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    Fox Searchlight Makes Major Overall Deal With ‘Shape Of Water’s Guillermo Del Toro

    Fox Searchlight has made an overall deal with Guillermo del Toro. This comes after they teamed on the Best Picture-winning <em>The Shape Of Water,</em> the fantasy/love story that also won the Best Director prize for del Toro. FSL presidents Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley, who bought that project from del Toro on a pitch, will host live action films that del Toro will write, produce and sometimes direct. A new film label is also part of the deal, where del Toro can percolate…

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    Despite Rape Controversy, Nate Parker's 'Birth of a Nation' Publicity Tour Moving Forward

    Nate Parker is plunging ahead with plans to be the public face of The Birth of a Nation despite the furor surrounding rape accusations that were made against the actor, writer, and director when he was a student at Penn State University. Parker and Fox Searchlight, the boutique label behind the film, have no plans to hide the filmmaker from the press. Although there has been speculation that the controversy surrounding news of the 2001 rape trial would imperil The Birth of a Nation’s Oscar cha