Ben Stiller is Greenberg
Coming to Theatres March 2010
Actor Ben Stiller joins writer/director Noah Baumbach ("The Squid and the Whale") to tell the funny and moving tale of Roger Greenberg.
Read More at http://filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/greenberg
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BABIES | Coming to theatres in 2010
A visually stunning and joyful new film that simultaneously chronicles the lives of four of the world’s newest human inhabitants - in Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco, and Tokyo, respectively.
Watch the trailer at http://filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/babies
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The Kids Are All Right | Coming July 7 2010
Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo star in Lisa Cholodenko’s very modern family comedy, a film that had audiences raving at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Read more at http://filminfocus.com/account/press?utype=blog&uid=focus_features_acquires_rights_to_lisa_cholodenko_s_the_kids_a&font=#blog_title
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THE AMERICAN | Coming to theatres 2010
Academy Award™ winner George Clooney is THE AMERICAN in Anton Corbijn’s cutting-edge suspense thriller set in the Italian mountainside.
Read director Anton Corbijn's blog: http://filminfocus.com/account/anton_corbijn
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THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH | Coming Summer 2010
Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell embark on a mission beyond the end of the known world in THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH. Directed by Academy Award™ winner Kevin Macdonald.
To read more about the film: http://filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/the_eagle_of_the_ninth
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Director Shane Acker
Released September 09, 2009
Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch) join forces to produce wunderkind director Shane Acker’s distinctively original and thrilling tale. 9 stars Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer and Crispin Glover and features the music of Danny Elfman.

Director Cary Joji Fukunaga
Released March 20, 2009
From award-winning director Cary Fukunaga, an epic dramatic thriller about a young Honduran woman, Sayra (Paulina Gaytan), who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with a teenaged Mexican gang member, El Casper (Edgar M. Flores), who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.

Director Ang Lee
Released December 09, 2005
Based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of two young men – a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy – who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys, and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Directed by Academy Award-winner Ang Lee.

Director Sofia Coppola
Released September 12, 2003
Two Americans stuck in Tokyo, an aging movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial (Bill Murray) and a young woman tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband (Scarlett Johannson), have a chance meeting that leads to a surprising friendship. Lost in Translation was written and directed by Sofia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides) and shot entirely on location in Japan.

Director Martin McDonagh
Released February 08, 2008
Filmed on location, In Bruges finds two hitmen (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) hiding out in the small storybook Belgian town of Bruges after a botched job gets them into hot water with their boss. Written and directed by Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh, the film was the opening-night selection for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Director Ang Lee
Released September 28, 2007
Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) helms this startling erotic espionage thriller about the fate of an ordinary woman's heart. Based on the revered short story by Chinese author Eileen Chang, Lust, Caution stars Asian cinema icon Tony Leung opposite newcomer Tang Wei.

Director Michel Gondry
Released March 14, 2004
After finding out that his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had him erased from her memory, Joel (Jim Carrey) seeks out the inventor of the process to do the same. Directed by visionary director Michel Gondry and written by Academy Award nominee Charlie Kaufman.

Director Joe Wright
Released January 04, 2008
A young girl (Briony Tallis), in love with her older sister's suitor, accuses him of a crime he didn't commit, changing the course of all three lives forever. Based on the best-selling 2002 novel, Atonement stars Keira Knightley as Cecilia and James MacAvoy as Robbie. Directed by BAFTA award-winner Joe Wright.

Director Sam Mendes
Released June 05, 2009
Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty) from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, this funny and heartfelt film follows the journey of an expectant couple (John Krasinski ["The Office"] and Maya Rudolph ["Saturday Night Live"]), as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise their family.

Director David Cronenberg
Released September 14, 2007
The lives of a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families (Viggo Mortensen) and a midwife from a North London hospital (Naomi Watts) cross when a young teenage girl dies while giving birth. Eastern Promises is directed by acclaimed director David Cronenberg and written by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Steve Knight.

Director Gus Van Sant
Released November 26, 2008
Academy Award nominee Gus Van Sant directs Academy Award winner Sean Penn as real-life gay-rights icon Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in America. In 1977, he was voted to the city supervisors' board of San Francisco. The following year, both he and the city's mayor George Moscone were shot to death by another city supervisor, Dan White.

