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Focus Features acquires Justin Chon’s ‘Blue Bayou’ from Cannes market

Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to Justin Chon’s Blue Bayou from MACRO and Entertainment One (eOne) out of Cannes’ virtual market.  Written… Read More

July 2, 2020

Film Review: Jon Stewart’s spoof of political elites is simply ‘Irresistible’

Rose Byrne and Steve Carell are IRRESISTIBLE (Daniel McFadden / Focus Features) Jon Stewart’s (Rose Water, The Daily Show) new… Read More

June 22, 2020

Focus Features to stream its classic titles free on Facebook for “Movie Mondays”

(courtesy of Focus Features) Films will feature Q&As and livewatch parties with filmmakers Julian Fellowes, Kevin Smith and Wes Anderson… Read More

April 2, 2020

Trailer: ‘The High Note’ starring Tracee Ellis Ross, Dakota Johnson and Kelvin Harrison Jr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=qpWJugM99FI From director Nisha Ganatra (Late Night) and writer Flora Greeson comes your first look at The High Note, starring… Read More

February 27, 2020

2021 Oscars: The Best Picture Contenders (February)

Top: MINARI (courtesy Sundance Institute), CITIZEN KANEMiddle: WEST SIDE STORY (courtesy 20the Century), NIGHTMARE ALLEY (set pic source unknown)Bottom: IN… Read More

February 20, 2020

Film Review: ‘Emma.’ Period. End of Sentence.

Mia Goth (left) as Harriet Smith and Anya Taylor-Joy (right) as Emma Woodhouse in director Autumn de Wilde's EMMA. (Photo:… Read More

February 19, 2020

Jon Stewart’s political satire ‘Irresistible’ gets summer release, first trailer from Focus Features

Focus Features will release Jon Stewart’s Irresistible on Friday May 29, 2020 domestically in North America Written and directed by Jon Stewart, Irresistible is a comedy about… Read More

January 22, 2020

Interview: ‘Harriet’ director Kasi Lemmons and producer Daniela Taplin Lundberg on bringing a never-told tale to the big screen

(l-r) Director Kasi Lemmons and producer Daniela Taplin Lundberg on the red carpet for the premiere of HARRIET at the… Read More

November 4, 2019

Mark Ruffalo takes on Big Chemical in first trailer for ‘Dark Waters’

Mark Ruffalo stars as "Robert Bilott" in director Todd Haynes' DARK WATERS, a Focus Features release. Credit : Mary Cybulski… Read More

September 18, 2019

Toronto Review: Not even Cynthia Erivo’s performance can save the deeply formulaic ‘Harriet’

Courtesy of TIFF Kasi Lemmons’ latest is a disappointing, uninspired biopic that fails to engage and whose subject deserves better… Read More

September 12, 2019

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