Sentences with phrase «searchlight films»

Unofficially dubbed the Sundance Darling a couple years back, this blonde - haired beauty has written and starred in two sci - fi-esque Fox Searchlight films: Sound of My Voice and Another Earth.

Frances McDormand, left, and Sally Hawkins were both nominated for their performances in Fox Searchlight films.

It's worth noting that another Fox Searchlight film, Birdman, was among the lowest - grossing Best Picture Oscar winners of all - time, but it went on to gross more than $ 100 million worldwide, while 12 Years a Slave (another slavery - themed period drama) grossed $ 187 million in global ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo.

We have the first trailer and poster from the Fox Searchlight film directed by Amma Asante from a screenplay written by Misan Sagay.

’12 Years A Slave» has been winning a rash of critics awards the last week, and today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society joined in the fun also awarding top prize to the Fox Searchlight film along with Steve McQueen for directing and Lupita N'yongo for Supporting Actress.

The Fox Searchlight film added 362 theaters (to 833 total) and upped its weekend ticket sales 24 % from last weekend.

Some might question the price, but remember that the New Regency / Searchlight film 12 Years A Slave, which covered similar subject matter, grossed nearly $ 188 million globally, with $ 131 million of that revenue realized overseas.

The actress recently wrapped production on the Fox Searchlight film «My Cousin Rachel» opposite Sam Claflin and also has the James Marsh movie «The Mercy» opening next year.

Some fun history: Three Billboards is the 6th Fox Searchlight film to win Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the SAG awards; the most by any studio.

'12 Years A Slave» has been winning a rash of critics awards the last week, and today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society joined in the fun also awarding top prize to the Fox Searchlight film along with Steve McQueen for directing and Lupita N'yongo for Support...

Not exact matches

Fox Searchlight, the independent film arm of 21st Century Fox, had been widely expected to make a major Oscars push for movie.

The New York Times cited anonymous sources involved with The Birth of a Nation as saying that Fox Searchlight does not plan to change course on its promotion of the film, which includes plans to have Parker tour U.S. universities and churches as the public face of the movie.

The movie drew raves from critics following its January debut at the Sundance Film Festival, prompting Fox Searchlight to pay a festival - record $ 17.5 million to obtain the worldwide distribution rights to the film.

One shareholder asked Iger about his plans for Fox Searchlight, the arthouse film division that on Sunday won the Academy Award for best picture for «The Shape of Water.»

Combining with Disney are 21st Century Fox's critically acclaimed film production businesses, including Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox 2000, which together offer diverse and compelling storytelling businesses and are the homes of Avatar, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool, as well as The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hidden Figures, Gone Girl, The Shape of Water and The Martian — and its storied television creative units, Twentieth Century Fox Television, FX Productions and Fox21, which have brought The Americans, This Is Us, Modern Family, The Simpsons and so many more hit TV series to viewers across the globe.

Already moving on from La La Land, the romantic musical which is picking up nominations and awards left right and centre this year, Emma needed to prepare for her role as tennis player Billie Jean King in Fox Searchlight's up - coming film Battle of the Sexes.

In addition, he appeared in AMERICAN HISTORY X, co-starred in the OCEAN»S ELEVEN trilogy, and appeared in the 2011 feature film CONTAGION, as well as the 2012 Fox Searchlight feature RUBY SPARKS.

Ranked 8th among all studios (by average Metascore) in 2013, Fox Searchlight shot up to # 3 last year by avoiding any negatively reviewed films and impressing critics with best picture nominees Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Cooper earned favorable notices for each; the success of Boys prompted BBC Two Films and Fox Searchlight to launch a film adaptation in late 2006, also featuring Cooper.

The latter film earned five of Fox Searchlight's eight Academy Award nominations (tying it for fifth among all studios), while the distributor's Metascore average increased for the second straight year.

The positives: prestige films from Fox Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to The Shape of Water, NEON / 30West's I, Tonya, A24's The Disaster Artist, Lady Bird and The Florida Project, Sony Pictures Classics» Call Me By Your Name and others have been performing strongly at the box office.

That's not to knock these films on quality or suggest that anything with name actors is merely mindless escapism: Fox Searchlight's thriller The East efficiently mines suspense out of Brit Marling infiltrating Alexander Skarsgaard and Ellen Page's eco-terrorist group (at least until it goes south in its last third) and the Paul Rudd - Emile Hirsch two - hander Prince Avalanche makes the most of its pastoral settings and gently bro - centric chattiness, to name just two.

«Wild's» Best Picture nomination prospects will depend on Fox Searchlight's ability to channel a passionate fan base for the film.

