Fox Filmed Entertainment's Fox Searchlight Pictures has hired Laurel Bernard as senior vice president of media and promotions. Bernard comes to the boutique film division from sister TV company Fox
Broadcasting where she was vp of national media, working on "American Idol," "24," "Prison Break," "House," "The Family Guy" and "The OC." Bernard started her career in 1989 for Twentieth Century Fox,
buying media on the bigger, wide-release Fox movies. She worked on "Castaway," "Fight Club," "Ice Age," "X-Men 2," and earlier movies "Moulin Rouge" and "X-Men."
--Wayne Friedman
