Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series shining a spotlight on the scripts behind the year’s buzziest awards-season movies continues with Searchlight’s A Complete Unknown, James Mangold’s micro-biopic of Bob Dylan that stars Timothée Chalamet. Mangold adapted the script with two-time Oscar-nominated…

When it comes to the Golden Globes after-parties, it’s a new era. Gone are the fraternity- and sorority-spirit rah-rah days when we’d see Paris Hilton getting chased by a gaggle of paparazzi in the Beverly Hilton lobby, with the studios crowding every corner of the hotel. Remember the 20th…

Robert Eggers Nosferatu from Focus Features sank its teeth into the Christmas box office. With James Mangold's A Complete Unknown – Searchlight Pictures' top-grossing film since it was acquired by Disney in 2019 – they ushered in a heady post-Covid moment for indie films at no. 3 and 5 at the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone has come aboard Searchlight’s comedy DNA, starring Ben Schwartz and Sam Rockwell, as director and producer. The project is the second announced in two weeks for Taccone, who recently launched production in Finland on The Trip, a thriller starring…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive situation, Searchlight Pictures has landed the spec Clean Break from scribe Ryan Brennan. Scott Free is producing. The project is in development. When a fiercely independent pool hustler finally meets her match in a fellow pool shark, their irresistible but…

Two-time Oscar nominee Kemp Powers is directing and writing Lunik Heist for Searchlight Pictures, a project which will star Oscar winner Jared Leto, Emmy winner John Mulaney, and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o. The movie is inspired by the audacious true story of the American government's plot to…

As Andrew Garfield opens up about the death of his late mother, he’s praising his The Eyes of Tammy Faye family for helping him through the loss. The 2x Oscar nominee recently said he was “really very grateful” for his time on the 2021 Tammy Faye Bakker biopic with co-star Jessica Chastain, who…

It’s official: Ready or Not 2 is in the works. The news is getting announced tonight by Radio Silence at a Searchlight screening for their 2019 cult horror pic which started it all. Principal photography and release date will be announced at a later date. Ready or Not launched Radio Silence to…

The pandemic and Hollywood strikes battered box office for independent cinema is turning a corner, distribution execs told a panel at the Zurich Summit industry conflab on Saturday. "We’ve been in a trench trying to get out," said Rebecca Kearey, Head of International at Searchlight Pictures…

With another spooky season upon us, it’s Sarah Paulson‘s time to shine in the genre she loves. After executive producing her first film Hold Your Breath, which landed today on Hulu, the Golden Globe winner opened up about being “in charge” on set and how “exhaustion” helped her tap into her…

Searchlight Pictures on Tuesday morning unveiled the first trailer for Nightbitch, the studio’s darkly comedic horror film starring six-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams, which is slated for release in theaters on December 6. An adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s acclaimed debut novel from Marielle Heller…

Searchlight Pictures on Friday unveiled a new poster for its Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet as the iconic singer-songwriter, which you can view below. Slated for release on Christmas Day, A Complete Unknown is set in New York in the early 1960s. Against the…