Fox Searchlight Pictures has lined up a December release date for Paolo Sorrentino’s “Youth.”
Last year's Best Picture winner sets an Oscar season release date for 'Youth'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:06 am · June 2nd, 2015
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Fox Searchlight nabs Paolo Sorrentino's 'Youth' with Michael Caine in prime lead role
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:17 pm · May 13th, 2015
Fox Searchlight has acquired Paolo Sorrentino’s “Youth” at Cannes, with Michael Caine in a role that could well land him in the thick of the upcoming Best Actor race.
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Thomas Vinterberg to direct Carey Mulligan and Matthias Schoenaerts in 'Far From the Madding Crowd'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:50 am · September 16th, 2013
The Fox Searchlight production also stars Juno Temple and Michael Sheen.
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Iñárritu's 'Birdman' starts shooting with Keaton, Watts, Stone, Galifianakis and more
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:35 am · April 16th, 2013
The film will be the Oscar-nominated director’s first comedy.
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'Twelve Years a Slave' set for a December release, but likely to skip Cannes
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:58 pm · April 2nd, 2013
We’ll have to wait a bit longer than we’d hoped for Steve McQueen’s third feature.
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Is 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' one to watch for the Brit vote?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:30 pm · November 6th, 2012
Yesterday’s BIFA haul bodes well for multiple BAFTA nods.
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See Anthony Hopkins strut (okay, waddle) his stuff in first 'Hitchcock' trailer
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:31 am · October 10th, 2012
Fox Searchlight is releasing the comedy-laced biopic in prime Oscar season.
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'Beasts of the Southern Wild' ineligible for the SAG Awards
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:50 pm · October 1st, 2012
Quvenzhané Wallis will have to get that Oscar nod without the Guild’s help.
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Magnolia to release Malick's 'To the Wonder' in 2013
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:13 am · September 29th, 2012
The director’s latest has had a rocky reception since premiering earlier this month.
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Interview: Kenneth Lonergan on why 'Margaret' shouldn't be perfect
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:32 pm · July 10th, 2012
We talk to the writer-director about the extended DVD cut of his sophomore film.
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The Long Shot: Searching for sleepers in the Oscar guessing game
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:34 am · June 11th, 2012
As early Oscar charts hype up juggernauts like “Lincoln” and “Les Misérables,” what’s this year’s little engine that could?
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Oscar's big miss: 'The Ice Storm'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:49 pm · February 24th, 2012
The 1997 dysfunctional family drama “The Ice Storm” remains the best film of Oscar-winning director Ang Lee’s career, yet it received not a single Academy Award nomination. Guy Lodge wonders why.
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Boston Society of Film Critics issues press release expressing regret over 'Margaret' screening procedures
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:31 pm · December 11th, 2011
The Boston Society of Film Critics has stuck up for Kenneth Lonergan’s “Margaret” in a big way by imploring Fox Searchlight to make screeners of the film available to Academy members.
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Team 'Margaret' makes headway
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:47 am · December 6th, 2011
As the critical conversation around Kenneth Lonergan’s beleaguered “Margaret” spurs the film to spectacular limited box office and an expanded screen count in the UK, it seems some people do listen to critics after all.
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Are you there, Fox? It's me, 'Margaret'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:38 pm · November 30th, 2011
Kenneth Lonergan’s long-delayed sophomore “Margaret” has emerged from nightmarish post-production difficulties to emerge as one of the year’s very best films, but distributor Fox Searchlight isn’t even sending out awards screeners for the little-seen title. A critic-led online petition is hoping to change that.
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Oscarweb Round-up: Oprah's honor
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:08 am · November 9th, 2011
In today’s round-up, Oprah Winfrey stands up for herself re: receiving the Academy’s humanitarian prize, Vanity Fair puffs up “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” with new pics from the set and Searchlight debuts a site for Steve McQueen’s “Shame.”
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Searchlight on taking the 'Shame' out of NC-17
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:14 pm · October 21st, 2011
With Fox Searchlight boldly announcing plans for a full-scale Oscar campaign for Steve McQueen’s sexually explicit (and presumably NC-17 rated) “Shame,” we wonder what this could mean both for the film and the future.
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Go behind the scenes of Sean Durkin's 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:19 am · October 17th, 2011
With “Martha Marcy May Marlene” set for limited release this Friday, we bring you an exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of the film.
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