I do not think I could ever name what my favorite movie production/distribution company was before I started seeing the many great movies from A24. Established in 2012, the company has since made many daring and inventive instant classics of various genres, two Best Picture Oscar winners, and several multi-Emmy-winning series so far.
The many accolades and nearly unparalleled esteem it has achieved has helped it evolve into something more than just a popular and reliable entertainment source, but a unique brand of its own with the power to excite audiences just by flashing its logo on the big screen. If that logo alone is enough to pique your interest in what the company has in store next, take a look at this guide to the upcoming A24 movies (as confirmed by the company’s official site and elsewhere), what they are about, and when you can see them.
Tuesday (June 14, 2024)
After making her A24 debut with Nicole Holofcener’s 2023 dramedy, You Hurt My Feelings, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is leading writer and director Daina O. Pusic’s debut feature, Tuesday. The fantasy drama stars the former Seinfeld and Veep cast member as the mother of the terminally ill title character, played by Lola Petticrew, whom she must learn to let go of when Death, in the form of a bird, pays a visit.
Janet Planet (June 21, 2024)
Annie Baker made her acting debut (and only screen credit so far) in a 2014 A24 movie written and directed by her brother-in-law, Noah Baumbach, called While We're Young. Now, the company is producing the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's debut as a writer and director called Janet Planet -- the story of a highly imaginative 11-year-old (Zoe Ziegler) and her alluring mother (Julianne Nicholson) in early '90s Massachusetts.
MaXXXine (July 5, 2024)
One of the best A24 horror movies in more recent years was X — a 1970s-set slasher about amateur pornographers preyed upon by an elderly couple — which was followed up in the same year with a prequel called Pearl, which follows one of the killers in her youth in 1918. Writer and director Ti West and star Mia Goth are coming back to complete this sadistic saga with the third installment, MaXXXine, which will follow the title character and her movie star aspirations in the 1980s.
Sing Sing (July 12, 2024)
Oscar nominee Colman Domingo is an A24 veteran, having appeared alongside the Euphoria cast in a recurring role on the HBO series and in the bizarre, fact-based drama, Zola. His next collaboration with the company is Sing Sing, which is inspired by a real rehabilitation program that involves incarcerated people participating in musical theater and features actual formerly incarcerated actors in the cast.
A Different Man (September 13, 2024)
The Zone of Interest helmer Jonathan Glazer’s alien invasion movie, Under the Skin, featured a memorable appearance by Adam Pearson, an actor with neurofibromatosis, in his debut role. His second A24 film and second collaboration with writer and director Adam Schimberg, A Different Man, stars Pearson as an actor cast in a play based on the life of a man (played by MCU’s Winter Soldier actor, Sebastian Stan) who recently received facial reconstruction surgery.
Y2K (2024)
Former SNL star Kyle Mooney is making his directorial debut with Y2K, which follows the life-changing, dangerous adventure of a group of teens on New Years Eve 1999. Announced in March 2023, the disaster comedy boasts a star-studded cast including Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, and Julian Dennison, and is set for the summer of 2024.
Babygirl (TBD)
In 2022, Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn made her English-language debut with the A24 hit, Bodies Bodies Bodies. She is reuniting with the company for her an erotic thriller called Babygirl, starring Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman and The Iron Claw star Harris Dickinson.
Backrooms (TBD)
Based on a mysterious Creepypasta, Backrooms is an animated, found footage-style YouTube series that explores an alternate dimension made up of a seemingly infinite maze of dingy hallways where bizarre and dangerous phenomena lurk. In early 2023, it was announced that the viral sensation's teenage creator, Kane Parsons, has partnered with A24 to develop a big screen feature adaptation that he will also direct.
Bring Her Back (TBD)
In addition to their upcoming Talk to Me sequel (more on that later), Danny & Michael Philippou have another horror movie in development for A24 called Bring Her Back, which they previously mentioned as the project they would love to work on after their 2023 breakthrough hit. Nothing about the plot has been revealed but, according to Deadline, Academy Award nominee Sally Hawkins will lead the film, which is set to start shooting in the summer of 2024.
Death Of A Unicorn (TBD)
Marvel movie star Paul Rudd and Wednesday cast lead Jenna Ortega are making their A24 debuts together as a father and daughter who accidentally hit a mythical creature in Death of a Unicorn. Ari Aster produces the fantasy film from writer and director Alex Scharfmann that, according to Variety, was cleared to commence its Hungary production in July 2023 amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, since A24 is not AMPTP affiliated.
Death Stranding (TBD)
Soon, A24 will give its first video game adaptation a go. The studio has teamed with Hideo Kojima and his Kojima Productions to develop a film based on Death Stranding -- an award-winning 2019 game set in a post-apocalyptic United States and starring Norman Reedus.
Eternity (TBD)
Imagine being forced by law to choose the one person you want to spend an unending amount of time with. As reported by Deadline, that is the premise of an aptly titled rom-com called Eternity, which Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, and Callum Turner are in talks to star in. David Freyne is directing the film which A24 will distribute in partnership with production company Star Thrower Entertainment.
