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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 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…

EXCLUSIVE: Ari Aster's debut feature Hereditary premiered in the Midnight section of Sundance back in January to unanimously positive response and has now become the biggest worldwide grossing movie ever for A24. With $77.5 million at the global box office, the low-budget horror is the third in-house production for…

EXCLUSIVE: A24 is re-teaming with Hereditary helmer Ari Aster to produce and fully finance his next untitled horror project, sources said. The film will be A24's largest production to date, with an expected production start of late summer/early fall 2018. Lars Knudsen and B Reel will also produce. The plot is being…

Writer/director Ari Aster has seemingly hit a home run with his directorial debut film, Hereditary, which is currently at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer. After the film’s late night screening at SXSW, Aster, along with cast members, Milly Shapiro and Alex Wolff, paid a visit to Deadline’s Austin Studio. “The…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed writer-director Ari Aster, whose feature directorial debut Hereditary bowed last night in the Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight section. The genre pic, which stars Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne and received strong response at the premiere, is set up at A24. Aster’s previous credits include…