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EXCLUSIVE: Allen Leech (Downton Abbey, Bohemian Rhapsody) and India Mullen (Normal People, Brassic) will lead the cast of an Irish drama series for AMC Networks’ Sundance Now and local broadcaster Virgin Media Television, we’ve learned. The pair will topline six-part drama The Vanishing Triangle, which goes into…

EXCLUSIVE: J.K. Simmons, Allen Leech and Fernanda Urrejola have signed to star in the thriller The Woods. Isabelle Anay is also on board. Michelle Schumacher will direct from a screenplay she co-wrote with Carolyn Carpenter. Randle Schumacher will produce for Rubber Tree Productions. The film centers on a teenage girl…

EXCLUSIVE: Hallmark has found the lead stars for its new Ireland-set romcom As Luck Would Have It. Sweet Magnolias actress JoAnna Garcia Swisher and Downton Abbey‘s Allen Leech will star in the film directed by Clare Niederpruem. "JoAnna Garcia Swisher and Allen Leech are both immensely talented actors and we are…

After a summer full of comic book superhero movies, dumb comedies and action flicks, silly time is over and it is time for adults to return to the theaters. And that they no doubt will do this weekend for Downton Abbey, the big-screen version of the smash British TV series that ran six seasons from 2010-15. Like so…

EXCLUSIVE: Downton Abbey alum Allen Leech has been cast as one of the leads opposite Sophia Bush in CBS' drama pilot Surveillance, from Matt Reeves, David C. White, Patricia Riggen and 20th Century Fox TV, which will co-produce with CBS TV Studios. Written by White, with Riggen set to direct, Surveillance is…

EXCLUSIVE: Allen Leech has been cast in the role of Freddie Mercury’s personal manager Paul Prenter in the Bryan Singer-directed feature biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. Prenter was very close to Mercury and wielded great influence but later became his Judas, literally selling him and the band out to UK newspapers about the…

True Blood alum Anna Paquin has been set to star in Bellevue, an eight-part detective drama set in a blue-collar Canadian town. Actress-turned-writer Jane Maggs and producer/director Adrienne Mitchell co-created the series which will also star Downton Abbey‘s Allen Leech and Shawn Doyle (House Of Cards). Muse Entertain…

After six seasons, Downtown Abbey — Julian Fellows’ period British drama that became an American pop culture phenomenon — closed its doors forever… or at least for now. During Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys panel, co-stars Lesley Nicol (Mrs. Patmore), Allen Leech (Tom Branson) and Joanne Froggatt (Anna) gave an…

On a two-day set visit to Downton Abbey, I learned a number of surprising things. Among them: Lady Mary can swear like a truck driver; which bigwig Hollywood names are fans; that one family member we thought we'd seen the last of is back for at least part of Season 6; and that all the female cast, upstairs and down…

It is Christmas 1919 all over again. Like the Season 2 finale of British drama Downton Abbey, which culminated with Matthew’s proposal to Lady Mary, last night’s Season 5 closer ended with another long-awaited proposal, between downstairs favorites Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes. Romance dominated the episode, which aired…

Allen Leech (Downton Abbey, The Imitation Game) has joined Jonathan Mostow’s Hunter’s Prayer, alongside Sam Worthington and Odeya Rush. Adapted from Kevin Wignall's novel For The Dogs by Paul Leyden, Oren Moverman, John Brancato and Michael Ferris, the film tells the story of Lucas, a hired assassin (Worthington) sent…