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Friday the 13th prequel series from A24 axes showrunner Bryan Fuller

Friday the 13th prequel series from A24 axes showrunner Bryan Fuller

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Friday the 13th prequel series that is being developed by A24 for Peacock has lost its showrunner over creative differences. Bryan Fuller, who previously created shows including Hannibal and American Gods, had been announced to head up the series when it was first commissioned in 2022. However, earlier today Fuller wrote on X/Twitter that he is parting ways with the project. “Adapting classic horror is something I have some experience with,” he wrote. “These shows require a vision that elevates and transforms, as well as delivers what audiences have come to expect, which is an ambitious and risky endeavor. It requires people to take the leap with me. “When it works, as with Hannibal, the results can be powerful for the storytellers and the audience. I couldn’t be more proud of the work my co-showrunner Jim Danger Gray and I were able to accomplish with our brilliant …

You’ve Never Seen a Movie Like ‘I Saw the TV Glow’

You’ve Never Seen a Movie Like ‘I Saw the TV Glow’

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Jane Schoenbrun is this close to being attacked by a stray kickball. We’re sitting outside a brewery in Austin during South by Southwest as a pack of grade-schoolers turn our secluded spot into their playground. Schoenbrun, whose new movie, I Saw the TV Glow, was this year’s buzziest Sundance sensation, has been thrust into the limelight that accompanies a hip A24 release—already an overwhelming position to be in without the perils of unwanted athletics. I ask if we should find another table. “No, it adds an interesting danger,” Schoenbrun says. The 37-year-old director can handle minor hazards. Schoenbrun, who uses they/them pronouns, makes enigmatic art films that double as analogies about the transgender experience. Their debut narrative feature, 2022’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, was a restrained psychodrama about a lonely teenager who takes part in an online role-playing game said to distort participants’ bodies. It was strange and sullen, the sort of slow-burning indie that’s good for street cred but not commercial fanfare. I Saw the TV Glow (in select theaters May …

How to watch your favorite A24 films online in 2024

How to watch your favorite A24 films online in 2024

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UPDATE: Apr. 27, 2024, 5:00 a.m. EDT This story has been updated with the latest A24 releases — ‘Talk to Me,’ ‘The Iron Claw,’ and ‘Problemista’ — as well as new streaming details. Quick links to watch A24 films: BEST FOR OLDER A24 FILMS Kanopy Free with a library card or university login BEST FOR 2023-2024 A24 FILMS Max $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year A24, the cult favorite indie film studio, had one helluva 2023. It kicked things off by winning the Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once and has steadily been rolling out new gems ever since. Some of our favorite films of 2023 hail from A24, like the anxiety-inducing thriller Beau Is Afraid, the charming romance Past Lives, and the chilling Oscar-winning Holocaust film The Zone of Interest. And we can’t forget the critically acclaimed horror flick Talk to Me. SEE ALSO: The 25 best movies of 2023, and where to watch them This year is shaping up to be another doozy for A24, with The Iron Claw, Problemista, and Love …

A24 Admits Those Ads for “Civil War” Were AI-Generated

A24 Admits Those Ads for “Civil War” Were AI-Generated

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“You make yourselves out to be paragons of cool and champions of indie film, then you go and do a loser thing like use AI, which is built on stolen art?” Online Outrage Alex Garland’s drama-saddled “Civil War” has already caused its fair share of online outrage, from audiences scratching their heads at certain plot elements — California and Texas as allies?! — to its lazy depiction of war journalists. Now there’s a new front to the discourse battles on the buzzy A24 flick: its use of AI-generated art for posters promoting the film, The Hollywood Reporter reports, which has kicked up a dust storm of questions and anger on social media. A24 had recently released a series of apocalyptic scenes on Instagram promoting the movie, but THR reports that the images — one of which shows soldiers and military vehicles in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park — aren’t depicted in the movie but instead are AI-generated, drawing heat from the online peanut gallery. “None of this happens in the movie,” THR reports one Instagram user commenting …

A24’s New AI-Generated ‘Civil War’ Posters Generate Controversy

A24’s New AI-Generated ‘Civil War’ Posters Generate Controversy

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A24 has released a series of epic new posters touting its acclaimed film Civil War. There’s just one problem. Well, perhaps more than one. Or none, depending on your point of view. We’ll explain. The five images (below) tease postapocalyptic scenes in major United States cities that have been torn apart by conflict. The Sphere is blackened wreck amid a smoldering Las Vegas. There is a floating gun unit in a lake outside Los Angeles. There are troops on patrol in San Francisco. A Miami street lays in ruins. There are tour boats full of refugees on the Chicago River. All scenes suggesting war-torn destruction in iconic locations. Except … none of these scenes are actually in the movie. They’ve caused some to wonder if the campaign is giving potential moviegoers a false expectation of what they’ll see in the film. Civil War is A24’s most expensive production to date, costing around $50 million. Yet the images make the film look like a movie with twice that budget. “None of this happens in the movie,” …

