Fox Searchlight Pictures

Will Crazy Heart be this year's The Wrestler?

source: Examiner.com

Film School Rejects (blog) From the Fox Searchlight website: Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, ... CRAZY HEART poster & Oscar buzzObsessed With Film “Crazy Heart” TrailerIndie Wire

Published Tue, Nov 17

Fox Searchlight Buys Aronofsky’s Black Swan

source: /FILM

Just Sunday night Peter reported a couple of great cast additions to Black Swan, the next film from Darren Aronofsky. In the same article he noted that Fox Searchlight was reportedly close to picking up the project. Now the deal is done and the studio is indeed on board.

Published Tue, Nov 10

Exclusive: Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, and Barbara Hershey Join Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan

source: /FILM

Aronofsky became attached to Black Swan in early 2007, but the film was put into turnaround by Universal. The project is apparently making the rounds to studios and specialty divisions, as part of the CAA package. Mark Heyman, co-producer of The Wrestler, has done a rewrite of the orig...

Published Sun, Nov 8

What's the State of Fox Searchlight?

source: Cinematical

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...

Published Wed, Nov 4

Nia Vardalos thinks she's talented

source: Examiner.com

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 ...

Published Mon, Jun 15

Drew Barrymore Honors Lupus LA Efforts

source: Just Jared

 NY The 34-year-old actress presented the “Loop Award” to Nancy Utley, President of Fox Searchlight Films, the studio that brought us The Wrestler and eight-time Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire. Utley was honored for her efforts to further the cause of ...

Published Fri, May 29

Sky's the limit for TNA's Daniels

source: postandcourier.com

 SC Christopher Daniels and Rowdy Roddy Piper (right) were among the guests of Fox Searchlight at the premiere of "The Wrestler" earlier this year. “I think TNA's growth has always been real slow and steady,” he says. “We've never made momentous (leaps) ...

Published Sat, May 23

Fox Searchlight To Distribute Fantastic Mr. Fox

source: Screen Rant

which is why they may have decided to release the animated film Fantastic Mr. Fox under their indie division Fox Searchlight. Searchlight has had a recent string of hits including, Napoleon Dynamite, Juno, The Wrestler and this year's Oscar powerhouse ...

Published Mon, May 11