Like Get Out, or Baby Driver. I think we lost control. Whether thats old white people in the Academy, or people all over the country, or frankly the rest of the world. A24 was founded on August 20, 2012, by film veterans Daniel Katz, David Fenkel, and John Hodges. Igoe: Even with Ex Machina at the time, we were getting bigger, but we still had that kind of start-up mentality that I dont know wed be able to get away with now. It was me! And the interns are running around trying to find a glassblower. A24 is responsible for such films as Lady Bird, Moonlight, Eighth Grade, Hereditary, The Witch, The Lobster, Ex Machina & more. Thats someone else. We were about to have two movies [Ex Machina and While Were Young] with him. John has been a trusted partner who helped conceive A24 and for that we will always be grateful, noted A24. Deadline is a part of Penske Media Corporation. From award-winning writing and photography to binge-ready videos to electric live events, GQ meets millions of modern men where they live, creating the moments that create conversations. It was another way of getting the message out there. Only Lovers Left Alive drips with style, wisdom and ironic humor as Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton play hip, immortal layabouts. Patrick Stewart (actor, Green Room): [The premiere of Green Room] was at the Toronto Film Festivals Midnight Madness. Garland: I would say that if Ex Machina had been distributed by a big studiothis isnt actually a criticism of studios; its actually just a statement of factthe film would not have been remotely as well received or successful as it was. Ainzenberg: I remember I went and had to meet with Selena Gomezs team to prove that we were real people and we were gonna be legitimate in releasing the film. The only monsters we ever see in "It Comes at Night" are the ones that live under one roof. Were good. Kleiner: They had the movie, I want to say, 22, 23 weeks in theatrical release? These films speak for themselves. [7], Guggenheim Partners provided the seed money for A24 The company was started to share "movies from a distinctive point of view". And you could tell that it was in their reach. Katz: It was early in the relationship. Trey Edward Schultz's moody, atmospheric thriller plays on our country's present division and how mistrust in others can come back to harm us. In 2023, A24 became the most nominated single studio of that year's awards with 18 total nominations between 6 of its films (Everything Everywhere All at Once (11 nominations, the most nominated film of that year's awards, including Best Picture), The Whale (3 nominations), Aftersun, Causeway, Close, and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (each with 1 nomination)).[5]. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Not heyday. (He won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for Best Supporting Actor). When I arrived at A24s office, in an anonymous building so close to the western lip of lower Manhattan that it can practically taste New Jersey, my fears that the company might be growing too fast werent exactly assuaged by learning that within weeks it was moving to an enormous office closer to midtown. Released in the wake of Anton Yelchins untimely passing, Jeremy Saulniers Green Room is a grizzly and intense thriller in which a young punk rock band witnesses a murder and fights off a group of Neo Nazis, led by Patrick Stewart no less. Franco: I actually did win some awards. The story behind the studio that brought you Moonlight and It Comes At Night, as told by Barry Jenkins, Sofia Coppola, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, and the founders of A24 themselves. This monster slowly stalks you when you sleep with the wrong person, and the only way to pass it on is to bed another partner. Not like we should have paid more. They entered into deals with DirecTV Cinema and Amazon Prime in late 2013, with some films distributed through them, and the name was changed to A24 in 2016.[3]. 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But then also do things that other companies arent doing. Were gonna put it in theaters, and were gonna find a way to keep it there. Now, look, at that point, none of us were thinking, Hey, were gonna win Best Picture! But we wanted to give the movie the chance to have as much of a life as we possibly could. By surgically inserting each release into the zeitgeist, it has paved a new road for provocative, modestly sized cinema, bridging the gap between microbudget indies and monolithic studio products in much the same way Italys Autostrada A24 connects Rome to Teramo. All Rights Reserved. We literally didnt know what to do. Fenkel: I stare straight ahead. They just need to know how it feels.. As of April 2022[update], twenty-seven episodes had been released. Theyre on the tarmac, and were having to find a new jet for them within twenty minutes. Johansson plays something between an android and alien symbiote who seduces men in order to envelop them in a dark, infinite pool of nothingness. Also Read: Sundance, SXSW Comedy 'Never Goin' Back' Sells to A24, John has been a trusted partner who helped conceive A24 and for that we will always be grateful, the studio said in a statement. 