With “Dallas Buyers Club” registering as a final hurrah for the Focus Features we’ve known and loved for a decade, stars Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto reflected on the legacy’s
Jared Leto hopes the Focus legacy will live on with new regime after 'Dallas Buyers Club'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:27 pm · November 17th, 2013
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As Focus Features evolves, an appreciation
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:24 pm · October 2nd, 2013
Focus Features has announced a shift in ideology, folding in FilmDistrict and focusing on a broader cache of product. While the label isn’t dead, the identity will most certainly change. Here’s an appreciation of the best that identity produced over the last decade or more.
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Kevin Macdonald, Jude Law and Focus Features team up for sunken treasure thriller 'Black Sea'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:55 am · April 25th, 2013
Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald is about to go deep sea diving with Jude Law. Deadline reports that the film “Black Sea” has been positioned as his next with Law in the lead as a laid-off submarine captain who gets involved in a scheme to seek out a storied sunken sub that might be loaded with gold in the Black Sea.
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With 'Dallas Buyers Club' is Focus Features getting its awards slate in order?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:28 pm · April 23rd, 2013
When actor Matthew McConaughey was doing the awards circuit press rounds last year for his Independent Spirit Award-winning work in “Magic Mike,” he was strikingly thin. The reason for the physical transformation was his role Jean-Marc Vallée’s upcoming “Dallas Buyers Club,” which has just found a home at Focus Features.
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LAIKA and Focus Features announce start of production on 'The Boxtrolls'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:09 am · February 7th, 2013
Focus Features is very much in he LAIKA business now, and after the success of “Coraline” and “ParaNorman,” the two are teaming up again on “The Boxtrolls.”
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Focus Features picks up Derek Cianfrance's 'The Place Beyond the Pines'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:12 pm · September 9th, 2012
The film has found a nice home for not-so-easily-defined indie dramas.
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Universal Pictures and Focus Features celebrate anniversaries in 2012
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:57 pm · March 1st, 2012
Uni floats celebratory Blu-rays while Focus offers up a look back at performances
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