Both highly acclaimed films that got picked up by major companies (Sony Classics and Fox Searchlight, respectively), they are definitely films to watch out for...

(«Her toleration of dissent,» wrote the typically mild - mannered Sarris in a slightly later FILM COMMENT, «is comparable in degree to Spiro Agnew's... Her critical apparatus has more in common with a wind machine than with a searchlight.»)

«In America» (Fox Searchlight) Samantha Morton stars in and Jim Sheridan directs this film based on the semi-autobiographical screenplay written by Sheridan's two daughters Naomi and Kirsten.

The Walker George film «Young@Heart», distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures in the US and Canada, had a successful run.

«Far From the Madding Crowd,» another remake of older film — the original with Julie Christie and Alan Bates came out in 1967 — went from 576 to 865 theaters and brought in $ 606,000 in its fourth week for Fox Searchlight.

Searchlight's main competition has been Focus Features, the prestige film division of Universal, which this year racked up an impressive 14 nominations for «Phantom Thread» and «Darkest Hour.»

Fox Searchlight also premiered a third film to positive reviews at the festivals, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris» «Battle of the Sexes.»

Fortunately, that dubious distinction was averted whenthe film was picked up by Fox Searchlight.

In its prime, Searchlight could walk into any major film festival as every filmmaker's fantasy buyer, knowing that it could scoop up whatever it wanted.

Filming on this Fox Searchlight production is expected to get underway in late spring, so we'll keep you posted on this one when we hear more.

This image released by Fox Searchlight Pictures shows Sally Hawkins, left, and Doug Jones in a scene from the film «The Shape of Water.»

In this film publicity image released by Fox Searchlight Pictures, James Franco is shown in a scene from «127 Hours.»

Fox Searchlight, which is releasing the film, says it «recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

Co-founded by presidents Howard Cohen and Eric d'Arbeloff, in 2016 Roadside Attractions» films out - grossed the slates of such well - established specialty divisions as Fox Searchlight, TWC, and Sony Classics.

The below list only includes domestic (U.S. and Canada only, unless otherwise indicated) grosses for specialty films — which we define to include independent, foreign (including Bollywood films), and / or documentary films — that opened in limited release (599 screens and under) in 2018 AND / OR were acquired or produced for 2018 distribution by an independent distributor (including STX Films, Annapurna, A24, Entertainment Studios, Amazon, Netflix, Aviron, Global Road, and Bleecker Street) or a studio or its specialty division (including Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics, and Focus Features).

This year's SXSW film line - up features a lot of big studio films such as Paramount's A Quiet Place, Universal's Blockers, and Fox Searchlight's Isle of Dogs but there are as always a lot of smaller films that are worthy of your attention too.

Fox Searchlight has debuted a new international trailer for their upcoming The Shape Of Water, the outstanding new film from acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del...

A footnote to the film reveals the extent to which the specifics of what happened in Boston were and of course still are replicated the world over, at which point Spotlight exists to shine a searchlight on a moment from history that human behaviour tragically refuses to leave consigned to the past.

The film next lands in Toronto and then closes the London Film Festival in October ahead of a November 10 U.S. release via Searchlight.

The stop - motion animated film, opening via Fox Searchlight, includes an impressive ensemble cast along with newcomers in a cross-cultural and species amalgam.

Produced by Fox Searchlight (Scott Free Productions, the late Tony Scott and Ridley Scott share producing credits), this was the first US film of the Korean director mostly known for his «vengeance trilogy»: Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot, 2002), Oldboy (Oldeuboi, Grand Jury Prize at Cannes 2003) and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chinjeolhan geumjassi, 2005).

«Belle «Why It Could Be A Contender: Amma Asante «s first film, 2004's «A Way Of Life,» was little seen outside the U.K., but her belated follow - up, shouldn't suffer the same fate, having been picked up in North America by Fox Searchlight, and now heading for TIFF.

And it's certainly true that most of the companies that would seem like natural fits for a film like this — TWC, Focus, Fox Searchlight — have their slates pretty full already.

At Searchlight Television, the early emphasis appears to be on mining the studio's feature film library for adaptations, in addition to developing original material.

Fox Searchlight Pictures has released the first trailer for the new film Demolition by Jean - Marc Vallée (Wild, Dallas Buyers Club) and we have it for you below!

«Scarlett Johansson is in final negotiations to star in Fox Searchlight's World War II film Jojo Rabbit, sources tell Variety.

Fox Searchlight has debuted the first official trailer on Apple for the Sundance hit Martha Marcy May Marlene, which many of my friends and colleagues referred to as their favorite film of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.