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Peacock announced Downton Abbey: A New Era will make its streaming debut on June 24. The streamer also revealed the launch of a new 24/7 Downton Abbey channel for fans to catch up ahead of the second film’s release. All 6 seasons of the hit series, the first movie, and the one-hour special The Manners of Downton Abbey…

EXCLUSIVE: Hayley Mills, still fondly remembered for Disney classics Pollyanna and The Parent Trap, is checking into The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to take it on the road in the UK and then to London's West End. Strictly speaking, it's a play based on the book (Deborah Moggach's These Foolish Things) that spawned…

"Hollywood is the ultimate dream factory … and I need dreams as much as the next man," says Mr Molesley (Kevin Doyle) in Downton Abbey: A New Era. It's a line that sums up the mission of the TV series' second cinematic outing: to continue the "dream factory" tradition. And so the wishes of many a familiar character…

After teasing fans with quick glimpses over the past several months, Focus Features today revealed the official full trailer for Downton Abbey: A New Era. The follow-up to 2019's feature adaptation of the beloved TV series appears to have two major plot strands, one involving a mystery and the other a movie; there’s…

Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Maggie Smith and Derek Jacobi will take part in a live Q&A hosted by Kenneth Branagh over Zoom on November 29 to benefit the UK's theater community. The event is being put on to aid UK workers who have struggled during the pandemic. Tickets cost £45 and are limited. Proceeds are going to…

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…