A group of roughly 60 prominent European independent film industry execs assembled Thursday at the Locarno Festival in Switzerland to thrash out some of the pressing issues they are facing as they…
Focus Features will celebrate its 15th anniversary with open-air screenings in July at Rooftop Cinema Club locations in Los Angeles and New York as part of its Focus 15 initiative. The Los Angeles…
Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to the ghost story “The Little Stranger,” starring Domhnall Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Ruth Wilson and Will Poulter with Lenny Abrahamson directing…
Focus Features has promoted Josh McLaughlin to president of production, succeeding Jim Burke. Burke will be returning to his career as a producer with a new film production deal at Focus. Based in…
Focus Features is acquiring North American rights to Charlize Theron’s comedy “Tully” with an April 20, 2018, release date. News broke a year ago that Theron, Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody were…
Charlize Theron dazzled exhibitors twice at CinemaCon on Wednesday: in the spy thriller “Atomic Blonde,” and as the villainess in “The Fate of the Furious.” Footage from “Atomic Blonde” received two…
Focus Features has hired veteran executive Dani Weinstein — who has worked extensively on the Weinstein Company’s awards campaigns — as executive vice president of publicity. Weinstein will oversee…
Focus Features has tapped Jason Cassidy as president of marketing, less than a year after he led the campaign for Open Road Films that landed “Spotlight” a Best Picture Oscar. Cassidy will oversee…
Joe Wright's "Darkest Hour," which stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill, has started to shoot in the U.K. Production company Working Title Films and distributor Focus Features have revealed details…
Tom Ford's “Nocturnal Animals,” a suspenseful tale about a Texas kidnapping gone wrong starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, had audiences squirming and squealing at the Toronto Film Festival. Jeff…
Focus Features has nabbed worldwide rights to a new drama reuniting the “There Will Be Blood” team of Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis, Variety has confirmed. The indie label will finance…
