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EXCLUSIVE: Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle winning playwright Michael R. Jackson has sold an original pitch to write an untitled horror feature for A24. Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen are producing under their Square Peg banner. Insiders add this project is still in early development. Jackson has been on…

EXCLUSIVE: Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen have made a two-year first-look television deal at A24 for their Square Peg banner. The duo formed their company in 2019 after teaming on Hereditary, which Aster wrote and directed and Knudsen produced, and then Midsommar, on which they served the same roles. A24 released both…

EXCLUSIVE: Hereditary helmer Ari Aster looks to be heading back to the home that helped launch his career. Deadline is hearing that A24 is set to finance and produce his new film Disappointment Blvd., with Joaquin Phoenix on board to star. Rumors had been swirling at the end of last year that Phoenix was considering…

Parasite producer CJ is lining up another genre-bending treat. The Korean powerhouse is teaming up with Midsommar and Hereditary duo Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen on an English-language remake of cult Korean movie Save The Green Planet! The off-beat, black comedy-sci-fi mashup from 2003 follows a man who believes the…

As she prepared to dress the members of a Swedish commune for A24 horror pic Midsommar, costume designer Andrea Flesch took a deep dive into Scandinavian folklore, finding seeds of inspiration with which she could help build a singularly terrifying and uniquely designed world. The second feature from up-and-coming…

Spoiler Alert: This podcast contains major spoilers about the A24 film Midsommar. Too often awards season prognosticators will count the rebel filmmakers out in a given year, easily declaring “Oh, the Academy will never go for this.” Such a silly thought when you consider the amount of mavericks that AMPAS has lauded…

We had just one movie grabbing attention over the holiday weekend, Spider-Man: Far From Home. which had Spidey and his high school friends taking on a European summer excursion that turns pretty lethal at points. But there was another opening that I just caught up with a couple of days ago that also is about some…

EXCLUSIVE: Hereditary writer/director Ari Aster and producer Lars Knudsen have formed Square Peg, a production partnership. The pair followed the sleeper hit Hereditary by teaming again on Midsommar, Aster’s next film that A24 releases July 3, and they decided to formalize the relationship and build an ambitious…

EXCLUSIVE: Ari Aster’s follow-up movie to Hereditary, Midsommar from A24, is moving up from its Aug. 9 release date to the Independence Day frame of July 3, which has been a prime counter-programming launch pad for horror pics, i.e. last year’s The First Purge ($69.4M) and 2016’s The Purge: Election Year ($79.2M). We…

"The horror genre is one that I feel allows you to tell more uncompromising stories without losing the audience," Hereditary director Ari Aster says of why he decided to unravel the tale of a deeply haunted family the way he did. “You can filter it through this other thing.” Having debuted at the Sundance Film…

The two A24 films presented today during The Contenders LA program were wildly different projects — Hereditary is a harrowing psychological tale that slides into supernatural horror while Eighth Grade is a coming-of-age tale that tugs at the heart ‚ but on closer inspection, the pair do share some common…

Lady Macbeth star Florence Pugh will lead Hereditary director Ari Aster’s next movie, an untitled horror for A24. Pugh confirmed the casting during a TCA panel for BBC series Little Drummer Girl and tweeted about it late last night, saying, "What a role this will be…god am I pumped/nervous/can't believe this is…