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Welcome to Motherhood, A24 Style

Welcome to Motherhood, A24 Style

Linda (Rose Byrne) is having a hard time. Wait, that’s not quite selling it enough. “A hard time” suggests this beleaguered, bewildered mother needs to overcome an obstacle or two. What Linda is dealing with is an onslaught of soul-crushing strife. Her daughter (Delany Quinn) is overly anxious, extremely high-strung, and suffers from an unidentified condition that requires her to …

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David Jonsson, Cooper Hoffman to Star in ‘The Chaperones’ for A24

David Jonsson, Cooper Hoffman to Star in ‘The Chaperones’ for A24

David Jonsson and Cooper Hoffman, who are both starring in Lionsgate’s Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk, are in talks to reunite for The Chaperones, a drama that A24 has boarded. Plan B and Icki Eneo Arlo, the Robert Pattinson-fronted banner, are producing the feature, with filming set to begin later this fall in locations in Ohio and New Mexico. …

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Elizabeth Olsen in Smart, Sweet A24 Rom-Com

Elizabeth Olsen in Smart, Sweet A24 Rom-Com

The great Albert Brooks film Defending Your Life, from 1991, imagines a bureaucratic heaven that prepares the recently departed for their next phase of existence. The movie is a wry look at the petty foibles of life, the fears and neuroses that can impede a person’s path to fulfillment and enlightenment. There’s a romance involved, but the film is more …

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Biggest Questions From Netflix To A24

Biggest Questions From Netflix To A24

The Venice Film Festival kicks off the fall fest season Wednesday and moves awards season into another gear. These days, Cannes has become the bona fide start of awards season, and there are a handful of big Q4 movies dodging festivals all together, but this time of year remains when most of the studios show their hands. Among talent with …

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So Traumatic, A24 Paid for Film Team’s Therapy

So Traumatic, A24 Paid for Film Team’s Therapy

The brutal rape and murder of four teenage girls at an Austin, Texas frozen yogurt shop is the subject of Margaret Brown’s HBO docuseries “The Yogurt Shop Murders.” The 1991 slayings of Amy Ayers, sisters Jennifer Harbison and Sarah Harbison, and Eliza Thomas mystified police, haunted the victim’s families, and eventually became “part of the fabric of Austin,” according to …

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