Sentences with phrase «searchlight paid»

Fox Searchlight paid $ 17.5 m — the highest price tag in Sundance history — to acquire Nate Parker's slave uprising drama Birth of a Nation, which, in the high altitude, was prematurely hailed as a can't - miss Oscar contender.

So on reflection, given the lack of competition, it's perhaps more understandable why Fox Searchlight paid $ 5 million for Clark Gregg «s «Choke,» a not - especially - commercial Chuck Palahaniuk adaptation starring Sam Rockwell, Kelly Macdonald and Gillian Jacobs.

The $ 17.5 million that Fox Searchlight paid for The Birth of a Nation was the single biggest deal in Sundance history.

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Unlike SEO tools that lean on paid positioning and advertising, Searchlight helps brands connect with key buying personas via nonpaid channels such as the company website, organic searches and social media — «where most traffic comes from anyway,» says Conductor co-founder and CEO Seth Besmertnik.

Cesar's Way pays about $ 3,700 per month for its Searchlight service package, which was implemented in April 2014.

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.

The distributor's 2016 slate will include the buzzy 19th century slavery drama The Birth of a Nation, for which Fox Searchlight just paid a record $ 17.5 million to acquire at Sundance.

Last Sundance there was an explosion of big deals, from the eight - figures Amazon paid for Big Sick to the Searchlight - won auction for PattiCake $.

The wannabe indie crowd - pleaser Patti Cake $, which was bought by Fox Searchlight for a hefty $ 9.5 million, averaged an underwhelming $ 4,714 per screen, once again proving that the primary audience for these Sundance items is probably at Sundance and that the distributor that paid $ 12 million for Me And Earl And The Dying Girl and $ 17.5 million for The Birth Of A Nation should maybe consider setting a spending cap for future Sundance - hype - echo - chamber bidding frenzies.

But Fox Searchlight may best them as they're reportedly paying upwards of $ 10 million for «The Descendants» writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash «s directorial debut, «The Way, Way Back,» in a deal which THR has just confirmed is closed.

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 parent 20th Century Fox has an output deal with HBO, which means the pay - TV service gets a steady stream of the company's theatrical movies a set number of weeks after their home entertainment releases.

That tactic paid off for Searchlight's «12 Years a Slave,» which won best picture last year.

EXCLUSIVE: In a record - breaking deal for the Sundance Film Festival, Fox Searchlight is wrapping up a deal to pay around $ 17.5 million to acquire world rights for The Birth Of A Nation.

Fox Searchlight reportedly paid $ 10 million for the rights to The Way Way Back at Sundance in February.

Fox Searchlight wisely shifted her campaign from lead to supporting back in December and it payed off, as the «Crazy Heart» star now finds herself nominated for the first time opposite the year's likely Best Actor winner, Jeff Bridges (which can't hurt).

«The Birth of a Nation» Sells to Fox Searchlight for $ 17.5 Million Fox Searchlight closed a record - breaking deal to acquire worldwide rights to Nate Parker's «Birth of a Nation» for $ 17.5 million, which is believed to be the most paid for any film in Sundance history.

Fox Searchlight positioned the biopic Hitchcock into a prime awards release date and talk began of a possible nomination for Scarlett Johansson's turn as Janet Leigh, but ultimately the mixed reviews for both films and the lack of attention paid to the aforementioned actresses» work meant that they were very, very long shots for a nomination.

«A Birth of a Nation» Sells to Fox Searchlight Fox Searchlight closed a record - breaking deal to acquire worldwide rights to Nate Parker's «Birth of a Nation» for $ 17.5 million, which is believed to be the most paid for any film in Sundance history.