Sentence examples for universal focus from inspiring English sources

Two years ago, in partnership with Universal, Focus bought 50 Shades of Grey, a literary phenomenon that fascinates Schamus.

The film is the first American offering from Universal Focus, the new arthouse division of Universal Pictures, which expects to make a noise on its maiden outing to be heard all the way to the Oscars.

"Billy Elliot," a small-scale British film that was picked up as the inaugural release by Universal Focus, the new specialty film division of Universal Pictures, is getting the big Oscar push from the studio, which is what brought Mr. Bell and Mr. Daldry back to Southern California and a fresh round of screenings and interviews.

Rethink Robotics, a Boston-based company founded by one of the most respected researchers in the field, Rodney Brooks, has attracted a lot of media interest because it sells a particularly appealing and innovative two-armed robot, Baxter, designed for this market.Whereas Rethink and Universal focus on smallish customers, others are planning to go big.

That being said, through a more universal focus on web apps, Chalkable is trying to address some of the limitations mobile devices and their native apps present during use in the classroom.

There's a universal focus on New Year's resolutions, and while I get the timing and concept, I no longer buy into it.

His strategies are straight-forward, pragmatic, and universal, focusing on long-term impact in place of the "short-term reactive emotions of greed and fear".

In designing the first teaser trailer for the new film — which went out last spring — Illumination and Universal focused not on the new story — how Gru is faring now that he's a reformed villain — but on the minions, who sing a 50-second version of the Beach Boys hit "Barbara Ann" with the word "banana" instead.

The film, produced by Universal and Focus, is to be directed by the British artist Sam Taylor-Johnson.

Last year, Barry Diller, chief executive of USA Interactive, sold USA's film and television assets to Vivendi Universal to focus on its Internet operations as well as its Home Shopping Network.

James Schamus, chief executive of Universal's Focus Features, summed up the festival in a succinct e-mail message: "Sold everything; bought nothing".