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Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, whose The Hunt was in the Cannes competition last year, will make his studio-produced English-language helming debut with the adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel, Far From The Madding Crowd. The UK’s DNA Films is producing with Fox Searchlight, which confirms that Carey Mulligan and Matthias Schoenaerts will star in the new take. They’ll play Bathsheba Everdine and Gabriel Oak in the story of the ill-fated passions of a willful young woman and her three suitors. Production is scheduled for this fall in the UK with Searchlight marketing and distributing for the world. A previous film version was directed by John Schlesinger in 1967 and starred Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch and Alan Bates (as Oak). Mulligan is in Cannes this week in support of The Great Gatsby and Inside Llewyn Davis. Schoenaerts was in Cannes last year with Rust And Bone and is here now with Blood Ties. They are both repped by CAA; Vinterberg is repped by ICM Partners.
Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts Set For Searchlight’s ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’
Fox Searchlight’s ‘Baggage Claim’ Gets September Release Date
Baggage Claim will be flying on to the big screen on September 27, 2013, Fox Searchlight announced today. Starring Paula Patton, the romantic comedy is directed by David Talbert, who adapted it from his … Read More »
Fox Searchlight Dates ‘Twelve Years A Slave’
The Steve McQueen-directed Twelve Years A Slave is set for a limited platform release beginning December 27, Fox
Searchlight announced today. Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Brad Pitt star in the film from Regency … Read More »
Hot Trailer: ‘Trance’
Here’s the latest trailer for Danny Boyle‘s psychological thriller Trance. James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel and Rosario Dawson star in the story of a fine art auctioneer mixed up with a criminal gang who joins forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. The movie premiered … Read More »
Fox Searchlight Acquiring Debut Novel ‘Shotgun Lovesongs’
EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight is acquiring rights to Nickolas Butler’s debut novel Shotgun Lovesongs. Brad Desch will write the script and Sherryl Clark and her Busted Shark banner will produce. Clark is also producing Desch’s first script, … Read More »
Amy Ryan Joins Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu Comedy ‘Birdman’
Amy Ryan is joining the cast of Birdman, the Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu-directed comedy that is currently shooting in New York. She joins Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis and Andrea … Read More »
Edward Norton Joins Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Ensemble Comedy ‘Birdman’
EXCLUSIVE: Edward Norton has been set to star in Birdman, the dark comedy that will be directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu for Fox Searchlight and New Regency. Norton joins Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts … Read More »
Hot Red Band Trailer: ‘Trance’
Here’s a red band trailer for Danny Boyle‘s Trance. Starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel, it’s about a fine art auctioneer (McAvoy) who turns to a hypnotherapist to recover a lost Goya painting. Joe Ahearne, on whose BBC telefilm the feature is based, wrote the screenplay … Read More »
Danny Boyle’s ‘Trance’ Gets April 5 Release Date
Fox Searchlight has set an April 5 platform release for Trance, the Danny Boyle-directed psychological thriller starring James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel and Rosario Dawson. It hits UK theaters March 27 via Pathe and Searchlight big brother … Read More »
Fox Searchlight’s ‘Black Nativity’ Kicks Off
Black Nativity, a modernized take on Langston Hughes’ classic musical, stars Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, Tyrese Gibson and Jacob Latimore. Eve’s Bayou helmer Kasi Lemmons wrote and is direcing the Fox Searchlight pic, which started production … Read More »
UPDATE: SUNDANCE DEAL PRECEDENT PART 2 – Fox Searchlight Confirms ‘The Way, Way Back’ Deal For Nearly $10 Million
UPDATE, 10:19 AM: Fox Searchlight confirms that it has closed the deal on The Way, Way Back, saying it’s for just under $10 million. Since I was up all night writing cross-eyed to break the story hours ago, I would rather not repeat myself, so here is the early-morning story again, and I’ll put the official press release below my original story break when it arrives (it’s there now).
EARLIER EXCLUSIVE, 4:09 AM: 
The Sundance Film Festival has emerged as one of the craziest for deal making in recent memory. After a wild all-night negotiating session following a raucous premiere screening yesterday of The Way, Way Back, Fox Searchlight has emerged as the frontrunner to acquire domestic rights and several other territories. The price tag is around $10 million minimum guarantee, with a P&A and theatrical commitment.
