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. It specializes in US distribution of independent and British films, alongside dramedy and horror as well as non-English-language films, and is sometimes also involved in the financing of these films.
Some of their most recognizable films include: 127 hours, Black Swan, Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Juno and 28 Days Later.
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, The Descendants and Beasts of the Southern Wild. 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.
I chose to look at Fox searchlight for a few reasons. Firstly some of the films they have distributed have been great with my personal favourites being Black Swan, Another Earth and Night Watch. Secondly they focus on distributing independent films in the USA and the UK. It is nice to see a huge american company have a subsidiary or sister company to promote independent films and to promote British films too.
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