Searchlight Pictures is an American film production and distribution arm of Walt Disney Studios, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company's Disney Entertainment division. Founded in 1994 as Fox Searchlight Pictures for 20th Century Fox (later 20th Century Studios), the studio focuses primarily on producing, distributing, and acquiring specialty films.
Notable Searchlight films includes Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, Birdman, The Shape of Water, and Nomadland, all of which have won an Academy Award for Best Picture. The studio has grossed over $5.3 billion worldwide and amassed 28 Golden Globe Awards, 51 BAFTA awards, and 46 Academy Awards. Slumdog Millionaire is the studio's largest commercial success, with over $377 million (US) of box office receipts, against a production budget of only $15 million.[4]
Searchlight Pictures was one of the 21st Century Fox film production companies that was acquired by Disney in 2019. The studio's current name was adopted in order to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation. Compared to 20th Century Studios, whose distribution operations have folded into Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Searchlight retains its autonomous distribution unit.[5]
History[]
Before the creation of Searchlight[]
Logo used as Fox Searchlight Pictures from 1995 to 2020.
Prior to the creation of Searchlight, 20th Century Fox was active in the specialty film market, releasing independent and specialty films 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 Suspiria, Bill Cosby: Himself, Eating Raoul, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Reuben, Reuben, and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.[6]
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First years and 21st Century Fox era[]
From its first release, The Brothers McMullen (1995), Fox Searchlight went to distribute a series of independent films such as Girl 6, Stealing Beauty, and She's the One (all 1996).[7] While critically well received, these early releases were not commercially very successful; Fox Searchlight's first real commercial breakthrough came with The Full Monty (1997), garnering the studio's first awards.[8]
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Disney era[]
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Film library[]
- Main article: Lists of Searchlight Pictures films
Accolades[]
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Related units[]
Searchlight Television[]
- Main article: Searchlight Television
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Searchlight Shorts[]
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See also[]
- 20th Century Studios
- Touchstone Television
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References[]
Citations
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|url=value (help). Deadline. Retrieved February 3, 2020.Post-merger, Fox Searchlight, now re-branded Searchlight Pictures, enjoys a lot of autonomy in the Disney empire, greenlighting pics they know and operating their own distribution, publicity and marketing teams. 20th Century Studios (which recently dropped the Fox) was melded into the bigger Disney fold, fusing all its operations.
- ↑ Tzioumakis 2013, pp. 55-58.
- ↑ Tzioumakis 2013, pp. 141.
- ↑ Tzioumakis 2013, pp. 134.
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| Television production | 20th Television • 20th Television Animation • Searchlight Television | Other assets | 20th Century Games • 20th Century Comics9 • Star Studios • Genting SkyWorlds • Disney Studios Australia |
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| Notes | Regency Enterprises • Viacom International • Bertelsmann and Sony Music Entertainment • Paramount Home Entertainment • Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment • Disney Consumer Products • Hoyts and Columbia TriStar Films • Marvel Comics |
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