Focus Features picks up Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ with Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe
Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast. Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Branagh, Belfast is the humorous, tender and intensely personal story of... Read More
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Focus Features to give Robin Wright’s ‘Land’ an Oscar-qualifying release in February
In a surprise announcement today, Focus Features will release Land, the directorial debut from award-winning actress Robin Wright (House of Cards) n theaters domestically on... Read More
Interview: ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ director Eliza Hittman and star Sidney Flanigan
Never Rarely Sometimes Always deftly tells an often untold story; Autumn (Sidney Flanigan), a teenage girl in rural Pennsylvania is faced with an unintended pregnancy... Read More
Principal photography wraps on Focus Features’ ‘Wolf,’ starring George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp, shot during COVID-19 pandemic
Principal photography has wrapped in Dublin on WOLF, starring George MacKay (1917, Pride) and Lily-Rose Depp (The King). Further cast includes Paddy Considine (Journeyman, How To... Read More
Trailer: ‘Promising Young Woman’ lands in theaters Christmas Day
“Every now and then a film comes along that ignites a conversation, holds up a mirror and jolts us awake…” So begins the trailer for... Read More
Film Review: Tell me, tell me, how to be, how to be a ‘Kajillionaire’
Certain movies make you think a new way. Something like Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth aggressively owns that idea outright — it turns language itself against its viewers, reorganizing... Read More
Focus Features and Magnolia Pictures to re-release ‘On the Basis of Sex’ and ‘RBG’ in tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Films both will be widely available this Friday with the distributors’ net proceeds going toward the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, co-founded in 1972 by... Read More
Azhy Robertson gets spooked in trailer for ‘Come Play’
“I…just…want…to…be…your…friend.” Azhy Robertson, of Marriage Story and The Plot Against America, stars as Oliver in Come Play, a lonely young boy who feels different from... Read More
First look at ‘The Way I See It’ doc about President Obama photographer Pete Souza
The film is an official selection of the 2020 Telluride Film Festival and produced by Oscar Winners Laura Dern and Free Solo’s Evan Hayes Focus Features... Read More
Focus Features wraps deal on James Gray’s ‘Armageddon Time’ with Cate Blanchett, Oscar Isaac, Anne Hathaway
Focus Features has finalized their worldwide deal on James Gray’s Armageddon Time. The coming-of-age film is written and set to be directed by Gray, based upon... Read More
2024 North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) Nominations 
2024 Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC) Winners: ‘Anora’ Named Best Film Among its Six Awards 
2024 Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) Nominations 
2024 Black Reel Awards Nominations: ‘Nickel Boys,’ ‘The Piano Lesson’ Lead