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EXCLUSIVE: Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist) and Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) are set to star in WWII spy thriller Lives In Secret from Resident Evil producer Jeremy Bolt. Paris-based sales firm Other Angle will be selling the project at this week’s virtual EFM. Gainsbourg play World War Two intelligence officer…

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…

Downton Abbey fans only have to wait a few more weeks to find out what the Crawley family has been up to since the television series concluded stateside in 2016. Ahead of the film version’s September 20 release, some of the team behind the Focus Features drama sat down for interviews for this weekend’s edition of Parad…

EXCLUSIVE: Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville has joined the cast of Netflix's first live-action original musical Jingle Jangle. Bonneville will star alongside Forest Whitaker in the holiday film about a toymaker and a magical invention. The cast also includes Keegan-Michael Key (Key and Peele), Phylicia Rashad (A Rais…

Cherie Blair will make her first foray into film-making as she serves as executive producer on Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) drama The Rock Pile. The barrister and wife of former UK prime minister Tony Blair is taking on her first producing role on the film, which will tell the story of Time magazine correspondent…

EXCLUSIVE: Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville is trying out to become the next Sir David Attenborough after being signed up to narrate a major British wildlife series. The actor, who most recently starred in Paddington 2, is to voice Wild Britain, an eight-part documentary series for Viacom's Channel 5. The show is…

CBS has completed its purchase of Australian broadcaster Network Ten, acquiring the main free-to-air channel as well as digital spin-offs One and Eleven and streaming service Tenplay. This comes after an ownership saga that lasted months, which saw a bidding war between CBS and News Corp executive co-chairman Lachlan…

Rebecca Ferguson is in talks to play Oscar winner Patricia Neal alongside Hugh Bonneville as children’s novelist Roald Dahl in John Hay’s Untitled Roald Dahl & Patricia Neal project. Goldcrest Films is financing, co-producing and handling worldwide sales, introducing the pic to buyers at the AFM. Principal photography…

Hugh Bonneville, Hope Davis and Alan Ritchson are attached to star in The Rock Pile for London-based banner Joejack Entertainment. Directed by John Deery and written by David McBrayer, the film tells the story of British journalist Bob Hastings, a Time Magazine war correspondent who, after following traumatic events…

Pathé has dropped the first trailer and poster for Gurinder Chadha's Viceroy's House, which stars Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson and is based on the final months of British rule in India. They’ve set a March 3, 2017, UK release date. Bonneville stars as Lord Mountbatten and Anderson as his wife, Lady…

Last year, Downton Abbey recruited George Clooney for a short to help promote ITV's annual Text Santa fundraiser (something Hugh Bonneville recalls fondly in the cheeky video above). In this year’s special short, Lord Grantham, Lady Edith and Isobel search for someone to play the Abbey’s new Santa. They are treated to…

Dan Fogelman is keeping the self-deprecating tone of his medieval musical comedy series Galavant intact in a big-scale opening number penned by the series’ songwriting duo of Alan Menken and Glenn Slater. It’s one of 32 new songs they have written for the 10-episode second season, which kicks off on January 3. Titled A…