Sentences with phrase «searchlight did»

The film would be a prime candidate for any distributor looking to bolster its awards season slate, as Fox Searchlight did last year when it acquired Pablo Larraín's «Jackie» out of the festival, and went on to earn an Oscar nomination for star Natalie Portman.

This year, Searchlight didn't buy anything at Sundance.

When you've had as much success tapping into the «grey pound» (or dollar) as Fox Searchlight did with The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, it makes perfect sense to try again.

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 representatives at Disney, what they've said publicly and what we've heard privately is: They are truly excited about the films Searchlight does.

It's set for release via Fox Searchlight on September 12th, suggesting heavily it will make its one and only festival stop at Toronto just before (though Fox Searchlight does love showing their films at Telluride).

Not exact matches

Suppose that on a dark night you see the beam from a searchlight, or a lighthouse, moving about the sky, or sweeping over the sea; the beam in some sense preserves its identity and yet you do not think of its being a «thing.»

Not only did Fox Searchlight gross over $ 150 million for the fourth straight year, but it also had several major critical successes, including The Tree of Life and The Descendants 84.

Disney's pending acquisition of Fox has some worried about the future of the stalwart distributor Fox Searchlight and its appetite coming into Sundance (heads Nancy Utley and Steve Gilula say they arrive with slots to fill and intend to play the game same as they always do).

The Do - Deca Pentathlon premiered at this year's SXSW Film Festival and has been picked up by Red Flag Releasing and Fox Searchlight.

Searchlight tried to save face with a press conference at last year's TIFF, but the damage had already been done.

Long - running «Enough Said» (Fox Searchlight) took in another $ 126,000 in 121 to get to $ 17.2 million, while «Kill Your Darlings» (Sony Pictures Classics) did $ 72,306, now at $ 765,000.

A coming - of - age movie by Faxon and Rash feels right at home with this studio, but how does it compare to Fox Searchlight's best films?

Mark Duplass: Well, we did work with a studio, but it's Fox Searchlight, so you know, this is what they want to be doing.

While there was brief talk earlier this year that Fox Searchlight might possibly drop Wes Anderson «s «The Grand Budapest Hotel» into the awards season race, it doesn't look like that's going to happen.

In 2014 we talked to Searchlight about it and I suggested we do it between seasons of the television show.»

Bit of a phenomenon, Night Watch did extremely good box office in its native Russia and was quickly picked up for U.S. and international distribution by Fox Searchlight, Fox's «indie» distributor.

Fox Searchlight Pictures and BBC Films have announced that principal photography is done and dusted on upcoming film «The Aftermath», which stars...

I've kept my pledge to do so, and haven't watched the first 12 minutes of the film, which Fox Searchlight released last week.

Mounting something at this late date can be done (Fox Searchlight bought both Oscar - contenders «The Wrestler» and «Jackie» in Toronto), but it's a tall order.

Because I don't understand why ¬ † Fox Searchlight ¬ † is staying in the Hilary Swank biz, especially after last year's ¬ † Amelia was such a total loser at the box office.

The issue for Searchlight will be convincing them to pay 10 bucks for a documentary, let alone one that doesn't lean on the competition as its organizing principal, and whose personal narratives are in some ways not that different from what's available on a plethora of reality - heavy cable channels.

Fox Searchlight's «Dom Hemingway» (Fox Searchlight), much wider in 129 theaters (+89) managed only $ 142,000, and $ 297,000 in its fourth weekend, and doing poorly.

NC - 17 films traditionally do poor business, and a Variety reporter — knowing that the interests of artists and audiences count for little alongside the bank accounts of industry people — recently chided Fox Searchlight Pictures for not cutting the film to get a better rating.

Overlooked here by the Spirit Awards either because their budgets didn't meet qualification or otherwise: Searchlight's Battle of the Sexes and The Shape of Water (that Guillermo del Toro movie has a reported production cost north of $ 30M); Taylor Sheridan's Wind River, which won best director at Un Certain Regard at Cannes; and Focus Features» slate of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Phantom Thread (which technically starts screening this weekend), Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled which won her best director at Cannes, and Joe Wright's Darkest Hour.

«We believe in Taika as a filmmaker, and we felt like this was a movie where we can make it on our scale and the right way... He doesn't have to sand off the edges, doesn't have to change the humor,» said Matthew Greenfield, who heads up production for Fox Searchlight with David Greenbaum.

This one already belongs to Fox Searchlight, so short of a «Margaret» scenario befalling it (knock on wood that doesn't happen), we should see what Park has up his sleeve before the year is out.

«All the signals we've gotten point to the fact that Disney is happy if this deal goes through to have Searchlight be part of it and keep doing what we do,» said Fox Searchlight president Nancy Utley, speaking by phone Tuesday morning after the nominations were announced.

There was no way Fox Searchlight wasn't going to sell «Jackie» by capturing the look and feel of its subject in the marketing, and they managed to do just that with this stately one - sheet.

Fox Searchlight's Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie did decently in its start in 313 theaters, while last week's doc opener Hillary's America did solid... Read

So how did Boyhood, with its 100 score on Metacritic, lose out to Fox Searchlight «s Birdman right when it counted?

Fox Searchlight Pictures has announced that filming has wrapped on Tolkien, director Dome Karukoski's (Tom of Finland) biopic of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien, which stars Nicholas Hoult (Rebel in the Rye) as Tolkien and Lily Collins (Rules Don't Apply) as his wife Edith.

Ellison, who did not attend Berlin, practiced her own Wing Chun in Berlin to sweep the legs from under Weinstein Co., Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics and Focus Features, who were in the mix to nab the rights as well.

My list of didn't - see - yet shame includes: Eskil Vogt's Blind that everyone raved about, Brendan Gleeson's Calvary which Fox Searchlight picked up, German drama Wetlands, Jake Paltrow's sci - fi western Young Ones, Jim Mickle's Cold in July, bedtime horror The Babadook that some said is the best of the fest, Mark Duplass & Elisabeth Moss in The One I Love, Jenny Slate in Obvious Child, A.J. Edwards» Lincoln film The Better Angels, plus the highly praised closing night film They Came Together, not to mention the Audience Award winning doc Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory.

I had hoped Fox Searchlight would screen Tony Goldwyn's «Conviction» here in LA during Toronto, but I guess I kind of understand why they didn't.

Fox Searchlight chose not to push this movie for awards consideration, and I'm disappointed they didn't give this more support.

The last two winners of the Best Picture Oscar came from Fox Searchlight, the mini-major which doesn't have a stronger contender on its menu this season.

Character dramas this rich and complicated don't come along too often, so I see why it scared Fox Searchlight, but it's one of the best movies of the last couple years.

Do you have thoughts on this new deal between Guillermo del Toro and Fox Searchlight Pictures?

Although it didn't repeat its top prize win, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» also from Fox Searchlight, took home the acting ensemble award, while Sam Rockwell earned his second trophy of the week in the Supporting Actor category, which the presenters noted has indicated an Oscar win for the last eight out of nine years.

As it did this week at the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes, Fox Searchlight's Birdman lands the most nominations at today's announcement of the Chicago Film Critics Association with nine.

It can be kind of dark and discouraging down there, but Mrs. Dyck often comes down with a bright searchlight to remind us that we don't have to stay down there for long.

The Castiglioni Brother's didn't create their masterpiece until the 1960s but we reckon they were Art Deco fans — the searchlight silhouette and mirrored surfaces evoke the era to perfection!