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When director Joanna Hogg embarked on her journey to find a location for her atmospheric, vaguely Gothic ghost story "The Eternal Daughter," she was looking for a place that would give her the creeps. So, quite naturally, she began searching on the internet for haunted manors in the United Kingdom. She explained in an interview with RogerEbert.com that she: 

"...was Googling houses around the country, and it was very much about finding an image of a building that made me feel a little bit scared. So I looked at Scotland, I looked in Cornwall. I looked at the most haunted houses in the UK. Then I saw an image of Soughton Hall in north Wales, and it just looked frightening, but also very beautiful." 

Although Soughton Hall doesn't seem as though it's populated by any actual ghosts, it is haunted by something perhaps more poignantly in line with the narrative of this film: memories.

The critically acclaimed period drama "Downton Abbey" is arguably one of the most influential television shows of the 2010s. The series, which made its premiere in 2010, has a total of six seasons, one feature length film, and a second film hitting theaters on May 20. The spinoff film, "Downton Abbey: New Era," follows the noble Crawley family as they embark on a new journey outside of their countryside home of Downton Abbey to southern France after Crawley matriarch Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, (Maggie Smith) inherits an estate from a man unknown to the family. Though the film diverts to France, the infamous Downton Abbey estate will remain front and center as Lady Mary Crawley (Michelle Dockery) welcomes a group of ambitious filmmakers to use the home as a backdrop for their latest movie.

Downton Abbey in real life is the historic Highclere Castle, located in the Hampshire county of England,...

Still one of Tracy and Hepburn’s best, this follow-up to Adam’s Rib works on all levels. It rings the feminist rights gong just hard enough, and drums the notion that women deserve a chance to achieve their potential without sex discrimination getting in the way. Katharine Hepburn is at her most attractive when being athletic. Some fine star-making supporting action adds to the fun, especially the contribution of a young Aldo Ray.

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Warner Archive Collection

1952 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 95 min. / Street Date August 25, 2020 / available through the WBshop / 21.99

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray, William Ching, Sammy White, George Mathews, Gussie Moran, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Don Budge, Alice Marble, Frank Andrew Parker, Betty Hicks, Beverly Hanson, Helen Dettweiler, Loring Smith, Phyllis Povah, Charles Bronson, Frank Richards, Jim Backus, Chuck Connors, Joseph E. Bernard, Owen McGiveney, Lou Lubin, Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer, William Self, Frankie Darro.

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is breathing a sigh of relief after learning an historic English castle he had offered to buy has now been saved from closure.

The Phantom of the Opera composer, whose estimated worth is approximately $1.1 billion, launched a bid for Highclere Castle in Berkshire, England after its owners announced they faced closure because they needed $17.6 million (£11.8 million) for repairs.

The owner of the stately home, Lord Carnarvon, had planned to build houses on the sprawling estate to finance the property and snubbed Lloyd Webber's offer, insisting it was "not for sale", blasting him for making an "unsolicited offer".

But Lloyd Webber has cancelled his plans to try and take over the property now that it is to be saved in a restoration project, thanks to British TV show Downtown Abbey.

And the theatre impresario is pleased with the outcome.

He tells Britain's Sunday Express, "May I express my joy and relief that the success of the series Downtown Abbey has led the Earl of Carnarvon to announce that its 'star', Sir Charles Barry's wonderful Highclere Castle, has been saved. I, along with the Highclere Society and the North Wessex Downs Preservation Society, was concerned when the Earl proposed to develop housing in swathes of the north Hampshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

"My concern for the area combined with my love of architecture was behind my interest in exploring whether the castle, which is not lived in, could ­possibly become a publicly accessed long-term home for my art collection.

"Now it has emerged that the ­television series will generate enough income to save the castle and, ­presumably, the proposed development need not take place. This is truly a ­fantastic outcome."...