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Armie Hammer Joins Tom Ford’s ‘Nocturnal Animals’
Armie Hammer has joined the cast of Nocturnal Animals, the book adaptation that Tom Ford is writing and directing. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. star joins a cast that includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams,...
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‘The Danish Girl’ Trailer: First Look At Eddie Redmayne & Alicia Vikander...
Here is Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything) and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) in the official trailer for Focus Features’ The Danish Girl. From Academy Award-winning director Tom...
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Isla Fisher Joins Tom Ford’s ‘Nocturnal Animals’
EXCLUSIVE: Isla Fisher has just been set for Nocturnal Animals, the Tom Ford-directed drama. She joins Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kim Basinger, Armie Hammer and Aaron Taylor Johnson....
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‘London Has Fallen’ On A New Release Date: Gerard Butler Action Film To Open...
EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features is moving its action disaster pic London Has Fallen from the post MLK frame of January 22, 2016 to March 4, 2016. The first film, Olympus Has Fallen, went out in March 2013...
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Matt Sobel Set To Direct ‘The Scorpio Races’ At Focus Features
EXCLUSIVE: Matt Sobel, who helmed the Sundance 2015 drama Take Me To The River, has been set by Focus Features to direct The Scorpio Races. Jack Thorne is adapting Maggie Stiefvater’s bestselling YA...
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The Solution Nabs Focus Features Exec Josie Liang As VP
The Solution Entertainment Group has hired Josie Liang as VP Acquisitions and Development. She joins immediately after most recently working as a acquisitions and sales exec at Focus Features, where...
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‘The Forest’ Trailer – A Trip Into Japan’s Notorious “Suicide Forest”
Japan’s Aokigahara Forest has long been associated with demons of Japanese mythology, which might have contributed to what the site is most well-known for. The 14-square mile region at the northwest...
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Karl Glusman Joins ‘Nocturnal Animals’
Following up his starring role in Gaspar Noé’s sexually explicit romantic drama Love, Karl Glusman has joined the cast of Focus Features’ Nocturnal Animals, based on Austin Wright's 1993 novel Tony And...
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‘Suffragette’ London Film Festival Premiere Delayed By Protesters
A group of protesters stormed the red carpet of the BFI London Film Festival’s premiere of Focus Features’ period drama Suffragette in Leicester Square tonight. The UK’s Guardian newspaper reports that...
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Focus Buys ‘Boomtown’ Spec With Marc Platt Producing
EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features has tapped the spec script Boomtown, an oil-soaked thriller from Matt King. Marc Platt is set to produce the story of a slick corporate investigator with a closely guarded...
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‘Race’ Trailer: Jesse Owens Bears The Burden Of History On His Legs
One of the greatest athletes in U.S. history, Jesse Owens also bore the burden of not only enduring racial oppression in the US, but of being a symbol for fighting against it abroad and at home. So it...
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‘This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!’ Optioned By Focus Features
Focus Features has optioned Jonathan Evison’s This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, the author noted on his Facebook page and Deadline has confirmed. “Oh, and BTW I was told this morning I could share...
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‘The Danish Girl’ Director Tom Hooper & Writer Lucinda Coxon On Journey To...
Although it takes place in the early decades of the last century, The Danish Girl's story of the love and lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener is in many ways a tale for our times. Yet, at Deadline’s...
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‘The Danish Girl’s Tom Hooper On “Moving” Transgender Response To The Film –...
Detailing the life and loves of the first individual known to undergo gender affirmation surgery, Focus Features’ The Danish Girl vaults right into the Oscar race in a year that has seen transgender...
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Deadline’s The Contenders: ‘Danish Girl’ Producers & Screenwriter On Why It...
Screenwriter Lucinda Coxon and producers Gail Mutrux and Anne Harrison came to The Contenders Presented By Deadline last month to tell the tale of the long creative gestation of their film, The Danish...
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Deadline’s The Contenders: Carey Mulligan & Director Sarah Gavron Talk...
For the first time in the five-year history of Deadline’s annual big awards-season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline, I got to host an all-female panel thanks to Focus Features, which...
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James Schamus On His Sundance Directing Debut, Focus Exit, And Why He’s All...
EXCLUSIVE: As a buyer when he ran Good Machine and Focus Features, James Schamus has been as much a Park City fixture as snow and thin air. Tomorrow, he takes on a new role: first time director, when...
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‘Kubo And The Two Strings’ Trailer: Laika Takes On Japanese Folklore
Following the release of their Oscar-nominated toon The Boxtrolls, Laika and Focus Features are teaming again on Kubo And The Two Strings, the first film under Laika and the studio’s three-picture...
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Peter Schlessel Out At Focus Features In Universal Shake-Up
In the second shake-up in two years at Universal Pictures’ Focus Features label, CEO Peter Schlessel will exit his post on April 1. Peter Kujawaski, managing director of Universal Pictures...
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‘Deadpool’ Still Cool In Weekend 2 With Superhero Set To Pass $200M – Box...
By Saturday, 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool will cross $200M, nine days after its release. That will set a record for an R-rated film to clip that mark, beating pics that include 2003’s The Matrix...
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