Focus Features News

Cinematic darling Wes Anderson has returned to the screen, and lovers of aesthetics and indie sensibilities have spoken: Moonrise Kingdom is a hit.

Rachel Dodes on Lunch Break has a guide to the upcoming guide to this year's batch of summer movies: Amid the superheroes and sequels, there are other, quieter choices.

He was nominated in 2003 for Lost In Translation , but couldn't secure a win. Now the actor is portraying Franklin D. Roosevelt in the upcoming release of Hyde Park On Hudson and we are VERY impressed by his thespian skillz! Just as we predicted , Murray is pretty much FDR's reincarnation in the first trailer for the Focus Features period piece and ... (more)

Focus Features has released the official trailer for "Hyde Park on Hudson," a movie that stars Bill Murray as President Franklin D. Roosevelt.A You can watch the trailer here for yourself, by clicking the lower box on the left.A Whether or not Murray is convincing as FDR is probably a matter of opinion, although this writer thinks he comes off a ... (more)

Focus Features has debuted the trailer for Hyde Park on Hudson , the December 7 release directed by Roger Michell and starring Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Samuel West, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Wilson, Elizabeth Marvel and Eleanor Bron.

Domestic distributors will have a wide variety of choices at Cannes this year, from completed films in competition, to packages that have begun production or are only at the script stage with loose commitments from filmmakers and stars.

Production commences this week on About a Boy director Paul Weitz 's dramedy Admission .A Tina Fey stars as an admissions officer at Princeton University whose life is thrown for a curve when she runs into an old friend while visiting an experimental New Hampshire high school.A The full synopsis, included in the press release, elaborates a bit more ... (more)

In Focus: Former Good Machine partners Ted Hope, James Schamus and David Linde at last night's salute marking the 10th Anniversary of Focus Features.

Child actors and various extras are being cast for "Admission," a new feature film starring Tina Fey as an unmarried college admissions counselor who strikes up a romance with an old school friend , while still in a relationship with her stiff British boyfriend .

The Connecticut Film Festival has wrapped its fifth year in the city, and organizers said it was another successful run.