Often the best movies of the second half of the year come almost preordained as the Oscars Industrial Complex revs into high ...

Focus Features is no longer Focus Features. It’s FilmDistrict — with a new owner and a new name. That’s the takeaway from Universal’s announcement on Tuesday, which unveiled the label’s ...

Neil Young tribute band feel-good drama Song Sung Blue with Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson will hit U.S. theaters on Christmas Day 2025. Written and directed by Craig Brewer, the movie is based on a ...

Celebrating its 15th anniversary, Focus Features has in that time become a fixture of the art-house scene and awards circuit. The company is known for releasing such movies as “Brokeback ...

Focus Features has set a limited Thanksgiving release of November 27 for two-time Oscar winner Chloé Zhao's Hamnet. The movie will go wide on December 12. Hamnet, which Zhao co-wrote with Maggie ...

The London-based Focus Features International will close its doors on Dec. 31, marking the final step in a dramatic overhaul of the Universal-owned specialty division. Official word of the closure ...

Focus Features has locked in a release date for Anemone, its film bringing three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis back to the big screen for the first time since Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom ...

In the wake of the Focus Features shake-up two weeks ago, Comcast-owned parent studio Universal Pictures announced the new leadership of its top-ranking executives at Focus.

Focus Features' Never Rarely Sometimes Always has become the latest big-screen title to land an early on-demand release as the coronavirus pandemic has closed movie theaters nationwide.

In an overhaul of its Focus Features imprint, Universal Pictures is installing FilmDistrict founder Peter Schlessel as the new head of the specialty movie label. James Schamus, Focus’ current ...

Current CEO James Schamus, who co-founded Focus Features more than 12 years ago, will leave the company to concentrate on Ang Lee’s next film, which he is producing with Lee and developing at ...