All Focus articles – Page 9
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NewsFocus, Working Title sign Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall for thriller
The stars will play former lovers who must collaborate on the defence team at a terrorism trial. Focus owns worldwide rights and Focus Features International plans to commence pre-sales at the EFM next week ahead of April’s start of production in the UK.
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NewsFocus Features unveils early 2012 digital slate
President Andrew Karpen has announced the films selected for the first quarter of next year that will go out through Focus World, the digital platform that launched earlier this year to champion international filmmakers.
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Africa First Awards five emerging filmmakers $10,000 apiece
Focus Features’ Africa First programme has awarded five emerging filmmakers $10,000 each to finance pre-production, production and/or post-production on their short films.
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NewsJeb Brody named president of production at Focus Features
The executive arrives from his parallel role at Vendome Pictures and replaces John Lyons, who is returning to work as a producer and devoting more time to philanthropy.
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NewsFocus signs two-film deal with Coraline producers Laika
The first title is comedy thriller ParaNorman and will be released on Aug 17, 2012, with the untitled second project to follow in 2014.
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NewsThe American hits Labor Day target for Focus on $16.4m
Summer ended with a whimper as Focus Features’ assassin drama The American starring George Clooney opened top on an estimated $16.4m over the four-day Labor Day holiday weekend, rising to $19.5m since Wednesday’s [Sept 1] release.
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NewsThe American leads the way on $13m as summer fizzles out
Summer ended with a whimper as Focus Features’ assassin drama The American starring George Clooney opened top on an estimated $12.9m over three days, rising to $16.1m since Wednesday’s [Sept 1] release.
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NewsSaoirse Ronan reunites with Joe Wright on Hanna for Focus Features
Focus Features has confirmed Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan will reunite with Atonement director Joe Wright in the lead role in Hanna.
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NewsFocus Features CEO James Schamus unveils 'audacious' 2010 slate
Unveiling a 2010 theatrical slate that Focus Features CEO James Schamus called “as audacious as any in our history”, the company has announced its six confirmed releases on the back of strong sales at AFM through Focus Features International.
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NewsFocus Features names five winners in Africa First Program
For the second consecutive year five film-makers have been awarded $10,000 apiece in Focus Features’ Africa First Program for short films.
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NewsMomentum poised to pick up new Mike Leigh project
UK distributor Momentum Pictures is understood to have picked up Mike Leigh’s untitled new project from Focus Features International.
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NewsFocus signs Ole Bornedal to direct The Husband
Focus Features has signed Ole Bornedal to direct the thriller The Husband, based on the bestselling Dean Koontz novel.
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NewsFocus soars with Macdonald’s Eagle Of The Ninth
Focus Features International has virtually sold out the world on Kevin Macdonald’s upcoming Roman Britain epic Eagle Of The Ninth, which is set to begin shooting later this summer with Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell.