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  1. a powerful lamp that can be turned in any direction, used, for example, for finding people or vehicles at night

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Its art house production company, Fox Searchlight, will now be known as Searchlight Pictures.
A similar rebrand also took place at Fox Searchlight Pictures, which specialises in arthouse films, and will now be known as Searchlight Pictures.
The move, which has been expected, means that 20th Century Fox will become 20th Century Studios and Fox Searchlight Pictures will be shorted to just Searchlight Pictures, according to Variety.
Iger also suggested on the same investors call that Hulu will also use Fox's most prestigious studio division, Searchlight Pictures (formerly known as Fox Searchlight), to make exclusive content for Hulu.
Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley — cochairs of Searchlight Pictures
Four went to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, from Fox Searchlight; two went to The Shape of Water, from Fox Searchlight; and one went to The Greatest Showman, from 20th Century Fox proper.
It&aposs more than the $17.5 million that Fox Searchlight (now just Searchlight Pictures after the Disney-Fox merger) paid for Nate Parker&aposs slavery drama, "The Birth of a Nation," in 2016.
Fox Searchlight will release Isle of Dogs on March 23.
Fox Searchlight probably wasn't happy to lose that brand mention.
Fox Searchlight also distributed "Birdman," the reigning best picture winner.
At one point during McDormand's speech, she thanked Fox Searchlight.
I have a favor, though: Please leave Fox Searchlight alone.
A Hidden Life was acquired at Cannes by Fox Searchlight.
From the empty pulpit, the searchlight beacon pierces the darkness.
SEARCHLIGHT, FORGELIGHT / UNIVISION - Eight law firms advised on Univision Holdings Inc's deal to sell a majority stake to investment companies Searchlight Capital Partners and ForgeLight, the Spanish-language broadcaster said in a statement on Tuesday.
However, Fox Searchlight continues to support Parker and the film.   Sept.
Authorities have said Keith was not involved, according to the Record Searchlight.
"Nate Parker and Fox Searchlight, I am your audience," the posting said.
Apollo and Searchlight Capital are making a $4.3 billion bet on capitulation.
His wife had already returned to California, the Record Searchlight newspaper reported.
The Fox brands like Searchlight and FX might let them do that.
The Fox Searchlight title has brought in $9.1 million in four weeks.
As the lifeboat rounded the stern, its searchlight caught the name Pendleton.
Still, with this strategy, Fox Searchlight is probably mindful of Oscar history.
Now it has eight, including Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Blue Sky and Searchlight.
The movie has already been acquired for distribution by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
"I said I didn't receive any documents from China," he told the Searchlight.
The woman's gaze swept across Kass like a searchlight, but she didn't stop.
Zink has denied involvement in Tera's disappearance, according to The Redding Record Searchlight.
It quickly caught up and fixed the former tourist vessel in its searchlight.
FX and Fox Searchlight are prestigious names, and will ideally boast Hulu's identity.
Sorry, Jojo.) Jojo Rabbit was also made by Searchlight Pictures (formerly Fox Searchlight), a big-time Oscar player, which won Best Picture as recently as 2018 with The Shape of Water and is a company with Disney's deep pockets behind it.
Since then, Lonergan has only directed one film—the divisive Margaret, which Fox Searchlight
Obviously searchlight makes a different kind of movie than the movies Disney is making.
It added that Searchlight will propose three candidates to join the board of directors.
We see the woman lying on a makeshift bed, a searchlight shining on her.
Fox Searchlight will release Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in theaters on Nov. 10.
Fox Searchlight Pictures is even making a movie about his rags-to-riches story.
Gable still edits Searchlight , but its work has been eclipsed by HOPE Not Hate.
Having movies from Fox Searchlight and FX originals on Hulu is important to Iger.
That included the 22018th Century Fox studio and its art-house sibling, Fox Searchlight.
Searchlight Pictures and 20th Century movies garnered $114.7 million, according to data from Comscore.
Fox Searchlight won in the end, paying $17.5 million for the film, a Sundance record.
He shined his searchlight on drivers to get their attention and prompt them to stop.
It sold to Fox Searchlight for a record breaking $17.5 million, and earned an Oct.
We don't know about you, but that's better than a searchlight with a bat emblem.
It added that Searchlight will propose three candidates to to join the board of directors.
Also on Monday, Fox Searchlight released a new trailer of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis biopic.
Breakingviews Apollo Global Management and Searchlight Capital are making a $4.3 billion bet on capitulation.
In addition to the acquisition price, Fox Searchlight spent at least $10 million on marketing.
Trained on every vehicle is a searchlight and, in case of emergency, a machine gun.
Yorgos Lanthimos directed the Fox Searchlight film starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz.
Collins remembered how frightened he had been, eighteen years earlier, at his debriefing by Searchlight .
In 2000, Fox named Mr. Rice the president of its specialty film division, Fox Searchlight.
Searchlight acquired the Dylan project after HBO lost it following an executive shakeup, Deadline reports.
Operatives at Fox Searchlight, which released "Youth," had told him to hydrate every fifteen minutes.
Here are all Disney, Searchlight Pictures and 26.5th Century films due out in the third quarter: From January through March last year, Disney-produced films (not including Searchlight Pictures or 5.53th Century movies) tallied $25.5 million in sales at the North American box office.
Parker said Fox Searchlight also supports his suggestion to premiere the film in different African countries.
"When that wall of flames is coming at you, it's terrifying" Codromac told the Record Searchlight.
Mitel was acquired last year by private equity firm Searchlight Capital Partners LP for $2 billion.
Fox Searchlight pulled one of its films, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, from the festival lineup.
He added that Gymboree's strong brand was a key consideration in Searchlight deciding to back it.
Flip on the searchlight and find the Taylor Swift and Kendall Jenner to your Gigi Hadid.
"The Favourite," which had also been nominated for best picture, was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Samuel Rodriguez is the executive producer on the project, which will be produced by Fox Searchlight.
The first trailer for the Searchlight Pictures production was complemented by first look photos on NewYorker.
How to watch it: The Personal History of David Copperfield will be distributed by Fox Searchlight.
Fox Searchlight Fox Searchlight Because the fall launch can be so important to awards campaigns, the producers, studios, and publicists often strategize about where to premiere a film, and which stars they want to fly in to walk a festival's red carpet and meet with the press.
Read more: Sundance - Why Nate Parker chose Fox Searchlight over Netflix for 'The Birth of a Nation' The film, which was bought by Fox Searchlight in the biggest deal in Sundance history for $17.5 million, was directed, written, and produced by Nate Parker, who also stars.
Fox Searchlight Pictures Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-06784.
First reported by Variety, the film is set for production by Fox Searchlight and producer DeVon Franklin.
Fox Searchlight paid $17.5 million for it, making it the most expensive movie ever bought at Sundance.
A Searchlight spokeswoman declined to comment on Wednesday, directing a reporter to a statement released on Friday.
In 2006, while running Fox Searchlight, he created a film subdivision geared for young adults, Fox Atomic.
LOS ANGELES — "The Favourite" is starting to look like the latest Oscar-season hit from Fox Searchlight.
"The Favourite," the latest from the Oscar superpower Fox Searchlight, tied with "Roma" for the most nominations.
Under the deal, funds managed by Searchlight Capital Partners will make an equity investment in the acquired company.
"He and his wife, Alyson, were always supporting us," Araiza told the Record Searchlight, Redding&aposs daily newspaper.
Fox Searchlight plans to bring the film to around 80 theaters as it continues its gradual platform release.
On Thursday, the hiring software startup Searchlight announced it raised a $2.5 million seed round led by Accel.
Among other issues, Collins thinks that, when he was a Searchlight informant, Gable was cavalier about his safety.
Searchlight Pictures will continue to make films for theatrical release, but other projects will now become streaming exclusives.
Oliver Haarmann, Founding Partner at Searchlight, said that Opus needed significant investment to achieve its long-term potential.
"They've helped reignite interest in theatrical documentaries," Stephen Gilula, a co-chairman of Fox Searchlight, said of Neon.
PA) said it would examine a 365 million euros ($13 million) takeover offer from investment firm Searchlight Capital.
The time from writing it to getting it set up with him at Fox Searchlight was relatively quick.
Clearly, the Searchlight brain trust thinks it has a player for 2017 in The Birth of a Nation.
The screening was put on by Paw Prints in partnership with Fox Searchlight Pictures and Best Friends Animal Society.
