All the upcoming A24 movie releases in order
The indie distributor has a promising line-up of new films, from Celine Song's sophomore feature "Materialists" to Kyle Mooney’s debut "Y2K."
No other indie distributor is doing it like A24.
Since 2012, the NYC-based studio has been the home for filmmakers who wanted to let their freak flags fly. Whether an original story evokes hope or haunts you with nightmares, almost every A24 movie is unforgettable. Where else would storytellers such as Robert Eggers, the Safdie Brothers, Celine Song, Lulu Wang, Barry Jenkins, Greta Gerwig, Ari Aster, and more get their big break?
The company has since become the arguably most revered art-house studio in the film scene, landing several Best Picture Oscar wins for features like Moonlight and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Just this year alone, A24 delivered some of 2024's finest films: I Saw the TV Glow, Sing Sing, Problemista, Janet Planet, and Love Lies Bleeding. Its amazing output just doesn’t stop there, as the future for A24 looks bright. Their upcoming slate includes festival favorites from Cannes and Sundance, A24 alums returning for another round, first-time filmmakers making their big debut, and enticing dramas ripe for awards season.
From Brandy having her horror renaissance for the first time since I Still Know What You Did Last Summer in The Front Room to John Crowley uniting Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh in British melodrama We Live in Time to former SNL cast member Kyle Mooney’s directorial debutY2K, here are all the biggest upcoming A24 movies in 2024 and beyond.
The Front Room - Sept. 6, 2024
In Sam and Max Eggers' (half-brothers to A24 heavyweight Robert Eggers) directorial debut, Brandy plays a mom-to-be named Belinda, who, with her husband (Andrew Bunlap), takes in her mother-in-law Solange (Kathryn Hunter of Poor Things fame). Solange offers the couple enough money to pay for their new house, but all hell breaks loose once she settles and starts tormenting Belinda with her psychopathic and racially targeted behavior. While Solange goes Racist-stiltskin mode (scheming to get to Belinda’s unborn child for herself), Belinda must find a way to get the unwanted guest who’s sittin' up in her room out of her house.
Look Into My Eyes - Sept. 6, 2024
After chronicling Taylor Swift and Brooke Shields, Miss Americana director Lana Wilson's latest documentary puts you into the palm of N.Y.C. psychics while they conduct intimate readings of their clients. Taking "being read for filth" to the next level, Look Into My Eyes explores notions of grief, loneliness, and other complex emotions unearthed by these unconventional professionals.
A Different Man - Sept. 20, 2024
In Aaron Schimberg's dark comedy, aspiring actor Edward (Sebastian Stan wearing heavy prosthetics) struggles with his facial deformity and is ostracized from society. After getting facial reconstructive surgery, a new, studly Edward learns that his kind playwright neighbor (Renate Reinsve) has been taking auditions for a production all about him. He subsequently loses the role of himself to Oswald (Adam Pearson of Under the Skin), an actor with neurofibromatosis. Edward soon becomes obsessed with Oswald, and this unlikely source might convince him that beauty is skin deep after all.
We Live in Time - Oct. 11, 2024
If you're craving a This Is Us-style drama, but with more British-based Oscar-nominated A-listers, John Crowley's We Live in Time has you covered. It all starts with Almut (Florence Pugh) accidentally hitting Tobias (Andrew Garfield) with her car. Sparks fly between them in the hospital where she goes to visit him, thus beginning a romance that spans decades and faces many trials. On the heels of Celine Song's long-haul love story Past Lives, We Live In Time will likely elicit similar waterworks.
Heretic - Nov. 15, 2024
Hugh Grant going horror mode? Only for A24. In writer/director duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods' latest project, two missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) enter a hellish atmosphere when they knock on a seemingly charming Mr. Reed's (Grant) door. Given the heavy rain they're standing in, Mr. Reed invites them inside and offers them pie. But soon, the two find themselves trapped with no way out. And to think Phoenix Buchanan from Paddington 2 was Grant's darkest role to date!
Y2K - Dec. 6, 2024
SNL alum Kyle Mooney makes his directorial debut in this gory, campy, revisionist throwback that realizes the worst-case scenario from 1999 coming true: a robot uprising right at Y2K. The disaster flick follows millennials Eli (Jaeden Martell) and Danny (Julian Dennison), two nerdy high school outcasts who crash a New Year's Eve party at the turn of the millennium. Eli has the hots for Laura (Rachel Zegler) and is afraid to make his move. But all that changes when the clock strikes midnight and the machines come alive with the intent to kill. Now, the teens must survive the night and find a way to stop the robo-poclypse before it's too late.
Babygirl - Dec. 20, 2024
Bodies Bodies Bodies filmmaker Halina Reijn returns to A24 with an erotic thriller. Nicole Kidman stars as a powerful CEO who starts a forbidden romance with her younger, charismatic intern (Harris Dickinson). Along for this ride are Antonio Banderas as Kidman’s husband, Talk to Me’s Sophie Wilde as her assistant, and Jean Reno as her business executive rival. Heartbreak won't feel good in a business like this...
Architecton - TBD
It's all about rock, no roll in Victor Kossakovsky's upcoming documentary. The Gunda filmmaker returns to chronicle the history of stone, a material that makes our home, the concrete pavement we walk on, and so much more.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl - TBD
Filmmaker Rungano Nyoni's Cannes favorite spins a dark, comedic tale about unearthing family trauma. One fateful (and ultimately traumatizing) night, a young woman named Shula (Susan Chardy) finds her uncle's corpse in the middle of the road. Once her Zambian relatives gather for his funeral, long-simmering tensions finally come to a head as family secrets are steadily revealed.
