KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Rodrigo Garcia is ready to tango with his three amigos for the ensemble drama "Mother and Child." Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu will produce the writer-director's next feature for their Focus Features International-funded outfit cha cha cha..
Vulture (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Photo: Courtesy Focus Features "After this last movie, George said: 'That's it, I've played my last idiot.' Ethan said: 'Well, you won't be working with us any more, then.'" — Joel Coen on typecasting George Clooney [ Telegraph ] "We put him in the thong, which is CG. We basically took his outfit from the book. But, as in the book, we took it off him. Because he just lets it go. He certainly lets...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Film News: New releases open to mixed results -- Samuel L. Jackson thriller "Lakeview Terrace" easily debuted to No. 1 at the weekend box office, while Focus Features' "Burn After Reading" continued to fan the flames in its sophomore sesh.
Vulture (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Photo: Courtesy of Focus Features If you, like many, were disappointed that the sex scenes in Brokeback Mountain weren't hotter, and then you, like some, set out to right this deplorable wrong by drafting your own graphic, boner-popping fan fiction, Brokeback author Annie Proulx has but one simple request: Please don't mail it to her. "There are countless people out there who think the story is open...
AWN's Headline News (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
The Cohen brothers' BURN AFTER READING (Focus Features, vfx by Big Film Design and Brainstorm Digital) won its debut weekend with $19.404M at the box office ending September 14.
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
ShockTillYouDrop.com got a chance to visit the set for Focus Features' Coraline at LAIKA Studios. The 3-D stop-motion animated adventure is written/directed by Henry Selick ( The Nightmare Before Christmas ) and based on Neil Gaiman's international best-selling book.
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Park Chan Wook, who is known for his Vengeance trilogy and his part in the 3 extremes film, is all set to direct his next movie based on a vampire. The film aptly named Thirst will be funded by Focus Features and Universal will distribute the film in the US. This will be a first for the director getting funded by outside sources. The story is also intriguing that it surrounds a priest who participates...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Film News: New releases perform strong in crowded frame -- Ethan and Joel Coen’s farce “Burn After Reading” led a vibrant boom at the fall box office, debuting to an estimated $19.4 million from 2,651 theaters to give the siblings and Focus Features their biggest opening gross ever.
Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
FRIDAY PM: Here are really early box office numbers for Friday, plus weekend estimates and theater counts. All will be refined and updated. Analysis coming... 1. Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (Lionsgate) $7M Fri (2,070) ... $20M Wkd 2. Burn After Reading (Focus Features) $6.5M Fri (2,651) ... $20M Wkd 3. Righteous Kill (Overture Films) $6M Fri (3,152) ... $18M Wkd 4. The Women [...]
KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Adam Arkin has joined "A Serious Man," the film that Joel and Ethan Coen are shooting in Minnesota for Focus Features and Working Title Films. Arkin, who's a series regular on NBC's "Life," joins Michael Stuhlbarg and Richard Kind, who play brothers in the black comedy, which takes place in 1967..
CinemaTech (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
The FilmInFocus Web site, run by Focus Features, has an exclusive out-take from Inventing the Movies -- essentially a short chapter about the role that the Sundance Film Festival plays in testing and promoting new technologies. From the opening: For ten days every January, Park City, Utah becomes a microcosm of the independent film world: there are ambitious young filmmakers vying to get their movies...
Movie-Moron (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Park Chan-Wook, director of the excellent Korean ‘vengeance trilogy’ ( Sympathy For Mr Vengeance , Oldboy and Lady Vengeance ) is making a new film. Nothing too interesting there, but this one is being co-produced by Focus Features and Universal, suggesting that the little-known director is finally getting the push into the big time. Thirst , currently in production, is “about a priest who participates...
/Film (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Korean auteur Park Chan-Wook, most famous for the phenomenally kickass Oldboy, is getting some help from American shores for his next film, Thirst. Universal Pictures and Focus Features will be investing and co-producing, and Focus will distribute the film in North America. The film, about a priest who becomes a vampire after a medical experiment gone [...]
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Boarding Park Chan-wook's vampire thriller.
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Universal Pictures and Focus Features have boarded Oldboy director Park Chan-wook's in-production vampire movie Thirst , reports Variety .
