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Jeff Nichols’ brilliant Loving, which stormed Cannes in May before taking the Toronto Film Festival this weekend, seems certain to keep making noise over the coming months ahead of its November release. Quite a contradiction for a quiet, pensive film about Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple in 1960s…

EXCLUSIVE: As Jeff Nichols premieres the civil rights drama Loving here at Toronto this weekend, he’s preparing to take a less obvious look at the subject of racism. Nichols is making a deal at 20th Century Fox to write and direct a new version of Alien Nation, the 1988 science fiction thriller that took the…

Focus Features has dropped the official trailer for Loving, writer/director Jeff Nichols’ powerful real-life story of interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving, portrayed by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga. Set in 1960s Virginia, the Lovings were married in Washington, DC and later arrested for violating Virginia’s…

EXCLUSIVE: If “Loving Day” didn’t already exist as it has for the past 13 years, then Focus Features just might have tried to invent it. Focus is releasing Loving on November 4, but it unveiled the 1950s- and ’60s-set interracial marriage story from writer-director Jeff Nichols at last month’s Cannes Film Festival and…

If any film has emerged from Cannes thus far as having the necessary legs to last the next nine months of Oscar conversation, it’s Jeff Nichols’ Loving, which premiered Monday night to a rapturous Palais crowd. It’s the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple in ’60s Virginia who were arrested and…

Universal Pictures shocked the indie sector with its third overhaul of prestige film division Focus Features in a relatively short time. The long-running New York-based team of James Schamus and Andrew Karpen gave way to a genre-centric operation run by Peter Schlessel from Los Angeles, and then the deck was…

Days before Warner Bros. unleashes its behemoth $250M-budgeted Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, the studio is giving some TLC to what is essentially an arthouse release: Jeff Nichols’ sci-fi chase pic Midnight Special. Rather than make the typical major studio mistake we’ve seen lately by taking a niche picture…

Focus Features has just announced that they will be opening Jeff Nichols’ Loving exclusively on Nov. 4 with a further expansion the following Friday on Nov. 11. Nichols has the Warner Bros. sci-fi drama Midnight Special opening this Friday in New York and Los Angeles. Focus launched its Oscar wniner The Theory of Every…

UPDATE: I’m now told that the deal was worth $9 million for North America and most international territories by Focus, which sees the Loving’s struggle through racism as a love story for the ages. EXCLUSIVE: In its first statement acquisition since Focus Features was overhauled, the Universal-based specialty label has…

Warner Bros had dated Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special for November 25 but has now pushed the pic to March 18, 2016. The pic stars Joel Edgerton, Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher and Sam Shepard and centers on a father and his 8-year old who go on the run when dad realizes the boy has some…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Nichols, the director of the acclaimed indies Mud and Take Shelter, has solidified his next film. Big Beach and Raindog Films are teaming on Loving, a drama that Nichols wrote and will direct for a September start in Virginia, with Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga starring as Mildred and Richard Loving…

EXCLUSIVE: The Emmys aren’t even over yet, but the  race to be the first movie awards DVD screener of 2013 to land in Oscar voters’ mailboxes is over. And the winner is…..Mud. The Roadside Attractions (with Lionsgate)  late April release starring Matthew McConaughey has been sent to all Academy members with some…