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Shame Stamped With NC-17 Rating

Steve McQueen’s upcoming erotic drama Shame has gathered a lot of attention due to its edgy content and sexually explicit scenes. Now the Motion Picture Association of America has slapped the film with an NC-17 rating, virtually ensuring that the already limited release will be even more limited.  read more

Fox Searchlight Picks Up Zoe Lister-Jones Comedy

Paste recently named Zoe Lister-Jones one of our Best of What’s Next, and indeed, it seems the promising actress-filmmaker is filling the role quite nicely. Fox Searchlight has just bought her comedy pitch Motherfucker, which filmmaking-partner Daryl Wein will direct....  read more

Watch the Trailer for Jeff Bridges Flick, Crazy Heart

Fox Searchlight has released the trailer for Crazy Heart, the film that critics says will help Jeff Bridges win his overdue Oscar....  read more

Danny Boyle Tackles Mountaineer Survival Story in 127 Hours

It’s official. Danny Boyle has signed on to direct the harrowing story of Aron Ralston, a mountaineer who was trapped under a boulder on a Utah mountain for five days in 2003. He survived by amputating his arm with a dull camping knife and climbing down to safety....  read more

Alexander Payne Signs Up For His First Movie Since Sideways

Alexander Payne has signed up for his first post-Sideways feature, The Descendants, about a father who embarks on a search for his incapacitated wife’s lover with his 10- and 17-year-old daughters in tow. ...  read more

Fox Searchlight Picks Up Jeff Bridges Flick About Fallen Country Singer

The Jeff Bridges drama Crazy Heart, which we've told you about previously, has picked up American distribution with Fox Searchlight. ...  read more

She & Him, Black Lips, The Smiths Featured on (500) Days of Summer Soundtrack

It's OK if you've started counting down the days until...  read more

Drew Barrymore's Whip It! Coming in October

According to /Film, Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, Whip It!, finally has a release date through Fox Searchlight, the same studio that released Diablo Cody's Juno. The roller-derby themed film is set to release on Oct. 9. ...  read more

Reese Witherspoon eyes dead-boyfriend flick for Fox

Reese Witherspoon has never quite fallen into the typical rom-com trappings. Her vehicles aren’t necessarily unconventional, but she usually plays a self-starter whose interest in men can be nominal, at least at first (Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama, Just Like Heaven). If the deal comes through for her proposed new flick Nice, though, she’s poised to take that to another level. ...  read more

Fox Searchlight drinks Gus Van Sant's Kool-Aid

Director Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black must have made a good team on the upcoming political biopic Milk, because the two have already made a deal with Fox Searchlight to reunite. ...  read more