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I love how A24 manages to rise the careers of many up and coming actors, such as Timothee Chalamet, Anya Taylor Joy, and others, and puts older actors, such as Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Brendan Fraser and Jamie Lee Curtis back into the spotlight.
They really saved mid budget films. In an era of streaming saturation. Aren't interested in movie stars, just actors. Instead of content it feels like art
It seems as if you think that A24 makes their movies. A24 doesn't produce most of their stuff, they're just the US distributor for many of these movies.
I make it a point to watch an A24 film at the theatres because I want them to keep making it. I want them to keep investing in these new directors and new stories and weird charaters.
me too, i was shocked when i was literally the only person in the theater when i saw Beau Is Afraid, which certainly made for a unique watching experience. By the end I was standing up and yelling out random stuff lol.
Unfortunately, they don't always do a tom of advertising. I'd never heard of Talk to Me, until I saw it in the AMC lineup. I chose it simply because it was a horror movie and it ended up being really good. For me, the other issue is release. I'm in central Illinois, so not all of their movies come to our theaters. I remember being really interested in Marcel, The Shell With Shoes On. Never came to our theaters. :-( Men was only here for a week.
@@UnboxingAlyss I suggest subscribing to their newsletter! I subscribed to it so I get notified of new trailers and upcoming movies. That's how much I love A24 movies (dating back to Spring Breakers & Under the Skin). But I get it, in the grand scheme of things, they are still a "small" production company and still have a small budget in advertising compared to juggernauts like Paramount, Disney, etc. I am spoiled because I live in Chicago. I will say, that I missed the run of Past Lives so when I got the newsletter that it was available to buy online, I bought it immediately. $20 for a movie I've rewatched twice already... is so worth it.
They've said they want to expand into mainstream, IP-based titles but I REALLY hope that they A: continue to make the films they've been making the last decade, and B: Give filmmakers more creative freedom within IP based movies.
Did they really say that? Or just that they will focus more on commercially viable projects? Beau Is Afraid lost a lot of money this year. They’re still a small studio that agreed to SAG’s demands right away. They must ensure their financial future if they want to continue to grow and be able to afford to keep investing in weird indie movies. I have no issue with that. If they get bought out by a major studio, then I’d be more disappointed.
@@mhawang8204 Based on headlines they want to move to more commercial stuff, but that could have just been clickbait. I think what they really meant what you said.
Everything Everywhere All At Once was the first R-rated movie I ever saw in a theater. Though I actually saw Lady Bird in high school, so that was my first true R-rated movie. And I was overjoyed when I learned A24 picked up Hazbin Hotel for distribution. Handel's Hallelujah chorus was playing in my head that day.
I jumped in at The Green Knight and I'm still playing catch-up but, they have all been bangers so far. I watched Enemy a few weeks ago and loved it. I didn't even know it was an A24 until after I looked it up later.
Listen to those of you who enjoy A24 movies please watch them in the theaters, that’s the best way we can make sure more movies like this are getting made. Some of my favorites are X, Mid90s, Moonlight, EEAAO. I love the way they view movies. Please support them.
Tbh it's not just about having tastes, it has more to do with giving a shit about originality ahead of profit motives. The rest of the industry suffers from chasing IP for the sake of money above all else. There could be multiple A24s if they just cared enough
If they had a Mubi-like streaming service, I would pay for that so hard. I feel like as great as these films are, most people just won't justify paying for a cinema ticket for them as they don't have the big screen wow-factor of the Hollywood blockbusters that people pay for nowadays. I mean I personally would and many in the comments probably would too, but the vast majority are less likely to
My first time with A24 was Spring Breakers... It had something I couldn't put my finger on and get hooked to that studio. Did The Take has ever done a video about the trope "Nice Drug Dealer who is in fact an Asshole" yet?
As an accountant, I’m disappointed that studios only view prospective film projects as profit or loss as opposed to stories that need to be told on film. Yes, I get that it’s a business, but when the artistic element is reduced to a formula or is removed entirely, that’s a problem. No wonder I’m disengaged from the MCU and Star Wars franchises at this point.
I am sure hoping now that A24 just only establishes a stand-alone home video entertainment unit of its own for re-releasing its older films back then onto their own DVD/Blu-Ray company so soon: A24 Home Entertainment!
I recently rewatched Moonlight. It is still as perfect as I remember and a true gem of filmmaking. A24 has not surpassed that for me, but they have made films I consider the best of their genre (Hereditary for Horror, EEAAO for Action). I hope they don’t get swallowed in their own success. I am expecting more stories from them from perspectives we never see. I am also really wanting a sequel to Moonlight but I know it’s not gonna happen. It’s too perfect of a story.
I really don t think streaming has been cannibalising the DVD market/industry. I’m talking as a physical media collector and I can say that streaming has changed my cinema experiences. There are a LOT of films that I consider not worth the cinema experience and I m therefore waiting to see them when they head to streaming. Collectors are even moooore influenced to buy dvds / blurays lately because of streaming services who are unreliable concerning their content.
the secret is letting directors do what they want it's that simple, taking chances on people which people no one truely does anymore due to overpriprozing profit. People like to whine there's no creativity left but there are countless people waiting for a shot but studios aren't willing to take a shot on original stories rather poach on remakes live actions revivals etc etc
A24 is the Disney, Dreamworks, Universal, WB, and other Hollywood names of indie films altogether, along with Blumehouse and Sony Animation. It goes to show that in 15+ years down the line, A24 and other independent movie companies and media entertainment will be on the rise, making it the next Hollywood of Indies. Meanwhile, other big companies like modern Hollywood will soon slowly lose it's viewers because of how corporate and greedy they are nowadays with endless remakes, sequels, and never-ending franchises. The only two I love are the Spider Verse trilogy, Puss in Boots 2, The Black Phone, M3gan, and The Monkey Man.
Even a24's misses usually feel worth it to me because of originality. Like yeah that was a bad film but I sure as hell would not have seen that anywhere else
I prefer old movies and new, original films and music, along with stop motion fan films/fanfiction, fanart, collages, and original stories based on pop culture rather than seeing what most mainstream garbage they put out nowadays in theaters.
The only movie I've not really enjoyed was Uncut Gems. Just didn't land with me. The rest feel well real. The people creating these movies understand human nature. It's put art back in the artform that Hollywood with the soulless cyborg bureaucrats took out for numbers and algorithms. Proving Hollywood don't care or don't understand what people want.
Beau Is Afraid lost a lot of money. A24 has said they will focus on more commercial projects now. Even with EEAAO being their arguably biggest success, it’s still not as mainstream as mid budget movies used to be. You know people would only watch films like The Pelican Brief or Spotlight on streaming these days. If only small studios that are a few flops away from financial troubles are releasing these interesting movies, it’s not healthy. The alarmists have a point. Willems is not the only one saying this for years.
The existence of A24 doesn't negate the fact that the movie industry as a whole invests a large majority of their capital in existing IP if not horror. I love A24 but they're pretty much single-handedly keeping the original, mid-budget sector afloat. Bottom line, the industry could nonetheless use far less tentpoling
Euphoria is of course known as their main TV series, but personally I thought the one they did with Joseph Gordon-Levitt was overall very good too. Mr. Corman was kind of a boring forgetable name though which doesn't help.
