Foxsearchlight.com launches

Cyberbiz Brief

By DAVID BLOOM

Fox Searchlab has launched Foxsearchlight.com, a Web site featuring short films, lectures and discussions with top filmmakers and actors, as part of its effort to reach out to new filmmakers. Among those on the site are helmers Bryan Singer, Kimberly Peirce, Billy Bob Thornton and Ridley Scott. Future lectures are scheduled from helmers Miguel Arteta and Mark Romanek, both of whom have Fox Searchlight-distribbed pics opening this month. The site also premiered the Jan Kovac-directed short "Son of Satan" and will feature a new short every two weeks, showcasing Searchlab participants' work.