Leonora Ann Darby claims she has been rewarded for saving Obsession by her fellow executive producers ripping her off promised big bucks from the one of the highest-grossing horror movie of all time. “This action arises from a seven-year pattern of unequal treatment and broken compensation…

EXCLUSIVE: Earlier this month, Mike Birbiglia announced that he’d be canceling a select set of stand-up dates alongside John Mulaney, with a “dream project” coming to fruition. And now, we can tell you what that project is. Focus Features has greenlighted Old Friends New Friends, a comedy…

Focus Features has picked up international rights to Sonoya Mizuno’s directorial debut Stages and will distribute the film via Universal Pictures International.  The film's ensemble cast features Julie Delpy (Meet the Barbarians), Takehiro Hira (Rental Family), Kathryn Hunter (Poor Things), Kate…

Focus Features has taken North America and Latin America on Studiocanal’s Elsinore, from director Simon Stone, and starring Andrew Scott for a limited launch on Nov. 20 before expanding over Thanksgiving and throughout December. StudioCanal, which handles global sales, will retain the feature in…

EXCLUSIVE: Ella Beatty, star of Netflix’s forthcoming Monster installment on alleged Massachusetts axe murderer Lizzie Borden, is in final talks to join Billie Eilish and Carey Mulligan in The Bell Jar, Focus Features’ film adaptation of the classic novel by Sylvia Plath, sources tell…

Focus Features has unveiled the first trailer for The Uprising, its new drama on the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Andrew Garfield. In the film, out September 11, Garfield plays Ploughman, the legendary leader of a ferocious rebellion against the…

The Obsession craze continues with Focus Features’ highest grossing movie ever leading Monday with $4.2M in its fourth week, ahead of Paramount and Miramax’s No. 1 weekend opener, Scary Movie, which wasn’t far behind with $4.1M. Obsession‘s domestic cume stands at $156.1M with a global haul…

Focus Features’ Obsession is officially their highest grossing movie ever with the Curry Barker directed horror romance crossing $224.7M worldwide. The pic already became Focus’ highest grossing movie at the domestic box office back on May 31. Obsession beats Focus’ previous biggest…

EXCLUSIVE: Curry Barker’s Anything But Ghosts, his next movie from Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and Focus Features, will also star Superstore and The Mindy Project actor Chris Reinacher. Spooky Pictures and Divide/Conquer are also producers on the pic. The news comes in the wake of Barker’s current…

The horror genre has a talented new storyteller with Curry Barker in his sophomore feature Obsession, as well as scream queen in the making with star Inde Navarrette. In the film from writer and director Barker, Bear (Michael Johnston) makes a wish…

The 2026 Edinburgh International Film Festival will open with The Incomer, the debut feature from Edinburgh-born filmmaker Louis Paxton.  Focus and Universal have taken international rights on the title, which debuted at Sundance. The film stars Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina, The Paper), Gayle…

Focus Features has announced that it’ll release Hot Spot, an AI-themed sci-fi thriller reuniting the studio with The Silent Twins director Agnieszka Smoczyńska, in theaters in North America on August 21. The film is set to open against Black Bear’s crime thriller The Rivals of Amziah King and…