Focus Features to Acquire Film Rights to Neil Gaiman's New Book

By Mark Rozeman at 3:30 PM on March 1, 2013

Focus Features and Playtone Partners, the production company of actor/producer Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman, are currently hammering out a deal to acquire the rights to Neil Gaiman’s upcoming novel The Ocean At The End Of The Lane.   read more

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Babies Review

By Christine Ziemba at 11:00 AM on May 6, 2010

Release Date: May 7 Director: Thomas Balmès Producers: Alain Chabat, Amandine Billot, Christine Rouxel Starring: Ponijao, Bayar, Mari, Hattie Studio/Run Time: Focus Features, 79 min. The kids are alright If you’re averse to cute things—raindrops, roses, whiskers on kittens etc.—then Babies probably isn’t for you. Directed by Thomas Balmès, this beautifully shot film follows four infants (one each in Namibia, Mongolia, Tokyo and San Francisco) from birth to their first steps....  read more

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Joe Wright Eyes a Thriller

By Emily Riemer at 10:00 AM on November 25, 2009

Joe Wright is king of the epic, sweeping, often-period dramas that sometimes receive Oscar buzz. His filmography ranges from the acclaimed (Atonement) to the middling (The Soloist) to the D.O.A. (Indian Summer)....  read more

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Focus Features Just Nabbed Sam Mendes for a Two-Year Pact. Is Their Confidence Misplaced?

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 9:20 AM on June 23, 2009

For a guy who won an Oscar for his first feature, Sam Mendes is difficult to pin down. Since that auspicious debut, American Beauty, he’s made a series of more-or-less respected movies that never quite took off: Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road. By the time Away We Go opened earlier this month to the harshest reviews of his career (Hey, our guy liked it!), some observers wondered aloud how much longer he could really be considered an elite name in prestige moviemaking. ...  read more

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More Details Surface About Sam Mendes' Away We Go

By Rachel Dovey at 2:15 PM on May 7, 2009

The information keeps pouring in about director Sam Mendes' previously untitled film, which, we now know, will be called Away We Go. ...  read more

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Noah Baumbach's latest to star Ben Stiller and Greta Gerwig

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 7:50 AM on February 17, 2009

Ben Stiller and mumblecore princess Greta Gerwig (pictured) will star in Noah Baumbach's next movie, Greenburg, apparently replacing planned co-stars Mark Ruffalo and Amy Adams. ...  read more

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