Focus Features Buys Cannes Opener ‘Everybody Knows’

Breaking: Focus Features won a late night auction for Everybody Knows, the Spanish language Asghar Farhadi film that opened the Cannes Film Festival last night with a glamorous Palais premiere that featured stars Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Ricardo Darín.

Focus will distribute in the Us, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, select Asian territories and the Middle East, apart from Iran.

Focus had previously acquired rights in Spain last year…

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