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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…

Already known as a TV show creator who can run multiple writers' rooms in the same building in a given season, somewhere along the way Fargo Primetime Emmy winner Noah Hawley decided to tackle his feature directorial debut, the female astronaut pic Lucy in the Sky ne Pale Blue Dot, which makes it world premiere…

EXCLUSIVE: Multi-hyphenate Eva Longoria has landed the directing job for Flamin' Hot, the Fox Searchlight biopic about Richard Montanez, who created the spicy Flamin' Hot Cheetos snack. DeVon Franklin will produce the pic under his Franklin Entertainment label, which is currently under a production deal at…

In the first full trailer for the Noah Hawley-directed Lucy in the Sky, Natalie Portman plays the titular astronaut and at one point in the trailer she says that space is the “Only place where anything makes sense.”  Based on the trailer, that sentiment is true — well for her character at least. In Hawley’s feature…

5th Update, Sunday AM writethru final w/chart: Once all the summer Disney franchise pics are out of the way, it gives low-and-mid-budget films some space to breathe. And that’s what we’re seeing in recent weeks, with the debuts of such pics as Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Good Boys, and now…

Fox Searchlight has acquired Exit 12, a documentary short that picked up the Grand Jury Award at this year’s SXSW. The pic is currently available on Fox Searchlight's "Searchlight Shorts" Facebook page and YouTube channel. Directed by Mohammad Gorjestani, the doc follows U.S. Marine Roman Baca, who returns from the…

Fox Searchlight, home to smart adult specialty films and Best Picture Oscar winners, takes a complete left turn into genre with the often very funny, often very bloody new horror film Ready Or Not. I am not sure if Searchlight’s regular art house audience will be ready or not, but fans of this kind of thing are in for…

Fox Searchlight has released the first trailer for A Hidden Life, the Terrence Malick film that had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Searchlight picked up the film in an all-night bidding battle during the fest in a deal for $12 million-$14 million, marking the prestige label’s first major pickup…

Fox Searchlight has set October 4 for the limited release of Noah Hawley’s Lucy in the Sky, which stars Natalie Portman as an astronaut who returns from space. With Lucy‘s new date, Disney officially is still keeping the wide release for Fox’s Joe Wright-directed Amy Adams feature The Woman in the Window on the same…

Deadline has learned that Taika Waititi’s Fox Searchlight project will be Next Goal Wins, based on the 2014 British soccer documentary from directors Mike Brett and Steve Jamison. That doc follows Dutch coach Thomas Rongen who attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial…

The same day Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit secured its slot in the Toronto Film Festival lineup, distributor Fox Searchlight unveiled the teaser trailer for the satire pic, which will be released October 18. The World War II-set pic follows a young German boy named JoJo (Roman Griffin Davis) whose world view is turned…

Fox Searchlight’s first Cannes acquisition under parent Disney, Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life, will open on Dec. 13. The pic, which Searchlight snapped up for $12M-$14M, tells the story of Austrian farmer-turned-WWII conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis. The production, which…