Netflix received more Oscar nominations than any other studio besides Walt Disney Studios (16 nods) and Fox Searchlight (15).
Shi told the Record Searchlight he didn&apost sleep all night and when they returned, he recorded the confrontation.
They are still trying to determine if Sherri going missing was "voluntary or involuntary," according to the Record Searchlight.
Fox Searchlight Pictures bought rights to the film hours after it debuted, with Waitress hitting theaters four months later.
Both Parker and Fox Searchlight (which purchased distribution rights to the film for a record sum) maintain Parker's innocence.
In buying 20th Century Fox, Disney also gets the smaller studios under it: Fox Searchlight and Blue Sky Studios.
The Redding Record Searchlight obtained records from the California Highway Patrol detailing the charges against Grace Elizabeth Ward, 28.
This speech was a searchlight, illuminating just how much American politics has changed over the past couple of decades.
Authorities said Fannin told deputies that the pair went into three homes looking for water, The Record Searchlight reported.
One of the firefighters killed Thursday was identified as fire inspector Jeremy Stoke, the Record Searchlight of Redding reported .
This is Hollywood we're talking about, after all, and places like Fox Searchlight smelled two things: money and awards.
Fox Searchlight also scored 15 nominations... Disney and Universal(including Focus) landed 17 each... But Netflix was the standout.
Thank you to Fox Searchlight for their invaluable support and thank you to the Academy for recognizing our work.
Fox Searchlight, which specializes in art films and has been an Academy Awards powerhouse, will remain a separate brand.
Mr. Fitzgerald, manning the searchlight, picked out the shattered walls, shredded wires and dangling plates of a half-ship.
Playing on four screens, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (Fox Searchlight), another Oscar candidate, took in a stout $320,000.
He started as an intern at 20th Century Fox and later ran the company's prestige film division, Fox Searchlight.
Univision and Davis did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment, while Searchlight Capital Partners declined to comment.
You'll see that all the stars in the galaxy just represent a searchlight at the top of the building.
Univision and Davis did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment, while Searchlight Capital Partners declined to comment.
Now Parker is at the center of exactly the kind of controversy he and Fox Searchlight were trying to avoid.
Shortly after, Fox Searchlight purchases the rights to the movie for $17.5 million, a record-breaking deal for the festival.
By Friday, at least 40 homes were destroyed in the Lake Redding Estates neighborhood alone, the Redding Record Searchlight reported.
Additionally, Fox Searchlight partnered with theaters to register voters when they go to those screenings, between now and Oct. 7.
This time they turned around with almost every flashlight, searchlight, Geiger counter or whatever they had, and still saw nothing.
Police allege Ward collided with a median before finding an opening used by emergency vehicles, according to the Record Searchlight.
Neither McDormand's rep nor Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri distributor Fox Searchlight Pictures immediately responded to PEOPLE's request for comment.
It earned the audience and jury's top prize, and Fox Searchlight purchased the film for a record-setting $17.5 million.
Despite Fox Searchlight standing behind the film and campaigning for awards, the movie has failed to land recognition until now.
FOX Searchlight will produce, alongside DeVon Franklin, who reportedly developed the idea for the film with Colick and Montanez himself.
Among the suits that followed on the heels of the updated guidelines was one brought in 2012 against Fox Searchlight.
The Birth of a Nation just got a nationwide October 7th release date from Fox Searchlight, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
Fox Searchlight just released the first trailer for Sundance darling The Birth of a Nation ahead of its October release.
WDC and Searchlight were advised by Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.
Maybe they'll still make Fox Searchlight films, but those are primarily going to be for Disney's streaming platforms like Hulu.
But in July, a U.S. Court of Appeals said that Hearst and Fox Searchlight didn't need to pay its interns.
Now that Fox Searchlight has released the haunting first trailer for the film, moviegoers can start to decide for themselves.
The purchase included the 20th Century Fox movie studio (yes, that's a little confusing) and its prestige arm, Fox Searchlight.
Omnicom also retained its regional contract for the recent Disney acquisitions 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight and Fox Entertainment Group.
Small movies like the Fox Searchlight farce "Jojo Rabbit" cost less than $20 million and often aim for awards recognition.
Details: Searchlight Capital Partners and ForgeLight will acquire a majority stake (64%) in Univision, per a statement from the network.
Disney's landmark purchase of 20th Century Fox last year is complete, and now the company is looking to phase out the "Fox" branding in its new assets: the 20th Century Fox film studio is being rebranded to just "20th Century Studios," and Fox Searchlight Pictures is now "Searchlight Pictures," according to a report from Variety.
To begin, the Fox Searchlight film spends nearly an hour showcasing the romance of Nat Turner and his alleged wife, Cherry.
Shi told the Searchlight that the two visited him Thursday, demanding he be ready to depart for China in the morning.
As he was pursuing the movie, his studio Fox Searchlight said they'd only make it if he took on the role.
Fox Searchlight just released the full trailer for Pablo Larrain's awards contender, which has dazzled festival audiences the past few months.
After an acclaimed premiere at Sundance, where Hardwicke won the top directing award, Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the film for distribution.
Since its debut at Sundance, Fox Searchlight has also purchased rights for the film for over $4 million according to Deadline.
Earlier today, Fox Searchlight Pictures released the first trailer for renowned director Guillermo del Toro's latest film, The Shape of Water.
Searchlight earns an average of $250 per job hopes to investigate all 30 million skilled hires in the US per year.
"I can't speak English well in life, but I can speak English well with air traffic control," he told the Searchlight.
It also sent Fox Searchlight, which paid a record $21999 million to acquire "The Birth of a Nation," into battle position.
In fact, Searchlight uses its own software in the hiring process, giving the team a better sense of the user experience.
Instead, Amazon won the rights to stream the movie by outbidding Sony, Universal, Fox Searchlight, and Lionsgate at this year's Sundance.
What of Terrence Malick's "A Hidden Life," which Fox Searchlight picked up for an eye-popping price of around $14 million?
Iger suggested on Disney's most recent earnings call that studios such as Fox Searchlight could start making exclusive movies for Hulu.
"The market is still very dynamic, but what works is more unpredictable," said Stephen Gilula, the co-chairman of Fox Searchlight.
And both Fox Searchlight and FX are major awards contenders, year in and year out, at the Oscars and Emmys, respectively.
Reid, who speaks often of growing up in Searchlight, Nevada, shared how he came to embrace being from a small Western town.
So, in the hunt for inspiring and interesting matchups for Cruz, the UFC might just shine their searchlight outside the bantamweight division.
She covered the WRNS (Women's Royal Naval Service), the Women's Land Army, the ATS searchlight battery, and other such services in Britain.
"I can't speak English well in life, but I can speak English well with air traffic control," he told the Record Searchlight.
Fox Searchlight Pictures' stop-motion animation has grossed $5.9 million and looks to cross the $6 million mark in the upcoming week.
Fox Searchlight pinned its Oscar hopes on Portman's "Jackie" -- a movie that shows Jacqueline Kennedy in the days after her husband's death.
After Tera's disappearance, Zink served a four-year prison sentence as a felon in possession of firearms, according to the Record Searchlight.
Dodge-Streich told The Record Searchlight that residents in the area with small pets, however, should be wary about letting them outdoors.
The standout documentary was directed by Amanda Lipitz, and the rights have since been acquired by Fox Searchlight for approximately $4 million.
Shi, who was released by police after questioning, told the Record Searchlight newspaper that he had no idea why he was kidnapped.
Though he sustained minor injuries and was shaken by the kidnapping, Shi told the Searchlight he was grateful to the police officers.
To justify the price it paid for the film, Searchlight must sell at least $50 million in tickets, box office analysts say.
David is suing FOX Searchlight and director Guillermo del Toro on behalf of the family trust Paul set up for his children.
The historic deal made by Fox Searchlight is totally exciting, and slightly inspiring—every black film success is treated as a fluke.
But whenever Fox Searchlight Pictures decides to drop a release date, you'll probably want to throw that bad boy on the calendar.
Collins remembered Gable's asking him, as a teen-ager, to put his life at risk to protect Searchlight in the libel case.
In September, Fox Searchlight flew Grant and McCarthy to the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado and the reaction was even more rapturous.
Why it could struggle: The film's reviews probably won't be as universally glowing as Fox Searchlight might like, but it won't matter.
