Entertainment 2015: The Ultimate Edit
GLAMOUR's edit of the hottest entertainment for 2015. If it's in here, we're excited.
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Models trying to cross over into acting? Nothing new.
But credible film projects? Now you’re talking. Cara Delevingne is building up buzz for roles in period piece Tulip Fever co-starring Judi Dench and Jack O’Connell, and July’s much-hyped JM Barrie adaptation Pan, alongside Hugh Jackman.
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley hits the post-apocalyptic road in May, in the much delayed but hotly anticipated Mad Max: Fury Road.
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Suki Waterhouse stars in deliciously entertaining Austen-undead mash-up Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, as well as the second instalment in the Divergent series, Insurgent out in March.
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Speaking of must-see sequels, there’s The Avengers: Age Of Ultron in April and Pitch Perfect 2 in May...
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...and Ted 2 and Magic Mike XXL in July 2015.
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Looking ahead to the 2016 Oscar race, Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory Of Everything (out now)
is creating some serious awards hype for Felicity Jones as Hawking’s wife, Jane.
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But autumn’s Suffragette starring the triple threat of Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter and Carey Mulligan will be hot on its heels.
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Two of our fave TV women have upcoming blockbuster moments. Game Of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke gets her badass on as Sarah Connor in July’s Terminator: Genisys...
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...while Downton’s Lily James dons the glass slipper as Cinderella in March.
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Valentine’s Day is already sorted with the release of Fifty Shades Of Grey.
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Anyone want to see Brad and Angelina reunited on screen? You’ll get your chance late in the year when they co-star as a married couple in By The Sea. Consider our tickets pre-sold.
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There’s so much great music coming out. Top of our ‘can’t-wait’ list? Adele’s third album – and the world tour that she might be planning.
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Betty Who, with her Katy-Perry-does-’80s-pop vibe, will finally release her debut album in the UK early in 2015.
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February brings the Brits’ Critics’ Choice nominations,
a sure-fire superstar predictor. Our money’s on Becky Hill, an Ella Eyre-esque singer who’s written tracks with Little Mix and Rudimenta.
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Or Laura Doggett with her dreamy, ethereal electronica.
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Jagaara are the new band to name drop – three London-based sisters who’ve been dubbed the British Haim.
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Keeping up the side for the guys are Leon Else (moody R&B)...
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...and Rhodes (alt-J meets Sam Smith).
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There are some exciting collaborations in store as Mark Ronson releases his fourth solo album, featuring some big names on the hip-hop scene including Action Bronson and Vic Mensa.
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While Björk teams up with Arca (the avant-garde producer behind Kanye’s Yeezus).
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Carl Barât and Pete Doherty reunite as The Libertines, releasing a new album more than ten years after their last.
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There’s another comeback with Fergie’s first solo release in eight years.
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Finally, there are rumours that Rihanna will have new music. Could she be planning a Beyoncé-style overnight drop?
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Or indeed could Miley be plotting the same?
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First up, the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s historical blockbuster Wolf Hall starts in January, with Damian Lewis as Henry VIII and Mark Rylance as his crafty minister Thomas Cromwell.
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The BBC book adaptations don’t stop there: later in the year, there’s DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (with Scottish hottie Richard Madden as young Mellors).
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Winston Graham’s 18th-century-set romantic saga Poldark, starring The Hobbit’s Aidan Turner.
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Over on Netflix, Charlie Cox dons the Lycra in Daredevil as Marvel comics’ blind lawyer-turned-acrobatic superhero.
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Then there’s Marseille, a political thriller dubbed the French House Of Cards.
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There are more political shenanigans in Sky Living’s Madam Secretary with Téa Leoni as the White House’s new Secretary of State (if you’re a fan of Scandal, this will be right up your street).
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If Twin Peaks meets Lost sounds like TV heaven to you, look out for Wayward Pines on Fox; it stars Matt Dillon as a secret-service spook sent to investigate the disappearance of two FBI agents in a small town in Idaho.
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There are more mysterious goings-on in Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude, which centres on a murder in the Arctic Circle, the ‘safest’ town on earth. Starring Stanley Tucci and Sofie Gråbøl, think Broadchurch with snow.
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ITV has two thrillers up its sleeve: Safe House with Christopher Eccleston, based on the real-life story of a married couple who turn their remote Lake District B&B into a police safe house...
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...and John Simm’s latest police drama, Code Of A Killer, which tells the true story of a vicious double child murder.
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Queer As Folk writer Russell T Davies brings the comedy with Banana and Cucumber, two interlinked series on E4 exploring the passions and pitfalls of 21st-century gay life.
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But the best news ever? Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul drops on Netflix in February. Cannot. Wait.
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Meanwhile, Sheridan Smith returns in ITV’s Black Work, as a woman hunting her husband’s killer.
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Broadchurch S2 (ITV1, January)
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Girls S4 (Sky Atlantic, January)
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Game Of Thrones S5 (Sky Atlantic, April)
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Happy Valley S2 (BBC One, autumn)
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Mad Men – the finale, sob! (Sky Atlantic, April)
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Orange Is The New Black S3 (Netflix, June)
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Sherlock S4 (BBC One, December)
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True Detective S2 – the air date is TBC, but we do know that Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn are the new leads (Sky Atlantic).
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2015 is shaping up to be a top year for books. Jill Alexander Essbaum’s Hausfrau, scheduled for March, is a beautiful dissection of a marriage in crisis and a modern-day Anna Karenina tale.
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Jenny Colgan (under JT Colgan) publishes her first sci-fi novel, Resistance Is Futile this summer – think Bridget Jones meets The Big Bang Theory.
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Candace Bushnell’s Killing Monica is the story of a famous author who fakes her own death in order to get her life back from her biggest fictional character. (We wonder where the Sex And The City author got her inspiration for that from…).
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Rock’n’roll memoir Girl In A Band by Kim Gordon chronicles her life from childhood, via grunge band Sonic Youth and the break-up with husband and bandmate Thurston Moore.
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Have I Said Too Much? by Premier Model Management founder (and Naomi Campbell’s ex-agent) Carole White is released in February. The much-delayed memoir has been held up in legal, which means it will definitely be juicy.
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Those Gone Girl-inspired thrillers are going nowhere. Rebecca Whitney’s debut, The Liar’s Chair, is about a seemingly perfect relationship that’s actually toxic...
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...while The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins follows a commuter who notices a loved-up couple on her route each day – until one day the woman disappears.
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The Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibit opening at the V&A in March will be one hot ticket: a huge retrospective of the designer’s life and work.
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On stage comes another Roald Dahl adaptation, with the Royal Court’s production of The Twits in April;
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Then there’s the musical version of Bend It Like Beckham at The Phoenix in May, with the film’s original director, Gurinder Chadha, at the helm (can you believe it will be 13 years since the film first came out?).
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Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the Barbican’s Hamlet...
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...and Emma Thompson in Sweeney Todd at the English National Opera are the two performances everyone’s going to be talking about – fingers crossed for a live stream.
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Art-wise, Damien Hirst is due to unveil his own gallery – the Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall, London – in spring, and Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots opens at the Tate Liverpool in June.
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To mark the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland in April, the vaults under London’s Waterloo station will be transformed for Alice’s Adventures Underground, a multisensory experience that will be somewhere between Secret Cinema and Punchdrunk’s immersive theatre productions.
