Tag: Searchlight Pictures
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HONEY BOY Director Alma Har’el gets green light for MOCKINGBIRD
by Screenmancer Staff Alma Har’el (Honey Boy) is set to direct her passion project, the feature adaptation of Walter Tevis’ seminal science fiction novel, MOCKINGBIRD, for Searchlight Pictures. Academy Award® winner J. Miles Dale (Nightmare Alley, The Shape of Water) and Robert Schwartz (Iron Will, Blizzard) are producing along with Har’el and her partner Christopher Leggett. Alejandro Laguette and Rafael…
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Sam Mendes shoots EMPIRE OF LIGHT, Olivia Colman, Michael Ward, Colin Firth
Searchlight Pictures announced today the start of principal photography on Sam Mendes’ (1917, Skyfall, American Beauty) feature film EMPIRE OF LIGHT, starring Academy Award winner Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Academy Award winner Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Crystal Clarke and Tanya Moodie. Tom Brooke and Hannah Onslow join the previously announced cast. Produced by Academy Award nominee Pippa Harris…
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NIGHTMARE ALLEY’s Bradley Cooper, star gallery, from Alice Tully Hall premiere
by Screenmancer Staff Last night at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, NIGHTMARE ALLEY lead Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, and Director Guillermo del Toro showed up, with more of the cast, to wry smiles at the opening of this novel-adapted film about a carnival grifter who pierces the veil to nibble on the hapless1940’s upper…
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Bradley Cooper is a vintage carny with Cate Blanchett in del Toro’s NIGHTMARE ALLEY
by Screenmancer Staff Here’s a deliciously strange first look at fantasy Director Guillermo del Toro’s NIGHTMARE ALLEY from Searchlight Pictures, to be released wide Dec. 17 in theaters. Is uncanny carny Bradley Cooper a con man who can bend minds? Or will his cat-like co-star Cate Blanchett, a wily shrink, be the first to punch…
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Shooting begins on Andrew Ahn’s feature FIRE ISLAND, cast complete
by Screenmancer Staff Los Angeles, CA: Searchlight Pictures announced today the start of principal photography on Andrew Ahn’s feature film FIRE ISLAND, starring previously announced cast Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang, and Margaret Cho. Produced by JAX Media (Russian Doll; Search Party) FIRE ISLAND, set in the iconic Fire Island Pines, is an unapologetic, modern day rom-com inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and…
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Jesus, THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE looks amazing
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Not since the song Bette Davis Eyes, by Kim Carnes, has heavy mascara had such a treatment as with upcoming release THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE from Searchlight Pictures. The real Tammy Faye Bakker (then remarried as Messner) died on July 20, 2007, but her legacy lives on as…
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Questlove’s SUMMER OF SOUL (…OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) in July
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: Searchlight Pictures and Hulu, together with Disney General Entertainment’s new BIPOC Creator Initiative, just announced the release date for Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s debut film SUMMER OF SOUL (…OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED), winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival.…
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How the gig economy has aged into van-dwellers, or Frances McDormand in NOMADLAND
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent On an insider Hollywood level, Nancy Utley from Searchlight has one of the best creative executive reputations in the business, not only for producing thought-provoking and risky content, but for encouraging filmmakers to explore complicated themes to best outcomes. Now Utley has brought NOMADLAND to the screen, starring Frances…
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