{"id":22128,"date":"2024-05-21T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=22128"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T13:04:42","slug":"focus-features-carnival-films-set-to-return-to-downton-abbey-for-third-feature-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2024\/05\/21\/focus-features-carnival-films-set-to-return-to-downton-abbey-for-third-feature-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus Features &amp; Carnival Films Set to Return to Downton Abbey for Third Feature Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Focus Features and Carnival Films are thrilled to announce the third film in the beloved <strong>Downton Abbey<\/strong> franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third film is written by Downton creator and Academy-Award\u00ae winner Julian Fellowes, as well as produced by BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning Gareth Neame, Fellowes, and BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning Liz Trubridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BAFTA and Emmy Award nominee Simon Curtis is returning to direct after helming 2022\u2019s Downton Abbey: A New Era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Michelle 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, and Douglas Reith return for the third film, alongside exciting new additions Paul Giamatti, Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola, Simon Russell Beale, Arty Froushan, and many other fan favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giamatti is reprising his role as Cora Grantham\u2019s brother Harold Levinson. He joins the film on the heels of his Oscar\u00ae nominated performance in Alexander Payne\u2019s award-winning comedy, The Holdovers. Dominic West will also reprise his role as Guy Dexter from Downton Abbey: A New Era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film is a Carnival Films production, with Focus Features and Universal Pictures International distributing. Carnival Films is part of NBCUniversal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus Features and Carnival Films are thrilled to announce the third film in the beloved Downton Abbey franchise. The third film is written by Downton creator and Academy-Award\u00ae winner Julian Fellowes, as well as produced by BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning Gareth Neame, Fellowes, and BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning Liz Trubridge. BAFTA and Emmy Award nominee&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2024\/05\/21\/focus-features-carnival-films-set-to-return-to-downton-abbey-for-third-feature-film\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Focus Features &amp; Carnival Films Set to Return to Downton Abbey for Third Feature Film<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DowntonAbbey3.jpg?fit=550%2C354&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}