However, "Jojo Rabbit" and "Ford v Ferrari," two films from Searchlight and 20th Century, were nominated for multiple Oscars including best picture.
"Downhill," a comedic drama starring Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, will be the first movie to bear the Searchlight Pictures name.
Shortly after the closing credits rolled, Fox Searchlight Pictures bought the film for seventeen and a half million dollars, a festival record.
We got the 'Shape of Water' director heading into the 20th Century Fox & Fox Searchlight Party at TAO with his statues in tow.
It does not disclose whether Fox Searchlight executives knew about the allegations before spending a record amount to acquire the film at Sundance.
By Tuesday morning, Fox Searchlight had won a bidding war for the distribution rights by offering an astounding $17.5 million — a Sundance record.
Overhead, bombers and cargo planes, fired upon by booming antiaircraft batteries, are flying through searchlight beams and exploding shells, dropping bombs and parachutists.
Here's today's Redding Record Searchlight, assembled in the dark and printed at the Chico Enterprise-Record because they had no power in Redding.
We're thrilled at the assets and the people that we're bringing on the studio side – under Fox, and Fox 2000, and Fox Searchlight.
And by outbidding festival veterans Paramount, Fox Searchlight and Universal/Focus Features, Amazon has thrown down the gauntlet on the indie film world.
Job candidates invite their references to submit testimonials, which Searchlight collects and organizes into reports about someone's work style, ideal environment, and skillset.
Forget the megabeams of Julia Roberts or Anne Hathaway , either of which could be deployed as an emergency searchlight during a power failure.
A searchlight on the tower of the Times building, previously used to announce election results, gleamed rays across the city until daylight broke.
Still, this Fox Searchlight release is an admirably ambitious film, one whose appreciation for its mishmash of genres ultimately proves infectious and winning.
Serving as vice presidents will be Kathleen Kennedy, the Lucasfilm chief; Michael Tronick, a film editor; and Nancy Utley, president of Fox Searchlight.
A Disney spokesman confirmed that both labels, now officially known as 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures, would drop Fox from their logos.
It's a portrait of his mother, a queen, and he wore it as if it were a combination of searchlight, shield and talisman.
It is now owned by more than a dozen shareholders, with former lenders Oppenheimer, Searchlight Capital and Brigade Capital now the lead investors.
Black, gray, and silver tones predominate, accented by radar-screen green, searchlight yellow, and, for a happy moment, a multicolored, shimmering aurora borealis.
Fox Searchlight Pictures purchased the "The Birth of a Nation" earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival for a record breaking $17.5 million.
According to Variety, Fox Searchlight only learned of the charges lurking in Parker and Celestin's past after it made its record-shattering Sundance purchase.
Even her film's distributor caused the trigger-happy censor to reach for the bleep button: When she thanked Fox Searchlight, "Fox" was bleeped out.
The Fox Searchlight film about a furious woman seeking justice for the murder of her daughter was named best ensemble, the top SAG honor.
"The crazy thing is that the neighbor has been shooting a lot of bullets lately, hundreds of rounds, large magazines," Flint told the Searchlight.
What you really care about, though, is that you can attach and remove a toy gun module, a searchlight, and an emoji display board.
Fox Searchlight Pictures The premiere — introduced by Parker and his entire cast — was packed, with lines running across the street and down side alleys.
Afterward, there was a bidding war, with Fox Searchlight emerging the victor and paying a festival record for the right to distribute the drama.
The currently untitled Fox Searchlight film will be produced by Jenkins' production company PASTEL along with Alicia Keys' AK Worldwide Media and iDeal Partners.
Winners: Amazon only launched their movies business a year ago, and this year they outbid the likes of Fox Searchlight and Universal at Sundance.
Searchlight, the art house studio now owned by Disney, will delay the release of "Antlers," which had been set to arrive on April 17.
At Disney's annual meeting this month, Mr. Iger said the 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight labels — trumpet fanfares included — would continue to exist.
"Antlers" is a science fiction horror film from Searchlight Pictures about a mysterious creature that escapes and wreaks havoc in a small Oregon town.
Maggie Cloud knelt on the floor of St. Mark's Church, scanning the space in front of her with an outstretched arm, like a searchlight.
Disney is looking to leverage Fox's most popular and beloved networks and studios — not just FX, but also Fox Searchlight — to satisfy both requests.
It's likely that Fox Searchlight will make films for theatrical consumption too, but others will become streaming exclusives not unlike the four FX shows.
We stop by the lighthouse, perhaps the most iconic site in Maunabo, to find that its searchlight and glass have been shattered by Maria.
In addition to Disney's own studios, the company recently acquired 21st Century Fox, which owned both the 20th Century Fox label and Fox Searchlight.
The issue has thwarted efforts to promote the film, which movie studio Fox Searchlight in January bought for a Sundance record of $17.5 million.
All of those films come from 20th Century Fox, which led film companies with 27 nominations, including 15 from its Fox Searchlight specialty label.
Fox Searchlight may be hesitant to write big checks after its last two Sundance acquisitions, "The Birth of a Nation" and "Patti Cake$," flopped.
"I can&apost speak English well in life, but I can speak English well with air traffic control," he said in an interview with Searchlight.
In the shadowy world of the internet, where white nationalists hide behind fake accounts and anonymity is power, Whack-a-Mole was shining a searchlight.
Both movies are from the same studio, Fox Searchlight, which could lead to confusion over which one to back, thus depriving both of the prize.
To emulate Weinstein's success, mainstream studios either acquired or developed their own indie development subsidiaries (Focus, Fox Searchlight, Paramount Vantage, Sony Pictures Classic, Warner Independent).
She described it as like living with a helicopter hovering overhead, the bright beams of its searchlight trained on her, inspecting her religion and nationality.
Tyler personally owned and profited from the Searchlight, a Klan newspaper, and built herself a large Classical Revival house on 14 acres in downtown Atlanta.
Whether Fox Searchlight, which paid a record $17.5 million for the picture detailing the Nat Turner slave rebellion, stays the course remains to be seen.
Here's Stranger Things': Here's Westworld's: Netflix, Warner Bros (HBO, New Line Cinema), and Fox (FX, Fox Searchlight), were big winners, taking home 13 awards each.
With The Birth of a Nation's awards chances threatened by controversy, look for Fox Searchlight to make a strong push for Jackie this awards season.
While a chopper scanned the road with a searchlight, officers eventually tracked down the driver and brought him back up to the street in handcuffs.
Fox properties (20th Century, Searchlight, FX and FXX) took 15; Disney and Netflix each had seven; and six each went to Universal, Sony and Lionsgate.
Fox Searchlight has released the first trailer for Gifted, a family drama that finds Chris Evans ready to prove he's more than just Captain America.
Indeed, Disney's early messaging around Fox Searchlight has been largely positive, and it's expected the division will continue as it has, for the most part.
The show ended up censoring words like "Fox Searchlight" and "tectonic shift" ... however you clearly heard Frances say "shite" on the live East coast feed.
Searchlight: Reference checks can screen out bad hires, yet many businesses wait until the very end of the interview cycle or don't do extensive checks.
From Fox Searchlight, "The Favourite's" Olivia Colman hoisted the best actress Oscar at the end of the ceremony and "Skin" won for best short film.
Among limited releases, Fox Searchlight debuted "Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie" in 313 theaters where the big screen version of the cult series earned $1.9 million.
Fox Searchlight, which powered "12 Years a Slave" to that victory, bought "The Birth of a Nation" at Sundance in a six-studio bidding war.
The retail giant purchased rights to Manchester by the Sea for $10 million at Sundance last year, outbidding the likes of Fox Searchlight and Universal.
His old contacts at Searchlight offered him a job at the magazine, and a journalist asked him to star in a documentary about returning home.
So when Mr. Ochs commissioned a new building in what would be renamed Times Square, he insisted that a searchlight be installed at the top.
Illuminated by an eerie searchlight on the runway, the ghostly, elongated models at the Rick Owens show wore the designer's dark renditions of glam rock.
The truncated stone pyramid represents their mission and collaboration, and the searchlight beacon represents their message from the top of the mountain they climbed together.
The Fox Searchlight movie's Mexican filmmaker, Guillermo del Toro, won best director, dashing the hopes of a rare win by a woman or a black filmmaker.
