List of releases
2010s
September 20, 2013 Enough Said
September 27, 2013 Baggage Claim
October 18, 2013 12 Years a Slave
co-production with Regency Enterprises
November 29, 2013 Black Nativity
March 7, 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel
April 4, 2014 Dom Hemingway
May 2, 2014 Belle
July 18, 2014 I Origins
August 1, 2014 Calvary
September 12, 2014 The Drop
October 17, 2014 Birdman
co-production with Regency Enterprises
December 5, 2014 Wild
March 6, 2015
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
April 17, 2015 True Story
May 1, 2015 Far From the Madding Crowd
June 12, 2015 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
August 14, 2015 Mistress America
October 2, 2015 He Named Me Malala
November 6, 2015 Brooklyn
December 4, 2015 Youth
April 8, 2016 Demolition
May 4, 2016 A Bigger Splash
July 22, 2016 Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
October 7, 2016 The Birth of a Nation
December 2, 2016 Jackie
February 10, 2017 A United Kingdom
March 3, 2017 Table 19
March 24, 2017 Wilson
April 7, 2017 Gifted
Fox Searchlight Pictures, established in 1994, is an American film distribution company within the Fox Entertainment Group, a sister company of the larger Fox studio 20th Century Fox, all owned by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox. It specializes in North American distribution of independent and British films alongside dramedy and horror films as well as art-house and foreign films and is sometimes also involved in the financing of these films.
As is the case with Fox's television unit, all copyright notices of programming produced by a Fox-related company (with some exceptions) bear the copyright of the overall film studio, i.e. "© (respective year) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation".
Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, and Birdman have all won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards, 86th Academy Awards, and 87th Academy Awards respectively, as well as a further 12 Academy Awards combined. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Black Swan, 127 Hours, The Tree of Life, The Descendants, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Brooklyn. Slumdog Millionaire is also Searchlight's largest commercial success, with over $377 million (US) of box office receipts, against a production budget of only $15 million.
From 1982 to 1985, prior to the creation of Searchlight, Fox previously released independent films and specialty releases under the banner of 20th Century-Fox International Classics, later renamed 20th Century-Fox Specialized Film Division, then TLC Films. The most notable of the releases under these banners include Bill Cosby: Himself, Eating Raoul, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Reuben, Reuben, and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
In 2006, a sub-label, Fox Atomic, was created to produce and/or distribute genre films. Fox Atomic closed down in 2009.
The Fox Searchlight Pictures logo is quite similar to the regular 20th Century-Fox logo, with even Alfred Newman's fanfare music accompanying it. It begins with the background of the city skyline, then begins to move right through a searchlight and it turns on, following the background searchlights turning on, with the drum intro of the fanfare, then zooms to the logo, and the front searchlight faces the viewer, ending the logo. The animation was later used for Fox Video's third logo.
