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EXCLUSIVE:  BAFTA Award nominee Takehiro Hira (Shōgun, Gran Turismo) and Japanese Academy Award winner Akira Emoto have rounded out the cast of Searchlight’s Rental Family directed by Hikari (Beef) and starring The Whale Best Actor Oscar winner Brendan Fraser and Mari Yamamoto (Pachinko). Cameras are…

Searchlight movie The Greatest Hits following its March 14 world premiere at SXSW will hit select theaters on April 5 and stream on Hulu on April 12. The Ned Benson written and directed title follows Harriet (Lucy Boynton) who finds art imitating life when she discovers certain songs can transport…

BAFTA weekend has arrived, and with it the kickoff of key celebrations ahead of the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday night, which will then be followed by a host of glitzy afterparties well into the wee hours of Monday morning. The awards themselves will be handed out beginning at 5pm local time on Sunday at…

Laura Chinn’s feature film writing and directing debut hits close to the heart — her heart especially — in a semi-autobiographical story set in 2005 and inspired by her own growing pains at a dark time in her family’s life as her brother is dying of cancer and moved unknowingly into what turned out to be…

EXCLUSIVE: The dealmaking has begun. Searchlight Pictures closed the first major deal on the ground at the Sundance Film Festival — $10 million for worldwide rights for A Real Pain, directed and written by Jesse Eisenberg. He stars with freshly minted Emmy-winning Succession star Kieran Culkin as…

Studios, specialty labels, streamers and indies spread the field of BAFTA Film Awards nominations announced today. Universal’s Oppenheimer leads with 13, followed by Searchlight’s Poor Things at 11 and Apple Original Films’ Killers of the Flower Moon at nine, tying with A24’s The Zone of…

A year after the Jonathan Majors disturbed-bodybuilder drama Magazine Dreams took Sundance by storm, the pic is now back in the hands of its filmmakers and being shopped, Deadline has confirmed. Searchlight acquired the hot title last year out of Park City for an estimated seven figures; the movie…

“By 2022, many people in management were aware of Gonzales's egregious conduct and what he did to Plaintiff,” alleges a sexual assault suit filed yesterday by a current Disney employee against the Mouse House, its ex-VP Distribution Nolan Gonzales and various former Fox assets. “Plaintiff overheard a…

The indie box office busted out this year, hitting is stride post-Covid with an eclectic string of releases that made a splash artistically and financially. Independents and mini-majors saw $1.47 billion in box office receipts as of Dec. 27, up from $811.7 million in 2022, according to…

Back in 2009, Yorgos Lanthimos led the so-called Greek Weird Wave with the Oscar-nominated Dogtooth, an unsettling exploration of a family of teenagers kept from the world by their father in a gated estate that they could never leave. The family is rich, so they can have anything they want except the wide…

Searchlight has added their third release to the December calendar before the year-end Oscar qualification date, that being the Andrew Haigh directed and written fantasy drama, All of Us Strangers, on Dec. 22. Related Stories …

Searchlight has set a Sept. 8 theatrical release for its second movie with filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things. The movie sees The Favourite director back with that pic’s star Emma Stone. She also produces here. Stone plays Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the…