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Not exact matches

The movie — which is also being produced by Fox Searchlight — tells the true story of Richard Montanez who, according to Variety, «rose from humble beginnings to a successful businessman when he created a food phenomenon — Flamin» Hot Cheetos.»

If we turn the searchlight into the body polity in Nigeria, it will not be absolutely out of place to say the synonym for politics in Nigeria is banditry, regardless of who is in power.»

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.

For a guy who plays everything by the book, this convention will be anything but conventional --(C) Fox Searchlight

Aronofsky also solidified his relationship with 20th Century Fox, who released 2008's The Wrestler through Fox Searchlight, by signing a two year deal, according to Deadline.

Searchlight was later headed by Peter Rice, who now serves as president of 21st Century Fox.

The planned Disney acquisition marks the latest shift and has caused anxiety among some who have worked closely with Searchlight.

Comeback master Mickey Rourke took home the belt for Best Actor for his gritty, raw portrayal of a washed up professional wrestler who can't give up the spotlight in Fox Searchlight's The Wrestler, while Meryl Streep was awarded her first WAFCA award by winning Best Actress for her turn as a strict Catholic school nun seeking the truth in Miramax's Doubt.

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.

This premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year where it was acquired by Fox Searchlight, who's planning on bringing Another Earth to limited theaters starting on July 22nd this summer.

Due to vagaries of scheduling, A24 is releasing «While We're Young» March 27 after which Fox Searchlight will eventually open enchanting comedy «Mistress America,» which Baumbauch wrote with his partner and actress muse Greta Gerwig (who collaborated with him memorably on «Frances Ha»), creating Brooke, the most entertaining screwball heroine since Holly Golightly.

If there's any unifying factor, it's Peter Rice, who ran Fox Searchlight before moving on to the television side.

Starring a splendid Sally Hawkins as a 1960s cleaning lady who forms a most unusual bond with a green - scaled merman (Doug Jones), the movie, which will be released by Fox Searchlight in December, ranked among the most purely satisfying entertainments in Toronto.

Content makers, reps from talent agencies and producers have been assured that the full acquisition team from Fox Searchlight will be on the ground in Park City, as well as 20th Century Fox Film head Stacey Snider, multiple individuals who spoke with TheWrap said.

Towleroad Stranger Things «Barb» actress Shannon Purser has come out as bisexual Variety Chris Pratt admits he was taken off guard by the harsh criticism of Passengers In Contention Fox Searchlight lines up multiple Oscar hopefuls a year after the Birth of a Nation debacle Playbill Anika Noni Rose set to play a who, along with her daughters, becomes the center of a hacking media storm in Assassination Nation Tracking Board Will Smith circling the genie role in the live action remake of Disney's Aladdin musical Playbill the Drama League Nominations for 2017 Film School Rejects on Hollywood's fascination with de-aging its stars and why, storytelling wise, this is generally a bad idea

Nikki Finke wonders aloud about why Fox Searchlight has taken the plunge again on a Hilary Swank project, which re-teams director Tony Goldwyn and screenwriter Pamela Grey (who last worked together on the Diane Lane female fantasy pic,...

Robbie, who stars in Suicide Squad and The Wolf Of Wall Street, will play Milne's wife Daphne in the Simon Curtis - directed film from Fox Searchlight.

Besides «I, Tonya,» Robbie is also set to star in the Fox Searchlight biopic «Goodbye Christopher Robin,» where she will play the wife of author A.A. Milne, who created «Winnie the Pooh.»

An ensemble of incredible actors who are working at the very top of their craft, a wildly original story from Guillermo's one - of - a-kind mind, and the brilliant team at Fox Searchlight to shepherd us along.

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.

Clearly, having already opened the movie at Sundance Searchlight is taking out «Mistress America» — in which lonely New York college freshman Tracy (Lola Kirke) is taken in by her almost stepsister, Brooke (Greta Gerwig), a dangerously entertaining urban sophisticate who draws her into her crazy schemes — in the quieter August corridor rather than taking it on the more congested and expensive fall festival route.

This Friday, Fox Searchlight opens enchanting comedy «Mistress America,» which Baumbauch wrote with his partner and actress muse Greta Gerwig (who collaborated with him memorably on «Frances Ha»), creating Brooke, the most entertaining screwball heroine since Holly Golightly.

(Thanks to phantom, who proposes what looks to be an airtight formula: «Clooney + Payne + Fox Searchlight = Oscar Gold?»)

Last week's PTA winner, A Bigger Splash from Searchlight held its own in its second frame, while fellow holdovers The Man Who Knew Infinity from IFC Films and Sony Classics» The Meddler showed zest in their expansions.

Robbie, who last year starred in both Suicide Squad and Legend of Tarzan, has two movies, both true life dramas, in the can: Miramax's I, Tonya and Fox Searchlight's Goodbye Christopher Robin.

«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.

«Trance» is looking likely for a March 2013 release in the U.K. Fox Searchlight, who released Boyle's «Slumdog Millionaire» and «127 Hours,» is releasing the picture stateside, but no date has been announced yet.

The actress / writer / producer lit up Sundance a year ago with the one - two punch of «Another Earth» and «Sound of My Voice,» and quickly found a home with Fox Searchlight, who not only agreed to distribute both of those films, but are also backing this one.

Now Anne Thompson reports that Searchlight, and several others, have been beaten to the punch by Sony Pictures Classics, who have acquired the North American -LSB-...]

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 Searchlight team watched the nominations over «a big breakfast and a lot of yelling and screaming,» Utley said, and shared a phone a call with Shape of Water writer - director Guillermo del Toro, who was hopping on a plane to Tokyo for the rollout of his film in Japan, and e-mail with Three Billboards writer - director Martin McDonagh.

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.

(Kerry Hayes Fox Searchlight Films) Sally Hawkins plays a custodian who befriends a creature imprisoned in a government lab in the Cold War, in director Guillermo Del Toro's drama «The Shape of Water.»

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.

A Fox Searchlight pickup for worldwide distribution, which scored the Sundance Institute's Alfred P. Sloan Prize this year, «I Origins» turns on a molecular biologist, played by Michael Pitt, who along with his lab partner (Brit Marling) discover startling evidence that could unhinge humanity.

The deal was brokered by Fox Searchlight's sr. vice-president of acquisitions and co-productions Ray Strache and executive v.p. of business affairs Megan O'Brien with Muriel Sauzay, Pathe's executive v.p. for international sales, who represented the film.

We're a bit behind on some Sundance coverage, but we're catching up now, and the first thing I wanted to bring you guys was our interview with actor & comedian Ed Helms, who stars as Tim «Timbo» Lippe in Fox Searchlight's Cedar Rapids (watch the trailer) that is coincidentally arriving in theaters this very weekend!

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).

The first trailer for Fox Searchlight's upcoming drama Demolition has been released online, and we have it for you below... Directed by Jean - Marc Vallee (Wild, Dallas Buyers Club), Demotion stars Jake Gyllenhaal (Southpaw) «a successful investment banker who unravels after losing his wife in a tragic car crash.

Leading the pack is Fox Searchlight once again, who picked up Sean Durkin's film Martha Marcy May Marlene, starring Sundance sensation Elizabeth Olsen (the third Olsen sister), which is one of the most buzzed about films at this fest.

Now Anne Thompson reports that Searchlight, and several others, have been beaten to the punch by Sony Pictures Classics, who have acquired the North American rights for $ 3 million:

The Grand Budapest Hotel, also from Fox Searchlight (who scored a massive 21 nominations), also continues to rake in kudos landing right behind with eight.

Fox Searchlight is adapting Wilson, Clowes» graphic novel about a grumpy divorcée who lives in self - imposed exile because he hates and / or judges everyone.

Fox Searchlight has released a new red - band trailer for The Shape of Water, giving those of us who couldn't attend the Venice Film Festival a much closer look at Doug Jones «creature character known as «The Asset.»

However, for those who haven't been able to catch The Shape of Water just yet, Fox Searchlight has unveiled a new red band trailer in order to preview the upcoming del Toro flick.

After overachieving on the creatively satisfying blockbuster Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi has set Rebel Wilson to the cast of his new film, Jojo Rabbit, the Fox Searchlight WWII satire he wrote about a 10 - year old boy who struggles to find his place in an increasingly Fascist regime and turns to an imaginary friend when faced with the discovery that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.

Directed and co-written by her «Sound of My Voice» collaborator Zal Batmanglij, the Fox Searchlight thriller centers on an ex-FBI agent (Marling) who infiltrates an anarchist collective known as The East suspected of attacking corporate CEOs.

But what separates his latest screen effort, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Fox Searchlight)-- and could be what lands him in the Oscar race in a big way — is how he centers the film on Frances McDormand, who plays with ferocious intensity an angry, grieving mother facing down an incompetent police department and her own demons, without apology.

The Fox Golden Globes bash — which included 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight, FX, National Geographic and Hulu — was an early must - stop for Globes - goers who noshed on charcuterie and cheeses.