2023 THE TRACKING BOARD. A24's television division has produced The Carmichael Show, At Home with Amy Sedaris, Ramy, Euphoria and Mr. Corman. This is Rudin. New York, no one gives a shit. Everybody was talking a few years ago how cinema had died. It was like Broadcast News. . Oh my god, its new! Other similarly sized outfits tend to flood the flooded marketplace with a steady barrage of quality independent and foreign fare in a way that can feel indiscriminate: Send the DCPs to Film Forum and let God sort em out. I just trust, you know, Drag City or Merge or SST or Dischord. 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. Company Details: For the company's filmography, see, 20142017: Television and later productions, 2018present: Management changes, partnerships. Four short years later, the companys first original production, Barry Jenkinss Moonlight, won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Among critics and cinephiles I know, the A24 label is starting to mean something in the way that a 4AD record meant something in 1988, or a Grove Press book meant something in 1955. I liked the fact that they had never made a doc. Since then his contributions to growing the company have been invaluable and we cant wait to see what he does next., Added Hodges, I am incredibly proud of the company we created and of the amazing team at A24 that has been integral to its success. The films backers will be made whole, its makers will get another chance at bat, and its distributors will continue to enjoy the financial solvency provided by the DirecTV dealnot to mention the $50 million line of credit the company secured last fall. John Hodges is Head of Film for Jax Media, where he heads Jax's feature film development and production. I felt like we were all on the same team. in the past 3 years a24 has managed to make from 90 - 110 million at the yearly box office. John Hodges will be leaving A24 to pursue other opportunities, the indie distributor announced Monday. All Rights Reserved. Nathan (Oscar Isaac) and Kyoko (Sonoya Mizuno). And I was just acting! I remember when all the commotion started, I look at David. Were passionate. I thought it would get a distributorI thought it was good enough for that. [laughs] I remember I had to have a conversation with Alicia about it, where she was saying, What the hell? and I was saying, I dont know. IFC earned a raft of Oscar nominations when it decided to put its muscle behind Boyhood and transform it into a phenomenon, but dumping all of its eggs into one beautifully textured basket helped to underline the paucity of love that most indies receive from their distributors, who ferry them from festivals to home video with all the solemn purpose of Charon taking passengers across the river Styx. Beyer: I think the operating principle was, Dont ask for permission. I think when we started [2016], it was another, like, what Id consider a building year. Hodges had run A24 with David Fenkel and Daniel Katz as a ruling troika, albeit one that operated without offices (located in Chelsea, the company was known for its open space and banquette tables). Agent. Yes, Scream VI Marketing Is Behind the Creepy Ghostface Sightings Causing Scares Across the U.S. David Oyelowo, Taylor Sheridan's 'Bass Reeves' Series at Paramount+ Casts King Richard Star Demi Singleton (EXCLUSIVE), Star Trek: Discovery to End With Season 5, Paramount+ Pushes Premiere to 2024. Hodges: The office literally looked like a pump-and-dump stock operation. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. From It Follows to The Babadook, these horror gems didnt have blockbuster budgets. For a truly great film like this, being excluded from the conversation into which A24 works so hard to insinuate its main slate can feel like a fate worse than Harvey Weinstein. Really? Aizenberg: We had a couple movies in there that we tried to force into making, like, event-y theatrical, and they werent. Katz: I think if you had asked us beforehand, we would have said, you know, La La Lands gonna win. Correction, Sept. 30, 2015:This article originally contained a photo of John Hodges, a film producer, rather than John Hodges, co-founder of A24. Gif excerpt from the film Under the Skin via A24 Films. So that was like their heyday. But if it is, a monastic degree of focus will be required to recognize which A24 titles might fare better on VOD. And she said it sucked. Katz: Harvey Weinstein called the agent and said, How could you give a