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By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Not long ago, informed speculation pegged Danny Boyle’s next movie with Fox Searchlight as the story of Aron Ralston, the mountain climber who amputated his own arm to free himself from being trapped by a boulder. Now we know that is in fact his upcoming picture. The film even has a name: 127 H...

By William Goss In the 2007 awards season, Fox Searchlight had two strong films in the mix with Juno and The Savages, and then in 2008, they dominated with Slumdog Millionaire and The Wrestler. As many other indie arms were folding (Paramount Vantage, Warner Independent, Picturehouse), Searchlight ma...

By Cinematical staff Gentlemen Broncos could have been great. It's about a teenage boy (Michael Angarano) whose fantasy novel featuring an underdog hero on a nonsensical planet (Sam Rockwell) is stolen by not only his washed-up hero author (Jemaine Clement) at a crash-course writing camp, but two insuffer...

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By Jette Kernion The new biopic about Amelia Earhart, Amelia, succeeds in portraying the famous aviatrix in a whole new light ... as a mundane soap-opera character with relationship issues. The movie looks beautiful and is obviously being released now with Oscar hopes, but it is a dull, uninspired recounti...

By Peter Martin After sending digital files of what they were working on, the animators received "detailed e-mail instructions about what to change" from Anderson, who also acted out certain scenes for them as reference material. The proof is in the pudding, as they say, and we'll get to see for ourselve...

By Hugh Hart After more than two years of start-and-stops, it finally looks like Arrested Development, the TV cult-com that launched poster geek Michael Cera’s career, will get a second life on the big screen. Mitchell Hurwitz, who in 2003 created the critically adored Fox comedy about the hilariou...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) No Related Post A Ramones biopic -- that being a film that sounds inherently cartoonish in the first place -- would be nothing without the band's music and the leeway to find great talent. An independent production based on the book I Slept with Joey Ramone, written by Joey's brother Mickey...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Fox Searchlight has released a second movie trailer for Wes Anderson’s animated adaptation Fantastic Mr. Fox. When the first trailer was released, I’ll admit that I didn’t quite think Anderson’s visual style translated well to stop motion animation. But the more I’ve seen from clips, fea...

By Peter Hall Quirkiness only carries so far. Napoleon Dynamite, the film that ushered in the career of Gentlemen Broncos director Jared Hess, is enjoyable because it cherishes the nervous-twitches of puberty, identity crisis, and the weird kind of people who worship at Walmart strip malls. The dire...

By William Goss In the wake of the move, two comedies -- Zombieland and Whip It -- have moved up their own October release dates to fill the void, and if there's any justice, we'll see Woody Harrelson accept a blood-splattered Oscar in DiCaprio's stead. And if Coming Soon and Box Office Mojo are to be believe...

By Jeffrey M. Anderson In comedy, there is a function known as a "straight man." Bud Abbott of Abbott and Costello and Oliver Hardy of Laurel and Hardy are the best-known examples of this. Their job is basically to be the springboard for the goofier member of the team, as well as other, more commonplace duties like r...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Meanwhile, the other day I mentioned that the film would premiere at the BFI London Film Festival (instead of at Venice, to which Fox Searchlight had reportedly applied, or TIFF) and wondered if that meant the movie wasn’t any good. Fox Searchlight contacted The Playlist and said it was th...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Risky Business says that Fox Searchlight is close to grabbing Darren Aronofsky’s new prestigious genre-thriller Black Swan. The only hitch is the budget, which Searlight has been tryinh to work out in recent months. Searhlight makes the most sense as they did a great job with Aronofsky’s...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Meanwhile, when will we get a trailer? There was a lot of speculation that one would be attached to Ice Age 3 or 500 Days of Summer, but our sources now say we won’t see anything until August. But attached to what? Fox only has Post Grad that month, and Fox Searchlight isn’t pushing anything at a...

She also said that My Life in Ruins had the highest testing scores in Fox Searchlight history. That's highly unlikely as Fox Searchlight has released films such as Slumdog Millionaire, Juno, The Wrestler and Little Miss Sunshine among others and My ...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Danny Boyle has drawn up a three-year production deal with Fox Searchlight and Pathe Pictures, according to Variety. Both companies were involved in Slumdog Millionaire; through this deal the two companies will co-finance and co-produce Boyle’s next project(s) over the next three ye...

