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Aside from PASON, DRAGN and ARTST (delist HSX-$24), anyone know what other foreign-language films delisted > $15? (more in IM...)
The Search is French language and from the director of The Artist. Per wiki it's a remake of a 1948 film about a boy who survives the Holocaust and is in search of his mother.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Search
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Zinnemann
That first one had Academy award nominations including for Best Director, Fred Zinnemann. Zinnemann had multiple nominations and wins during his career, including two Best Director wins but not for The Search and not for High Noon (those were nominations only). The Search did win a Best Story Oscar as well as a special award for the actor who played the kid. Its RT is 100% but only 8 reviews.
So there's an impeccable pedigree there, but the 1948 film is obscure nowadays obviously, and it was English language and starred Montgomery Clift. Fast forward to this remake and it's at least partly set in Chechnya apparently. Some other details are here on the HSX page, and following is a screendaily link...
http://www.hsx.com/security/view/SERCH
http://www.screendaily.com/news/twc-worldview-sign-partnership/5071406.article
Oleg posted a different, more recent screendaily link earlier today, but I cite the above one because it may strongly suggest that Weinstein will end up distributing in the U.S. as they did with The Artist. The Artist was actually distributed by Warner Bros. in France (per Wiki), so perhaps it's possible it won't be Weinstein. But either way it appears that the movie will have some solid distribution support behind it.
No reviews on RT yet, but there should be within a matter of days because The Search is currently in competition at Cannes. Little buzz though, at least as of a week ago when it wasn't even on the Top 10 on social media radar among the movies in competition.
Still, the strategy could be to come out of obscurity, and seize the prize, and surprise. 
If the movie is Oscar-class and generates buzz, and depending on its release pattern, it's plausible to me it delists at $15M+ or even $24M+ like The Artist. Passion of the Christ and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon numbers are almost certainly way, way out of reach, and The Artist may be too because it was a rather unique movie. The Search is a remake or at least based on, and I think it would have to have some kind of very powerful element to break into the mainstream, e.g. a waterworks mother-and-child reunion ending for example.
There aren't many foreign-language examples that I can think of, besides the three I mentioned in the subject line, that have broken into even the semi-mainstream like The Artist did. I'm sure there must be some though, hence the question.
French trailer for The Search May 20, 12:02
Aside from PASON, DRAGN and ARTST (delist HSX-$24), anyone know what other foreign-language films delisted > $15? (more in IM...) May 20, 14:03
SERCH looks mostly English from the trailer. {nm} May 20, 14:12
BOM has a list May 20, 14:19