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Run by veteran co-presidents Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula (with production co-heads Matthew Greenfield and David Greenbaum, and acquisition executives Ray Strache and Megan O'Brien), Fox Searchlight makes movies designed to cost less than $ 15 million, but are backed by a worldwide machine.

But Iger's comments about Searchlight make me wonder if Disney is finally interested in exploring an area they haven't in a long time.

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.

It should be the searchlight of humanity which points out the path to the future — an earthly city made in the image of the New Jerusalem.

This post is made possible by support from Fox Searchlight Pictures.

This was after he made comments the supreme court considered contemptuous, and jailed him for three days in 2013, alongside NPP's Ken Kuranchie, then editor of the Daily Searchlight Newspaper, who was also jailed 10 - days for a similar offence.

With hundreds of aircraft constantly in the air and covering a wide expanse of water, it should be possible to make it extremely dangerous for any U-boat to show itself above the surface during daylight; and at night large seaplanes equipped with searchlights could make it almost as dangerous for submarines to rest on the surface while charging their batteries.»

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.

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.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl has already garnered some of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival's most enthusiastic reviews, but now Fox Searchlight & Indian Paintbrush have made a massive move to acquire the comedy - of - age comedy.

«Thank you to Fox Searchlight... they're making the kind of movies that we need to make, we want to make, and people need to see,» said J. Miles Dale.

Iger has voiced support for Searchlight and other Fox movie businesses, saying during a reporters» call shortly after the acquisition was announced in December that «we like being in the business of making quality movies.

Anyway, Fox Searchlight has made the track available along with A.R. Rahman's «Jaiho» for your listening pleasure.

It's unclear whether Searchlight will make 21st Century Fox outlets like FX or NatGeo a first stop in selling and developing projects.

Park Chan - wook, director of Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengenace, Lady Vengeance, Thirst and even JSA, makes his English - language debut this Friday, March 1, with Fox Searchlight's Stoker.

The only film in between was the indie «Ruby Sparks,» and with Fox Searchlight haven't to make some strategic choices between this, Guillermo del Toro's «The Shape of Water,» and Martin McDonagh's «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» will she and her counterpart receive the proper focus?

Distributor Fox Searchlight has made two new acquisitions from the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

Both are comic ventures of a sort that made a splash (one via widespread critical and audience enthusiasm, the other via a high - profile pickup by Fox Searchlight) at the Sundance Film -LSB-...]

Results are in for the most current Gold Rush Gang Oscar predictions and Fox Searchlight's Birdman continues to hold strong, Paramount's Selma rises and both IFC's Boyhood and The Weinstein Company's perceived main horse, The Imitation Game, make gains in multiple categories.

Coming to prominence thanks to (500) Days of Summer, the director then made the two Andrew Garfield Spider - Man films before returning to character - driven work with this spring's Gifted, which was a modest hit for Fox Searchlight.

After Anderson made his Cannes debut with «Moonrise Kingdom» in 2012, many had assumed that he'd be returning there with his latest, but with the film already completed, and Fox Searchlight setting a March release in the U.S, that looked to be ruled out, and Berlin became a more obvious option (not least because the film was mostly shot there).

Fox Searchlight was originally going to release Crazy Heart in the spring but decided to move up the release date in order to make a push for the Oscars.

Fox Searchlight is going to have to figure out a way to not make Slumdog Millionaire seem like LittleMissJunoaire.

For example, on The Tree of Life, he made a big mistake by according credit at the end of october to an announcement of a February release that was made by EuropaCorp some hours before the Fox Searchlight acquisition in september and was obviously cancelled by the Fox SearchLight announcement..

It's a definite possibility, but probably more likely is another Fox Searchlight pickup: John Crowley's «Brooklyn,» an old fashioned love story about an Irish immigrant making her way through 1950's - era New York that has Oscar written all over it.

The original film proved to be a surprised global hit when it grossed $ 135 million worldwide, prompting Fox Searchlight to make its first sequel ever.

As a follow - up to Wes Anderson's intricate Isle of Dogs set exhibition in London's The Store x 180 The Strand, Fox Searchlight pictures have recently shared footage providing a behind - the - scenes look at how the film's puppets were made.

Searchlight's co-President Nancy Utley was pleased and relieved by the positive reaction to the movie, and also has The Shape Of Water making its North American debut tonight, as well as throwing their annual party here later.