 IL I mean, it's kind of an indie movie, but it was actually produced by Fox Searchlight, who's owned by Fox. I think the point is it doesn't really matter necessarily who's paying the bills. What matters is who are the people that are making the movie. ...

By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Fox Searchlight Pictures, traileraddict Fox Searchlight has released a new trailer for for their upcoming romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer that, unlike the first trailer, actually provides dialogue from the film. ...

My Life in Ruins" (Fox Searchlight): Opened to $3.2 million, about what was expected given that the low-budget comedy played at only 1164 theaters. 10. "Dance Flick" (Paramount): The Wayans Brothers spoof grossed $2 million on its third weekend, ...

The studio had originally been set up under the supervision of Peter Rice, who had enjoyed considerable success as head of Fox Searchlight, the specialty outfit responsible for Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, and Slumdog Millionaire. ...

By Hamilton Nolan Rubina Ali was plucked from the slums of Mumbai to star in Slumdog Millionaire, which went on to be a smash hit around the world. Too bad absolutely nothing good came of that! Again: absolutely nothing good came out of this feel-good movie, unless you're Rupert Murdoch. Times UK]

By Jeffrey M. Anderson How they're friends is one of the movie's greatest mysteries, aside from, you know, the one about how it ever got made. These two morons react to everything with bug eyes and jaws agape, sometimes comically screaming and sometimes not. Cregger is a self-righteous, hypocrite prig, and Moor...

By Hugh Hart After Hugh Jackman's song and dance kick-off, the 81st Annual Academy Awards Show got down to business when Penelope Cruz picked up Best Supporting Actress Award for her role as Javier Bardem's insanely fiery ex-lover Maria Elena in Vicky, Cristina Barcelona. "Has anybody ever fainted...

By rss@youtube.com (FreeMovieKey) Release Date: November 12, 2008 (limited; wide: Dec. 19) Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures Director: Danny Boyle Screenwriter: Simon Beaufoy Starring: Dev Patel, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R (for some violen...

By Erik Davis The feel-good, Fox Searchlight-y film of the festival, 500 Days of Summer is like When Harry Met Sally ... if Sally turned around and repeatedly stabbed Harry in the heart with a toothpick. It's an anti-fairytale about a boy who falls head over dress shoes for the kind of girl who doesn't believ...

By Brian But Aronofsky and screenwriter Robert Siegel stay true to The Ram all the way to the end. Having gotten through most of the major releases of the year, Rourke’s work here is my personal favorite for the best of the year, and he elevates a movie that might have otherwise felt routine.        Dir...

Christian Science Monitor  NJ - Small, poignant and perfect, this is the year's best film. "The Wrestler," a Fox Searchlight Pictures release, is rated R for violence, sexuality/nudity, ... The Wrestler - Movie Review h all 12 news articles

By Cinematical staff On a bright Toronto Morning, The Wrestler's director Darren Aronofsky still can't quite wrap his head around his past week: "It's been wild. Look, we started shooting in January; we finished the film five days ago. I was in Venice four days ago, with no buzz; three days ago, we won the Golden L...

By Alex Billington There is no questioning that Fox Searchlight picked up two of this year's best films - Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire and Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler. I'm excited to tell you that we have been exclusively provided with a video today featuring Danny Boyle chatting one-on-one with...

By Cinematical staff Filed under: Drama, Sports, Awards, Casting, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Celebrities and Controversy, Fox Searchlight, Oscar Watch, Toronto International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival We're reposting our review of The Wrestler form the Toronto International F...

By LAT Blogs If you're running an Oscar campaign for a low-budget movie that needs all the help it can get from rave reviews, as Fox Searchlight is doing right now with "The Wrestler," the very last thing you want in life is... Photo of Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler" by Niko Tavernise / Fox Searchlight

In this image released by Fox Searchlight pictures, Dev Patel, left, and Anil Kapoor are shown in a scene from "Slumdog Millionaire." Given its recent history, Mumbai is a city in need of a valentine – even one as warts-and-all gritty as "Slumdog Millionaire."

By Brian Strangely, Slumdog Millionaire feels both like a step up in some respects while also more of the same in others. It’s a film about a young Indian man, Jamal, who grows up in desperate poverty to become a grand prize contestant on the TV game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” One question aw...