Parthenope - TBD
Paolo Sorrentino and Naples... name a better duo. Throughout his career, the Oscar-winning director has made many tributes to the city he's from, even if they border as advertisements for Italy. In his newest film, a Neapolitan woman (Stefania Sandrelli) searches for happiness during the summers in the '50s. And if you've seen his prior movies The Great Beauty and The Hand of God, expect gorgeous landscape shots that'll make you want to purchase a flight ticket to Europe immediately.
The Smashing Machine - 2025
Dwayne Johnson is back in the ring, but this time he transforms from "The Rock" into "The Smashing Machine." Based on the 2002 documentary of the same name, The Smashing Machine finds stress-inducing director Benny Safdie (Uncut Gems, The Curse) telling the story of M.M.A. fighter and UFC champion Mark Kerr (Johnson). Reuniting with Johnson on the Kerr biopic cruise is his Jungle Cruise costar Emily Blunt, who portrays Kerr's then-girlfriend Dawn Staples.
Death of a Unicorn - TBD
Unicorns are real, but they sadly can't survive car accidents. Alex Scharfman's directorial debut follows Elliot (Paul Rudd) taking his teenage daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega) with him to a pharmaceutical crisis management summit held by his boss Dell Leopold (Richard E Grant). But while en route, they accidentally hit a unicorn. Once they bring it to Leopold, he seeks to exploit its magical healing abilities for his company's gain. What is a father-daughter duo to do? Téa Leoni, Will Poulter, Anthony Carrigan, and Sunita Mani round out this kooky dark comedy. Less we mention legendary filmmaker and composer John Carpenter provides the score too?
Marty Supreme - TBD
While Benny Safdie does M.M.A. with Dwayne Johnson, his brother Josh steps up to play ping-pong with Timothée Chalamet. Josh Safdie's first solo outing since co-directing Uncut Gems with his baby bro fictionalizes the life and career of the late ping-pong pro Marty Reisman (Chalamet). If both movies make it for 2025, we're going to have a double Safdie special meal.
Materialists - TBD
Celine Song has a new tune to sing. In her sophomore follow-up to her Oscar-nominated debut Past Lives, Song's new affair is a rom-com about a matchmaker (Dakota Johnson) whose lucrative business becomes complicated when she finds herself entangled in a love triangle between two men (Chris Evanand Pedro Pascal).
Eddington - TBD
A24's golden child Ari Aster is back, and he's swapping his horror cap for a cowboy hat. While plot details on Aster's first western venture are minimal, we know it's about a sheriff in a small New Mexico community with big ambitions. Eddington reunites Aster with his Beau Is Afraid star Joaquin Phoenix, but this new rodeo features a lot of new friends for them to play with, co-starring Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, and Clifton Collins Jr.
High and Low - TBD
It's been nearly 20 years, but fate has finally blessed us with the Spike Lee/Denzel Washington reunion we've been waiting for. Their fifth collaboration after Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X, He Got Game, and Inside Man reimagines Akira Kurosawa's 1963 classic film High and Low, which follows a business executive having to save his kidnapped son who is being held for ransom. The cast announcement also features musician Ice Spice in her acting debut. So yes, we'll be doing the right thing by watching this feature in our bikini bottoms.
Mother Mary - TBD
The Green Knight and A Ghost Story filmmaker David Lowery returns for a new project that lets the ladies run the show. Mother Mary is a melodrama epic concerning the relationship between a musician (Anne Hathaway) and a fashion designer (Michaela Coel). What kind of relationship? That detail is under wraps. But with a cast including Hunter Schafer, Jessica Brown Findlay, Sian Clifford, and FKA Twigs, it might be hard to refrain from screaming "Mother!" in the theater.
Huntington - TBD
Glen Powell's hot streak isn't stopping anytime soon, as the charismatic actor will soon star in a thriller all about getting the bag from the family tree. In writer/director John Patton Ford's (Emily the Criminal) Huntington, Powell plays Becket Redfellow, the heir to a multi-billion-dollar fortune who is determined to inherit his family's money. Inspired by the Alec Guinness-led 1949 classic Kind Hearts and Coronets, Huntington will surely be another powerful Powell showcase, this time featuring Margaret Qualley and Ed Harris.
Wizards! - TBD
Tensions run high (literally) in David Mich?d's stoner comedy. Starring Pete Davidson and Franz Rogowski, the film sees a pair of aimless pothead pals who co-own a beach bar and accidentally wade into deep water when they discover someone else's loot. Talk about a real "yo-ho-ho with a bottle and a blunt" hilarity that'll probably ensue.
Opus - TBD
Ayo Edebiri is on her way to becoming a scream queen, and A24 is the perfect place for her to do it. In Mark Anthony Green's directorial debut, Edebiri plays Ariel Ecton, a journalist looking for a perfect story. She finds it in Alfred Moretti (John Malkovich), a renowned pop musician who disappeared from the scene. Decades later, Moretti resurfaces with a new album, and Ecton lands an invitation to be the first to hear it. Once she arrives, Ecton finds herself in a precarious situation she did not sign up for.
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