2015 Culture Calendar

MOVIES

MUSIC

TELEVISION

BOOKS

JAN.

8

Portlandia Season 5 (IFC)

13

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

14

Broad City Season 2 (Comedy Central)

20

Sleater-Kinney, No Cities to Love

TBD

Community creator Dan Harmon has hinted that the show could make its Yahoo debut in late January

FEB.

1

Katy Perry’s Super Bowl XLIX halftime show

3

Funny Girl by Nick Hornby hits U.S. shelves

7

One Direction begins the On the Road Again Tour in Sydney

8

Better Call Saul premieres on AMC

13

Fifty Shades of Grey

16

Maroon 5’s 2015 world tour begins in Dallas

22

Neil Patrick Harris hosts the 87th Academy Awards

MARCH

20

The Divergent series: Insurgent

23

James Corden takes over The Late Late Show

APRIL

3

Furious 7

7

Alexander McCall Smith takes on Jane Austen with Emma: A Modern Retelling

30

God Help the Child by Toni Morrison

MAY

1

Avengers: Age of Ultron

5

Taylor Swift’s 1989 World Tour begins in Tokyo

15

Pitch Perfect 2

20

David Letterman’s final Late Show

TBD

Netflix’s Daredevil series

JUNE

5

The Entourage movie

5

Paper Towns, the latest John Green novel to become a movie

12

Chris Pratt stars in Jurassic World

16

A book about romance from comedian Aziz Ansari

JULY

1

Magic Mike XXL

17

Ant-Man

AUG.

7

The Fantastic Four reboot stars Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Miles Teller

14

Straight Outta Compton, the N.W.A. biopic

28

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend hits Netflix and Imax

SEPT.

18

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Whitey Bulger’s brother in Black Mass

25

Robert De Niro is Anne Hathaway’s Intern

OCT.

9

Lupita Nyong’o and Idris Elba lend their voices to The Jungle Book

TBD

The Clasp by Sloane Crosley

NOV.

6

Spectre, a new James Bond film

20

The Hunger Games series ends with Mockingjay Part 2

DEC.

18

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

25

The fifth Mission: Impossible film

TBD

NBC has announced The Music Man Live!