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“Nothing happens without light,” says Toby Jones’ character at the end of the trailer for Sam Mendes’ latest, which has been billed as “love story set in and around a beautiful old cinema on the South Coast of England in the 1980s.” Plot details on Empire Of Light have been scant. The trailer seems to relate the love…

Searchlight Pictures has just announced that Wes Anderson’s next comedy The French Dispatch will open on July 24. The movie produced with Indian Paintbrush brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th Century French city. Benicio del Toro, Adrien…

A month ago when Fox Searchlight emails had dropped the Fox, there was a sense that the full integration of the former Rupert Murdoch-owned studio was in full effect at Disney. Well, it’s official today: in the wake of the 20th Century Fox film division updating their emails last night to @20thCenturyStudios, both…

Ahead of the film's premiere at Sundance, Fox Searchlight and French sales outfit Celluloid Dreams have partnered on international rights to Wendy, the hotly-anticipated first directing joint for Benh Zeitlin since his 2012 debut Beasts Of The Southern Wild. The pic is dated for a U.S. release on February 28 via…

EXCLUSIVE: For Taika Waititi, the birth of Jojo Rabbit goes back to mom. It was his Jewish mother who brought Christine Leunens' novel Caging Skies to his attention, and he became immediately smitten. Speaking at the Toronto Film Festival, he described Jojo Rabbit as a "love letter to mothers, especially single…

EXCLUSIVE: Prentice Penny, currently the showrunner and executive producer of HBO's comedy series Insecure, has been tapped to craft the screenplay for a feature based on true events involving the Compton Cowboys, a group of African American kids who grew up surrounded by gangs and violence in Compton, and who found…

Fox Searchlight is ready to put another stake in the ground for this year’s awards-season race with the theatrical release of Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life starring August Diehl and Valerie Pachner. The release marks a reunion between the Fox Searchlight and Malick after 2011’s Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt and…

To be quite honest, I would rather have back surgery than sit through Terrence Malick’s previous three films ever again, or recommend that anyone submit themselves to the experience of To the Wonder, Knight of Cups and Song to Song. They were all excruciating, indulgent and pointless exercises for Malick, who in 2012…

Mihai Malaimare Jr, the cinematographer of Taika Waititi’s World War II movie Jojo Rabbit, said onstage at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles awards-season event that he didn’t see the film as a comedy when he first began the offbeat project. “I think he’s using comedy for a bigger purpose,” said Malaimare, who has…

Fox Searchlight’s A Hidden Life, Terrence Malick’s film that tells the true story of conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II, was screened at the Vatican on Wednesday. Fox Searchlight chairmen Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula confirmed the private screening for…

EXCLUSIVE: Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins which is currently in production in Hawaii has added to the cast Flight of the Conchords’ Rhys Darby, Mad Max: Fury Road‘s Angus Sampson, Fighting Season‘s Chris Alosio and Smilf‘s Sisa Grey. The foursome join previously announced cast members, Michael Fassbender, Elizabeth…

EXCLUSIVE: Holt McCallany's Christmas looks like it's coming a little early this year The Mindhunter star is already before the cameras on the other side of the Atlantic for Guy Ritchie's Cash Truck with Jason Statham, as Deadline revealed last month. Now I hear that the actor is joining Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara…