Focus Features

Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine) 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 film. 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 is Brokeback Mountain (2005), which earned $83,043,761 at the North America box office. However, this is not counting the domestic total of Traffic (2000), which earned $124,107,477 under the USA Films banner. In addition to all these, Focus owns the backlog of predecessor October Films and Gramercy Pictures' in-house productions, as well as some rights to the 1974 film The Return of the Pink Panther ... full article at wikipedia