A24 The bulk of this season’s awards movies are relatively staid and fairly similar-looking, and then there’s The Whale, Darren Aronofsky’s food-based Leaving Las Vegas starring Brendan Fraser as a terminally obese online college English professor. That The Whale’s protagonist looks like a live… Read entire story.
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The BBC and A24 are teaming for an adaptation of Douglas Stuart’s 2020 Booker Prize-winning novel Snuggie Bain. A24 will produce the series for BBC One, with the project marking Stuart’s first television series. Deadline first revealed revealed news of the series back in December 2020, at which point … Read entire story.
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The pressing post-pandemic issue of how to find a theatrical audience for arthouse films was the subject of a morning panel at the Zurich Summit. Among speakers were A24 acquisitions and distribution executive David Laub, Sierra/Affinity exec Kristen Figeroid and Christian Bräuer, MD of top German indie exhibition … Read entire story.
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A24 Martin Scorsese loves movies. He doesn’t make them himself; he watches everything. He’s such a champion of preserving cinema, he even uses his money and reputation to saving it from oblivion, just like his longtime pal George Lucas. While he doesn’t like every movie, it’s a big deal when… Read entire story.
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A24 Ti West, who broke onto the indie horror scene with 2009’s House Of The Devil, which he wrote and directed, belongs to an elite fraternity of filmmakers. Thus far, in fact, a fraternity of one: filmmakers who have punched me in the face. We met at a Fantastic… Read entire story.
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