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Leave it to the French to blow up a genre and redefine it whether it’s Luc Besson with the female action sphere with La Femme Nikita or Jean-Pierre Jeunet with the romantic comedy and Amelie. Meet filmmaker Julia Ducournau whose Raw gobbles up the horror genre and digests into something mindblowing. “I don’t consider…

The buzz on this title is that it’s so shocking, you’ll think twice before you ever eat red meat again. Raw, French writer/director Julia Ducournau's psychological horror directorial debut which took the Fipresci prize at last May’s Cannes Film Festival during Directors’ Fortnight, will open Friday, March 10 via Focus…

Focus Features’ multiplatform label Focus World has acquired U.S. rights to Natalie Portman’s feature directorial debut, A Tale Of Love And Darkness, which premiered at Cannes last year. Focus World will open the movie in a platform theatrical release later this year in contention for the Oscars. The film is based on…

Wirter-Director Ian Edelman's Puerto Ricans In Paris will soon be in the states, as Focus World has picked up all U.S. rights to the comedy. Written by Ian Edelman and Neel Shah, the film follows two New York counterfeit detectives investigating the stolen design for a highly sought after bag made by a famous fashion…

Paco Cabezas's action comedy Mr. Right has found a suitor. Focus World hooked up U.S. rights to the Toronto closing-night pic, which stars Anna Kendrick as an unlucky-in-love young woman who finds her soulmate, who just happens to be an on-the-lam international hitman (Sam Rockwell) — meaning their road to true love…

I have usually avoided the idea of VOD like the plague; I believe in the big-screen experience. But it is becoming apparent that video-on-demand is the only way some very deserving films — increasingly starring some big movie names — will get seen by any kind of sizable audience. Every week there are numerous titles…

Boys will be boys — and in this case, they might pay for it. Here’s the first look at Cop Car, starring Kevin Bacon as a sleazebag small-town sheriff who makes life miserable for a couple of kids who make off with his patrol unit. The young’uns (James Freedson-Jackson and Hays Wellford) happen upon the seemingly…

The Founder which follows the origins of how McDonald’s rose up will be released on Nov. 25, 2016. Weinstein Co. has U.S. rights and will distribute. FilmNation and The Combine are producing. Pic stars Michael Keaton as Illinois salesman Ray Kroc who turned McDonald’s drive-through business into a national franchise…

Focus World has picked up US and U.K. rights to the Kevin Bacon starrer Cop Car at Sundance. Jon Watts directed the film about two 10-year-old boys attempt to navigate the back roads behind the wheel of a seemingly abandoned police car that they have no clue how to operate. Things get worse when the corrupt small-town…

Julianne Moore won Cannes’ Best Actress prize and earned a Golden Globe nom for David Cronenberg’s Maps To The Stars, playing aging actress Havana Segrand who’s trying to remain relevant in Hollywood while being haunted by the ghost of her legendary actress mother. It’s a turn that’s decidedly not like in the…

Focus World said today that the Morgan Freeman-Diane Keaton film formerly known as Ruth & Alex, has been retitled 5 Flights Up and been set for a May 8 limited release. The Oscar winners star as a married couple trying to decide whether to sell their longtime Brooklyn home. During the course of one crazy weekend, they…

Focus World has picked up domestic rights to the Diane Keaton-Morgan Freeman pic Ruth & Alex following its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. Directed by Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon, My One And Only) from a script by Charlie Peters, the adaptation of Jill Ciment’s Heroic Measures also stars Cynthia Nixon in the…