What's everyone think of Fox Searchlight? Apparently they've brought us films like A Midsummer Night's Dream, Boys Don't Cry. Super Troopers, The Impostors (one of my favorites), The Full Monty, and, next month, One Hour Photo.
Now, from what I understand, they take on relatively low-budget projects and distribute them. This seems to fly in the face of the gripes a lot of, well, "snobby" moviegoers seem to have these days. Here's a big corporation devoting a branch of its operations to making money with lower-budget films, and so far, it appears to be working. Most of the aforementioned flicks were significantly successful, financially, and given One Hour Photo's tiny budget, I imagine it'll serve this point even further when it's released.
So, what do you all think of this division? Is it good? Is it bad? I'm assuming you'll all choose the former. More important questions, though: is there really room to complain about Hollywood when this sort of thing has begun? Things like this take time, in my opinion, and if Fox Searchlight continues to profit from these films, I see no reason why the other studios won't follow eventually.
Now, from what I understand, they take on relatively low-budget projects and distribute them. This seems to fly in the face of the gripes a lot of, well, "snobby" moviegoers seem to have these days. Here's a big corporation devoting a branch of its operations to making money with lower-budget films, and so far, it appears to be working. Most of the aforementioned flicks were significantly successful, financially, and given One Hour Photo's tiny budget, I imagine it'll serve this point even further when it's released.
So, what do you all think of this division? Is it good? Is it bad? I'm assuming you'll all choose the former. More important questions, though: is there really room to complain about Hollywood when this sort of thing has begun? Things like this take time, in my opinion, and if Fox Searchlight continues to profit from these films, I see no reason why the other studios won't follow eventually.