Send us a tip using our annonymous form. It is based in New York City. Moonlight is nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor, but loses Best Picture to La La Landwait, what? Likewise, A24 loves Sundance acquisition Mississippi Grind, a tremendously appealing riff on Robert Altmans California Split that co-stars Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn as compulsive gamblers on a road trip to nowhere. If its gonna be released the same way by another company, we usually dont go after it. So, how much is Johnny Hodges . And I think it is down to companies like A24. John has been a trusted partner who helped conceive A24 and for that we will always be grateful, noted A24 in a statement. I was proud of the film but I thought it was weird and boring. A24 knew that Slow West was great well before it premiered to rave reviews, but the company also recognized that it was an odd duck, neither broad enough to be a prestige picture nor strange enough to galvanize a legion of fans. The Bling Ring provoked Emma Watson to cast off the shadow of Hermione Granger and step into the pink Juicy Couture sweatpants of a spoiled teen criminal in contemporary Hollywood. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. Activity. Yes, Scream VI Marketing Is Behind the Creepy Ghostface Sightings Causing Scares Across the U.S. David Oyelowo, Taylor Sheridan's 'Bass Reeves' Series at Paramount+ Casts King Richard Star Demi Singleton (EXCLUSIVE), Star Trek: Discovery to End With Season 5, Paramount+ Pushes Premiere to 2024. When your business model is predicated on treating each movie like an event, how do you get bigger without changing who you are? Beyer: And respect them and treat them the way they would by any other company. They didnt have a ton of movies, you know? Fifty-six-year-old guy. I think I made out with my wife in front of people. 2023 Deadline Hollywood, LLC. Scott didnt say anything. Fenkel: And then I started saying, No way. Whoa! Because theyd made a curated, awesome, crafted film. A24 Apr 2012 - May 20186 years 2 months Head of Production and Development Big Beach Films 2008 - 20124 years Greater New York City Area Development and Production Executive Michaels Goldwyn. I was like, Fuck yeah!, Sacco: I think its inspiring and motivating to a younger generation: Oh, that movie cost this, and it did this. It made me crack up. Not heyday. [Sofia] was like, Oh, will you at least partner with Harvey? We were like, No!. Hodges had been an integral part of the studio since its inception in 2012, along with co-founders David Fenkel and Daniel Katz. In 2016, A24 expanded into original production with Moonlight. It also put out some of its weirder and most singular movies to date: Trey Edward Shultss micro-budget family drama Krisha; Swiss Army Man, in which Daniel Radcliffe plays a corpse; and Yorgos Lanthimoss romantic tragedy, The Lobster. In February, Robert Eggerss The Witch, which A24 bought at Sundance for one million dollars, made $40 million and became the companys highest grossing film to date (Moonlight has since surpassed it). Three were winners. It Follows takes the horror trope of getting punished for having sex to a new level. The companys best known movies include Ex Machina, Room, The Witch, Amy and Moonlight, which won the 2016 Academy Award for best picture, best adapted screenplay and best supporting actor for Mahershala Ali. A24 founding partner John Hodges announced that he will be leaving the indie studio that he helped launch nearly six years ago, the company announced Monday. The company said he will exit to focus on "future opportunities," but did not clarify beyond that statement.. [11][12], In September 2013, A24 entered a $40 million deal with DirecTV Cinema, where DirecTV Cinema would offer day-and-date releases 30 days prior to a theatrical release by A24; Enemy was the first film to be distributed under the deal. The photo has been replaced. A24 is responsible for such films as Lady Bird, Moonlight, Eighth Grade, Hereditary, The Witch, The Lobster, Ex Machina & more. But then also do things that other companies arent doing. This is Rudin. We are thrilled to have someone of Johns pedigree join the Jax Media team and lead our expansion into the film world, Jax Media partners Tony Hernandez, Lilly Burns, John Skidmore, and Brooke Posch said in a joint statement. And we broke records. TV production powerhouse Jax Media is expanding into film and tapped John Hodges, one of the founding partners of A24, as its new head of film. So when I saw that, I was like, Okay, those