Fox Searchlight has tapped Katie Goodson-Thomas as director of productions and acquisitions of its UK operations. The exec, who was most recently at film financier Ingenious, will report to Fox Searchlight Pictures president of production Claudia Lewis. Goodson-Thomas will also work closely with director of production…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich’s DNA is enjoying a banner moment with two hit films either side of the Atlantic — Ex Machina domestically and Far From The Madding Crowd in the UK both exceeding expectations — and a pivot toward TV production that could see the London-based company become a small-screen…

UPDATE, Monday 4:15PM after 9:03 AM: With Top 20 Chart. Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron ended up with a better than anticipated $191.3M domestically, pushing its worldwide cume to an impressive $631.1M,  according to the studio. That’s $3.6M better than had been anticipated yesterday. The Avengers franchise…

New special titles this weekend seduced moviegoers beyond the hoards heading en masse to Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Alchemy had a surprisingly robust start with Kristen Wiig starrer Welcome To Me, which has the highest per theater average among limited releases while Fox Searchlight’s debut Far From The Madding Crowd…

Helen Hunt returns as both filmmaker and star in her latest project, Ride, co-starring Brenton Thwaites and Luke Wilson. The Screen Media Films surf comedy will open in L.A. and New York, both locales where the film shot, before going to well over a dozen theaters. The late Albert Maysles’ second-to-last film, Iris…

Get ready to rumble. After launching in 44 markets with $200.2M, Walt Disney’s Marvel Avengers: Age of Ultron is setting foot in the states. Conservative estimates see the film doing safely $200M at the domestic B.O. at a total of 4,247 engagements, but industry estimates see the Marvel superhero team film easily…

I was never a fan of John Schlesinger’s overblown and undercooked 1967 screen version of Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd, which starred Julie Christie. Thankfully, as I say in my video review above, the new version from Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt) gets it absolutely right.

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Below is the second trailer for Danish helmer Thomas Vinterberg’s return to English-language filmmaking, Far From The Madding Crowd. The Fox Searchlight adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s literary classic is from a script by David Nicholls and stars Carey Mulligan as heroine Bathsheba Everdene who finds herself torn between…

Above is the first trailer for Thomas Vinterberg’s return to English-language filmmaking, Far From The Madding Crowd. Based on Thomas Hardy’s literary classic, it’s the story of the beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (for whom a certain Hunger Games heroine is named) and her choices and passions when faced…

Deadline has told you already about Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts and Tom Sturridge starring in the Thomas Vinterberg-directed Far From The Madding Crowd, and Fox Searchlight has rounded the cast and started production. The announcement:

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