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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…

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…

“Oh, here we go,” says Maggie Smith's inimitable Dowager Countess in the first official trailer for the Downton Abbey movie. After attendees at last month’s CinemaCon were treated to an early look, now the rest of the world is cordially invited to feast on a taste of the groundbreaking series’ feature adaptation…

Studiocanal, Netflix and Blueprint Pictures have begun production on live-action family movie A Boy Called Christmas. Gil Kenan (Monster House) will direct the feature whose starry cast includes Jim Broadbent (Paddington 1 & 2), Zoe Colletti (Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark), Toby Jones (Infamous), Sally Hawkins (The…

The Grantham estate had its fair share of high-profile guests over the six years it aired on ITV and PBS, but stakes are ratcheted up a notch in Focus Features’ big-screen adaptation of period epic Downton Abbey. Focus chairman Peter Kujawski introduced the first trailer at CinemaCon today where we learned that the…

Maggie Smith is returning to the London stage for the first time in 12 years. The legendary actress will star in A German Life, a new play by Christopher Hampton at the Bridge Theatre. The story is drawn from the life of Brunhilde Pomsel, a one-time personal secretary to Joseph Goebbels. Smith, alone on stage, plays…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s official, the Downton Abbey movie is a go. Focus Features has set production with Carnival Films to begin this summer for a return to all things Crawley. The original principal cast, including Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville and more, are set to reprise their upstairs/downstairs roles…

Kew Media Group has picked up international rights to six non-fiction films for Cannes including documentary Nothing Like A Dame, about the lives and careers of Brit actresses Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith. Directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill) and produced by Sally Angel (Night Will Fal…

As part of a new series of arts programming, the BBC has set a one-off program of insights and revelations from Joan Plowright, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Eileen Atkins. The four old friends will reflect on their lives and careers in BBC Two's Nothing Like A Dame, directed by Roger Michell, as they spend a weekend…

Maggie Smith scored her third Outstanding Supporting Actress Emmy last night for her indelible portrayal of Downton Abbey‘s Dowager Countess. She also took some repeated ribbing from host Jimmy Kimmel. He noted at the top of the show this was the ninth career Emmy nomination for Smith and the ninth time she was a…

For her swansong as the acerbic Dowager Countess with a caring heart underneath all that period garb, Maggie Smith won the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Emmy tonight. This is the third time Smith has taken the statue for Downton Abbey, and the fifth time she was nominated for what has become an…