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.
As Focus Features evolves, an appreciation
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:24 pm · October 2nd, 2013
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Haneke's 'Amour' joins exclusive club of Palme d'Or winners turned Best Picture nominees
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:30 pm · January 11th, 2013
The film joins 15 others to have transitioned from the Croisette to Oscar’s spotlight.
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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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Cannes regains its Oscar foresight
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:43 pm · February 20th, 2012
With “The Tree of Life” the first Cannes Palme d’Or winner in nine years to receive a Best Picture nomination, and “The Artist” set to join the short list of top Oscar champs that debuted on the Croisette, was the French festival last year’s most important Oscar hunting ground?
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