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EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features President Robert Walak will be stepping down from his position and moving into an advisory consulting role with the Universal specialty studio. Walak will continue to work with Focus on projects he helped shepherd into development while there, and there are no plans to replace him in the role…

"Although I had adapted other things, I had adapted other people's novels and so on, but I had never adapted my own work, so that seemed quite an original challenge," Belgravia writer and creator Julian Fellowes said of bringing his 2016 novel of British high society to the small screen. Joined by series star Tamsin…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes will start working on a sequel to the ITV and PBS drama's feature film once he's finished scripting HBO drama The Gilded Age. Fellowes, speaking after his Winter TCA press tour session to promote Epix and ITV drama Belgravia, said that he is currently in pre-production for that…

They say that we live in a golden age of television — and it’s a well-worn phrase that is certainly borne out in the quality of British shows that have landed on our screens over the past 10 years. There are standout hits to choose from across genres, and the decade culminated with UK television exports exploding to a…

Lily James has said that her latest role, as Mrs. de Winter in the Netflix remake of Daphne du Maurier's classic Gothic novel Rebecca, left her with panic attacks as she struggled to extract herself from the character's "difficult headspace". "I found it really hard to let go of the character [de Winter]. She's really…

Academy Award winner and longtime stage actress Maggie Smith has taken on many fulfilling roles over the years, although she wouldn’t include her work in Downton Abbey or the Harry Potter films among them. Smith, who played schoolmistress Minerva McGonagall in the boy-wizard adventures and Dowager Countess Violet…

The Crawley family is set to take a tour through China. Downton Abbey, the film centering on the aristocratic British family, has been scheduled for release in Chinese theaters on December 13. The period drama continues the story of the Crawleys, and depicts a visit to their English country estate by the king and…

Getting the band back together for the big-screen debut of Downton Abbey made the Brexit negotiations look like a "walk in the park,” according to producer Liz Trubridge. Trubridge was speaking at Deadline's recent The Contenders London alongside actor Michael C Fox, who plays footman Andy Parker, and costume designer…

Here’s a little, but huge, box office stat: Focus Features’ Downton Abbey has outstripped the $83 million domestic box office gross of three-time Oscar winner Brokeback Mountain to become the label’s highest-grossing title of all time stateside. Brokeback Mountain owned the record for the last 13 years, and on Monday D…

Representing Focus Features at this year's The Contenders London was this year's not-so-surprise Brit hit Downton Abbey, which brought producer Liz Trubridge, actor Michael C Fox — who plays footman Andy Parker — and costume designer Anna Robbins to the stage. Speaking to Deadline's Peter White, the trio confirmed…

UPDATE, writethru: In its sophomore frame, Fox/New Regency's Ad Astra again led the international box office, landing another $18M from 50 material markets. The overseas cume is $53.5M for $89M worldwide. The Brad Pitt-starrer is now out in all markets handled by Disney which is not across China, Taiwan or Hong Kong…