EXCLUSIVE: Joel Edgerton is in talks to star in It Comes At Night, a thriller written and to be directed by Trey Edward Shults, which A24 will produce and distribute domestically. Edgerton will play a father who will stop at nothing to protect his wife and son from a malevolent, mysterious presence terrorizing them…
In a bit of role reversal, studio Warner Bros. is readying a platform release for Jeff Nichols' sci-fi drama Midnight Special, while Sony Classics, a juggernaut of the Specialty space, is setting its sights wide for comedy The Bronze this weekend. Midnight Special stars Michael Shannon, Joel Egerton and Kirsten Dunst…
Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha is screening in Critics’ Week here tonight, a few days after the debut feature helmer entered a two-picture deal with A24 which also acquired Krisha. The film earlier world premiered at SXSW, winning the Grand Jury and Audience Awards. I spoke with Shults a few weeks ago, as he was prepping…
EXCLUSIVE: In the continuing evolution of A24, the indie distributor has found a young filmmaker it wants to back long-term and has made its first multi-picture deal with a director. The company has acquired Krisha, the first film by director Trey Edward Shults that won 2015 SXSW's grand jury and audience awards for…
Trey Edward Shults, whose film Krisha won the Special Jury and Audience awards for feature film at SXSW this month, has signed with WME. Adapted from Shults’ 2014 short film of the same name, Krisha follows an alcoholic woman struggling to reconnect with her family after years of distance. It is Shult’s first feature…
With the film festival portion of SXSW 2015 ending today, the organization has unveiled the Audience Award winners, and unsurprisingly, the choices line up pretty squarely with the Jury Award winners revealed earlier this week.
Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha, about a recovering alcoholic reconnecting with her family, took…
Four days after SXSW kicked off amid controversy over Russell Brand skipping out on the premiere of the new documentary about him, we have the film festival’s Jury Award winners. Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha, about an alcoholic woman who tries to reconnect with her family at a holiday gathering after a long absence, won…