| Type | Subsidiary of Universal Studios |
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| Industry | Film |
| Founded | 1992 as Gramercy Pictures, 1999 as USA Films, 2001 as Focus Features |
| Headquarters | Universal City, California, United States |
| Products | Motion pictures |
| Parent | NBC Universal |
| Subsidiaries | Good Machine |
| Website | http://www.focusfeatures.com |
Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine) is the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Pictures, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distributor for foreign films.
Focus was formed from the 2002 divisional merger of USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine. USA Films was created by Barry Diller in 1999 by combining October Films, Rogue and Gramercy Pictures. Vivendi sold the studio, among other entertainment assets, to GE in 2004 to form NBC Universal.
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Focus' most successful release in North America to date is Brokeback Mountain (2005), which earned $83,043,761 at the North American box office. However, this is not counting the domestic total of Traffic (2000), which earned $124,107,477 under the USA Films banner. Focus' most successful international release is Burn After Reading (2008), which earned $161,128,228 in gross revenue.[1][2][3] The animated film Coraline (which Focus did not produce, but did distribute) was also highly profitable for the company. Although suffering its share of unsuccessful releases, Focus has been consistently profitable, and its international sales arm (unusual among studio specialty film divisions) allows it to receive the foreign as well as domestic revenues from its releases.[4]
| Year | Film | Release Date | Academy Awards | Golden Globe Awards | Studio |
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| 1999 | I Want You | June 4 | USA Films Universal Focus Good Machine |
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| Autumn Tale | July 9 | ||||
| The Muse | August 27 | ||||
| Black Cat, White Cat | September 10 | ||||
| Sugar Town | September 17 | ||||
| Lucie Aubrac | September 17 | ||||
| Plunkett & Macleane | October 15 | ||||
| Being John Malkovich | October 15 | ||||
| Rosetta | November 5 | ||||
| Ride with the Devil | November 24 | ||||
| Agnes Browne | December 3 | ||||
| Topsy-Turvy | December 15 |
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| 2000 | Rear Window | January 21 | |||
| Pitch Black | February 18 | ||||
| Condo Painting | March 10 | ||||
| Waking the Dead | March 24 | ||||
| Joe Gould's Secret | April 7 | ||||
| Where the Money Is | April 14 | ||||
| The Idiots | April 28 | ||||
| Up at the Villa | May 5 | ||||
| Boricua's Bond | June 21
Indie Award Winning Director & Producers: Val Lik (Director) Greg Scheinman, Robyn Karp, Eugene Haynes & Jack Da Silva (Producers) |
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| Blood Simple | July 7 | ||||
| Alice and Martin | July 21 | ||||
| Wonderland | July 28 | ||||
| Mad About Mambo | August 4 | ||||
| Nurse Betty | September 8 |
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| Billy Elliot | October 13 |
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| Loving Jezebel | October 27 | ||||
| A Room for Romeo Brass | October 27 | ||||
| Traffic | December 27 |
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| 2001 | In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wa) | February 2 | |||
| Series 7 | March 2 | ||||
| The Caveman's Valentine | March 2 | ||||
| Beautiful Creatures | April 6 | ||||
| One Night at McCool's | April 21 | ||||
| Rat | April 27 | ||||
| The Long Run | May 4 | ||||
| Pavilion of Women | May 4 | ||||
| Bloody Angels | May 25 | ||||
| The Man Who Cried | May 25 | ||||
| Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | June 15 | ||||
| Strictly Sinatra | June 22 | ||||
| Pandaemonium | June 29 | ||||
| Wet Hot American Summer | July 27 | ||||
| Session 9 | August 10 | ||||
| Maybe Baby | August 24 | ||||
| The Man Who Wasn't There | October 31 |
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| Gosford Park | December 26 | ||||
| 2002 | Monsoon Wedding | February 22 | 1 nomination
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| Never Again | July 12 | Focus Features | |||
| The Kid Stays in the Picture | July 26 | ||||
| Possession | August 16 | ||||
| 8 Women (8 femmes) | September 20 | ||||
| Far from Heaven | November 8 |
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| The Pianist | December 27 |
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| 2003 | Deliver Us From Eva | February 7 | |||
| The Guys | April 4 | ||||
| The Shape of Things | May 9 | ||||
| My Little Eye | June 6 | ||||
| Swimming Pool | July 2 | ||||
| Lost in Translation | September 12 | ||||
| Sylvia | October 17 | ||||
| 21 Grams | November 21 | ||||
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | March 19 |
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| Ned Kelly | March 26 | ||||
| The Door in the Floor | July 14 | ||||
| Vanity Fair | September 1 | ||||
| The Motorcycle Diaries (Los diarios de motocicleta) | September 24 |
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| 2005 | Rory O'Shea Was Here | February 4 | |||
| Unleashed | May 13 | ||||
| My Summer of Love | June 17 | ||||
| Broken Flowers | August 5 | ||||
| The Constant Gardener | August 31 |
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| Pride & Prejudice | November 11 |
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| The Ice Harvest | November 23 | ||||
| Brokeback Mountain | December 9 |
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| 2006 | Something New | February 3 | |||
| Brick | March 31 | ||||
| On a Clear Day | April 7 | ||||
| Silent Hill (International distribution only) | April 21 | ||||
| Scoop | July 28 | ||||
| Hollywoodland | September 8 |
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| The Ground Truth | September 15 | ||||
| Catch a Fire | October 27 | ||||
| 2007 | Evening | June 29 | |||
| Talk to Me | July 20 | ||||
| Eastern Promises | September 14 |
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| Lust, Caution (Se, jie) | September 28 |
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| Reservation Road | October 19 | ||||
| Dan in Real Life | October 26 | ||||
| Atonement | December 7 |
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| 2008 | In Bruges | February 8 |
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| Be Kind Rewind | February 22 | ||||
| The Other Boleyn Girl | February 29 | ||||
| Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | March 7 | ||||
| Hamlet 2 | August 22 | ||||
| Burn After Reading | September 26 |
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| Milk | November 26 |
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| 2009 | Coraline | February 6 |
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| The Limits of Control | May 22 | ||||
| Sin Nombre | March 20 | ||||
| Away We Go | June 5 | ||||
| Taking Woodstock | August 14 | ||||
| 9 | September 9 |
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| A Serious Man | October 2 |
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| 2010 | Greenberg | March 19 (NY, LA); March 26 (Wide) | |||
| Babies (Bébé(s)) | May 7 | ||||
| The Kids Are All Right | July 9 | ||||
| The American | September 1 | ||||
| It's Kind of a Funny Story | October 8 | ||||
| Somewhere | December 22 | ||||
| 2011 | The Eagle | February 11 | |||
| Jane Eyre | March 11 | ||||
| Hanna | April 8 | ||||
| Beginners | June 3 | ||||
| One Day | August 19 | ||||
| The Debt | August 31 | ||||
| Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | December 9 (NY/LA); December 16 (Limited) | ||||
| Pariah | December 28 | ||||
| 2012 | Moonrise Kingdom | May 25 | |||
| Seeking A Friend for the End of the World | April 20 |
In addition to all these, Focus Features owns the backlog of predecessor October Films, USA Films and Gramercy Pictures' in-house productions, as well as some rights to the 1974 film The Return of the Pink Panther (with the main exception of domestic theatrical, television, and internet distribution, still held by its original distributor, United Artists via sister company MGM), and most of the Savoy Pictures backlog, including Serial Mom.