I Was Like, ‘Fuck Yeah!’”—Barry Jenkins. Where it’s like: I’m in. The Witch, enemy, American honey, and ex machina I also liked a lot. While of course it is the filmmakers that are really creating the films, A24 is helping a lot of independent artists to get more recognition for their work by acquiring and distributing, and that’s what makes them so … Kapadia: There were other films that had a lot more money in their campaign and were everywhere. “Hollywood is run by accountants at this point. No film is too crazy for A24. It was Ms. Aizenberg, who focuses on publicity, who caught “The Florida Project” at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and made a passionate case for A24 to buy the stylized drama. I actually tied with Jared [Leto], who obviously won the Oscar that year, for L.A. Film Critics. How great it was. The next generation will probably have an Academy Award nominated movie based on the life of the guy who made the Sharknado movies lol. We want to go two thousand screens. Whether that’s old white people in the Academy, or people all over the country, or frankly the rest of the world. Except for Searchlight, which is Tab.”. And they’re aiming at them. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20) and Your California Privacy Rights. Fenkel: Look at The Witch. Released in 2014, in the early years of A24, Under the Skin has been mostly billed as a sci-fi thriller starring a frequently half-naked Scarlett Johansson. They first hit it big with seven nominations in 2016 from films like Room, Ex Machina, and Amy, leading towards greater success the following year. (See: Miramax.). I liked the fact that they had never made a doc. Fenkel: Well, of course Selena Gomez in a bikini worked. A current young professional in the greater Washington, D.C. area, Nick founded MovieBabble in October of 2016 when he was a bored college student with nothing else to do. It wasn’t disrespectful. Jenkins: They were like, “Look. And you could tell that it was in their reach. Sacco: I used to think seeing people faint was what happened in movies. I’m dying. From its inception, A24 was already bucking trends before it was fully formed. They have a very good understanding of the Zeitgeist. I think Spring Breakers really put them on the map, as far as I could tell. Robert Pattinson (actor, ‘The Rover,’ ‘Good Time’): It’s crazy that there is an article about a distribution company. Watched Lady Bird last night, was great too. And I remember hearing she was really upset. That’s where the real horror lies. It’s super inspiring. With that company personality has come the respect of many different creators. We wanted to deliver in a meaningful way. A slow burn punctuated by several shocking images (I still can’t shake the nightmarish scene of Katherine being pecked bloody by a crow), The Witch becomes all the more impactful when it descends into full-blown madness in its third act. And what makes A24 think it can avoid the usual indie film pitfalls? Aizenberg: Nine to ten people walked out. Ravi Nandan (co-head of TV, A24): Paramount Vantage, which had released, like, There Will Be Blood and a bunch of other movies, was [folded into] Paramount. Kapadia: They’ve won Best Picture. They’re one of the few companies that have shown that indie films can still be viable. And we put in Oscar statues in his hands. Katz: And we were all like, “You know what? Harvey Weinstein (via email): A24 is a great company. And A24 taught me that it could all happen under one studio. Whatever the case, A24 puts the focus on the movies and their auteurs. For most theatrical releases, A24 would spend roughly 95 percent of its marketing money online, using data and analytics to stitch films into the social media firmament in ways that prompts movie lovers to feel a sense of discovery and pass the message on organically — persuading fans to persuade one another. There’s music labels I can think of as well. Dede Gardner (producer, Plan B, Moonlight): When we and Barry said it was absolutely critical that we shoot in Miami, they said, “Of course it is.” And you know, many, many others would’ve said, “Well, you can get the rebate if you go to Atlanta.” But anyone who’s read it knows that Liberty Square and that particular light and that particular culture was a character. Aizenberg: Yeah. In both cases, the girls are vilified for daring to become sexual beings. Let’s do Kevin Smith horror! I haven't seen a ton of A24 films but Room was one of the most intense viewing experiences of my life. Like, there was one that was like the shot—it was [Franco’s character] Alien with the two girls, and he’s holding machine guns or something. Nick is also a member of the Internet Film Critics Society and the Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association. Thanks a ton for linking this! 2012) is an independent film distributor that has helped bring indie film and filmmakers into the mainstream while also building a popular company brand. Viewing Varda Part Three: ‘Cleo from 5 to... A Stone-Cold Classic Forthcoming? No one cared about our language or our clothes. We literally didn’t know what to do. And we still have a great relationship now. But in general distribution is like plumbing: unseen, unnoticed, and notable only when it malfunctions. To me, the genre meant grotesque schlock made to play out cheap scares or misogynistic fantasies…plus I’m a grade-A wimp who gets scared of her own shadow. What a fucking ride that movie was. Sacco: I show up at the airport. People had thought that entire part of the industry had just died. Katz: Tuesday morning, I remember, we had a little whiskey for him. It was, like, every time another person walked out, I was like, “Oh, there goes another one!”, Sacco: All my friends and family, they kept asking about this new company. They just need to know how it feels.”. Selena and Ashley had no issue with this. A24 is cool and I know they say great things about Miramax, which makes me feel proud and old at the same time. The distributor is already top notch, but it could become something even greater down the line. They also tried to hide it on their website. Nobody has a formal title. Key grip. Get it now by subscribing here. And I think that’s the main thing, I’d say. They created a profile for Ava, the artificially intelligent being at the core of the movie. Is the mysterious Woman the alien creature she was at the beginning when she has been so fundamentally changed by the false human appearance that she has donned, and the human characteristics that she has adopted? And then over the course of, like, four months, we bought a lot of movies. No one had a voice. This wasn’t the abject experiment in terror or the bloody romp that I anticipated. Like why is every movie sooooo amazing yet so drastically different? So I think they were hoping, and discovering, that they might be able to do that with The Witch. Web design by Pro Blog Design. The specialty film business is an increasingly challenging one. No!”. I love Moonlight, said as much before it won the Oscar, and I’ll say it again now - I showed it to my daughters early and they loved it. Wouldn’t call us back. It’s exciting. Korine: I don’t think I was there, but I heard people were walking out. For instance, an actress. A24 is now moving full speed into television. And that takes time. Next on the list: A24’s unique brand of existential horror.). I hear Willem Dafoe is superb in it, He was the only thing I liked in the movie. In fact, looking at A24’s box office results, it would be easy to wonder what all the fuss is about. Igoe: That morning was crazy. You could tell that they wanted to be great. Annapurna Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection, Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali Picks His Own Oscar Winners. They were not the company that they are today. David Fenkel (co-founder, A24): We find movies [for which] our perspective, our system, our people, can act to make it something special. Hodges: The office literally looked like a pump-and-dump stock operation.

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