Searchlight was among bidding distributors that include Lionsgate, FilmDistrict, Paramount Pictures, and Warner Bros. Buyers began mobilizing right after the film’s Monday 3:30 PM first screening at Eccles Theatre, and numerous sources have been telling me all night that this has been one of the most spirited auctions in recent Sundance memory.
By the time the deal gets closed this morning, it should also be just about the richest deal ever made at the festival, as the sale of additional foreign territories will raise the value of the deal even higher. The rabid pace of deal making and the high numbers are a surprise to me, because both buyers and sellers expected the films to go in low upfront deals. Then, the buyers started discovering an exceptional crop of films programmed by Sundance. Read More »
Hot Sundance Trailer: ‘The East’
The Fox Searchlight thriller The East, directed by Zal Batmanglij and co-written by Batmanglij and Brit Marling, who also stars, debuted yesterday at Sundance. The film centers on a mysterious anarchist collective (called The East) and an ex-FBI agent (Marling) who goes undercover and dedicates herself to taking it … Read More »
Sundance: Is ‘Fruitvale’ This Year’s ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’? 7-Figure Auction To Be Decided Monday Morning
EXCLUSIVE: Fruitvale, the Ryan Coogler-directed drama about the last day in the life of 22-year-old Oscar Grant before he was killed in a case that galvanized protests against police brutality in Oakland, is at the center of a multi-distributor auction that will be wrapped up first thing Monday morning at Sundance. I’m hearing that the deal will be worth just north of a $2 million minimum guarantee with commitments for screen commitments and a theatrical release, with P&A. The suitors in the mix at this late hour are led by The Weinstein Company and Fox Searchlight, with Paramount Pictures and Focus Features in the mix. Read More »
‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Back In Theaters Friday For Oscar Push
In the wake of its four Oscar nominations last week, Fox Searchlight said today that Beasts Of The Southern Wild will be re-released in theaters beginning Friday. The film’s return engagement will hit a limited number of cities … Read More »
Tom Hardy In Talks For ‘Animal Rescue’ As Fox Searchlight Eyes Noomi Rapace
EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight is in final talks with Tom Hardy to star in Animal Rescue, and is offering the female lead to Noomi Rapace. Searchlight … Read More »
Fox Searchlight To Develop Susan Boyle Story Based On Musical ‘I Dreamed A Dream’
Fox Searchlight has acquired the life rights to Britain’s Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle along with rights to the UK musical I Dreamed A Dream that’s based on her story. The plan is to combine the two to develop a … Read More »
‘Hitchcock’ Opens AFI Fest, Starts Oscar Talk
“Good Evening,” AFI president and CEO Bob Gazzale said as he welcomed guests to AFI Fest 2012 with the
famous salutation of Alfred Hitchcock. And it did indeed turn out to be a very good evening for both AFI and their opening-night film, Hitchcock. The last of the major fall film festivals, AFI Fest can boast just like other recent fests (Venice, Telluride, Toronto, New York) that it has put another major Oscar contender into play in the ever-increasing list of potential nominees.
With the world premiere of Hitchcock at the Chinese theatre Fox Searchlight has a solid contender in several acting categories along with some below-the-line contests and, depending how things pan out, even Best Picture. Time will tell on that: It’s never easy for showbiz stories to make the Best Picture cut because industry voters don’t always take movies about their own as seriously as loftier subjects, but on the heels of last year’s Best Pic, The Artist maybe that’s changing. And what Hitchcock really is at its core is a remarkable love story. ”Just wait until you see this one,” a smiling and confident 20th Century Fox chairman Jim Gianopulos told me as he grabbed some popcorn before the film rolled. He had reason to be happy. Read More »
Hot Trailer: ‘Hitchcock’
Here’s a first look at Hitchcock, the Fox Searchlight biopic that stars Anthony Hopkins as the famed director. It centers on the making of his iconic film Psycho and is being billed as a love story of Hitch and his wife Alma Reville, played by Helen Mirren. The … Read More »
Natalie Portman Courted To Play Jackie Kennedy In Fox Searchlight Drama
EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight, which distributed the Natalie Portman-starrer Black Swan, is courting Portman to come back into the fold and play the title character in Jackie, the Noah Oppenheim-scripted drama about Jackie Kennedy in the immediate aftermath … Read More »
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