Formerly | Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc. (1994–2020) |
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Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Film |
Founded | April 29, 1994 |
Founder | Tom Rothman[1] |
Headquarters | 10201 West Pico Boulevard, , United States[2] |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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Products | Motion pictures |
Number of employees | 100+ |
Parent | Fox Entertainment Group (1994–2019) The Walt Disney Studios (2019–present) |
Divisions | Searchlight Television |
Website | searchlightpictures.com[a] |
Searchlight Pictures, Inc.[2] is an American film production and distribution arm of The 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.
Searchlight is known for distributing the films 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 51 Academy Awards, 30 Golden Globe Awards, and 56 BAFTA 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.[3]
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.[4]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).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.
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