"Little Miss Sunshine," for instance, bought at Sundance in 2006 by Fox Searchlight, collected about $70 million at theaters in North America, after adjusting for inflation.
Fox Searchlight bought the film for a reported $17.5 million, besting the previous Sundance record — held by 2006's "Little Miss Sunshine" — by over $7 million.
Fox Searchlight has released a powerful trailer for Jackie, the acclaimed drama starring Natalie Portman as JFK's wife Jackie Kennedy during the week following his assassination.
The Murdoch-run production company behind Fox Sports and Searchlight films reported quarterly earnings that met analyst expectations and revenue that fell slightly short of estimates.
The Birth of a Nation has become one of the most praised films at Sundance this year, and was sold to Fox Searchlight for $17.5 million.
The film won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize in the US Dramatic Competition, and Fox Searchlight then spent $17.5 million acquiring the distribution rights.
An Inspector General that could point a searchlight upwards and come up with the answers and hold political decision-makers accountable would have some worth here.
Before Collins was debriefed by Searchlight , he was put through an elaborate security routine that included changing cars and getting into a taxi with two minders.
The decision essentially scraps everything that isn't a major tentpole franchise — including Avatar and Planet of the Apes — and indie projects from Fox's prestigious Searchlight division.
Fox Searchlight would not look at any version longer than two and a half hours; Lonergan was not satisfied with any version that met this requirement.
The actress was bizarrely bleeped during her Golden Globes acceptance speech after the censors were triggered for words like "tectonic shift" and the movie's studio Fox Searchlight.
Shi told the Record Searchlight he has been in the country for about seven months on a one-year visa for students who enroll in vocational programs.
He told the Record Searchlight that he has been in the US for about seven months on a M-1 visa that is valid for a year.
PA) said it had appointed financial advisory company Finexsi to study a 365 million euro ($409 million) takeover offer for the French aerospace company from Searchlight Capital.
Update June 21st, 8:00PM ET: Fox Searchlight has noted that Wilson doesn't have an official release date yet, despite Clowes' comments regarding the release window above.
There, however, an interviewer from the CBC was cut off after asking Mr. Parker if he thought Fox Searchlight changed its strategy because of the media attention.
Whether Fox Searchlight can have it both ways will depend on the effectiveness of a grass-roots campaign aimed at churches, schools and pockets of political influence.
"That morning I was just a star-struck kid from Searchlight," Reid said, referring to the town about 60 miles from Las Vegas where he was born.
Today Fox Searchlight Pictures announced that Wes Anderson's highly anticipated stop-motion film about talking animals, Isle of Dogs, will be hitting theaters on April 20, 2018.
The new branding will first be seen on Searchlight Pictures' "Downhill," a drama/comedy starring Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, which hits theaters on February 14.
At Sundance in January of last year, #OscarsSoWhite was still trending when Fox Searchlight paid $17.5 million for "Birth of a Nation," Nate Parker's slave-rebellion drama.
An investigation by Searchlight New Mexico revealed that teachers and school security officers routinely manhandle kids in New Mexico grade schools and hide the incidents from parents.
Today Fox Searchlight Pictures announced that Wes Anderson's highly anticipated stop-motion film about talking animals, Isle of Dogs, will be hitting theaters on April 20, 2018.
Netflix and independent media mogul Byron Allen offered $20 million each, but Parker and his producing team went with a $17.5 million bid from Fox Searchlight instead.
It will be interesting to see how and if Searchlight looks to explore synergies in these holdings, given Mitel's cloud strategy and Rackspace's focus on managed cloud services.
Fox Searchlight bought it at Sundance last year and it has taken in about $27.5 million since its release in November, playing in 906 theaters at its peak.
Fox Searchlight is significant because it often produces and/or distributes Oscar contenders like this year's The Shape of Water and Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave.
This is more than a mere cosmetic issue: I'm unable to watch movies in a dark room with these Porta Pros without being distracted by their blinking searchlight.
She will be using proceeds from the deal with Fox Searchlight to go toward scholarships for the 19 girls on the team and a donation to the school.
Reporters at the Redding Record Searchlight were understandably quite busy Saturday — reporting the unfolding, and dramatic, local news — but Mashable will update this story if we hear back.
Power finally went out at the Record Searchlight but R-S reporters are still trying to bring you the news as the #CARRFire bears down on Redding. pic.twitter.
Now, with an Oscar nomination at stake for both actors, Parker is being routinely grilled, something he can expect to continue as Fox Searchlight rolls toward the Oct.
Another neighbor, Brian Flint, told the Redding Record Searchlight living next to Neal was "hell," and that he regularly harassed his neighbors and unloaded firearms on his property.
Pacheco hired two armed security guards and set up a large searchlight array on the roof of his pharmacy — the only functional permanent lighting in Cayey's main square.
Searchlight was founded by twin sisters Kerry and Anna Wang, twin sisters who graduated Stanford last year and went to the famed startup incubator Y Combinator this year.
"The Birth of a Nation" made a big splash when it had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and was purchased by Fox Searchlight for $17.5 million.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's competition agency on Tuesday approved a deal that would allow Searchlight Capital Partners to take control of Israel's largest telecoms group, Bezeq Israel Telecom (BEZQ.TA).
Movie studio Fox Searchlight said it stands by the movie, despite speculation in Hollywood that the rape case will affect the film's marketing and jeopardize its Oscar chances.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. private investment firm Searchlight Capital has reached an agreement to acquire the controlling shareholder of Israel's largest telecom group, Bezeq, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
"The Shape of Water" (Fox Searchlight), Guillermo Del Toro's acclaimed art-house fantasy, took in $1.1 million in 41 locations, for a two-week total of $1.3 million.
Fox Searchlight ponied up $17.5 million for the rights to the film, a new record, and then scheduled it for October 20173, a fairly Oscar-friendly release date.
Reid attended high school in Henderson, hitchhiking 45 miles each way from his hometown, Searchlight: a drive-through smudge of a town between Las Vegas and Needles, Calif.
Since the duo came on to run Searchlight in 2009, they have overseen the release of memorable titles that have both earned Oscars and been box-office hits.
The previous Sundance record holder, "The Birth of a Nation," was ultimately a box-office disappointment, earning less than what Searchlight bought it for with $16.8 million worldwide.
"Jackie" (Fox Searchlight), starring Natalie Portman as a calculating Jacqueline Kennedy, arrived in five theaters and collected a stout $275,000, according to comScore, which compiles box office data.
The local Redding Record Searchlight newspaper reported that it began when the gunman opened fire at a home and some six other locations shortly after 8 a.m. PST.
"Jackie" came to Toronto without a U.S. distributor, but the rights were soon acquired by Fox Searchlight, a studio that has proven to be a savvy awards season campaigner.
Fox Searchlight released the movie's first trailer, with Stone catching our attention in the first 15 seconds as she literally falls flat on her face into a royal rivalry.
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Little noted that the Record Searchlight did the brunt of the work, under duress, and that the Chico-Enterprise Record simply printed pages that were sent to them electronically.
Searchlight Capital said it would buy the stakes in Latecoere held by Apollo Capital Management, Monarch Alternative Capital and CVI Partners, at a price of 3.85 euros per share.
In addition, Searchlight plans to launch a free starter account so that more companies can try out its software, which it already sees as starting to fulfill its mission.
Fox Searchlight had conducted focus group research to see if "The Birth of a Nation" might be viewed as a call to aggression and concluded there was no risk.
" One shareholder asked Iger about his plans for Fox Searchlight, the arthouse film division that on Sunday won the Academy Award for best picture for "The Shape of Water.
A recurring word is "HOPE," in capital letters, and his characters include an angel in white, a Buddhist monk in orange robes and an earnest elephant wearing a searchlight.
It was also a bad weekend for Fox Searchlight, which unfurled the drama "Demolition" in semi-wide release and only came up with about $1.1 million in ticket sales.
"It was very bloody and very nasty," reckons Gerry Gable, editor of Searchlight, a magazine that keeps track of neo-Nazis, but the 43 Group "basically shut Mosley down".
"One shareholder asked Iger about his plans for Fox Searchlight, the arthouse film division that on Sunday won the Academy Award for best picture for "The Shape of Water.
But put all of the pieces together — especially if one of those pieces is a relative's genetic code — and suddenly there's a searchlight shining up and down your family tree.
In addition to the TV studios mentioned above, the company that buys 21st Century Fox will acquire the Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Fox 2000 film production studios.
