Fox Searchlight Pictures, established in 1994, is a film
division of Fox Filmed
Entertainment alongside
the larger Fox studio 20th Century Fox. It specializes in independent and British films, alongside drama and horror as well as
non-English-language films, and is variously involved with the production
and/or distribution of these films.
In the
early-to-mid 1980s, prior to the creation of Searchlight, Fox previously
released independent films under the banner of 20th Century-Fox International Classics; the most notable of the
releases under this banner include Bill Cosby: Himself, 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. Its first release was Turistas.
Fox Atomic closed down in 2009.
As is the
case with Fox's
television unit, all copyright notices of programming produced by a
Fox-related company (with some exceptions) read "© (respective year)
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation".
Fox
Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award
for Best Picture at
the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards.
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, and The Descendants.
Fox Searchlight Pictures distributed films such as 127 Hours on November 5, 2010 (limited); November 24, 2010 (wide) with a budget of $18 million and ended up with a Gross (worldwide) $57,335,230. Also, Slumdog Millionaire on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 with a budget of £9.2 million ($15 million) and Gross (worldwide) of $377,910,544.
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