guys, they know what they are doing.. Good A24 films anticipate the zeitgeist, and the best ones galvanize it. Daniels like, Okay. It wasnt just that, for a new distribution company, it seemed to have a level of taste and an instinct for cool that is atypical in Hollywood. Hodges had been an integral part of the studio since its inception in 2012, along with co-founders David Fenkel and Daniel Katz. We still dont. I liked the fact that they had never made a doc. [8][28] Its five highest grossing films are Everything Everywhere All at Once ($107.2 million), Hereditary ($82.5 million), Lady Bird ($79 million), Moonlight ($65.3 million) and Their whole point was, We dont know this world. You were in the A24 offices. And you can really see over the past few years, it really, really hasnt at all. None Of Us Thanked Them. A24, which was founded in 2012, said that no additional changes in management will be made. Tinder was yelling at us. Did Moonlight just win Best Picture?. Asif Kapadia (director, Amy): I suppose most filmmakers have had bad experiences in the past where you do all the hard work, and then these guys in slick suits come along and theyre like, We know what were doing now! Katz: Theres all these really, really smart, capable, ambitious people that love movies. If anything, it was the bastard stepchild at that point. [9], The company began its distribution of films in 2013. With Hodges leaving, the. Katz: Yeah! I didnt think it was terrible. That kind of audience. Like, there was one that was like the shotit was [Francos character] Alien with the two girls, and hes holding machine guns or something. For a truly great film like this, being excluded from the conversation into which A24 works so hard to insinuate its main slate can feel like a fate worse than Harvey Weinstein. The world opened itself up. And it satisfied something they werent getting. Harmony Korine (director, Spring Breakers): They have balls. I want to be A24, he said. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Kapadia: There were other films that had a lot more money in their campaign and were everywhere. I think Spring Breakers really put them on the map, as far as I could tell. It wasnt going to get lost in the shuffle. I think what theyve understood is theres a sufficient number of people out there who want more challenging or different material. But we got A Glimpse Inside the Mind. Hodges had run A24 with David Fenkel and Daniel Katz as a ruling troika, albeit one that operated without offices (located in Chelsea, the company was known for its open space and banquette tables). Theyre making people want to go to the cinema again to see this kind of stuff, rather than staying at home. It was like being in some kind of arena. And I was ready to say: It was me! The second title was Life After Beth, the domestic theatrical haul of which was a paltry $88,273. Theirs is a potent brand that Ive admired for a long time, and their reputation as innovative partners to talent is second to none.. The company offered no additional details other than to say his vacancy would not lead to any additional changes in management. Surely theyve learned by now that theres a ceiling for arthouse films these days. And while they invited me into their headquarters to get a feel for the place and chat on background with the core team, they stressed that theyd prefer their movies to speak for themselves. And the guy asked me, Is there anything we might find suspicious in there? I said, Theres an art piece inside in the shape of a gun. And literally the entire security department was like, What is wrong with you? Long story short, it made it through. That suits a company whose websites About page consists of nothing beyond an Eadweard Muybridge plate of a cockatoo flapping its wings. And then, in 08, the bubble burst, and the economic downturn probably had a little bit of impact. There was this weird time. Daniel Radcliffe (actor, Swiss Army Man): Ive had experiences on films in the past where they get bought by somebody who sees something in it that they like, which is nice, but it also happens to be notand is sometimes antithetical towhat the people who made the film wanted it to be. Sofia Coppola (director, The Bling Ring): I really like those guys. I think we all were kind of a bit shell-shocked. Jenkins: They were like, Look. Aizenberg: There was a week in January where we dropped the trailer of Spring Breakers. And theyre aiming at them. And that takes time. And so anytime you speak with someone whos not a pure accountant, is not a pencil pusher? Gif