Born in 1939 in the hardscrabble mining town of Searchlight, Nevada, he was raised by a drunk and abusive father in a house that had no toilet or hot water.
His sister, Kathi Gaston, told the  Redding Record Searchlight  that her brother had returned to his mobile home in Keswick, near Redding, last Tuesday after undergoing quadruple heart bypass surgery.
Fox Searchlight agreed to distribute a potential sequel, but if "Super Troopers 2" was going to happen, Broken Lizard would have to come up with the money on its own.
It also struck the Oak Bottom Marina at Whiskeytown Lake, west of Redding, leaving about 22013 boats and part of the dock burned or charred, the Redding Record Searchlight reported.
Shi told the Record Searchlight newspaper that the plan was for McConkey and Hoser to fly him to the Bay Area before putting him on another overseas flight to China.
The opportunity inherent in releasing an already critically acclaimed African-American film in the coming Oscar cycle cannot have been lost on Nancy Utley, the co-president of Fox Searchlight.
After its screening at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Fox Searchlight fought and won a bidding war for the rights to distribute the film, paying a festival record $17.5 million.
Though change often happens when two companies merge, it seems so far nothing drastic has happened to Searchlight except that the "Fox" name in front of it has been spiked.
"No shout outs to the NBC censor who bleeped out Frances McDormand saying 'Fox Searchlight' and 'tectonic shift' (but missed her saying "shite")," Detroit News film critic Adam Graham tweeted.
Walt Disney Studios, which includes divisions like Fox Searchlight ("Jojo Rabbit") and National Geographic ("The Cave"), rounded up 23 nominations in total, the best result for a traditional entertainment company.
The flecks caused outdoor lights to reflect upward, creating optical illusions called light pillars that made it seem as if each light had become a searchlight aimed at the sky.
The film sparked a bidding war and was eventually purchased by Fox Searchlight for $2112 million, the highest price ever paid for a finished film in the history of festivals.
These great movies, this stuff that I would say like Fox Searchlight makes, which is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri or The Shape of Water, those movies grind it out.
Hollywood has given us many a master class in warped priorities, but film studio Fox Searchlight might have outdone them all, with one of the worst botched publicity campaigns maybe ever.
Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation took home the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at last year's festival, where it sold for a record $17.5 million to Fox Searchlight.
Fox Searchlight, the studio that bought the film for a Sundance record of $17.5 million, is a savvy awards season campaigner with a few recent best picture Oscars to its name.
The Sacramento Bee reports the fire was the sixth-largest in state history, and Redding's Record Searchlight reported the fire was started by sparks from a flat tire on a trailer.
The company provides an alternative way of looking at hiring: Rather than rely so much on the resume, Searchlight puts more focus on helping employers vet a job candidate&aposs references.
His sister, Kathi Gaston, tells the Redding Record Searchlight that her brother had returned to his mobile home in the community of Keswick last Tuesday after undergoing quadruple heart bypass surgery.
The drama caused a stir at this year's Sundance Film Festival, winning both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, and selling to Fox Searchlight for a record $17.5 million.
Among limited releases, Fox Searchlight debuted "Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie" in 313 theaters where the big screen version of the cult series about two hard-partying best friends earned $1.9 million.
Then came "The Shape of Water" (Fox Searchlight) with $57.4 million in domestic ticket sales; "Darkest Hour" (Focus Features) with $55.4 million; and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" with $52 million.
A more poetic potential end comes just before: The stage has emptied, Mr. Khan has disappeared, and a gramophone — doubling as a searchlight — scans the darkened theater, shining into the unknown.
But the weekend's biggest stumble was probably "Downhill" (Searchlight), a comedy with Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus that opened to an estimated (and meager) $4.7 million, landing in 10th place.
For me, one of those choices has been to spend as much time as possible with the people who know me and know where I came from: a town called Searchlight.
Between The Irishman, Marriage Story, Dolemite is My Name, The King, and American Son, Netflix is making a big attempt to compete with prestigious film studios like Fox Searchlight and A24.
Searchlight, which already owns 26% of Latecoere's share capital, made an offer of 3.85 euros per share on June 28, marking a premium of 34% to Latecoere's closing price on Friday.
The no-apologies, no-regrets posture was true to form for the blunt-spoken son of Searchlight, Nevada, who scrapped his way to the pinnacle of power in the U.S. Senate.
Reporters at the Redding Record Searchlight have been doing a phenomenal job covering the blaze and have some of the best, most updated information, despite many being forced from their homes.
Early Tuesday morning—likely in the wee morning hours—writer/director/star Nate Parker's movie The Birth of a Nation sold to Fox Searchlight for $17.5 million at the Sundance Film Festival.
In fact, the Fox Searchlight release was shut out by NBR — as was Fox Searchlight's other fall festival fave The Shape of Water, which won top honors at the Venice Film Festival.
When Birth of a Nation premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, it made headlines for its record-breaking $17 million deal with Fox Searchlight and instantly generated Oscar buzz.
PARIS (Reuters) - Investment company Searchlight Capital Partners has agreed to buy a 26 percent stake in French aeronautics company Latecoere for around $106.8 million, as activist funds continue to flex their muscles.
"The company welcomes this proposed transaction, Searchlight having shown on this occasion its support for the strategy proposed by management and approved by the board of directors," Latecoere said in a statement.
Almost five years after Waititi wrote the script, Fox Searchlight said it wanted to make the movie, as long as Waititi played the Hitler character, "which was lunacy to me," Waititi said.
The size of the sale indicates that Fox Searchlight will push this one hard, but without big stars or a director willing to do press, can "A Hidden Life" go the distance?
Louis-Dreyfus has been attached to Downhill from the start, when Fox Searchlight executives approached her and Enough Said producer Anthony Bregman about remaking Force Majeure, which was then a recent release.
That includes specialty film division Fox Searchlight and the FX cable network — units that have received reassurances from Iger that they won't need to change their focus or water down their menus.
Fox Searchlight paid a record $17.5 million to buy this violent drama about a slave rebellion, which was insta-heralded as a masterpiece by film insiders desperate to end the #OscarsSoWhite firestorm.
Fox Searchlight, the studio that had green-lighted the movie, issued two DVDs of it: the theatrical release, and an extended version, which Lonergan was legally prohibited from calling a director's cut.
LOS ANGELES — Add "box office flop" to the pile of problems for The Birth of a Nation and whatever awards prospects Nate Parker and Fox Searchlight may yet have harbored before the weekend.
Shi, who said the two employees had visited him on Thursday night and told him he would be "shipped back" to China the next day, provided the audio recording to the Record Searchlight.
The company today announced that it has agreed to be acquired by Searchlight Capital Partners in an all-cash transaction of $453 billion, a deal that will also see the company going private.
Searchlight Capital, which already owns about 26% of Latecoere's share capital, made an offer of 3.85 euros per share on June 28, representing a premium of 34% to Latecoere's closing price on Friday.
The publicity team for Fox Searchlight, sensing those allegations would become an issue during awards season, decided to address them head-on in interviews with Deadline and Variety, both published on August 12.
The Record Searchlight reports Monday that police arrested Mitchell Stuebgen late Saturday in an evacuated zone of Redding, California, where a massive wildfire has displaced 38,453 from their homes and killed six people.
Bennett Riffel, 26, was traveling with his elder brother Melvin on their "last adventure together" before "Mel" was to become a father, Redding Chamber of Commerce president Jake Mangas told the Record Searchlight.
After lighting up a roomful of industry experts and instigating an all-night bidding war, Nate Parker's slavery drama The Birth of a Nation is being purchased by Fox Searchlight for $17.5 million.
Together 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight won seven Oscars on Sunday, the most of any other company, including best actress and best actor, two of the most prestigious awards of the night.
And the film was hailed as a monumental vindication for Parker, who spent seven years developing and independently funding his directorial debut before selling it to Fox Searchlight for more than $17 million.
Microwave links are only a few meters across and go point-to-point like a searchlight, so even when they aren't being moved up and down the Matterhorn they're pretty hard to intercept.
A spokeswoman for the Antitrust Authority said there were no issues with the proposed deal made a month ago, in which Searchlight will inject 640 million shekels ($180.5 million) into B Communications (BCOM.
The weekend after Oscar nominations were unveiled, Fox Searchlight more than doubled the locations showing the film, and the movie scored its highest three-day tally on its way to $111 million total.