MAJOR DISTRIBUTION COMPANY
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List of releases
1990s
Release Date Film Title Notes
August 11, 1995 The Brothers McMullen
March 22, 1996 Girl 6
June 14, 1996 Stealing Beauty
August 23, 1996 She's the One
October 11, 1996 Looking for Richard
February 21, 1997 Blood and Wine
February 28, 1997 Smilla's Sense of Snow
March 28, 1997 Love and Other Catastrophes
April 11, 1997 Paradise Road
May 16, 1997 The Van
June 6, 1997 Intimate Relations
July 25, 1997 Star Maps
August 15, 1997 The Full Monty
October 31, 1997 The Ice Storm
January 2, 1998 Oscar and Lucinda
April 24, 1998 Two Girls and a Guy
May 1, 1998 Shooting Fish
May 22, 1998 Slums of Beverly Hills
June 12, 1998 Cousin Bette
July 17, 1998 Polish Wedding
October 2, 1998 The Impostors
November 20, 1998 Waking Ned
February 26, 1999 20 Dates
March 26, 1999 Among Giants
September 10, 1999 Best Laid Plans
September 10, 1999 Whiteboyz
October 8, 1999 Boys Don't Cry
October 29, 1999 Dreaming of Joseph Lees
December 24, 1999 Titus
April 30, 1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream co-production with Regency Enterprises
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FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES
List of releases
2000s
Release Date Film Title Notes
February 25, 2000 The Closer You Get
March 17, 2000 Soft Fruit
September 1, 2000 Chinese Coffee
September 22, 2000 Woman on Top
October 6, 2000 Bootmen
November 24, 2000 Quills
April 13, 2001 Kingdom Come
June 15, 2001 Sexy Beast
August 10, 2001 The Deep End
October 19, 2001 Waking Life
February 15, 2002 Super Troopers
March 15, 2002 Kissing Jessica Stein
August 9, 2002 The Good Girl
August 23, 2002 One Hour Photo
September 20, 2002 The Banger Sisters
October 11, 2002 Brown Sugar
December 20, 2002 Antwone Fisher
March 14, 2003 Bend It Like Beckham
March 21, 2003 L'Auberge espagnole
April 4, 2003 The Good Thief
May 2, 2003 The Dancer Upstairs
June 27, 2003 28 Days Later
July 18, 2003 Garage Days
July 25, 2003 Lucia, Lucia
August 8, 2003 Le Divorce
August 22, 2003 Thirteen
November 28, 2003 In America
February 6, 2004 The Dreamers
February 27, 2004 Club Dread
March 26, 2004 Never Die Alone
April 9, 2004 Johnson Family Vacation
June 11, 2004 Napoleon Dynamite
co-production with Paramount Pictures
and MTV Films
July 2, 2004 The Clearing
July 30, 2004 Garden State
October 1, 2004 I Heart Huckabees
October 22, 2004 Sideways
November 12, 2004 Kinsey
March 11, 2005 Millions
March 18, 2005 Melinda and Melinda
September 16, 2005 Separate Lies
September 23, 2005 Roll Bounce
List of releases
2010s
February 12, 2010 My Name Is Khan
March 12, 2010 Our Family Wedding
May 14, 2010 Just Wright
June 18, 2010 Cyrus
September 17, 2010 Never Let Me Go
October 15, 2010 Conviction
November 26, 2010 127 Hours
December 3, 2010 Black Swan
February 11, 2011 Cedar Rapids
March 18, 2011 Win Win
April 22, 2011 Dum Maro Dum
May 27, 2011 The Tree of Life
June 17, 2011 The Art of Getting By
July 15, 2011 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
July 22, 2011 Another Earth
September 30, 2011 Margaret
October 21, 2011 Martha Marcy May Marlene
November 18, 2011 The Descendants
December 2, 2011 Shame
April 27, 2012 Sound of My Voice
May 4, 2012 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
June 8, 2012 Lola Versus
June 29, 2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild
July 6, 2012 The Do-Deca-Pentathlon
July 27, 2012 Ruby Sparks
October 19, 2012 The Sessions
November 23, 2012 Hitchcock
March 1, 2013 Stoker
April 5, 2013 Trance
May 31, 2013 The East
July 5, 2013 The Way, Way Back
September 20, 2013 Enough Said
Upcoming Films
Release Date Film Title
June 9, 2017 My Cousin Rachel
July 7, 2017 Patti Cake$
September 22, 2017 Battle of the Sexes
November 2017 The Shape of Water
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 Untitled A.A. Milne Project
2018 Isle of Dogs
2017 The Aftermath
TBA Super Troopers 2
TBA Can You Ever Forgive Me?
TBA The Old Man and the Gun
References
"Fox Searchlight Pictures Company Profile".
Jump up^ Tzioumakis, Yannis (2012). Hollywood's Indies: Classics Divisions, Specialty Labels and the American Film Market. Edinburgh University Press.
Jump up^ Walsh, Mark (July 20, 2006). "Fox Atomic Unveils Broadband Site". Mediapost.com. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
Jump up^ Miller, Ross (April 21, 2009). "20th Century Fox Closing Down Fox Atomic". ScreenRant.com. Retrieved January 7, 2016.