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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Zahra Phillips has been hired as Director of Production at Fox Searchlight Pictures. She starts today. Prior to joining Searchlight, Phillips was the Director of Development at Franklin Entertainment, where she oversaw projects in film and television. At Searchlight, she’ll be joining the current team to…

Fox Searchlight has announced that its pre-TIFF acquisition, Armando Ianucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, will be opening on May 8. Pic reps Iannucci's third outing as director, after directing the Oscar-nominated In The Loop and The Death of Stalin, and also created the award-winning HBO series…

Fox Searchlight Pictures enters the awards conversation this year with a pair of stories set during World War II that are radically different in tone. With Jojo Rabbit, director Taika Waititi manages to create dark satire out of the story of 10-year-old Jojo (newcomer Roman Griffin Davis), who participates in Hitler…

Fox Searchlight Pictures' Chairmen Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley have tapped Chan Phung as Senior Vice President, Acquisitions and Production. Phung will be starting on Nov. 4 and will lead the acquisitions department for the division, working closely with the entire production team to identify and evaluate potential…

Cherry Jones is nearing her deal to join the cast of The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Fox Searchlight’s biopic about the redemption of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, played by Andrew Garfield and Jessica Chastain, respectively. The Bakkers formed the world's largest religious broadcasting network and quickly fell…

When it came to playing Adolf Hitler in his anti-hate satire Jojo Rabbit, director Taika Waititi realized the best actor was standing in his shoes. “I scoured the Earth for the perfect actor and sometimes your search for the right person is staring at you right in the mirror” quipped Waititi. Jojo Rabbit follows a…

Fox Searchlight co-chairs Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley today stressed the importance of independence and autonomy, during a talk at the BFI London Film Festival. "We've been allowed complete autonomy and the studio [Fox] has never interfered with us. No one at Fox ever said, 'You have to make this movie, [or] please…

Fox Searchlight Pictures has picked up world rights to Wes Anderson's next movie, The French Dispatch. The all-star cast includes Benicio Del Toro, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Léa Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, Mathieu Amalric, Lyna Khoudri, Stephen Park, Owen Wilson, Tony Revolori…

Michael Fassbender is nearing the deal to star in Next Goal Wins, Taika Waititi's Fox Searchlight film. It’s based on the 2014 British soccer documentary from directors Mike Brett and Steve Jamison. It follows Dutch coach Thomas Rongen who attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team…