Larson: I couldn’t be more grateful for an experience that changed the course of my life and career immeasurably. I don’t mean it that way. This is before Wolf of Wall Street came out, but Margot Robbie, I didn’t know her, but she was working with somebody that knew my costumer or something, and got in touch with me and was like, “Can you print me a photo of the tattoos in detail, so that I can get this costume perfectly?” Because she was fucking Alien that year. I think my sister’s still only seen one A24 movie: Spring Breakers. And you could tell that it was in their reach. Franco: I hope they don’t get too big that they forget what got them started. The company also announced that they would also finance and develop pilots. Igoe: At SXSW, we had Spectacular Now, and Spring Breakers showed there. We were planting seeds to grow. And I think that’s the main thing, I’d say. Sacco: You’re not like, “Oh, we got a Best Picture winner!” You’re just like, “Oh, we got a great movie.”. Katz: And we were all like, “You know what? This was not a first-look deal, meaning that A24 can continue to produce and acquire films to release outside of the deal, and that it wouldn't affect previous deals that A24 had signed with other companies. [14] The company, with cooperation from Bank of America, J.P. Morgan & Co. and SunTrust Banks, also raised its line of credit from $50 million to $125 million a month later to build upon its operations. Their first film was released the next year. We’ll handle it!” And if it works, it’s them; if it doesn’t work, it’s all your fault anyway. Jenkins: I don’t know if [Moonlight] was a glittering jewel of a project. Asif Kapadia (director, ‘Amy’): I had never heard of A24. They had heart to them.”—Harmony Korine, Sacco: I wouldn’t say I got it. Fenkel: Do you have to be a genius to do Sofia Coppola’s movie, or Harmony’s? Kapadia: There were other films that had a lot more money in their campaign and were everywhere. And so anytime you speak with someone who’s not a pure accountant, is not a pencil pusher? He recently profiled Conor McGregor for GQ Style. We all go nuts for a few minutes, and then we’re all like, “Okay, what do we do?”. [18], On February 20, 2018, A24 launched a podcast titled The A24 Podcast. And, like, within two blocks, I have to stop. We weren’t doing anything like that. It was such an out-of-body experience. Heavey: People were, like, crying. People are like, “Oh, I would have green-lit that!” I’m like, “Come on!”, Sacco: We had been talking about finding a person to produce for a long time. Coppola: I was a little nervous about not going with a company that I knew had a track record, but I knew that they were going to really do their best. [6] In October 2012, Nicolette Aizenberg joined as head of publicity, carrying over from 42West where she was senior publicity executive. “What are you working on? A24 Films is an American film distribution, production, and finance company formed in 2012 by marketing and distribution veterans Daniel Katz, David Fenkel, and John Hodges. And someone was like, “Where did those images come from?” And I was like, “Google? Focus and Fox Searchlight had become kind of isolated in what they did. We were like, “I’m pretty sure this is gonna be Star Wars, but maybe Mad Max.” That’s what I said to them right before. And I was ready to say: “It was me! [23], On November 13, 2019, A24 entered into a premium cable television broadcast deal with Showtime Networks, covering all film releases through November 1, 2022. Fenkel: I just cannot stop. As of 2019, the company has received a total of 25 Academy Award nominations. I don’t even look at him. A24 is an American independent motion picture company formed in 2012 by marketing and distribution veterans Daniel Katz, David Fenkel and John Hodges. It is currently unknown if this slate of films will have a theatrical release or be exclusive to Apple's Apple TV+ streaming service. Whether that’s old white people in the Academy, or people all over the country, or frankly the rest of the world. And I think A24 and companies like that are—you know, people want to go to the cinema. I remember when all the commotion started, I look at David. [17], In January 2017, the company acquired the United States and Chinese distribution rights for their first foreign language film, Menashe. And we broke records. And we put in Oscar statues in his hands. Operator of an independent entertainment company in the United States. Sacco: It was my first festival ever. And then there was another one where he’s deep-throating the gun, and we replaced it with a gold statue. “‘Spring Breakers had a whole Oscar campaign: ‘Consider This Shit.’”—Zoe Beyer. Katz: In LA—whatever just transpired last month, you feel it in LA. And when you’re a loser, you think for a split second, Maybe they got it wrong. Sacco: I used to think seeing people faint was what happened in movies. And The Place Beyond the Pines. You get a movie with them and it represents something. Founded by Daniel Katz, David Fenkel… Robert Pattinson (actor, ‘The Rover,’ ‘Good Time’): It’s crazy that there is an article about a distribution company. John Hodges (co-founder and co-head of TV, A24): It was one of those conversations where it was always like, “How would we do it differently?” And it was usually fueled by beer and things scribbled down on napkins and a lot of bravado. A24 is an American independent entertainment company founded on August 20, 2012, by Daniel Katz, David Fenkel, and John Hodges and based in New York City.It deals with independent movies and television shows. They’re just on it. That was a thing. Fenkel: One thing we notice is now people are saying, “Oh, good job. Like, standing ovation, fucking applause in the middle of the movie. A24's television division produced The Carmichael Show, At Home with Amy Sedaris, and Euphoria. Since 1957, GQ has inspired men to look sharper and live smarter with its unparalleled coverage of style, culture, and beyond. Put it on screens. 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 Shults’s micro-budget family drama ‘Krisha;’ ‘Swiss Army Man,’ in which Daniel Radcliffe plays a corpse; and Yorgos Lanthimos’s romantic tragedy, ‘The Lobster.’ In February, Robert Eggers’s ‘The Witch,’ which A24 bought at Sundance for one million dollars, made $40 million and became the company’s highest grossing film to date (‘Moonlight’ has since surpassed it). This is Rudin. Katz: They were kind of comfortable with the Under the Skin release. It was also that A24 was releasing these films not with a sigh and a shrug, but with panache, style, and humor: bright neon colors, guerrilla marketing tactics, and in the case of James Franco’s Britney Spears-loving gangster character from Spring Breakers, an actual Oscar campaign. Sacco: It’s sobering and motivating in a different way. 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. Barry Jenkins (director, ‘Moonlight’): A24’s the kind of company where they say, “Yeah, they don’t need to know what it’s about. Pattinson: I mean, with Twilight, the first tour we did was literally going to suburban shopping malls and doing local-news stuff. In 2012, Daniel Katz, David Fenkel, and John Hodges left their jobs at Guggenheim Partners, Oscilloscope, and Big Beach, respectively, to start a new, independent film company aimed at redefining the way indie movies were made and marketed. [laughs] I mean, I doubt that, because I know the people that work there. Like Get Out, or Baby Driver. A mile and a half.” So we ran there. Aizenberg: I was already, like, putting together the distribution plans for Frances Ha. Daniel Radcliffe (actor, ‘Swiss Army Man’): I’ve 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 not—and is sometimes antithetical to—what the people who made the film wanted it to be. Dede Gardner (producer, Plan B, Moonlight): When we and Barry said it was absolutely critical that we shoot in Miami, they said, “Of course it is.” And you know, many, many others would’ve said, “Well, you can get the rebate if you go to Atlanta.” But anyone who’s read it knows that Liberty Square and that particular light and that particular culture was a character. Fenkel: We had a meeting. Not heyday. For instance, an actress. That company and the old Miramax and Fox Searchlight had a real brand and a hold on their audience. Whoa!” Because they’d made a curated, awesome, crafted film. But then also do things that other companies aren’t doing. Katz: I always had dreams of [starting a company]. The company, improbably, was based in New York, not Los Angeles. It was social media. That was tough. And then, in ’08, the bubble burst, and the economic downturn probably had a little bit of impact. And they were like the third guy at the company. Please! A24. All three had grown up admiring the rich world of ’90s independent cinema, and they noticed a void where those movies had once been. There’s aesthetic and political values to the people behind the company. David Crotty/PMC Last year, A24 edged ahead of the art house titan Fox Searchlight in domestic market share and trounced Annapurna, a like-minded upstart founded by … Fenkel: That kind of hit. ‘Moonlight’ is nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor, but loses Best Picture to ‘La La Land’—wait, what? I liked the fact that they had never made a doc. Aizenberg: That Oscar-nomination morning, I remember walking into the office that day, and I was like, “Please, dear God, just let Amy and Brie get nominated. This story appears in the summer issue of GQ Style. Fenkel: I’d love to say from the first cut we knew. I think I made out with my wife in front of people. Fenkel: Well, it wasn’t a heartbreak, because they wouldn’t actually call us back. [3] The name "A24" was inspired by the Italian A24 motorway Katz was driving on when he decided to found the company; coincidentally, the motorway is also renowned in Italian film history as the setting of many small Abruzzan towns and rural landscapes employed in the films of neorealist and surrealist masters. Hollywood is run by accountants at this point. I just trust, you know, Drag City or Merge or SST or Dischord. I was like, “I think I need to find another job.”, Aizenberg: They were basically like, “Don’t release this movie.”. Katz: It was early in the relationship. Right after we did those three films, I don’t think we had really purchased a film for the following year. You lost. But more independent existed then. A24 is probably my favorite film company right now. And I’m not saying they’re magicians.
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