She joined the company in 2006 and has managed all international marketing functions, working across the entire
Searchlight slate, including the recent overseas campaigns for Best Picture Oscar winner The Shape Of Water ($ 113M + international box office) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri ($ 103M +).
The International division is a specialized marketing and distribution team that oversees the offshore release of
the Searchlight slate.
She joined the company in 2006 and has managed all international marketing functions, working across the entire
Searchlight slate, including the recent overseas campaigns for Best Picture Oscar winner The Shape Of Water ($ 113M + international box office) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri... Read
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Why It Might Not:
Searchlight's awards
slate is thin, but that's because they're going to be focusing most of their energies on Steve McQueen «s «12 Years A Slave» (and potentially, «Enough Said «-- see below).
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.
In recent years, Walt Disney Pictures has never shown the prowess for prestige movies or the ability to capture awards attention the way
Searchlight has — and it has also shied away from the more adult - oriented and R - rated fare that is a staple of the indie unit's
slate.
Fox
Searchlight could have another healthy
slate this year and the studio has clearly caught and maintained its prestige stride.
The film is
slated to begin production in the late fall once a director is in place and will be overseen by Fox
Searchlight Pictures President of Production Claudia Lewis and SVP of Production David Greenbaum.
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.
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.
Theatrical exhibition is dying, Fox is disappearing into the Disney fold — indie arm Fox
Searchlight is operating «business as usual» this year, but it could very well be their last — and Netflix, driver of big deals in the recent past, has 80 films of their own
slated already, so no one knows how much they're really looking to acquire (they were relatively quiet at TIFF last fall).