The Front Room (TBD)
After first bringing Nosferatu remake helmer Robert Eggers’ unique vision to the big screen with The Witch and The Lighthouse, A24 is giving his younger siblings, Max and Sam, a shot with their own directorial debut, The Front Room. Based on the short story by Susan Hill, the psychological horror film about a young, expecting couple taking in an estranged stepmother will star singer Brandy Norwood.
High And Low (TBD)
Co-writer and director Spike Lee is reuniting with his frequent collaborator, two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington, for their fifth collaboration and first since 2006's Inside Man -- another crime thriller called High and Low. A24 is theatrically distributing the English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film about a kidnapping that puts a shoe company executive in hot water, which will later be exclusively available to stream on Apple TV+.
The Legend Of Ochi (TBD)
German actor Helena Zengel – who made her English language debut in 2020’s News of the World – will star in the fantasy epic, The Legend of Ochi, as a girl who becomes acquainted with a mysterious type of creature after running away from home. Willem Dafoe – whose best movies include two A24 titles, The Florida Project and The Lighthouse – also stars in writer and director Isaiah Saxon’s debut, along with Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard and Emily Watson.
Materialists (TBD)
After earning raves and a Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for her debut feature, Past Lives, Greta Lee is reteaming with A24 to write and direct Materialists. According to Variety, Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans are in talks to star in the romantic-comedy about a New York matchmaker who forms a connection with a rich potential suitor.
Mother Mary (TBD)
Following his inventive take on hauntings with 2017’s A Ghost Story and dazzling reimagining of a classic medieval poem with 2021’s The Green Knight, David Lowery is reteaming with A24 for Mother Mary – the story of a friendship between a musician and a fashion designer. The film – which stars Oscar winner Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, and Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer – was shot in Germany in July 2023, according to IndieWire.
Onslaught (TBD)
Adam Wingard -- director of horror films like You're Next and 2024 monster movie hit, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire -- is directing Onslaught for A24. Plot details about the action thriller are unknown for now, but Deadline reports that the camera is set to start rolling this fall.
The Smashing Machine (TBD)
Amid the many conventional blockbusters on Dwayne Johnson's upcoming movies schedule, the pro-wrestler-turned-actor is taking on what may be his darkest and most challenging role yet. The Rock is set to lead The Smashing Machine -- Benny Safdie's solo directorial debut -- as troubled MMA legend Mark Kerr.
Talk 2 Me (TBD)
Following the success of Talk to Me – which some are calling one of the scariest movies in years – it is not so surprising that thrillseekers have another A24 horror movie franchise to look forward to. Just days after the acclaimed Australian shocker released, the company greenlit a follow-up called Talk 2 Me, which directorial duo Danny and Michael Philippou will helm, from a screenplay by Danny and Bill Hinzman.
Warfare (TBD)
Before the release of Alex Garland's Civil War, A24 announced that the filmmaker has another war movie in the works that he is co-writing and co-directing with Ray Mendoza, who worked as the military supervisor for said post-apocalyptic drama. Joseph Quinn of Stranger Things fame stars alongside May December's Charles Melton, Kit Connor from Heartstopper, Shogun's Cosmo Jarvis, Finn Bennett from True Detective: Night Country, and A24 vet Will Poulter in the film which is officially titled Warfare.
We Live In Time (TBD)
Midsommar’s Florence Pugh and Under the Silver Lake’s Andrew Garfield are playing the co-leads of an upcoming romance called We Live in Time. According to Deadline, A24 acquired the rights to Intermission director John Crowley and The Sense of an Ending screenwriter Nick Payne’s film in May 2023 as it was being filmed in London.
Wizards! (TBD)
Even before he was seen starring in one of the best horror movies of 2022, Bodies Bodies Bodies, former SNL star Pete Davidson was already set to reunite with A24 for another thriller called Wizards! In June 2022, Deadline reported that Orlando Bloom had joined the cast of the film – written and directed by David Michôd from a story by him and Joel Edgerton – in which Davidson and Franz Rogowski play stoners who stumble upon loot that puts their lives at risk.
Untitled Haenyeo Documentary (TBD)
A community of senior, free-diving fisherwomen, referred to in South Korea as “haenyeo,” is the subject of a documentary from Peabody Award-nominated director, Sue Kim. Variety exclusively revealed in September 2022 that Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai’s production company, Extracurricular, is partnering with A24 and Apple to produce the film, which has yet to receive an official title.
Untitled Trey Edward Schults Movie (TBD)
The mind behind some of the most refreshingly subversive films in A24’s catalog (2015’s Krisha, 2017’s slow burn horror masterpiece It Comes at Night, and the 2019 family tragedy Waves) is returning for his fourth feature with the company. According to IndieWire, Trey Edward Schults’ next, untitled project is set to star Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan, and Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye.
As A24’s distinct brand and astonishing influence on the entertainment industry continues to grow, there is surely more to come. Stay tuned!