Director Walter Salles
Released September 24, 2004
The Motorcycle Diaries follows two young men on an 8-month, 8,000 mile motorcycle journey through South America and witnesses the birth of a revolutionary heart. Starring Gael García Bernal as the young Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Rodrigo de la Serna as his friend, Alberto. Directed by Walter Salles (Behind the Sun).

Director Joe Wright
Released November 11, 2005
Based on the Jane Austen novel, Pride & Prejudice is a classic tale of love and misunderstanding unfolding in class-conscious England near the close of the 18th century. Starring Keira Knightley as Lizzie, one of the five Bennet sisters, and Matthew Macfayden as Mr. Darcy, the man aiming to win her heart. Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement).

Director Lajos Koltai
Released June 29, 2007
Based on the beloved novel by Susan Minot, Evening is a deeply emotional film that illuminates the timeless love which binds mother and daughter. Writer Ms. Minot collaborated with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham (The Hours) on the script for Evening, which stars Claire Danes, Toni Collette and Vanessa Redgrave under the direction of Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Lajos Koltai (Fateless).

Director Joel & Ethan Coen
Released September 12, 2008
Burn After Reading is the Coen Brothers' first directorial effort since they took home Oscar™ gold for 2007's No Country for Old Men. Recently-ousted CIA analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) loses a computer disc containing his top-secret memoirs at Hardbodies Fitness Center. The disc is then discovered by two of the gym's employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) who attempt to blackmail him for its return. George Clooney and Tilda Swinton also star.

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu
Released November 21, 2003
An accident unexpectedly throws three people's lives and destinies together, in a story that will take them to the heights of love, the depths of revenge, and the promise of redemption. 21 Grams is directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and stars Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, and Naomi Watts.

Director Jim Jarmusch
Released August 05, 2005
Recently dumped by his latest lover, resolutely single Don Johnston (Bill Murray) is informed by an anonymous former flame that he has a 19 year-old son who may be looking for his father. Don sets out on a series of unannounced visits to former lovers and in the process haphazardly confronts both his past and, consequently, his present. Directed by Jim Jarmusch.

Director Richard Curtis
Released November 13, 2009
Pirate Radio is the newest ensemble comedy from filmmaker Richard Curtis (writer/director of Love Actually), spinning the irreverent yet fact-based tale of a seafaring band of rogue rock and roll deejays whose "pirate radio" captivated and inspired 1960s Britain. Playing the music that rocked a nation and a decade, the group boldly and hilariously defies the government that tries to shut them down.

Director Richard Curtis
Released December 31, 1969
A visually stunning and joyful new film that simultaneously chronicles the lives of four of the world’s newest human inhabitants - in Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco, and Tokyo, respectively -- from first breath to first steps, on a journey at once universal and amazingly original.

Director Todd Haynes
Released November 08, 2002
Far from Heaven tells the story of a privileged housewife (Julianne Moore) in 1950s America. Writer/Director Todd Haynes lovingly depicts the gorgeous and placid surfaces of mid-century suburban family life, even as his story breaks them open to reveal a repressed world of limitless emotions and life-shattering desires that cross the boundaries of racial and sexual tolerance with tragic results.

Director Fernando Meirelles
Released August 31, 2005
Fernando Meirelles, the Academy Award-nominated director of City of God, directs a gripping romantic thriller that sweeps audiences along one man's emotional and global journey to uncover the truth behind a personal loss and a worldwide conspiracy. Starring Academy Award-nominee Ralph Feinnes and Rachel Weisz.

Director Noah Baumbach
Released March 26, 2010
Roger Greenberg [Ben Stiller], single, fortyish and at a crossroads in his life, finds himself in Los Angeles, house-sitting for six weeks for his more successful/married-with-children brother. In search of a place to restart his life, Greenberg tries to reconnect with old friends including his former bandmate Ivan [Rhys Ifans]. Directed by Academy Award-nominated Noah Baumbach.

Director Joel & Ethan Coen
Released October 02, 2009
From the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers comes A Serious Man, the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Tony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him.

Director Henry Selick
Released February 06, 2009
A young girl (Dakota Fanning) walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life - only much better. When her fantastical adventure turns dangerous, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to get back home - and save her family. Directed by Henry Selick.

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