetuate their fountain of youth by drinking the blood of virgins. 

Watch the trailer for Innocence here.

Laggies - In theaters September 26 October 24, 2014. Premiered at Sundance Film Festival January 2014 (Keira Knightley co-stars)

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.

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 FlynnWatch: Rosamund Pike & Ben Affleck in first official trailer for 'Gone Girl'
 
Far From The Madding Crowd - No release date yet. 2014 May 1st, 2015 (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.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - In US theaters November 21st, 2014. (Jena Malone as Johanna Mason co-stars again with Donald Sutherland as President Snow).

Katniss Everdeen reluctantly becomes the symbol of a mass rebellion against the autocratic Capitol. 

 Inherent Vice - In US theaters December 12, 2014. (Jena Malone co-stars).
In Los Angeles in 1970, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.

More TBA Films for 2014...

A Long Way Down (Rosamund Pike)
Hector and the Search for Happiness (Rosamund Pike) 
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)
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)
 Submerged (Talulah Riley)
 Epic (Matthew Macfadyen)
 Enemy Way (Brenda Blethyn)
A Poet in New York (Tom Hollander)
Esio Trot (TV Movie) (Judi Dench)