P&P NewsBits: Watch Penelope Wilton in first look preview trailer for 'Downton Abbey's Season 5, Watch Tamzin Merchant in first trailer for 'The Messenger' and teaser trailer for 'Salem's Season 2, see Rupert Friend in 'To Write Love On Her Arms' trailer, and more!

Some new movies, casting, release dates, and filming news info. featuring some P&P actors here that I thought I'd post them all in the same post...

Here's today's quick news round up of TV and film news (including casting calls, a film synopsis, trailers, release dates, festival news, etc.) of the following P&P (2005) actors: Keira Knightley, Judi Dench, Rupert Friend, Penelope Wilton, Tamzin Merchant, and Jena Malone), all in one post!

First up...

(in random order...)

Jena Malone, Riley Keough Hit The Road For 'Lovesong' | via Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: For Ellen helmer So Yong Kim has set Jena Malone and Riley Keoughto lead Lovesong, the tale of best friends Sarah (Keough) and Mindy (Malone) who take off on an impromptu road trip with Sarah’s young daughter in tow and see their deep BFFship develop into a surprising romance – despite the fact that Mindy is about to get married. Kim wrote Lovesong with frequent collaborator Bradley Rust Gray, whose own features Jack and Diane and The Exploding Girl were produced by Kim. Lovesong reunites the duo with Keough, who starred in Gray’s Jack and Diane and also starred in a short film Kim directed for designer Miu Miu earlier this year, Spark and Light. Malone appeared in both Jack and Diane and For Ellen. Also cast in the indie, which is backed by Autumn Productions and Gamechanger Films in association with The Monofonus Press, are Brooklyn Decker (Just Go With It, Results), Amy Seimetz (The Killing, Upstream Color), Marshall Chapman (Country Strong, Mississippi Grind), Ryan Eggold (The Blacklist, 90210) and Rosanna Arquette (Girls, Ray Donovan).

Read full article here.

Also, new still of Jena Malone from Inherent Vice and Collider Interview...

Jena Malone and Joanna Newsom Talk INHERENT VICE, Working With Paul Thomas Anderson, and Parsing Through Thomas Pynchon

Watch: The first trailer to To Write Love In Her Arms (aka Day One or Renee) starring Kat Dennings and Rupert Friend! 

official synopsis: The story follows 19-year-old Renee (played by Kat Dennings) who has always loved fairy tales: the idea of a princess, a hero and a happily ever after. But Reneeʼs life is that of a darker tale: sheʼs a young woman battling addiction, depression and self-injury. In a creative blend of artistic fantasy balanced with harsh reality, the movie follows Renee on her courageous journey towards recovery.

To Write Love On Her Arms opens in March 2015.

Watch: Tamzin Merchant in first trailer for The Messenger

The Messenger (post-production) - Tamzin Merchant as Emma (2015)

Synopsis
The Messenger is the story of Jack's last melt down. A story of frustration and guilt; of love and betrayal; family and blame. How he chooses the victims he'll help next, how he, stalker-like, becomes embroiled in their lives. In this case, Mark, a journalist brutally murdered in the local park and his television presenter wife, Sarah, to whom he's desperate to say one last goodbye.

As Jack gets closer to Sarah, obsessed with passing on Mark's message, he discovers their perfect life wasn't all it was cracked up to be. They had secrets and lies just like any couple; the only problem is that Mark didn't know about them. It's the shock of that discovery that finally pushes Jack over the edge. But there is hope... When Jack's estranged sister, Emma, gets in touch, Jack starts to remember the past they shared together and as the memories come flooding back, he starts to confront the truth about the death of his father. Maybe this time he can start to believe it wasn't his fault? Maybe this time his father will finally turn up and set him free?

The Messenger stills featuring Tamzin Merchant as Emma

(source: Gateway Films)

Also, Watch Salem's Season 2 Teaser Trailer featuring Tamzin Merchant as Anne Hale!

“Time for war,” says Mary Sibley (Janet Montgomery) in the new teaser trailer for season two of WGN America’s “Salem.”
The upcoming 13-episode season, which will bow in April 2015.

The series also stars Seth Gabel as Cotton Mather, Ashley Madekwe as Tituba, Tamzin Merchant as Anne Hale, Elise Eberle as Mercy Lewis and Iddo Goldberg as Isaac Walton.

Pride and Precipice via Deadline
The Imitation Game's Keira Knightley on how she and the cast rallied to bring Alan Turing's tale to life.

With such varied films as Pride & Prejudice (which earned her an Oscar nom) and Pirates of the Caribbean (which earned huge boxoffice), Keira Knightley nonetheless is extremely passionate about her current project, The Imitation Game. “This is a story that speaks to everyone,” she says of the Morten Tyldum-directed film about mathematician Alan Turing and the World War II code breakers of Bletchley Park. “When you understand what Turing and others did and who they were, this truly crosses national boundaries.” Knightley just received Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe supporting actress noms, putting her in major Oscar contention for her portrayal of real-life cryptanalyst Joan Clarke, a friend and confidant of Turing’s. The role marks a deliberate new direction for the actress.

Read Keira Knightley's Interview here.

Never a Dahl moment: Dustin Hoffman and Dame Judi Dench find love in Esio Trot

Tortoises, Roald Dahl and the man behind Love Actually are just three of the ingredients in Esio Trot, a romantic comedy for BBC One starring Dustin Hoffman and Dame Judi Dench.

Esio Trot will be shown on BBC One on 1 January at 1830 GMT.

Watch: Downton Abbey's Season 5 First Look Preview featuring Penelope Wilton

Season 5 of Downton Abbey premieres in the US on January 4th, 2015 on PBS Masterpiece