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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…

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…

Taika Waititi’s next movie Next Goal Wins for Fox Searchlight has added to its cast Oscar Kightley (Aroha Bridge, The Breaker Upperers), David Fane (The Barefoot Bandits, Westside), Beulah Koale (Hawaii Five-0), Lehi Falepapalangi (Future Man, Hawaii Five-0), Semu Filipo (Harry), Uli Latukefu (Alien: Covenant), Rachel…

Full Metal Jacket and Law & Order: Criminal Intent actor Vincent D’Onofrio will play American Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist Jerry Falwell in Fox Searchlight’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye about the rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Bakker. As production starts today in…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Jaeger (The Handmaid’s Tale, Parenthood) has joined the cast of Fox Searchlight's biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye, starring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield. Michael Showalter is directing from a script by Abe Sylvia. Based on the 2000 documentary of the same name, the pic follows televangelists Jim…