Sentences with phrase «like searchlights»

Yet the verticals take on a life apart from the historical record, as for every one of these artists, like searchlights in the night.

There are so many eyes scouring forums and game jams like searchlights that you're unlikely to be the first one to plant the flag on the New Sensation.

Beneath intelligence as beneath perception, we discover a more fundamental function, «a vector mobile in all directions like a searchlight, one though which we can direct ourselves toward anything, in or outside ourselves, in relation to that object.»

The light has fallen directly into my eyes, directly onto me, like a searchlight; that's why the boys are laughing.

Finally, she and her husband Charles turned to adoption, and now they have Emma: a solemn child with a gaze that locks in like a searchlight.

Whether it's traditional players like Searchlight and Sony Pictures Classics, newer movers - and - shakers such as Amazon and Netflix or even upstarts like Neon and FilmRise, wallets have been opening up over the last week at Sundance.

Not exact matches

«It's like spotting a firefly next to a searchlight,» says Beichman.

Picking out a tiny little Earth in the nearby glare of its heat source is like trying to see a firefly hovering in front of a searchlight — only more difficult.

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That leaves among the major studios only Fox Searchlight and Sony Pictures Classics as bastions still nurturing movies that are more difficult for some — like this year's «12 Years a Slave» — but enduring.

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.

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For movie fans, one of the most important is: what is going to happen to Fox Searchlight, the indie branch that produced movies like The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri?

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

Although January 2018 lacks an Oscar movie like 2017's La La Land, cinema bookers are celebrating the fact that Darkest Hour and Fox Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri are shaping up to be collectively equivalent.

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.

While it is a light year for Best Actor contenders and it's possible to mount something late (Fox Searchlight bought both Oscar - contenders «The Wrestler» and «Jackie» in Toronto), it's a tall order for a fledgling studio like Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios, even with top - flight awards wranglers on board.

«We are all elated that a vibrant company like Fox Searchlight shares our enthusiasm for the film and faith in Jim and Nat as writers, directors and storytellers,» said Rice and Walsh.

Fox Searchlight may be campaigning this for Awards Season this year, but it seems like their main focus is on John Crowley's Brooklyn.

The film was met with much praise when it premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and was picked up by Fox Searchlight, a studio known for indie hits like Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, and, of course, The Descendants.

Far From the Madding Crowd looks like it falls firmly in Fox Searchlight's wheelhouse (in the period film way, not the quirky indie way), which seems like a good thing in this case.

Fox Searchlight has revealed the official trailer and poster for what is likely its main Oscar contender Youth today and like the European trailer from a few weeks ago, it's an emotional and lyrical piece of beauty.

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.

Based on the novel by Jesse Andrews, «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» definitely seems to have that Fox Searchlight flavor reminiscent of past films like «Little Miss Sunshine,» «Juno» and «The Fault in Our Stars.»

But there's one that looks like it'll close sooner rather than later: based - in - fact drama «Fruitvale,» about a young man killed by policemen in Oakland, has multiple suitors, with The Weinstein Company (said to be front - runners), Fox Searchlight, Paramount and Focus Features all interested, with a $ 2 million pricetag in place.

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

Searchlight will seek to emulate the Sundance - launched success it had in the past with the likes of «Napoleon Dynamite» and «Little Miss Sunshine» — other movies with quirky and appealing lead characters — but will need to sell a film that at heart is far more of a quiet drama than it might appear.

Contrary to rumor, it will stay on its March 9, 2012 release date (especially now that Fox Searchlight has filled its awards boat), but it nevertheless looks like the sort of film that could be a lighthearted awards play next year if they wanted it to be.

This is to say nothing of established competitors like Fox Searchlight, which put out best - picture winners like Birdman and 12 Years a Slave, or fellow newbies Broad Green Pictures and Bleecker Street.

«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.

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.

Give kudos to Searchlight for telling it like it is.

The Ross has become the Lincoln theater for a majority of the prestige releases, especially those released by independent companies or specialty branches of major studios, like Sony Pictures Classics and Fox Searchlight.

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«How easy it must be for a woman like your cousin Rachel to twist you around her little finger...» Fox Searchlight has unveiled a trailer for the upcoming romantic drama My Cousin Rachel, adapted from Daphne Du Maurier's novel of the same name.

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.

The Big Sick is the kind of film that big - studio boutique units like Fox Searchlight have shepherded to awards success in the past.

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.

Lionsgate and Fox Searchlight were two others in the mix as well as new companies like Broad Green and Alchemy.

At the risk of providing ad copy for Fox Searchlight, the film, which concerns a teenage girl's passion to play soccer, much to the dismay of her middle - class Indian family, plays like a combo of Love and Basketball and a much better My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Earlier this year, «The Way, Way Back» made waves at the Sundance Film Festival when Fox Searchlight bought the crowd favorite for a near - record $ 10 million, and though that may sound like a lot for a small indie movie, it was worth every penny.

So if Focus Features or Fox Searchlight or Roadside or Warner Bros. or Sony Pictures Classics, or Weinstein Co. or Paramount, Fox, or the fierce newbies like Open Road, A24, etc. are handling a film, it goes right to the top of the list — but especially when publicists we know are pushing those movies.

Now, add to that shows from networks like FX (maybe this would finally get people to watch The Americans), a backlog of classic television (In Living Color, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, all of The Simpsons), and movies from 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures (the Planet of the Apes franchise!

WHY: Earlier this year, «The Way, Way Back» made waves at the Sundance Film Festival when Fox Searchlight bought the crowd favorite for a near - record $ 10 million, and though that may sound like a lot for an indie movie, it was worth every penny.

The place I like to live the most is at Fox Searchlight because in 2014, they came to listen to a mad pitch with some drawings and the story and a maquette.

(Also MIA: go - to Sundance buyers like Fox Searchlight and The Weinstein Company, both awaiting the completion of deals by new owners).

A combination of searchlight / rear view mirror like the one added to this special drophead coupé had been a fashionable extra during the early post-war period.

THE SEARCHLIGHTS were like white lines being drawn on the cloudy evening sky.

This novel has a cast of amusing characters, a plot with a few surprises and is filled with wonderful prose like: «A passing car sent its searchlight - glare crazy and liquid over the sides of the buildings and into the trees, revealing not the colours, the daylight solidity of things, but a world of dark gaps cut from an empty skin of light».

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