By Josh Tate Is Slumdog Millionaire a story of coincidence? Partly. But mostly it's a story of destiny. When Jamal and his brother Salim were young orphans in Mumbai, they met a fellow orphan girl named Latika and that chance meeting eventually informed every event of Jamal's life. In his mind, he and Lat...

By Eric D. Snider It paid off, too -- the acclaim for the film was nearly universal. (Read Cinematical's James Rocchi's rave review here.) Now, in advance of the film's limited release on Dec. 31 (just in time to qualify for Rourke's inevitable Oscar nomination), Fox Searchlight has released the first trail...

By STV If or when the U.S. Treasury stumbles too badly to stop America's slide into recession, we'll always have Fox Searchlight to bail us out. The mini-major had another specialty smash last weekend with Slumdog Millionaire, the Mumbai-based genre-bender whose $35,043 per-screen average wa...

By Steve Mason The film adaptation of the 1960’s era Sue Monk Kidd bestselling novel The Secret Life of Bees (Fox Searchlight) is the biggest surprise of the weekend. This "chick flick" is working in a big way coaxing $4M in opening day sales, and it will buzz to about $12.4M. With only 1,600 or so screens, thi...

By James Rocchi But don't believe the hype -- or, more importantly, look past it; if a complicated, messy personal life were all it took to deliver a great performance, Paris Hilton and O.J. Simpson would have more Oscars than Katharine Hepburn. Rourke's work as Randy is physical, invested, powerful and sp...

By Eric D. Snider Slumdog Millionaire, about a Mumbai street kid who strikes it rich on an Indian game show before having his knowledge called into question, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next week. And now it'll hit multiplexes, too, on Nov. 28, thanks to a deal hammered out this...

By Peter Martin David Ayer's Street Kings (Fox Searchlight) should be included, I suppose, because it's distributed by an studio specialty division known for its indie releases, though not much about the police drama screams "indie." By the per-screen numbers, it finished third, earning an average o...

Last year, Little Miss Sunshine took home the Chairman’s Vanguard award. This year, Drew Barrymore presented Juno with that honor. Both films are from Fox Searchlight. Juno is fast becoming Searchlight’s biggest hit ever, approaching Little Miss Sunshine at $59.9 million and Sideways at...

By Jette Kernion Earlier this year, Under the Same Moon (originally titled La Misma Luna) was bought at Sundance by Fox Searchlight and The Weinstein Company for a surprisingly high amount of money. It's understandable because underneath the film's unsubtle messages about undocumented Mexican worke...

By Erik Davis There are a couple different ways to approach reviewing The Darjeeling Limited. I can look at it from the mainstream audience's point of view, or I can look at it from the point of view of a long-time Wes Anderson fan -- which, coincidentally, I happen to be. The first thing my friend said to me a...

By Ryan Stewart It's made clear early on that her character suffered some kind of off-the-charts post-partum depression after the birth of Joshua (Jacob Kogan), and as the film opens, she's just given birth to a second child, one that mom and dad silently hope will not grow to have the demeanor of an adole...

By Mark Fox Searchlight picks up the dark comedy Bonzai Shadowhands, which Rainn Wilson is writing as a starring vehicle for himself in which he'll play "a once-great ninja living a life of mediocrity." Whatever they gave him, he deserves three million more. [THR]

By Mark Fox Searchlight picks up the dark comedy Bonzai Shadowhands, which Rainn Wilson is writing as a starring vehicle for himself in which he'll play "a once-great ninja living a life of mediocrity." Whatever they gave him, he deserves three million more. [THR]

By Mark Chris Rock will star in I Think I Love My Wife, a remake of the French film Chloe in the Afternoon. Clearly making a break with the Head of State era, Rock declared, "I can't wait to make a sophisticated comedy with all the good people at Fox Searchlight." [THR]

By Mark Chris Rock will star in I Think I Love My Wife, a remake of the French film Chloe in the Afternoon. Clearly making a break with the Head of State era, Rock declared, "I can't wait to make a sophisticated comedy with all the good people at Fox Searchlight." [THR]

By Mark · Babyfaced Fox Searchlight head Peter Rice (we're going from his headshot, we wouldn't recognize him if he crashed into us making an unprotected left) will head up a new, teen-focused division at Fox, and gets right into the role by talking the kids' language: "The way they are consuming...