Watch: Montage Video Celebrating ’30 Years of Searchlight Photos’
by Alex Billington September 25, 2024Source: YouTube
The enduring film studio Searchlight Photos is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary. Based in 1994 beneath the identify Fox Searchlight Photos, they dropped “Fox” after Disney purchased twenty first Century Fox The cinema chain Picturehouse within the UK is celebrating “30 Years of Searchlight Pictures” with a screening sequence of 11 movies. Under is their beautiful trailer. “An independent film powerhouse formed in 1994 as Fox Searchlight Pictures, to tell the story of Searchlight is to tell the story of the last thirty years of indie film itself: follow the company’s decades-spanning thread, weaving award winners and cult classics together, and find a slate of modern masterpieces dear to the hearts of both the most devoted cinephile and the casual movie-goer.” Some of my fave Searchlight movies: Sunshine, 500 Days of Summer season, Napoleon Dynamite, Black Swan, The Grand Budapest Resort, Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later, Juno, The Menu, Tremendous Troopers, Thank You for Smoking, The Tree of Life, and The Descendants. Here is to 30 superb years!! And lots of extra to come back.
From Picturehouse on YouTube: “Your favourite movie is a Searchlight movie ♥ Our season celebrating 30 years of Searchlight Pictures.” Based in 1994 as Fox Searchlight Photos because the indie label at twentieth Century Fox (now referred to as twentieth Century Studios), the studio focuses totally on producing, distributing, and buying specialty movies. Searchlight is thought for distributing the movies Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, Birdman, The Form of Water, and Nomadland, all of which have received an Academy Award for Finest Image. The studio has grossed over $5.3 billion worldwide and amassed 51 Academy Awards, 30 Golden Globe Awards, and 56 BAFTA awards. (By way of Wiki) After Disney acquired twenty first Century Fox, the studio was renamed Searchlight Photos (sans Fox) and that is now their present identify. The Picturehouse cinema chain within the UK is internet hosting screenings of many of their greatest movies this fall – beginning this week all through October & November. For more information and tickets, go to their official web site. Which of these traditional movies are your favorites?
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