Searchlight Pictures
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Company type | Subsidiary of 21st Century Fox |
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Industry | Entertainment industry |
Founded | Los Angeles, California, US (1994) |
Headquarters | Century City, Los Angeles, United States |
Key people | Stephen A. Gilula, Co-President Nancy Utley, Co-President |
Products | Motion pictures |
Revenue | ![]() |
Owner | News Corporation (1994 –2013 ) 21st Century Fox (2013 –present) |
Parent | 20th Century Fox |
Website | www |
Fox Searchlight Pictures, established in 1994, is an American film distribution company within the Fox Entertainment Group, a sister company of the larger Fox studio 20th Century Fox, all owned by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox. It specializes in US distribution of independent and British films, alongside dramedy and horror as well as non-English-language films, and is sometimes also involved in the financing of these films.
As is the case with Fox's television unit, all copyright notices of programming produced by a Fox-related company (with some exceptions) bear the copyright of the overall film studio, i.e. "© (respective year) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation".
Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, and Birdman have all won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards , 86th Academy Awards , and 87th Academy Awards respectively, as well as a further 12 Academy Awards combined. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Black Swan, 127 Hours, The Tree of Life, The Descendants, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Brooklyn. Slumdog Millionaire is also Searchlight's largest commercial success, with over $377 million (US) of box office receipts, against a production budget of only $15 million.
History
From 1982 to 1985, prior to the creation of Searchlight, Fox previously released independent films and specialty releases under the banner of 20th Century-Fox International Classics, later renamed 20th Century-Fox Specialized Film Division, then TLC Films. The most notable of the releases under these banners include Bill Cosby: Himself, Eating Raoul, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Reuben, Reuben, and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.[2]
In 2006, a sub-label, Fox Atomic, was created to produce and/or distribute genre films.[3] Fox Atomic closed down in 2009.[4]
Logo
The Fox Searchlight Pictures logo is quite similar to the regular 20th Century-Fox logo, with even Alfred Newman's "fanfare music" accompanying it. It begins with the background of the city skyline (most likely that of Los Angeles), then begins to move right through a searchlight and it turns on, following the background searchlights turning on, with the drum intro of the fanfare, then zooms to the logo, and the front searchlight faces the viewer, ending the logo. The animation was later used for Fox Video's third logo.
List of Releases
1990s
Release Date | Film Title | Budget | Gross | Notes |
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August 11, 1995 | The Brothers McMullen | |||
March 22, 1996 | Girl 6 | |||
June 14, 1996 | Stealing Beauty | |||
August 23, 1996 | She's the One | |||
October 11, 1996 | Looking for Richard | |||
February 21, 1997 | Blood and Wine | |||
February 28, 1997 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | |||
March 28, 1997 | Love and Other Catastrophes | |||
April 11, 1997 | Paradise Road | |||
May 16, 1997 | The Van | |||
June 6, 1997 | Intimate Relations | |||
July 25, 1997 | Star Maps | |||
August 15, 1997 | The Full Monty | |||
October 31, 1997 | The Ice Storm | |||
January 2, 1998 | Oscar and Lucinda | |||
April 24, 1998 | Two Girls and a Guy | |||
May 1, 1998 | Shooting Fish | |||
May 22, 1998 | Slums of Beverly Hills | |||
June 12, 1998 | Cousin Bette | |||
July 17, 1998 | Polish Wedding | |||
October 2, 1998 | The Impostors | |||
November 20, 1998 | Waking Ned | |||
February 26, 1999 | 20 Dates | |||
March 26, 1999 | Among Giants | |||
April 30, 1999 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | |||
September 10, 1999 | Best Laid Plans | |||
September 10, 1999 | Whiteboyz | |||
October 8, 1999 | Boys Don't Cry | |||
October 29, 1999 | Dreaming of Joseph Lees | |||
December 24, 1999 | Titus |
2000s
Release Date | Film Title | Budget | Gross | Notes |
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February 25, 2000 | The Closer You Get | |||
March 17, 2000 | Soft Fruit | |||
September 1, 2000 | Chinese Coffee | |||
September 22, 2000 | Woman on Top | |||
October 6, 2000 | Bootmen | |||
November 24, 2000 | Quills | |||
April 13, 2001 | Kingdom Come | |||
June 15, 2001 | Sexy Beast | |||
August 10, 2001 | The Deep End | |||
October 19, 2001 | Waking Life | |||
February 15, 2002 | Super Troopers | |||
March 15, 2002 | Kissing Jessica Stein | |||
August 9, 2002 | The Good Girl | |||
August 23, 2002 | One Hour Photo | |||
September 20, 2002 | The Banger Sisters | |||
October 11, 2002 | Brown Sugar | |||
December 20, 2002 | Antwone Fisher | |||
March 14, 2003 | Bend It Like Beckham | |||
March 21, 2003 | L'Auberge espagnole | |||
April 4, 2003 | The Good Thief | |||
May 2, 2003 | The Dancer Upstairs | |||
June 27, 2003 | 28 Days Later | |||
July 18, 2003 | Garage Days | |||
July 25, 2003 | Lucia, Lucia | |||
August 8, 2003 | Le Divorce | |||
August 22, 2003 | Thirteen | |||
November 28, 2003 | In America | |||
February 6, 2004 | The Dreamers | |||
February 27, 2004 | Club Dread | |||