The documentary made a big impression on audiences and studio exeutives as well; Fox Searchlight acquired remake rights shortly after its release, and plans to turn it into a narrative feature.

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).

Far From The Madding Crowd Who Made It: Thomas Vinterberg Who's In It: Carey Mulligan, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Matthias Schoenarts, Juno Temp Where It Might Premiere: Fox Searchlight has delayed the release of the film until next May, though rumor has it that the film will make a fall festival debut anyway.

The $ 141 million (and counting) accrued from the staggered domestic theatrical distribution has made the film by far Fox Searchlight's most profitable; it has nearly doubled the gross of second place Sideways.

(He's made clear in interviews that there were disagreements, however friendly, between him and the studio, Fox Searchlight.)

«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.

«Dunkirk» claimed three awards, for sound editing, sound mixing, and editing, making Warner Bros. the runner - up distributor to six - time winner Fox Searchlight Pictures in the final 2018 Oscar tally.

In 2006, Little Miss Sunshine premiered at Sundance, sparked a major bidding war, made history when it was nabbed for $ 10.5 million from Fox Searchlight Pictures, and rode its charming script, lighthearted tone, and affecting performances to a boffo box office and a Best Picture nomination.

His newest, The Shape of Water, marks a return to prominence, with a Fox Searchlight - backed awards run poised to make it his highest profile release since Pan's Labyrinth won three Oscars.

Greenbaum, who joined Searchlight in 2010, worked at Miramax when the studio made films like There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

The Fox Searchlight title opens in a fairly busy weekend of Specialty newcomers, though it is the «widest release» among features making limited screen debuts.

I pointed out yesterday that Fox Searchlight is operating on a different plane when it comes to turning out the vote for its movies, and alongside the aforementioned surprise little hit of the final quarter of 2007 ($ 85 million and counting), further evidence arrives in the form of Tamara Jenkins» The Savages, which, despite not (yet) having connected at the box office (it's made only $ 3.6 million in a month and a half of release), garnered an expected Best Original Screenplay nomination, but also a Best Actress nod for Laura Linney, probably coming at the expense of Angelina Jolie and A Mighty Heart.

It's that attempt to create an easily marketable genre piece that quite obviously led Fox Searchlight and the film's producers to the doorstep of Training Day «s writer and Street Kings «helmer, David Ayer, who made his directorial debut with the similarly gritty Harsh Times, but can't be judged one way or another here, so convoluted is the story.

Perhaps the fate of Patti Cake $, which Fox Searchlight Pictures bought out of the festival last year for $ 9.5 million and made $ 1.5 at the box office, served as a kind of cautionary tale.

Asked to serve as the entirety of behind - the - scenes video are 23 Web Production Diaries (47:40) that were made available on Fox Searchlight's official website.

It gets enough names and faces in frame, let's admit, which is basically the thrust of Fox Searchlight's entire marketing campaign for the film — to make it seem like it's a really interesting, labyrinthine character ensemble cop actioner, like a gritty cross between Training Day and L.A. Confidential.

Fox Searchlight Advantages: Guillermo del Toro has made his name on crafting eerie and intricately beautiful films that subvert the traditional horror films he cut his teeth on, making the monster the hero here.

Fox Searchlight presidents Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley made the announcement Wednesday, prior to the film's premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

«The Descendants» (Toronto — Fox Searchlight Pictures) Probably the film that makes the most sense for an early Telluride bow (and I'm hearing it'll show up there), Alexander Payne's first film in seven years could be another dramedy master stroke, with George Clooney starring.

WB is probably annoyed «Mad Max» made the cut as are a number of other studios who thought they were in the mix such as Fox Searchlight with «Brooklyn» and The Weinstein Company with «Hateful Eight» (fans and critics will applaud at least).

Win Win — Tom McCarthy's most accessible film, a true Fox Searchlight movie in every way that you expect — it will make you laugh, cry, and features strong performances from the whole cast, particularly Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Bobby Cannavale, Burt Young and Jeffrey Tambor.

Though early sales got off to a slow start, the dam burst over the weekend and a few major sales were made for at least three high profile and highly regarded films: Gavin Wiesen's Homework was bought by Fox Searchlight, Drake Doremus» Like Crazy was bought by Paramount, and Jesse Peretz's My Idiot Brother was bought by The Weinstein Company.