With the Super Bowl hanging over the weekend, the small films debuting in the specialty box office have had a relatively tepid time of it amidst Oscar-nominated holdovers. Still Alice, starring the Oscar-nominated Julianne Moore, expanded decently and Focus took undersea thriller Black Sea, starring Jude Law, into…

ACTUALS, MONDAY PM: Warner Bros./Village Roadshow was slightly higher in the three-day actuals reported today with $64.6M and a $200.4M running domestic cume in its fifth frame (vs. yesterday’s weekend estimate of $64.3M and $200.1M). Originally, Warner Bros. was expecting to make $17.28M on Sunday, but their fall…

After a slow start to 2015 in the wake of awards-hungry titles and holiday studio offerings, the Specialty Box Office is swinging into gear with a number of new titles. Focus Features’ Kevin Macdonald-directed Black Sea with Jude Law, Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn is looking to offer character-driven adventure to…

Jude Law, Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn star in Black Sea. As I say in my video review above, I don’t usually expect much from a non-awards season release debuting in the middle of January’s awards season. But this turns out to be a ripping good throwback of an undersea treasure yarn that reminds me of old-school…

Focus Features just dropped the trailer for Kevin Macdonald’s submarine thriller Black Sea starring Jude Law as a captain who assembles a misfit crew for a treasure hunt.  Up for grabs at the bottom of the ocean: An old Nazi U-boat with $182 million  — a figure which sounds like it could also be the global box office…

Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald’s treasure hunt adventure Black Sea starring Jude Law as a submarine captain with a mutinous misfit crew will get a limited release January 23, Focus Features said today. Written by Dennis Kelly, Black Sea also stars Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Konstantin Khabenskiy and Michael Smiley…

Amid last year’s shake-up at Focus Features, the group’s international sales arm was shuttered. Focus is now turning to Nick Meyer’s Sierra/Affinity to handle rights outside North America on select titles from the company. The formalized relationship will complement the activities of Universal Pictures International…

EXCLUSIVE: Scoot McNairy is set star with Jude Law in Black Sea, the underwater adventure film for Focus Features that Kevin Macdonald is directing. Law plays a rogue skipper who gathers a crew and a submarine in order to search for sunken treasure in the Black Sea. McNairy plays an American who convinces the captain…

In a multi-territory deal, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisition has acquired Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and Latin America on Focus‘ Jude Law-starrer Black Sea. Kevin Macdonald is directing the film about a submarine captain on a risky hunt for sunken treasure. FFI also…

EXCLUSIVE: As distributors line their coffers with big films for Cannes, Focus Features has grabbed one, acquiring worldwide rights to Black Sea, an adventure thriller that Kevin Macdonald will direct with Jude Law starring. It’s contemporary, and Law will play a submarine captain who is laid off by a salvage company…