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Focus Features and Focus Features International (http://www.filminfocus.com) together comprise a singular global company. This worldwide studio makes original and daring films that challenge the mainstream to embrace and enjoy voices and visions from around the world that deliver global commercial success. The company operates as Focus Features domestically, and as Focus Features International (FFI) overseas.
Domestically, the Focus Features slate includes Gus Van Sant’s Milk, nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor (Sean Penn); from LAIKA Entertainment, Henry Selick’s 3-D stop-motion animated feature Coraline, starring Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher; Cary Joji Fukunaga’s epic dramatic thriller Sin Nombre, which world-premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival; writer/director Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control, starring Isaach De Bankolé; Away We Go, directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes and starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph; Shane Acker’s animated fantasy epic 9, starring Elijah Wood and Jennifer Connelly; Academy Award-winning writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man; and Taking Woodstock, the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee.
Focus Features International (FFI) produces, finances, sells, and/or distributes films whether geared to local markets or seeking commercial exposure worldwide. The FFI production pipeline (formerly known as the production arm of Universal Pictures International), produces and acquires product from emerging and established filmmakers. Overseas distribution is nuanced and tailored to suit each film, from direct distribution through Universal Pictures International (UPI), for films such as Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt, in one or more territories; to the licensing of distribution rights independently through FFI, for films such as Brandon Camp’s Traveling, starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart; or some combination of the two. Focus Features’ considerable domestic production/release slate is largely sold and/or distributed overseas by FFI.
The FFI slate includes AGORA, an historical epic from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar, starring Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz; Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful, starring Academy Award winner Javier Bardem; This Side of the Truth, directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson, and starring Mr. Gervais, Jennifer Garner, and Rob Lowe; Derek Yee’s Shinjuki Incident, starring Jackie Chan; and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s new film Broken Embraces, starring Penélope Cruz.
Focus Features and Focus Features International are part of NBC Universal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Formed in May 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80% owned by General Electric and 20% owned by Vivendi.
Domestically, the Focus Features slate includes Gus Van Sant’s Milk, nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor (Sean Penn); from LAIKA Entertainment, Henry Selick’s 3-D stop-motion animated feature Coraline, starring Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher; Cary Joji Fukunaga’s epic dramatic thriller Sin Nombre, which world-premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival; writer/director Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control, starring Isaach De Bankolé; Away We Go, directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes and starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph; Shane Acker’s animated fantasy epic 9, starring Elijah Wood and Jennifer Connelly; Academy Award-winning writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man; and Taking Woodstock, the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee.
Focus Features International (FFI) produces, finances, sells, and/or distributes films whether geared to local markets or seeking commercial exposure worldwide. The FFI production pipeline (formerly known as the production arm of Universal Pictures International), produces and acquires product from emerging and established filmmakers. Overseas distribution is nuanced and tailored to suit each film, from direct distribution through Universal Pictures International (UPI), for films such as Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt, in one or more territories; to the licensing of distribution rights independently through FFI, for films such as Brandon Camp’s Traveling, starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart; or some combination of the two. Focus Features’ considerable domestic production/release slate is largely sold and/or distributed overseas by FFI.
The FFI slate includes AGORA, an historical epic from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar, starring Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz; Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful, starring Academy Award winner Javier Bardem; This Side of the Truth, directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson, and starring Mr. Gervais, Jennifer Garner, and Rob Lowe; Derek Yee’s Shinjuki Incident, starring Jackie Chan; and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s new film Broken Embraces, starring Penélope Cruz.
Focus Features and Focus Features International are part of NBC Universal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Formed in May 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80% owned by General Electric and 20% owned by Vivendi.
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