» Read discussion on Fox Searchlight 05/28/11 While "The Hangover Part II" rocked the studio box office Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" opened to very strong numbers in 4 New York and Los Angeles theaters over the the holiday weekend. According to estimates, the long-awaited Palme d'Or winner took in $489,000 over the four-day weekend, averaging a potent $122,250. Its three-day average alone ($93,250) made it Fox Searchlight's best ...
05/26/11 Memorial Day weekend at movies has never exactly been associated with independent film. From this year's "Kung Fu Panda 2" and "The Hangover Part II" to various "Pirates," "Shreks" and superheroes, it's one of Hollywood's most reliable weekends for massive returns on tentpole releases. But the specialty market is not entirely immune to success over the holiday, and Fox Searchlight is clearly ...
05/04/11 Fox Searchlight, the division of 20th Century Fox that acquired and released the road-trip original, is in negotiations to finance and distribute the movie.
02/13/11 After six weeks of 2011's specialty box office essentially relying on 2010 Oscar contenders, Fox Searchlight has given the new year its first potential breakout with Miguel Arteta's "Cedar Rapids." According to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier today, the Ed Helms-John C. Reilly comedy grossed $310,789 from 15 theaters in 7 cities, averaging $20,719 (its the first '11 release to top a $20 ...
12/25/10 Fox Searchlight's most powerful movies of the year 127 Hours and Black Swanrecently topped the nomination picks for the 2011 Golden Globe Awards. Lead stars of both movies James Franco and Natalie Portman tapped new heights in their respective roles as they inhabit their characters to the nerve to give the world this year's most artistic breakthrough.
12/19/10 Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" continued its sensational run at the box office this weekend as Fox Searchlight took a cue from the film's strong limited release and pushed it to 959 screens. According to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier today, the result was an excellent $8,300,000 gross - pushing "Swan" to #6 on the overall box office chart. "Swan," a psychological thriller about a ...
11/18/10 Jay A. Fernandez On the heels of signing on to direct the "Wolverine" sequel, Darren Aronofsky has cut a two-year overall deal with Fox for his Protozoa Pictures. Aronofsky will develop and produce projects for Fox proper and Fox Searchlight, with "The Wolverine" being the first in the arrangement. read more
11/12/10 Is it Blue John Canyon? Or a soundstage in Sugar House? Hard to tell, as star James Franco plays climber Aron Ralston in the drama "127 Hours." Chuck Zlotnick | Fox Searchlight Films
11/02/10 ComingSoon.net's The Weekend Warrior offers a preview of the new releases opening on Friday, November 5 including DreamWorks Animation's Megamind , the Todd Phillips road comedy Due Date starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis, and Tyler Perry's star-studded adaptation of For Colored Girls . This week's "The Chosen One" is Danny Boyle's new survival thriller 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight ...
06/20/10 It looks like summer 2010 might have its first full-on specialty film breakout (it also seems to have quite the studio blockbuster in "Toy Story 3"). According to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier this afternoon, Fox Searchlight release "Cyrus" soared to a $180,289 gross from just 4 theaters. That gave it a $45,072 average - just a few hundred dollars less than 2010's current per-theater ...
05/12/10 ComingSoon.net's The Weekend Warrior offers a preview of the new releases opening on Friday, May 14, including Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (Universal) starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, the romance film Letters to Juliet (Summit) starring Amanda Seyfried, and the Queen Latifah basketball rom-com Just Wright (Fox Searchlight). No "Chosen One" or "Battle Cry" this week.
03/06/10 AP Photo/Fox Searchlight Mickey Rourke is shown in a scene from, "The Wrestler," a movie high on Netflix movie rental lists in Hudson County. Some county zip codes showed a varierty of preferences. What do our movie choices say about...
02/14/10 The year may have its first specialty hit in Karan Johar's "My Name Is Khan," which Fox Searchlight released in North America this weekend just as it was making its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival overseas. The film - about a Muslim who suffers from Asperger's sundrome who is detained at LAX after 9/11 after security mistakes his disability for suspicious behavior - grossed a ...
01/29/10 LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - January 29, 2010) - Hollywood Studios International ( PINKSHEETS : HYWS ) -- Director Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2010 to overwhelmingly positive reviews, resulting in the festival's most visible bidding war. Rumored suitors included Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics, The Weinstein Company ...
01/06/10 James Franco ("Spider-Man" films) will star in Fox Searchlight Pictures' 127 Hours , to be directed by Oscar winner Danny Boyle ( Slumdog Millionaire ).
11/24/09 ComingSoon.net's The Weekend Warrior offers a preview of the new releases opening over Thanksgiving weekend, specifically on Wednesday, November 25, which include the Robin Williams and John Travolta comedy Old Dogs (Disney) and the violent action-thriller Ninja Assassin (Warner Bros.), plus Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fox Searchlight) opens nationwide. This week's "The Chosen One" is John ...
11/05/09 Danny Boyle will direct 127 Hours for Fox Searchlight. The film tells the story of mountaineer Aron Ralston.
11/05/09 Danny Boyle and Fox Searchlight will reteam for '127 Hours,' a film that tells the story of mountaineer Aron Ralston.
09/29/09 ComingSoon.net's The Weekend Warrior offers a preview of the new releases opening on Friday, October 2, including the Sony horror-comedy Zombieland starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg, Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It (Fox Searchlight), the new Ricky Gervais comedy The Invention of Lying (Warner Bros.), and the Disney/Pixar rerelease of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 as a 3D Double ...
08/19/09 ComingSoon.net attends the press conference for the new Fox Searchlight comedy Post Grad , starring Alexis Bledel as Ryden Malby, a young woman trying to find her way in the world after graduating college and finding herself having to move back home with her strange family, played by Michael Keaton, Jane Lynch and Carol Burnett. Bledel was joined at the press conference by "Friday Night Lights" ... | 
