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Article: Focus weds a 'Husband'.(movie planning at Focus Features )(Brief article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- April 4, 2006
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Via their Random House Films partnership, Focus Features and Random House are teaming to bring an adaptation of Dean Koontz's upcoming novel "The Husband" to the bigscreen.
Project follows an ordinary man whose love for his wife is put to a harrowing series of tests over a 60-hour period, beginning when his peaceful workday is shattered by a phone call from a stranger.
Deal marks the first major move for Universal specialty film arm Focus since former co-head David Linde was upped to cochairman of Universal Pictures, leaving the unit under the sole purview of James Schamus.
"Husband," which will be published by Random's Bantam Books imprint in ...