Guy Nattiv’s Oscar-nominated short film Skin has been acquired by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The acquisition was announced today by Fox Searchlight Pictures' Chairmen Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula and EVP, Global Acquisition & Co-Prod, TCF Acquisitions Ray Strache. "We're thrilled to work with Guy Nattiv on his…

In his first collaboration with Wes Anderson on Isle of Dogs, Paul Harrod translated an auteur's live-action style to stop-motion, a medium that allowed for a spectacular visual presentation, but came with a set of limitations that proved problematic. Gathering reference materials and establishing certain visual…

When makeup and hair designer Nadia Stacey met with Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos about The Favourite—a black comedy of the 18thcentury, centered on Queen Anne and two rivals for her affections—she came prepared with ample historical research and her usual bag of tricks, and would have to throw much of it…

Jack Hock, as played by British thesp Richard E. Grant, storms into Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me? with every ounce of bluster he can conjure. It's hard, on the surface, to see how he could strike up a friendship with Melissa McCarthy's quiet, introverted Lee Isreal, the author and literary forger who…

Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos' first period outing, The Favourite imposed immediate, practical challenges upon its below-the-line team, a film where extreme vision, finances and other realities would collide. Set in the immense court of Queen Anne in 18th century England, the black comedy called for all the detail and…

Even as an admirer of bold filmmaking, cinematographer Robbie Ryan had his mettle tested on The Favourite, choreographing the moves of an unorthodox, restless camera for a demanding Greek auteur. The outgrowth of past cinematic experiments, Yorgos Lanthimos' latest defies all expectations of the British costume drama…

The 75th anniversary Golden Globe Awards were handed out tonight at the Beverly Hilton, and Fox Searchlight Pictures flat-out dominated the studio tally with six wins: four for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, including Best Motion Picture, Drama, and two more for The Shape of Water.  A24 made a good showing…

Even before Octavia Spencer won the best supporting actress Oscar for 2011’s The Help, she managed a hard-worked career that many actresses would envy: Consistent character parts on long-running TV series, read ABC’s Ugly Betty, Comedy Central’s Halfway Home, and TNT’s Raising the Bar, and parts in an array of movies…

Get Step director Amanda Lipitz talking about the girls at the heart of her film—exuberant members of the step dance team at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women—and she's liable to tear up. "I cry when I talk about them," she tells Deadline. "The girls give me such hope… Their mothers inspire me as a…

Fox Searchlight spent its stage time Deadline’s The Contenders event today with three female-led films. Guillermo del Toro was on hand with his fantasy adventure film The Shape of Water, the story of an unlikely relationship between Elisa (Sally Hawkins) a lonely mute woman who cleans the top-secret government…

“I was astonished to discover, after reading the screenplay, that Christopher Robin was real. I think we had all enjoyed the books, but never computed that actually, Christopher Robin was inspired by A.A. Milne's own son,” Goodbye Christopher Robin producer Damian Jones said of the true-life basis for the Fox…

Fox Searchlight Pictures, which has one of the best marketing and distribution teams in the industry right now, has just upped Heather Artis to senior VP of creative advertising. Since joining Fox Searchlight in 2011, Artis has co-produced AV campaigns for such films as Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Brooklyn, 12 Y…