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A24: Fighting to keep cinema engaging and promoting diversity

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the growing impact of A24 and why they’re the best thing in cinema right now…. The widening grip of Disney expands almost every year. They can seemingly rest a little on their laurels having generally found a formula that works with minimal boundaries pushed, or need for innovative dramatic ideas. Whilst […]

A Post-Pandemic Film Industry

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Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to how the landscape of film may change in the next few years… The entire film world, top to bottom, across most of the world has hit pause as we deal with more pressing life affecting matters. Studios have delayed releases and productions. We’ve seen a number of films switch from […]

Now Is The Time for Indie Films To Strike

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Tom Jolliffe looks at a pre-Covid rise in popularity for independent films, and a big upcoming push for content going forward… Slowly but surely, changes were afoot this time last year. It had been a progressive rise for a few years. Cinema was still monopolised by the mega budget blockbusters. In particular, Disney and every […]

Sandra Oh and more join Robert Downey Jr. in espionage thriller The Sympathizer

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The espionage thriller series The Sympathizer has added more to its cast. Joining Robert Downey Jr. (Avengers: Endgame) in the HBO and A24 series is Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Kieuh Chinh (Dynasty) and Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen (Paris By Night). The Sympathizer is “an espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist […]

Peacock orders Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake from Bryan Fuller and A24

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With the long-running legal saga over the rights to the original Friday the 13th now seemingly behind us following last year’s court ruling, Peacock has announced that it has given a straight-to-series order to Crystal Lake, a prequel to the 1980 slasher classic from A24 and showrunner Bryan Fuller (Hannibal). “I discovered Friday the 13th […]

Nicolas Cage joins Ari Aster-produced A24 comedy Dream Scenario

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Following some of the best notices of his career for self-deprecating comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Nicolas Cage is set to remain in the business of making people laugh by signing on for A24’s Ari Aster produced Dream Scenario.  Deadline reports that Dream Scenario will be written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli, whose […]

Sebastian Stan shares a first look at his prosthetic-covered face in A Different Man

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Sebastian Stan continues to forge a very interesting career away from the big-budget gloss of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that’s none more so evident than in the image he shared from his latest film A Different Man.  Posted to his Instagram account, the picture shows Stan covered in prosthetics for his role in A […]

A24 erotic drama The Governesses enlists Lily-Rose Depp, HoYeon and Renate Reinsve

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Lily-Rose Depp (Wolf), HoYeon (Squid Game) and Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) have been cast in The Governesses, an erotic drama from A24 and director Joe Talbot (The Last Black Man in San Francisco). Based on the novel of the same name by Anne Serre, the film see Depp, HoYeon and Reinsve […]

Mandy helmer Panos Cosmatos to direct “phantasmagorical fantasy nightmare” Nekrokosm

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Mandy director Panos Cosmatos has lined up his next project, with the filmmaker set to direct and co-write a science-fiction fantasy romance entitled Nekrokosm for A24. Described as a “phantasmagorical fantasy nightmare” the film will take place “deep within a strange galaxy where two lovers are torn apart as they try to survive a malevolent […]