One secret weapon has been Operam, a stealth data and marketing start-up that helps studios, including Fox Searchlight, develop algorithms used to target potential ticket buyers on Facebook and other digital platforms.
TIJUANA, Mexico — The 30 migrants were huddled under a tree on a cold night as an American government helicopter hovered overhead, its searchlight sweeping the tree's boughs and the hard earth around it.
The Fox Searchlight and Franklin Entertainment film will also help increase representation of Latinx culture in the film industry, a welcome shift after a recent, damning study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
A similar fear of social and economic penalties for a same-sex relationship is a central plotline of the film "Battle of the Sexes," which was released this weekend by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
A lone, ominous whistle; a searchlight raking the darkness; a throng of tense-bodied men and women looking furtive — such gratifyingly classic notes of noir are sounded before a single word is sung.
To develop a strategy around that, it takes a team like the people at Fox Searchlight that not only understands the project but is passionate about the impact they want it to have.
The Oscar nominee, 42, is set to star alongside Andrew Garfield, 35, as televangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker in a new Fox Searchlight film based on the documentary The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
On Tuesday, Fox Searchlight released the first trailer for Jojo Rabbit, Waititi's much-anticipated follow-up to 2017's Thor: Ragnarok, and please, just watch: Yes, that is Taika Waititi dressed up as Hitler.
As these hot spots circle, the black hole's immense gravitational forces twist space-time itself into something like a lens, one that flashes beacons of light across the cosmos like a galactic searchlight beam.
Notably, Fox Searchlight — which last year set a Sundance record by spending $17 million for early- awards-contender-turned-controversy-bust The Birth of a Nation — picked up two films: Patti Cake$ and Step.
Collins continued working for Searchlight , and in 22018 he began collaborating with Nick Lowles, a journalist and activist, on a social-campaign division called HOPE Not Hate; it split from the magazine in 20183.
"The searchlight soon revealed a pitch black mass of twisted metal, which heaved high in the air upon the massive waves and then settled back down in a frothing mass of foam," he wrote.
" Also of note: "Gifted" (Fox Searchlight) continued to chug away at the specialty box office, taking in $3.3 million, for a four-week domestic total of $15.8 million, and "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
STOCKHOLM, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Ograi BidCo, managed by private investment firm Searchlight, has launched a bid for Swedish vehicle inspection company Opus Group worth around 2.25 billion crowns ($233.7 million) it said on Monday.
The studio was considering sending the picture straight to DVD but instead entered a distribution deal with Fox Searchlight and ended up with a smash hit that went on to win eight Academy Awards.
I woke up early to news that the film had finally been sold to Fox Searchlight for $22 million, the highest amount ever paid for a finished film at any film festival in history.
He walked up to the line, then took a defiant step back, even as Fox Searchlight upped its theater order from its Sundance point-of-purchase promise of 217.5,500 to something more like 2,100 locations.
BetGeorge's 2016 homage to Harry Potter, for example, featured searchlight-style spotlights visible up to 16 miles away, a to-scale Hogwarts model in the garage, and a 19-foot illuminated piano on the lawn.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Netflix movie "Roma" and British historical romp "The Favourite" from Fox Searchlight led nominations for the Oscars on Tuesday in a history-making lineup that left the best picture race wide open.
The biopic about slave rebellion leader Nat Turner was a sensation at the Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered to a rapturous standing ovation and sold to Fox Searchlight for a record-shattering $250.1 million.
Owning the film arm of 20th Century Fox not only grants Disney a number of Marvel characters that had been sold off before it acquired Marvel in 2009, but also the powerhouse Fox Searchlight studio.
Attended by over 100 journalists, who filled every seat and lined the back of the room, the news conference, arranged by Fox Searchlight, was a hotly anticipated, and somewhat surprise, addition to the festival slate.
The biopic about slave rebellion leader Nat Turner was a sensation at the Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered to a rapturous standing ovation and sold to Fox Searchlight for a record-shattering $17.5 million.
Fox Searchlight released the first trailer for its Jackie Kennedy biopic,Jackie, Wednesday, and it's easy to see why Natalie Portman is already generating Oscar buzz for her portrayal of President John F. Kennedy's widow.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Searchlight Capital Partners moved a step closer to taking control of Israel's largest telecoms group, Bezeq Israel Telecom, after its parent B Communications said on Wednesday it was satisfied with Searchlight's latest offer.
The film from Twenty-First Century Inc's Fox Searchlight, won four awards including acting wins for its star Frances McDormand and supporting actor Sam Rockwell, and a screenplay win for its writer-director, Martin McDonagh.
Some sales agents cited the dampening effect of "Patti Cake$," a rap-infused drama that sold to Fox Searchlight for an estimated $10 million last year and ended up taking in just $800,148 in theaters.
The film's distributor, Fox Searchlight, has come up with a unique fix: The studio is positioning Colman as the sole lead and the marketing will suggest that voters consider Stone and Weisz for supporting slots.
That Harry Reid, the junior Democratic senator from Nevada, was an anti-abortion, anti-immigration centrist with a chip on his shoulder befitting the image of the scrapper from the tiny mining town of Searchlight.
JERUSALEM, May 14 (Reuters) - * U.S. private investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners has updated its offer to buy a controlling stake in the parent company of Bezeq Israel Telecom, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
It's also gained a few movie studios — most notably 20th Century Fox and its associated prestige films arm Fox Searchlight — as well as a bunch of TV networks, most notably FX and National Geographic Channel.
According to Variety, Fox Searchlight and producer Devon Franklin will soon share the story of Richard Montañez, a janitor-turned-snack-connoisseur who now spends his days jet-setting around the globe as a motivational speaker.
The service, meant to compete with Netflix, will include Disney-owned content from its cable networks (including Disney and FX), as well as from its studios and franchises (including Buena Vista, Fox Searchlight, Marvel and Pixar).
On Tuesday, Fox Searchlight debuted a brand-new clip from Wes Anderson's upcoming stop-motion film Isle of Dogs—and only Anderson could make a dogfight over a moldy rice cake look this twee and fanciful.
While Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron's sentimental Netflix movie "Roma" and historical romp "The Favourite" from Fox Searchlight go into the ceremony with a leading 10 nominations each, there's no guarantee they will come out on top.
Searchlight, which already owns 26% of Latecoere's share capital, made an offer of 3.85 euros per share for Latecoere in late June, in the latest example of activist funds targeting companies which they feel are underperforming.
And now on Thursday, Searchlight announced it raised a seed round of $2.5 million, led by Accel and with participation from Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Soma Capital, as well as employees at Stripe, Ironclad, and Front.
A group of New York Times journalists waited in the darkness alongside worried family members as a searchlight on the Myanmar side swung back and forth, back and forth, an eerie metronome moving across the gloom.
Positioned by Fox Searchlight as a story about giving a voice to the voiceless, "The Shape of Water" collected Oscars for best picture, Mr. del Toro's directing, Alexandre Desplat's score and Paul Denham Austerberry's production design.
"I've got your [expletive] passport, you're leaving now," a male voice told Shi during a verbal exchange at Shi's apartment Friday morning, according to Shi's recording of the confrontation, which he shared with the Record Searchlight newspaper.
The company, known for its casual wear and leather goods with a distinctive beaver logo, said New York-based private equity firm Searchlight Capital Partners LP and founders Michael Budman and Don Green are selling their stake.
This new bid puts Disney back on firm footing in its battle to acquire Fox's film and television assets, including Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, FX Productions, National Geographic Partners and a majority stake in Hulu.
Authorities discovered that in the days after Tera's disappearance, the tires on Zink's vehicle, a Ford truck, had been replaced with ones in worse condition and the truck had been thoroughly cleaned, according to the Record Searchlight.
Related: Greek Coast Guard Accused of Sinking Migrant Boat Those below passed up children who were then held in outstretched arms so as to be visible in the coast guard searchlight — a plea for help and pity.
Sharon Stapleton tells the Record Searchlight newspaper that she and her husband grabbed a pillow, some shirts and pants, medicine, important documents and their two dogs and left in their sport utility vehicle and their motor home.
TSA said the procedure uses "enhanced security measures implemented several months ago, and does not involve any different areas of the body than were screened in the previous standard pat-down procedure," according to the Record Searchlight.
