PARK CITY, Utah (TheWrap.com) - "The Surrogate," a drama starring Helen Hunt and John Hawkes as a man who hires a professional sex surrogate, has sold to Fox Searchlight for $6 million in the largest acquisition of the Sundance Film Festival so far, TheWrap has confirmed. The independent studio also is in final negotiations to buy "Beasts of the Southern Wild," another hot film at Sundance. Ben ...

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Sundance 2012 is behind us and while it might have fallen a little short of the dealmaking windfall that defined Sundance 2011, this is a year that we won't soon forget. Here's why. Fox Searchlight is the biggest winner of Sundance 2012. Or not. Fox Searchlight acquired what are arguably the two most important films of the festival: "The Surrogate" and "Beasts of the Southern Wild," both of ...

Fox Searchlight's The Tree of Life – shot by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki -- won the feature competition at the American Society of Cinematographers' 26th annual Outstanding Achievement Awards, held Sunday at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.

*Actress Nicole Beharie has been added to the cast of “42,” the Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros biopic of baseball’s first black player, Jackie Robinson. Beharie will play the role of Rachel Isum, who married Jackie in 1946 – a year before he broke baseball’s color barrier. Last year the actress starred in Fox Searchlight’s “Shame” with [...]

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Dear Mick LaSalle: Michael Fassbender's performance in "Shame" was incredible and difficult to watch, yet George Clooney won best actor at the Golden Globes. Do you think Fassbender did not receive an Oscar nomination...