Searchlight Pictures is celebrating a milestone anniversary with … T-shirts!
The studio has teamed up once again with buzzy Los Angeles brand Hiro Clark to honor its 30th year in business. (The two previously partnered on “Hello Stranger” shirts after the success of the critically acclaimed All of Us Strangers from Andrew Haigh.)
In doing so, Hiro Clark is offering a limited-edition collection of tees, five in total, that retail for $98 apiece in multiple color options. Here’s the part cinephiles need to know: the line of five honors Searchlight’s beloved films including Tamara Jenkins’ 1998 film Slums of Beverly Hills, Kimberly Peirce’s 1999 film Boys Don’t Cry, Jared Hess’s 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine, and Scott Cooper’s 2009 film Crazy Heart.
“Get your popcorn ready,” shared brand founder Andy Salzer on Instagram this week when the collab dropped. “So stoked for our new Searchlight Pictures Hiro Clark project.”
The options are all short-sleeved classic tees that, per Hiro Clark, are “made from the highest quality 100 percent slub cotton jersey, a specialized cotton that is lightly twisted as the fabric is woven.” The “ultra soft” tees all feature a relaxed crew neck and fit true to size.
Abigail Breslin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell and Greg Kinnear in Little Miss Sunshine.
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Natasha Lyonne (center), Marisa Tomei and Eli Marienthal in Slums of Beverly Hills.
Hiro Clark, coming off a sporty summer thanks to an official Olympics collaboration that debuted in recent months to promote LA28, has plenty of Hollywood-focused options on offer including shirts that say things like “Leading Man,” “Stunt Double,” “Rough Cut,” “”Based on a True Story,” “The Talent,” “On Location” and more. It all makes sense for a brand born and based in L.A. Hiro Clark also maintains a brick-and-mortar store at 677 North Berendo Street in Downtown L.A. where its wares (tees, shorts, caps, sweatshirts, sweatpants, bags, socks and bandanas) are on the racks.
For Searchlight, the studio’s 30th anniversary is being celebrated in a variety of ways with likely more to come. Street Food Cinema kicked off a screening series in June that has featured one film per month. It wraps this weekend with Little Miss Sunshine at the Autry Museum of the American West in Griffith Park. Picturehouse in the U.K. is rolling out a “This is Searchlight” screening series by showing high-profile releases incuding The Shape of Water, The Fully Monty, Little Miss Sunshine, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Nomadland and more.
See all of the Searchlight x Hiro Clark tees below.
The Vote for Pedro shirt in honor of Jared Hess’s 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite starring Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez and Tina Majorino.
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Hiro Clark’s Slums of Beverly Hills shirt in honor of Tamara Jenkins’ 1998 film starring Natasha Lyonne, Marisa Tomei, Alan Arkin, Bryna Weiss and Eli Marienthal.
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Hiro Clark’s Little Miss Sunshine shirt in honor of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ 2006 film starring Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin, Paul Dano and Alan Arkin.
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Hiro Clark’s Crazy Heart shirt in honor of Scott Cooper’s 2009 film starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Colin Farrell.
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Hiro Clark’s Boys Don’t Cry shirt in honor of Kimberly Peirce’s 1999 film starring Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny and Peter Sarsgaard.
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