Will Smith & Margot Robbie’s 9-Yr-Previous Crime Comedy Will get New Streaming Residence After Netflix Success

After posting spectacular streaming numbers on Netflix, a polarizing nine-year-old Will Smith and Margot Robbie crime comedy-drama will quickly arrive on one other main streaming platform. 2015’s Focus will hit Paramount+ on January 1.

Written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, Focus follows Smith’s con-man character, Nicky Spurgeon, who takes a novice, Robbie’s Jess Barrett, underneath his wing after she tries to con him. The pair begin a relationship that places them in danger as their romance begins to distract him, which he can unwell afford. The film additionally stars Rodrigo Santoro, Gerald McRaney, Adrian Martinez, B. D. Wong, Robert Taylor, Griff Furst, Stephanie Honoré, Dominic Fumusa, and Juan Minujin.

Focus premiered on February 27, 2015, to blended critiques from critics. The movie holds a 56% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, which made it Robbie’s lowest-rated film on the time. The actor was starting to determine herself as a star and main woman following the important successes of 2013’s About Time, 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Avenue, and 2014’s Suite Française. Focus, nonetheless, was a field workplace success, making over $158 million worldwide towards a $65 million finances. The film added one other $8 million from DVD and Blu-ray gross sales.

Focus hit Netflix on November 11, topping the streamer’s U.S. charts in its first week. The feat was spectacular given it went up towards a number of new Christmas titles, together with Sizzling Frosty, which has an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and Christina Milian’s Meet Me Subsequent Christmas.

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The Director of Will Smith and Margot Robbie’s Critically Panned 2016 Film Needs His Minimize Launched

Smith and Robbie’s subsequent collaboration after Focus had a fair frostier important reception. The 2016 DC Prolonged Universe film Suicide Squad starring Smith as Deadshot and Robbie as Harley Quinn has a 26% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie’s director, David Ayer, has since launched into an eight-year marketing campaign to have his lower of the movie launched. Ayer believes he and his collaborators will achieve redemption as soon as followers expertise his model. “I hope my actual movie might be shared in the future. I recognize the continued assist and curiosity,” he wrote just lately on X, including the hashtag #ReleaseTheAyerCut.

In response to an X consumer who advised the director wouldn’t want his model launched if the unique theatrical lower of Suicide Squad was good, Ayer wrote, “One of the best model merely has not been seen. I understand how tough it’s for somebody outdoors the trade to understand how insanely completely different [two] cuts [of] a movie might be. If you happen to dislike what you’ve got seen, here is a chance to see what I truly supposed after which choose after you have all the data.”

Will Smith and Margot Robbie’s Focus will stream on Paramount+ beginning January 1.

Supply: Paramount+

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Focus

Director

Glenn Ficarra
, John Requa

Launch Date

February 27, 2015

Solid

Robert Taylor
, BD Wong
, Margot Robbie
, Gerald McRaney
, Will Smith
, Adrian Martinez
, Rodrigo Santoro

Writers

John Requa
, Glenn Ficarra

Runtime

105minutes

Funds

$50.1 million

Studio(s)

Warner Bros. Footage

Distributor(s)

Warner Bros. Footage

Develop