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…
Laika will present “From Coraline to Kubo: A Magical LAIKA Experience” at Universal Studios Hollywood's Globe Theatre from Aug. 5-14, ahead of “Kubo and the Two Strings'” Aug. 19 theatrical release…
Three months after a dramatic overhaul swept out one regime and replaced it with another, Focus Features is out in force at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The company is premiering Oscar-hopeful…
Focus Features has acquired the majority of key international territories to Andrea Arnold's hotly tipped Cannes official competition entry “American Honey.” “American Honey,” written and directed by…
Focus Features has bought the interracial drama “Loving,” starring Joe Edgerton, Ruth Negga and Michael Shannon, for North American and most major international territories including the U.K.…
Focus Features’ ongoing identity crisis worsened Thursday, as the specialty unit behind “The Theory of Everything,” “Brokeback Mountain” and “Moonrise Kingdom” underwent its second major management…
Universal Pictures International will merge with Focus Features under the latter’s banner, a union that will remove Peter Schlessel as CEO of the studio’s speciality film operations. Universal billed…
Director Tom Hooper and his team of artisans on "The Danish Girl" created a rich-looking period film on a budget of only $15 million. The Focus Features pic tells the love story of Einar Wegener…
Over its first decade, all of Laika's features — "Coraline," "ParaNorman" (pictured) and "The Boxtrolls" — have been nominated for the animated feature Oscar. The company's insiders say it is making…
Laika's next pic, "Kubo and the Two Strings," marks a sharp departure from the Victorian style of its last release, "The Boxtrolls." Set in a mythical version of ancient Japan, "Kubo" tells of a poor…
