Billboard Ladies in Music 2025
Focus Options immediately provided CinemaCon attendees an emotional have a look at the primary trailer for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. That is the final within the trilogy of massive display screen continuations of the British TV drama phenomenon. It’s written by collection creator Julian Fellowes and directed by Simon Curtis.
Plot particulars had beforehand been sparse, however the trailer proven immediately features a title card that tells us “It’s time to say goodbye” earlier than we see Hugh Bonneville’s Earl of Grantham patting the facade of the manor home on the Grantham Property in what certainly seems to be a farewell.
Earlier than that, we hear Jim Carter’s Mr. Carson saying, “Welcome to 1930.” There are pictures of the household on the races, of Dominic West’s Man Dexter in London’s West Finish and Michelle Dockery’s Girl Mary ascending steps whereas sporting a luxurious crimson robe. A portrait of the late Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess can also be lovingly framed.
The primary two Downton motion pictures grossed over $287M mixed globally.
We realized in Could that manufacturing was formally underway on the third with primary forged members returning and a variety of new additions to the characteristic franchise.
Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti is reprising his position from the TV collection as Cora’s (Elizabeth McGovern) brother Harold Levinson. New to the films are Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola and Home of the Dragon’s Simon Russell Beale and Arty Froushan.
In addition to McGovern, different returning key forged embody Bonneville, Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, Robert James-Collier, Joanne Froggatt, Allen Leech, Penelope Wilton, Lesley Nicol, Michael Fox, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sophie McShera, Paul Copley and Douglas Reith.
The movie pays homage to the “finish of an period” with the lack of the Dowager Countess, which has taken on higher significance following the dying of Oscar-winning actress Maggie Smith final September. Smith performed Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, in all six seasons of the collection and reprised the position within the two subsequent movies, together with her character dying in 2022’s Downton Abbey: A New Period.
The home theatrical launch is ready for September 12 this yr — can we get a Venice launch?
