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May 13, 2024 · About Us. Focus Features (www.focusfeatures.com) acquires and produces specialty films for the global market, and holds a library of iconic movies from fearless filmmakers. Our mission: to make a lasting impact on global audiences by creating the home for artists to share diverse, distinctive stories that inspire human connection.
Focus Features LLC is an American independent film production and distribution company, owned by Comcast as a division of Universal Pictures, which is itself a division of its wholly owned subsidiary of NBCUniversal.
- The Pianist. The Pianist is a biographical war drama written by Sir Ronald Harwood and is based on the memoir by pianist, composer, and Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman.
- Brokeback Mountain. When screenwriter Diana Ossana read Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain in The New Yorker days after it was published, she sent it over to her writing partner Larry McMurty, who told The Huffington Post, “I knew before I was even halfway through that it was a masterpiece.”
- Milk. Director Gus Van Sant was originally supposed to direct Brokeback Mountain but ultimately chose Milk instead. Working off a screenplay by Dustin Lance Black, Milk is a biographical drama based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk.
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a Cold War spy thriller written by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan and based on the novel of the same name by John le Carré.
Focus Features is the current indie/arthouse film subsidiary of Universal Studios, which was formed in 2002 by the merging of USA Films, Universal Focus, Good Machine, and its folded endeavors ( Rogue, October Films, Gramercy Pictures, and Interscope Communications ).
Nov 20, 2018 · Nearly three years ago, in February 2016, Universal Pictures chairman Donna Langley decided that her studio’s specialty division, Focus Features, needed to, well, refocus. Created in 2002,...
Aug 16, 2022 · Marking the 20th anniversary of its first theatrical release, Variety is ranking the 30 best Focus Features films so far. In the summer of 2002, the arthouse studio released its first feature...
Mar 12, 2022 · One of the leading producers and distributors of arthouse films, Focus Features celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and it’s hard to believe it’s been two decades since films like “Lost...
