Focus Features
 Title card for Focus Features US | |
| Type |
Subsidiary of Universal Pictures Division of NBCUniversal/Comcast |
|---|---|
| Industry | Film |
| Founded |
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| Headquarters | Universal City, California, U.S. |
| Products | Motion pictures |
| Owner(s) |
NBCUniversal (Comcast Corporation) |
| Parent | Universal Pictures |
| Subsidiaries |
Good Machine FilmDistrict |
| Website | www.focusfeatures.com |
Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus, Good Machine, Gramercy Pictures and October Films) is the art house films division of NBCUniversal, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distributor for foreign films.
Focus Features was formed from the 2002 divisional merger of USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine. USA Films was created by Barry Diller in 1999 when he purchased October Films and Gramercy Pictures from Seagram and merged the two units together.[1][2]
Distributors
Australia
- Roadshow Entertainment
- Icon Film Distribution
- Universal Pictures
UK
- Momentum Pictures
- Entertainment Film Distributors
- Universal Pictures
- Pathe
Canada
- Entertainment One
- Universal Pictures
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.[3][4][5] 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.[6] Its DVD and movie rights revenues are boosted by cult classics including Wet Hot American Summer.
See also
- List of Focus Features films
- Rogue Pictures
- FilmDistrict
References
- ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aEJFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wLsMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6746,3385144&dq=gramercy+pictures+barry+diller&hl=en
- ↑ "Universal Adds Division for Specialty Films - Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. 1999-09-28. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
- ↑ Focus Features All Time Box Office Results
- ↑ USA Films All Time Box Office Results
- ↑ Burn After Reading Box OFfice Results
- ↑ Claudia Eller, "Positive cash flow through hits and misses makes Focus Features an attractive asset", Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2010.
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