‘Downton Abbey’ Sequel Gets a Title and Teaser at CinemaCon

At the end of its presentation, Focus Features showed the first teaser for the next “Downton Abbey” film, which will be called “Downton Abbey: A New Era.”While the teaser was light on footage, it featured Lord Grantham and the denizens of Downton leaving their famous English home for a grand tour of Europe, with Carson dryly warning, “The British are coming.”The teaser ended with the Dowager Countess, played once again by Maggie Smith, asking a movie star if there really is such a thing as good publicity.After running for six seasons on PBS, “Downton Abbey” made the leap to the big screen in 2019 and grossed $96 million in the U.S. — an all-time record for Focus Features — and $194 million worldwide. The film featured the Crawleys preparing for a royal visit from King George V. As with that film, the entire original cast of the TV series will return,...