excerpt from the film Room via A24 Films. Please! Their hair and makeup people, actually, are the people that had an issue with this. But A24 has the money to acquire a steady slate of releases, the model to support them, and the chutzpah to make nearly each one into a mini-phenomenon. A24 has also been nominated and won many Golden Globes, British Academy Film Awards, and Critics' Choice Movie Awards. The things about it that didnt were what made me most excited, both for Moonlight and the future of a company thats confident enough in its sense of self to stretch toward something new. (Joy, Annapurnas only 2015 title, arrives in theaters on Christmas Day.). Love that movie. When it wasnt us. That didnt come with any veto rights or cut rights, Abrahamson told me. Where its like: Im in. Correction, Sept. 30, 2015: This article originally contained a photo of John Hodges, a film producer, rather than John Hodges, co-founder of A24. I say, Dont go there. Because what happened was, someone ran out with a red envelope. Beyer: Alicia VikanderI think she read about it, or she saw this photo of her that was being used. And David cannot stop perspiring. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE|SUBSCRIBE|CONTACT. A24 thinks hard about the landscape of distribution, and they think hard about the models, and the models are changing. Leave it to Jim Jarmusch to make the coolest vampire movie ever. Coppola: That was the worst. Aizenberg: Nine to ten people walked out. Ali Herting (acquisitions and development, A24): We were never gonna get Place Beyond the Pines. Our site's data suggests A24's net worth to be about $1.89 million. Other indie labels, like Megan Ellisons Annapurna Pictures (which co-produced Spring Breakers), tend to go in the other direction, releasing a minuscule handful of movies into the currents of Oscar season in the hopes that the waters will carry them toward a crowd. Barry Jenkins (director, Moonlight): A24s the kind of company where they say, Yeah, they dont need to know what its about. [24], On November 15, 2018, A24 and Apple announced that they had entered into a multi-year partnership where A24 will produce a slate of original films for Apple. Meanwhile, A24 has already been building an ark. And someone was like, Where did those images come from? And I was like, Google? A vital piece of work far too delicately perverse to have sustained a theatrical run, it was the ideal choice to launch the program. Uncut Gems ($50 million). And I felt with these guys it was a dialogue. More recently, it expanded from being an acquisitions-only distributor to producing home-grown fare as well as branching into TV. And you could tell that it was in their reach. YOU'VE REACHED YOUR MONTHLY ARTICLE LIMIT. And check out the haunting synth score by Disasterpiece. And I think theyre creating a kind of renaissance in filmmaking. A24 was founded in 2012 by Daniel Katz, David Fenkel and John Hodges. John has been a trusted partner who helped conceive A24 and for that we will always be grateful, A24 noted. All Rights Reserved. Fenkel: I just cannot stop. But I think she saw this, and it hijacked her image and personality, and we didnt ask her. Fenkel: You dont know how to control yourself. But we said, Lets invest in it. Theres a difference. Animated photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. As one of the founding members of the New York-based company, Hodges played a key role in putting A24 on the map, culminating with last years best picture winner, Moonlight, just five years after it was launched. No way., Katz: It was just like, Wait. The story behind the studio that brought you Moonlight and It Comes At Night, as told by Barry Jenkins, Sofia Coppola, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, and the founders of A24 themselves. Sacco: Its sobering and motivating in a different way. They kept shutting us down. Aizenberg: I was at the Q&As at the ArcLight [in Los Angeles], and I remember taking a picture of the screen, and then all of a sudden it was like every screen at the ArcLight: Spring Breakers, Spring Breakers, Spring Breakers. Heavey: People were, like, crying. I was like, I think I need to find another job., Aizenberg: They were basically like, Dont release this movie.. But I feel that the fact that it was their first filmthere was a lot of idealism around the process. Katz came from a film finance group, while Fenkel and Hodges both left positions at other independent film companies. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein, Would It Kill You to Laugh?