Red States and Blue States Both Watched A24 Movie

Red States and Blue States Both Watched A24 Movie

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Alex Garland’s dystopian Civil War, about America torn asunder by a president run amok and brutal acts of war committed on ordinary citizens, sparked plenty of speculation — and assumptions — heading into its debut in theaters over the April 12-14 weekend. Would it be a win in blue states but a losing battle in red states? Would it galvanize those Trumpians eager to view the sort of imagery witnessed during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capital? Or would liberals assume it would be a balm for their point of view, and see them turn out in full force? After all, Hollywood isn’t known for being a bastion of Republicans. Ditto for indie studio A24, which produced the film. In a surprise twist, Civil War played exactly down the middle as both sides put aside their differences and sat together in cinemas across the country to see for themselves what all the buzz was about. Precisely 50 percent of ticket buyers identified as conservative and the other 50 percent as liberal, according to …

Civil War Sound Editor on Whether Garland’s A24 War Movie Is Too Loud

Civil War Sound Editor on Whether Garland’s A24 War Movie Is Too Loud

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In notching A24’s highest-grossing opening weekend to date, Alex Garland’s debate-stirring combat film Civil War has made plenty of noise — both figuratively and literally. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny and Wagner Moura, the project has spurred conversation over its depiction of a small group of journalists witnessing the violently divided U.S. en route to collecting $25.7 million at the domestic box office this weekend. Among the buzziest elements of the film has been its sound design, as Civil War’s use of jarring battle noise, along with the impactful contrast between its onslaught of gunfire and moments of dead silence. It all adds to the chaos and tension. Civil War supervising sound editor Glenn Freemantle, an Oscar winner for 2013’s Gravity, tells The Hollywood Reporter that he and frequent collaborator Garland were in lockstep in how to best create the film’s dystopian world. “First of all, he said, ‘War is chaos. It’s ugly. I’m sure the guns are just fucking loud, and they’re not pretty,’” Freemantle recalls. “That was a concept where everything was going …

Jeremy Allen White in Talks to Star in Bruce Springsteen Biopic Movie

Jeremy Allen White in Talks to Star in Bruce Springsteen Biopic Movie

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Jeremy Allen White is looking to start dancing in the dark, as the Emmy-winning actor is eyeing the starring role of Bruce Springsteen in a feature biopic. White is in talks to play the rock superstar in Deliver Me From Nowhere, which also has A24 circling. Based on Warren Zanes’ 2023 book of the same name, the movie is set to focus on the making of Springsteen’s 1982 album, Nebraska. Scott Cooper is adapting the script with plans to direct. Gotham Group is behind the project, which counts Eric Robinson and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein as producers. Former Netflix film head Scott Stuber is also involved in the screen version of Deliver Me From Nowhere. Springsteen is a music icon known as “The Boss” and continues to draw rapt audiences with his legendary live performances. Nebraska was Springsteen’s sixth studio album and released two years before his smash Born in the U.S.A. came out in 1984. Featuring blue-collar narratives and with Springsteen performing all the instrumentals on his own, Nebraska landed at No. 150 on Rolling Stone’s …

Jeffrey Wright, Denzel Washington to Star in Spike Lee’s High and Low

Jeffrey Wright, Denzel Washington to Star in Spike Lee’s High and Low

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Fresh off his Oscar nomination for best actor, Jeffrey Wright has set his next film. Apple Original Films and A24 announced Tuesday that Wright is joining Denzel Washington in director Spike Lee‘s next film, High and Low. A24 will give the film a theatrical release before its global launch of Apple TV+. A release date has yet be announced. The thriller, which starts production this month, is the English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller High and Low. The 1963 Japanese movie told of a shoe executive that was in the middle of a complex corporate takeover when his plans are derailed by the accidental kidnapping and ransom of his chauffeur’s son, instead of his own son. The movie adaption was developed and produced by A24, Escape Artists and Mandalay Pictures, and written by Alan Fox and Lee. High and Low marks the second collaboration between Apple Original Films and Washington following the acclaimed film The Tragedy of Macbeth, also from A24, and for which Washington earned his his 10th best actor Oscar nomination. It’s …

Vilnius Film Festival 2024 highlights

Vilnius Film Festival 2024 highlights

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The Vilnius International Film Festival (VIFF) continues to stake its claim as one of the can’t-miss cinema events of Eastern Europe, not just for local audiences (as Lithuania’s largest film festival) but increasingly for industry attendees from the region and across the continent. The Vilnius’ 29th edition, which kicked off March 14 with the opening night screening of Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest and runs through March 27, offers a combination of a best-in-show of the past year in arthouse cinema as well the stand-out highlights from the region. In the former category, alongside Zone of Interest, Vilnius features screenings of Justine Triet’s Oscar champion Anatomy of a Fall, Molly Manning Walker’s Cannes and European Film Award winner How to Have Sex, and Agnieszka Holland’s acclaimed refugee drama Green Border. In the later, the festival’s competition line-up of first and second features from European directors includes the magic-realist drama Omen from Belgian-Congolese rapper Baloji; Mika Gustafson’s social drama Paris Is Burning (best film winner at this year’s Guldbagge Awards, Sweden’s Oscars); …