Focus Features (formerly USA Films) is the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Studios, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distributor for foreign films. Focus also serves as a producer and distributor of low-budget action/horror films through its Rogue Pictures division (similar to The Weinstein Company's Dimension Films and Sony Pictures Entertainment's Screen Gems).

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, Gramercy Pictures, and USA Home Entertainment.Vivendi sold the studio, among other entertainment assets, to GE in 2004 to form NBC Universal.

Focus' most successful release to date (under the Focus Features banner) 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.http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view2=allmovies&studio=focus.htmhttp://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=usa.htm

Partial list of films

USA Films releases

1999

• I Want You - June 4

• 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 1

• Being John Malkovich - October 15
• 3 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Director' and 'Best Supporting Actress'

• Rosetta - November 5

• Ride With the Devil - November 24

• Agnes Browne - December 3

• Topsy-Turvy - December 15

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

• Blood Simple - July 7

• Alice and Martin - July 21

• Wonderland - July 28

• Mad About Mambo - August 4

• Nurse Betty - September 8

• Billy Elliot - October 13

• A Room for Romeo Brass - October 27

• Traffic - December 27
• 4 Academy Awards - including 'Best Director' and 'Best Supporting Actor'
• 5 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Picture'

2001

• In the Mood for Love - February 2

• Series 7 - March 2

• One Night at McCool's - April 27

• Bloody Angels - May 25

• Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? - June 15

• 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
• 1 Academy Award nomination - 'Best Cinematography'

• Gosford Park - December 26 (LA/NY)
• 1 Academy Award - 'Best Original Screenplay'
• 7 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Picture' and 'Best Director'

Focus Features releases

2002

• Gosford Park January 11
• nationwide release following limited initial release on December 26, 2001

• Monsoon Wedding - February 22 2002 cont. (Focus Features releases from this point on)

• Never Again - July 12

• The Kid Stays in the Picture - July 26

• Possession - August 16

• 8 Women - September 20

• Far From Heaven - November 8
• 4 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Leading Actress' and 'Best Original Screenplay'

• Long Time Dead - December 6

• The Guys - December 13 (1-week awards-qualifying run, LA only)

• The Pianist - December 27 (NY/LA only)
• 3 Academy Awards - including 'Best Director' and 'Best Leading Actor'
• 7 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Picture' and 'Best Director'

2003

• The Pianist - January 3
• Initial limited release December 27, 2002

• 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

• Ali G Indahouse - September 5

• Lost In Translation - September 12
• 1 Academy Award - 'Best Original Screenplay'
• 4 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Picture' and 'Best Director'
• Scarface (20th anniversary reissue) September 19, 2003

• Sylvia - October 17

• 21 Grams - November 21
• 2 Academy Award nominations - 'Best Leading Actress' and 'Best Supporting Actor'

2004

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - March 19
• 1 Academy Award - 'Best Original Screenplay'
• 2 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Leading Actress

• Ned Kelly - March 26

• The Door in the Floor - July 14

• Vanity Fair - September 1

• Shaun of the Dead - September 24

• The Motorcycle Diaries - September 24
• 1 Academy Award - 'Best Original Song'
• 2 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Adapted Screenplay'

• Seed of Chucky - November 12

2005

• The Return of the Pink Panther (2005 DVD release of 1975 film, as some rights were inherited from ITC Entertainment)

• Assault on Precinct 13 - January 19

• 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
• 1 Academy Award - 'Best Supporting Actress'
• 4 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Adapted Screenplay' and 'Best Original Score'

• Cry Wolf - September 16

• Rise to Power - September 30 (Direct-to-DVD)

• The Big Lebowski - October 18 (A DVD re-release of the original in a Collector's Edition)

• Pride and Prejudice - November 11
• 4 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Leading Actress' and 'Best Original Score'

• The Ice Harvest - November 23

• Brokeback Mountain - December 9
• 3 Academy Awards - including 'Best Director' and 'Best Adapted Screenplay'
• 8 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Picture' and 'Best Leading Actor'

2006

• Something New - February 3

• Dave Chappelle's Block Party - March 3

• Brick - March 31

• On a Clear Day - April 7

• Waist Deep - June 23

• Scoop - July 28

• Hollywoodland - September 8

• The Ground Truth - September 15

• Jet Li's Fearless - September 22

• Catch a Fire - October 27

• The Return - November 10

2007

• The Hitcher - January 19

• Hot Fuzz - April 20

• Evening - June 29

• Talk to Me - July 20

• Balls of Fury - August 31

• Eastern Promises - September 14

• Lust, Caution - September 28

• Reservation Road - October 19

• Atonement - December 7
• 6 Academy Award nominations - including 'Best Picture', 'Best Supporting Actress' and 'Best Adapted Screenplay'

• The Strangers - TBA

2008

• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - TBA
• Burn After Reading - TBA
• 9 - December 26

2009

• Coraline - January 16
• On the Road - TBA

See also

• Rogue Pictures

References

External links

• Official site

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