“I know you’re pretty and the boys like you, but I’m here to protect you.” So says Norma Carlisle (Downton Abbey‘s Elizabeth McGovern), a local society matron in Kansas who never broke a rule in her life and impulsively volunteers to accompany Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson) to New York while the teenager studies…

Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary) and Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) will lead the ensemble cast in Urban Myth Film's TV series reimagining of classic sci-fi tale War Of The Worlds. Also starring will be Léa Drucker (Le Bureau Des Légendes), Natasha Little (Silent Witness), Daisy Edgar Jones (Cold Feet), Stéphane…

Two rarities converge with the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Time and the Conways. The J.B. Priestley drama has not been seen in these precincts since its 1938 U.S. premiere and its star, Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey‘s Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham) has been absent from the Broadway stage since…

Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern is reuniting with the show's scribe Julian Fellowes and director Michael Engler for feature film The Chaperone. Based on Laura Moriarty's novel of the same name, it marks the first feature film from Masterpiece and will air on PBS stations nationwide after its initial theatrical…

UPDATED with Hamlet info, below. Downton Abbey and Ragtime star Elizabeth McGovern will return to Broadway this fall, 27 years after playing Ophelia to Stephen Lang’s Hamlet. She’ll star in Time and the Conways, the first Broadway revival of the J.B. Priestly (An Inspector Calls) drama since its 1938 premiere…

Liam Neeson’s The Commuter is taking on more passengers. Sam Neill, Elizabeth McGovern and Jonathan Banks have joined the cast of the action thriller being helmed by Neeson’s Non-Stop helmer Jaume Collet-Serra. Lionsgate has set a October 13, 2017 release for the pic in the U.S. Vera Farmiga co-stars with Neeson and…

With Downton Abbey in the middle of filming its final run of episodes, the creators and some of the stars traveled to Los Angeles over the weekend to attend a panel discussion that gave fans a short glimpse of the upcoming sixth season, and a chance to discuss the show’s recent season. Held at the Writer’s Guid…

EXCLUSIVE: Indie drama Showing Roots is bringing one star of Alex Haley’s Roots full circle – just as the Emmy-winning landmark miniseries eyes a fast-tracked TV remake on the History Channel. Set in a small Southern town circa 1977, the film stars Taken’s Maggie Grace as Violet and Orange Is The New Black’s Uzo Aduba…

Stuart Vaughan, a theater director who shared Joseph Papp’s passion for Shakespeare and staged several of the New York Shakespeare Festival’s inaugural productions with such stars (and future stars) as Al Pacino, Colleen Dewhurst, Elizabeth McGovern and Martin Sheen, died of cancer June 10 at home in High Bridge, NJ…

Simon Curtis’ The Woman In Gold started shooting last week, and yesterday Deadline reported that Katie Holmes is joining Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Bruhl, Antje Traue and Tatiana Maslany in the Weinstein Company, BBC Films and Origin Pictures drama. Today comes word that Downton Abbey‘s Elizabeth McGovern and…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off a killer Sundance where it acquired The Way, Way Back and unveiled its film Stoker, Searchlight has acquired worldwide rights to Laura Moriarty's best-selling novel The Chaperone. My Week With Marilyn helmer Simon Curtis will direct a a script written by Downton Abbey‘s Julian Fellowes. The film…

Brian Brooks is Managing Editor of MovieLine. Oscar hopeful Hyde Park On Hudson with Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt is this weekend’s highest profile debut in the specialty market. There’s also In Our Nature with Jena Malone and John Slattery, and Robert Carlyle headlines California Solo in a role written…