UPCOMING FROM FOCUS FEATURES

Last updated: Friday, November 9, 2007

UPCOMING FROM FOCUS FEATURES

Check out Focus Features' upcoming films for 2008!

IN BRUGES

In theatres February 8, 2008 (limited)

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson

Director: Martin McDonagh
Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy
Synopsis: This darkly comic suspense thriller from Academy Award-winning writer/director Martin McDonagh tells the story of hit men Ray and Ken (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson). After a botched job in London, the team is ordered by their boss Harry (two-time Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes) to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges, Belgium. Very much out of their comfort zones, the men find themselves drawn into increasingly dangerous entanglements with locals, tourists, and a film shoot. As their stay in Bruges gets weirder, they realize Harry may have other plans for them than a simple vacation.

MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY

In theatres TBD 2008!

Amy Adams and Shirley Henderson

Director: Bharat Nalluri
Cast: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Ciarán Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Lee Pace
Synopsis: A sophisticated and heartfelt comedy. In the 1939-set romantic tale, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand), a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse (Academy Award nominee Amy Adams). Within minutes, Miss Pettigrew finds herself swept into a heady high-society milieu – and, by the end of the day, discovers her own romantic destiny.

BURN AFTER READING

In theatres TBD

John Malkovich and Brad Pitt

Director: Joel and Ethan Coen
Cast: George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton
Synopsis: A dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. An ousted CIA official's (Academy Award nominee John Malkovich) memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find.

Source: Specialopsmedia.com

| Friday, November 9, 2007

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