That $71.3 billion deal, which closed in March, added a great deal to Mr. Horn's portfolio, including big-budget Fox movies like the coming "Avatar" sequels, art-house films made by Fox Searchlight and an animation studio.
JERUSALEM, July 24 (Reuters) - A number of foreign private equity funds such as Highland Capital and Searchlight Capital are interested in buying a controlling share in Bezeq Israel Telecom, the Globes financial news website said on Wednesday.
In April, activist fund Searchlight - whose main offices are in New York, London and Toronto - bought an initial 26% stake in Latecoere, in the latest example of activist funds targeting companies which they feel could perform better.
The fire in Redding, California, started Sunday when the flaming spider scurried on top of a mattress, which quickly caught fire and sent flames to nearby drapes and a flag collection, a witness told the Redding Record Searchlight.
Dennis Beck, chief of the Shasta Lake Fire Protection District, tells the Record Searchlight that firefighters are bracing for winds forecast for Friday afternoon that could blow the blaze into the city of Shasta Lake, north of Redding.
Hulu's sort of their adult streaming service, and Fox Searchlight makes movies for adults, but what you are gonna see, though, no matter what they keep from Fox, Fox is gonna be shrunk down, if not ultimately abandoned.
According to the Verge, Fox Searchlight dropped the film's first trailer Wednesday, and in it we meet Elisa (Sally Hawkins), a mute woman tasked with cleaning a Cold War–era government lab alongside her friend Zelda (Octavia Spencer).
The film, which tells the story of Nat Turner, the slave rebellion leader, won acclaim at Sundance and was snatched up for $17.5 million by Fox Searchlight, before stories about Mr. Parker's past triggered calls for a boycott.
CreditCreditMark Peterson/Redux, for The New York Times At 0400, three miles above the Pacific seafloor, the searchlight of a power boat swept through a warm June night last year, looking for a second boat, a sailing canoe.
Meanwhile Brooklyn, now in contention for multiple Oscars — including Best Picture — has slow-burned its way to a healthy $25.6 million for Fox Searchlight, which bought it for $9 million during a heated bidding war mid-fest last year.
According to papers filed on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Entertainment Group will pay $113 to each claimant who interned without pay for at least two weeks at various times between 2005 and 2010.
According to Variety, FOX Searchlight has announced plans to produce a new biopic about Richard Montanez, the man who invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos and single-handedly inspired people around the world to start dousing their Cheetos in lime juice.
The Birth of a Nation, which took home both the Audience Award and Jury Award at the festival, set a record for the biggest deal in Sundance history after Fox Searchlight paid $17.5 million for the worldwide distribution rights.
With the Fox acquisition, Disney now has ownership of Fox Searchlight, the art-house arm of the studio that is always in the running come Oscar time (its last best-picture win was "The Shape of Water" in 2018).
The film arrived in Park City, Utah, just as Hollywood was fielding intense scrutiny for its all-white roster of Oscar acting nominees, and after a bidding war "Birth" sold to Fox Searchlight for $17.5 million, a festival record.
Pauley sparked much of the debate when he ruled in June 2013 that Fox Searchlight should have paid Eric Glatt and Alexander Footman, who interned on the 2010 movie "Black Swan," because the company was the primary beneficiary of their work.
Ever since Deadline published an exclusive interview with Parker on August 21999 — under the headline "Fox Searchlight, Nate Parker Confront Old Sex Case That Could Tarnish The Birth Of A Nation" — the situation has only gotten messier and more tragic.
Photo: Fox Searchlight Shape of Water Where to Stream It: Amazon, iTunes In Guillermo del Toro's fantastical fairy tale, a mute cleaning woman at a top-secret government research center stumbles upon—and falls in love with—an amphibious creature.
While there are no official record keepers for Sundance prices, "The Birth of a Nation" sale far surpassed previous high-water marks, including that of "Little Miss Sunshine," which Searchlight bought in 2006 for roughly $12 million, after adjusting for inflation.
In April, activist fund Searchlight - whose main offices are in New York, London and Toronto - swooped in to buy an initial 26% stake in Latecoere, in the latest example of activist funds targeting companies which they feel could perform better.
Parker and his rather courageous co-stars Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Gabrielle Union, Colman Domingo, Aunjanue Ellis, Penelope Ann Miller and Jackie Earle Haley sat for a press conference arranged by Fox Searchlight and unaffiliated with the festival itself.
The year&aposs deadliest fire, in the Redding area south of the Oregon border, grew to more than 180,000 acres but reached 53 percent containment as of Friday, forestry and fire protection officials said, according to the  Redding Record Searchlight .
An all-too-rare historical film about genuine black American revolt, Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation, took Sundance by storm in January, selling for $17 million to Fox Searchlight and winning the grand jury prize for U.S. Narratives.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, alleged that director Guillermo del Toro, producer Daniel Kraus and movie studio Fox Searchlight "brazenly copies the story, elements, characters and themes" from a 1969 play by the late Paul Zindel.
" (Fox Searchlight is distributing the film in the United States.) The studio chose Mr. Guadagnino, Mr. Halpern said, because "I Am Love" dealt with "complicated romantic relationships, and it deals with death in this contained sort of rarefied European world.
"There is always risk taking (the company) through bankruptcy, but we believed that it was a better path with more upside versus liquidating, where the recovery is pretty minimal and you forego any upside opportunities," said Searchlight partner Eric Sondag.
Notably, Fox Searchlight had support — in the form of a "friend-of-the-court" brief — from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which Yamada suggested might make a play with trade associations to prevent the private sector bill from passing Congress.
Still, the results have been strong so far, Kerry Wang says, adding that Searchlight&aposs partner companies have saved four to ten hours per hire, and 80% of its customers have increased the number of underrepresented minorities they&aposve hired.
Written and directed by Nate Parker, who also stars, "The Birth of a Nation" played at Sundance and was immediately acquired by Fox Searchlight, for distribution in the heat of not just the presidential campaign but also the coming Oscar season.
The list includes Stacey Snider, the head of 20th Century Fox; Emma Watts, the vice chair; Dana Walden, who leads Fox Television Group; Nancy Utley, the president of Fox Searchlight Pictures; and Courteney Monroe, the chief executive of National Geographic Channel.
The film's gross box office total didn't quite make it to $2100 million, $24 million less than its selling price — a loss for Fox Searchlight, which surely expected to have a hit on its hands when it shelled out at Sundance.
The full list of winners can be found here, but if you're in a rush, here's a look at the movie award winners: Best of Show: Black Panther "Crown" — Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Studios Create  Best Action: Black Panther "Crown" — Walt Disney Studios Create  Best Animation / Family: Isle Of Dogs — Fox Searchlight, Giaronomo Productions Best Comedy: Lady Bird — A24 Films, Giaronomo Productions Best Documentary: Won't You Be My Neighbor — Focus Features, Mark Woollen & Associates Best Drama: The Shape of Water "Escape" — Fox Searchlight Pictures, MOCEAN Best Fantasy Adventure: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald "Expelliarmus" — Warner Bros.
From Fox Searchlight dropping $1 million for future Oscar nominee Beasts of the Southern Wild in 2012 to Amazon Studios' massive $12 million buy of The Big Sick at last year's fest, everyone in Park City is hustling to make a deal.
The casts of this year's Best Picture nominees Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, The Martian and The Revenant are also expected to join the stars of Youth and Joy at the 20th Century Fox/Fox Searchlight/Regency Enterprises bash at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
On Thursday, Fox Searchlight Pictures released the first full-length trailer for Wes Anderson's new stop-motion animated film, Isle of Dogs, and it touches on our modern fear of uncontrollable diseases, overpowered leaders, and, worst of all, life without our canine companions.
Fox Searchlight has repeatedly said over the years that it does not make distribution decisions based on awards potential, but traction on the Oscar circuit, and the free publicity it brings, can nonetheless mean the difference between a financial hit and a miss.
While the movie is doing well on its own terms, it's also a step in the right direction for Fox after it was acquired by Disney earlier this year (Fox Searchlight is a Fox studio that focuses on independent, art-house movies).
"Jackie," starring Natalie Portman as President John F. Kennedy's traumatized widow, was thrust into the Oscar conversation on Tuesday, when Fox Searchlight — perhaps hedging its bet on "The Birth of a Nation," now surrounded by controversy — bought the film after its screening here.
It's just me now and my famous aching heart under the stars — my heart that keeps moving like a searchlight in its longing for the hearts of other people, who in a sense, already live there, in my heart, and keep it turning.
Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" (Fox Searchlight), which was named best picture at the 90th Academy Awards last weekend, expanded into 1,552 locations and received a solid Oscar bump, collecting $2.4 million, for a new domestic total of about $61 million.
In November 1904, The Times announced the winner of that year's presidential election with searchlight signals on top of the 412-foot building: A steady light pointed west meant that Theodore Roosevelt had won, according to a decoder published before the election.
According to Variety, Downhill — Searchlight's next film — is already set to feature the updated logo alongside a "Searchlight Pictures Presents" label, while Call of the Wild (out on February 21st) will be the first to feature the new 20th Century Studios branding.
Also of note among Oscar hopefuls: "Jackie" (Fox Searchlight), a raw portrait of a newly widowed Jacqueline Kennedy, continued to attract sizable audiences as it pushed into 21 locations in eight cities, taking in about $500,000, for a 10-day total of $860,000.
" Davern also stated that after a sweaty, disheveled and nervous-looking Wagner told him, "Natalie is missing," Davern implored his boss "to radio for help and to turn on the searchlight, but Robert Wagner told me, sternly, 'We are not going to do that.
During his Best Directing acceptance speech, he thanked his studio, Fox Searchlight, for thinking that his movie's weird blend of romance and fantasy and thriller and musical (yes, musical) would be a good bet, and, of course, he thanked his family and other colleagues.
Drawing on his own experiences as a soldier in World War II, he painted and sketched the brutal energy of the battlefield, whether a monumental searchlight battery, or a group of tanks huddled anxiously in a yellow-hued landscape, awaiting their deployment to destruction.
As she assumes leadership from Mr. Gianopulos, she will face decisions about structure and personnel in an operation that has long dispersed power among the heads of individual units and brands like Fox 2000, Fox Searchlight Pictures and the 20th Century Fox film studio.
It has stunning lighting by Brad Fields, with 12 searchlight-like lamps creating different beams across the stage (we might be in a planetarium); the dancers are dressed by Martha Chamberlain in midnight blue; and the Philip Glass music is easy on the ear.
But Fox (which, through its Fox Searchlight unit, is now the distributor of "The Birth of a Nation") eventually pulled the plug on the movie, in part because some white residents of Southampton County in Virginia did not like Styron's portrayal of slave masters.
It's a much-needed win for Fox, which made the movie before the Disney/Fox merger and is one of the few from the big studio to find success since Disney took the wheel (indie shingle, Fox Searchlight, has had several successes since the merger).
Though the acquisition of Fox by Disney has not paid off so far at the box office, as the existing slate of titles under 20th Century haven't been huge hits (to be fair, most have been dreadful), its indie label, Searchlight Pictures, keeps performing well.
Now antismoking advocates want Mr. Iger to extend that rule to all future youth-rated films (G, PG, PG-13) made by Fox and its Fox Searchlight specialty label, which are among the assets that Disney is buying from Rupert Murdoch for $54.2 billion.
Successful releases like "Manchester by the Sea" and "Hello, My Name Is Doris" enabled Roadside to take in more than $260 million, the largest total in its 20163-year history, and to have a better year than that of Fox Searchlight and the Weinstein Company.
He has been in the United States for about seven months under an M-1 visa granted to those who enroll in vocational programs and said the Civil Aviation Flight University of China had paid about $70,000 for his training at IASCO, the Record Searchlight reports.
Shi told the Record Searchlight that he'd been "grounded" for the past two months, restricting his ability or fly or train at the school where students are "required to use English in all their communications to better prepare them for their pilot careers," according to IASCO's website.
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Up for grabs is Twentieth Century Fox Television and Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Fox 2000 film production studios, augmenting either Disney's massive media portfolio or Comcast's NBCUniversal with tons of new TV shows and movies, as well as a controlling share in Hulu.
The Birth of a Nation, which tells the story of Nat Turner, a slave who became a preacher before leading an 1831 slave rebellion, took Sundance by storm back in January, earning a $17.5 million buy from Fox Searchlight and an enormous amount of Oscar buzz.
In contrast, Fox has many of the year's most Oscar-friendly films, with two released under its Fox Searchlight banner, The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and one from Fox proper, The Post, combining for 19 Golden Globe nominations just this week.
In France, New York hedge fund Elliott Management is currently piling pressure on drinks giant Pernod Ricard , CIAM is tussling with reinsurer Scor, Amber Capital has acquired a stake in Lagardere and Searchlight Capital Partners said earlier this week it was investing in aeronautics company Latecoere.
Lack and her girlfriend were nominated for prom king and queen together and garnered "overwhelming" support from their peers to change the voting process so that couples could appear on prom court ballots together rather than having separate male and female categories, reports the Redding Record Searchlight.
The latest reported ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on a case brought by unpaid interns against Fox Searchlight Pictures, which was rendered last summer, is that the test for unpaid internships should be if the intern is the "primary beneficiary" of the program.
Three people working on the film's release, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the nature of the controversy, insisted that Searchlight had no plans to back away from its release plan, which would have Mr. Parker touring colleges and churches in the coming month.
In France, New York hedge fund Elliott Management is currently piling pressure on drinks giant Pernod Ricard, CIAM is tussling with reinsurer Scor, Amber Capital has acquired a stake in Lagardere and Searchlight Capital Partners said earlier this week it was investing in aeronautics company Latecoere.
Fox Searchlight debuted the first preview of the film Tuesday morning, teasing the film's comical reframing the run-up to the notoriously contentious real-life match between King and ex-champion Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), which became one of the most-watched sporting events in television history in 1973.
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This marks yet another drop in the bucket of Disney's breathless sweep of TV and movie ownership, which now includes, but is not limited to: ABC, Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Television, FX Networks, National Geographic Partners, Touchstone Pictures, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, and now, Hulu.
Meanwhile, the independent film industry has seen a reshuffle within its ranks as new digital and independent players emerge, competing with veterans such as Fox Searchlight, Comcast Corp's Focus Features and Sony Pictures Classics, which have ushered Sundance movies to Oscars success by releasing them first only in theaters.
For example, a group of Gymboree investors, including distressed debt-oriented hedge fund Brigade Capital Management and buyout firm Searchlight Capital Partners, agreed to keep it in business by writing off most of their term loan and investing another $95 million, in exchange for equity ownership, court filings showed.
Disney not only delayed Mulan, which would have been released March 27, but also two other upcoming films: the teen X-Men movie New Mutants (previously scheduled for April 3), and the horror film Antlers, which Disney acquired when it acquired Fox Searchlight (previously scheduled for April 17).
Hollywood has plans to change that, with Variety reporting a heated competition for production rights has resulted in a team-up between producer Devon Franklin (The Star, The Wait) and Fox Searchlight for a big screen story that will open the bag on the hot snack's interesting—and inspirational—roots.
And if Mangold is correct, and Disney wants Fox to make more movies like "Ford v Ferrari," that's a good sign for moviegoers who are seeking something with a little more substance than most of the titles Disney releases and is bigger in scope than what Searchlight has to offer.
It was a pretty intimidating moment, not knowing if they were going to wade into us with batons twirling, but our highly excited friends kept their cool and danced in the cops searchlight beams—keeping the mood so smiley that the police were left feeling ridiculously overdressed for the occasion.
Here's the full synopsis, via Fox Searchlight: Disney may be worried that Jojo Rabbit is too edgy for them, but between Waititi's masterful directing abilities and the fact that now is unfortunately the perfect time to eviscerate some Nazis on-screen, this one could easily be headed towards an Oscar.
That figure is in line with early results for "Lady Bird" (A216), which went on to collect $79 million worldwide last year, and surpasses the initial ticket sales for "The Shape of Water" (Fox Searchlight), which took in nearly $200 million worldwide and won the 2018 Oscar for best picture.
Bush had returned to his mobile home in the community of Keswick last Tuesday after undergoing quadruple heart bypass surgery but he was unable to drive and would have needed help to evacuate when the fire came through the neighborhood on Thursday, his sister, Kathi Gaston, told the Redding Record Searchlight.
For example, a group of Gymboree investors, including distressed debt-oriented hedge fund Brigade Capital Management LP and buyout firm Searchlight Capital Partners LP, agreed to keep it in business by writing off most of their term loan and investing another $95 million, in exchange for equity ownership, court filings showed.

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