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Searchlight Pictures

American film distribution company
Organization film_production_company Q953040
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Searchlight Pictures is a film production and distribution company established on January 1, 1994 by Tom Rothman. It operates within the film industry, specializing in the development, production, and release of films.

The company functions as a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios.

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: film studio[4], television production company[5], subsidiary company[6]
  • Founder: Tom Rothman[7]
  • Owned by: The Walt Disney Company[8]
  • Headquarters location: Los Angeles[9]
  • Commons category: Searchlight Pictures[10]
  • Industry: film industry[11]
  • Inception: January 1, 1994[12], April 20, 1994[13]
  • Location of formation: Los Angeles[14]
  • Parent organization or unit: Walt Disney Studios[15]
  • Official website: https://www.searchlightpictures.com/[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Fox Searchlight Pictures films[17]
  • Product or material produced: film[18]
  • Legal form: subsidiary company[19]
  • Has list: list of Fox Searchlight Pictures films (1995–1999)[20], list of Fox Searchlight Pictures films (2000–2009)[21], list of Fox Searchlight Pictures films (2010–2019)[22]
  • Social media followers: 704,331[23], 456,000[24], 701,928[25], 504,000[26], 572,000[27], 636,000[28]
  • P14742: 8616[29]
  • P14750: 5DC6-AF01-3FD7-E451-CD25[30]

Why It Matters

Searchlight Pictures has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

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  6. [8] ↑ . Variety. Retrieved . variety.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Variety. Retrieved . variety.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  3. 15w ago · Chimatronx · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1994-01-01T00:00:00Z, +1994-04-20T00:00:00Z
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