March 26, 2004 | Never Die Alone | |||
April 9, 2004 | Johnson Family Vacation | |||
June 11, 2004 | Napoleon Dynamite | |||
July 2, 2004 | The Clearing | |||
July 30, 2004 | Garden State | |||
October 1, 2004 | I ♥ Huckabees | |||
October 22, 2004 | Sideways | |||
November 12, 2004 | Kinsey | |||
March 11, 2005 | Millions | |||
March 18, 2005 | Melinda and Melinda | |||
September 16, 2005 | Separate Lies | |||
September 23, 2005 | Roll Bounce | |||
November 11, 2005 | Bee Season | |||
December 23, 2005 | The Ringer | |||
January 27, 2006 | Imagine Me & You | |||
February 17, 2006 | Night Watch | co-production with Channel One Russia and Bazelevs Company, originally released in Russia in 2004 by Gemini Film | ||
March 10, 2006 | The Hills Have Eyes | |||
March 17, 2006 | Thank You for Smoking | |||
April 7, 2006 | Phat Girlz | |||
April 28, 2006 | Water | |||
July 28, 2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | |||
August 18, 2006 | Trust the Man | |||
September 15, 2006 | Confetti | |||
September 29, 2006 | The Last King of Scotland | |||
November 17, 2006 | Fast Food Nation | |||
November 24, 2006 | The History Boys | |||
December 29, 2006 | Notes on a Scandal | |||
March 9, 2007 | The Namesake | |||
March 16, 2007 | I Think I Love My Wife | |||
May 11, 2007 | 28 Weeks Later | |||
May 18, 2007 | Once | |||
May 25, 2007 | Waitress | |||
June 1, 2007 | Day Watch | |||
July 6, 2007 | Joshua | |||
July 27, 2007 | Sunshine | |||
October 26, 2007 | The Darjeeling Limited | |||
November 30, 2007 | The Savages | |||
December 7, 2007 | Juno | |||
March 21, 2008 | La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon) | |||
April 11, 2008 | Young@Heart | |||
April 11, 2008 | Street Kings | |||
September 26, 2008 | Choke | |||
October 17, 2008 | The Secret Life of Bees | |||
November 14, 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Academy Award for Best Picture | ||
December 19, 2008 | The Wrestler | |||
January 16, 2009 | Notorious | |||
March 13, 2009 | Miss March | |||
June 5, 2009 | My Life in Ruins | |||
July 17, 2009 | (500) Days of Summer | |||
July 31, 2009 | Adam | |||
October 2, 2009 | Whip It | |||
October 23, 2009 | Amelia | |||
October 30, 2009 | Gentlemen Broncos | |||
December 18, 2009 | Crazy Heart |
2010s
Release Date | Film Title | Budget | Gross | Notes |
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February 12, 2010 | My Name Is Khan | |||
March 12, 2010 | Our Family Wedding | |||
May 14, 2010 | Just Wright | |||
June 18, 2010 | Cyrus | |||
September 17, 2010 | Never Let Me Go | |||
October 15, 2010 | Conviction | |||
November 26, 2010 | 127 Hours | |||
December 3, 2010 | Black Swan | |||
February 11, 2011 | Cedar Rapids | |||
March 18, 2011 | Win Win | |||
April 22, 2011 | Dum Maro Dum | |||
May 27, 2011 | The Tree of Life | |||
June 17, 2011 | The Art of Getting By | |||
July 15, 2011 | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | |||
July 22, 2011 | Another Earth | |||
September 30, 2011 | Margaret | |||
October 21, 2011 | Martha Marcy May Marlene | |||
November 18, 2011 | The Descendants | |||
December 2, 2011 | Shame | |||
April 27, 2012 | Sound of My Voice | |||
May 4, 2012 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | |||
June 8, 2012 | Lola Versus | |||
June 29, 2012 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | |||
July 6, 2012 | The Do-Deca-Pentathlon | |||
July 27, 2012 | Ruby Sparks | |||
October 19, 2012 | The Sessions | |||
November 23, 2012 | Hitchcock | |||
March 1, 2013 | Stoker | |||
April 5, 2013 | Trance | |||
May 31, 2013 | The East | |||
July 5, 2013 | The Way, Way Back | |||
September 20, 2013 | Enough Said | |||
September 27, 2013 | Baggage Claim | |||
October 18, 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Academy Award for Best Picture | ||
November 29, 2013 | Black Nativity | |||
March 7, 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | |||
April 4, 2014 | Dom Hemingway | |||
May 2, 2014 | Belle | |||
July 18, 2014 | I Origins | |||
August 1, 2014 | Calvary | |||
September 12, 2014 | The Drop | |||
October 17, 2014 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Academy Award for Best Picture | ||
December 5, 2014 | Wild | |||
March 6, 2015 | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | |||
April 17, 2015 | True Story | |||
May 1, 2015 | Far From the Madding Crowd | |||
June 12, 2015 | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | |||
August 14, 2015 | Mistress America | |||
October 2, 2015 | He Named Me Malala | |||
November 4, 2015 | Brooklyn | |||
December 4, 2015 | Youth | |||
April 8, 2016 | Demolition | |||
May 4, 2016 | A Bigger Splash |
Upcoming films
Release Date | Film Title |
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July 22, 2016 | Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie |
October 7, 2016 | The Birth of a Nation |
January 20, 2017 | Table 19 |
TBD | Wilson |
TBD | Gifted |
TBD | Battle of the Sexes |
TBD | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
TBD | My Cousin Rachel |
References
- ^ "Fox Searchlight Pictures Company Profile".
- ^ Tzioumakis, Yannis (2012). Hollywood's Indies: Classics Divisions, Specialty Labels and the American Film Market, pp. 55-58. Edinburgh University Press.
- ^ Walsh, Mark (July 20, 2006). "Fox Atomic Unveils Broadband Site". Mediapost.com. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
- ^ Miller, Ross (April 21, 2009). "20th Century Fox Closing Down Fox Atomic". ScreenRant.com. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
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