Sofia Coppola movie to this new? I can only imagine. Jon Hodges CEO at Evergreen North America Industrial Services League City, Texas, United States 2K followers 500+ connections Join to connect Evergreen industrial services and GEM mobile. John Hodges is leaving A24, the Oscar-winning indie studio that he co-founded. Jeanie Igoe (production, A24): None of us really knew what we were doing. A vital piece of work far too delicately perverse to have sustained a theatrical run, it was the ideal choice to launch the program. Correction, Sept. 30, 2015: This article originally contained a photo of John Hodges, a film producer, rather than John Hodges, co-founder of A24. BREAKING: John Hodges, one of the founding members of A24, has announced his departure from the production and distribution studio to focus on future opportunities. Love that movie. When it wasnt us. We saw the red envelope. Beyer: Alicia VikanderI think she read about it, or she saw this photo of her that was being used. Barry Jenkins (director, Moonlight): A24s the kind of company where they say, Yeah, they dont need to know what its about. In 2021, A24 won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Yuh-jung Youn in Minari, who became the first Korean actress to win an Oscar). March 3, 2018. So, um, well done, A24! It was, like, every time another person walked out, I was like, Oh, there goes another one!, Sacco: All my friends and family, they kept asking about this new company. The films were darlingsincluding David Michds The Rover, starring Robert Pattinson; Denis Villeneuves Enemy, starring Jake Gyllenhaal; and Jonathan Glazers Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johanssonand, by and large, box-office underperformers. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. How great it was. Aizenberg: There was a week in January where we dropped the trailer of Spring Breakers. Kapadia: There were other films that had a lot more money in their campaign and were everywhere. A24 Founding Partner John Hodges to Exit Daniel Katz and David Fenkel will continue to oversee the NYC-based indie Thom Geier | March 26, 2018 @ 10:08 AM A24 founding partner John Hodges. Get it now by subscribing here. Fenkel: I just cannot stop. Variety is a part of Penske Media Corporation. [11][12], In September 2013, A24 entered a $40 million deal with DirecTV Cinema, where DirecTV Cinema would offer day-and-date releases 30 days prior to a theatrical release by A24; Enemy was the first film to be distributed under the deal. No Comments Yet Be the first to comment on John Hodges! All contents 2023 The Slate Group LLC. We werent doing anything like that. Korine: I could tell that they were on some new shit, you know? Katz, Fenkel and Hodges prior to A24 worked in film and production, before leaving to eventually co-found the company, They dont have the personality of movie executives. And that takes time. A24 is an American independent entertainment company that specializes in film and television production, as well as film distribution. The news of Hodges exit was abrupt, but one source said the move has been in the works for some time. You know more than me.. No one cared about our language or our clothes. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. Fellow founding partners Daniel Katz and David Fenkel will continue to oversee the NYC-based indie studio, which has seen great success with Oscar-winning films such as Room, Ex Machina and last years surprise Best Picture winner Moonlight.. There are more glamorous things to be, in Hollywood, than an independent distribution company. We wish Hodges the best of luck with his next endeavor, since the indie landscape has certainly benefited from his contributions. How do we get Spring Breakers? And then Noah got Spring Breakers. Katz: By the way, a thousand times out of a thousand, youre wrong. Katz: I was very concerned that people were gonna think Room kind of stepped into shit and got lucky with awards. Aizenberg: I think we knew we had something at South By. [Sofia] was like, Oh, will you at least partner with Harvey? We were like, No!. What are you working on? They were thinking in a different way, trying something newer and maybe more radical with their approach. Gif excerpt from the film Room via A24 Films. More recently, it expanded from being an acquisitions-only distributor to producing home-grown fare as well as branching into TV. a24. [27], A24 distributes and produces around 18 to 20 films a year. Gif excerpt from the film The End of the Tour via A24 Films. Over the past six years I have been fortunate to work with a diverse group of talented storytellers across film and TV and look forward to continuing those collaborations in my future endeavors, added Hodges. 10001 NEW YORK, USA. Zoe Beyer (marketing, A24): Spring Breakers had a whole Oscar campaign. The photo has been . No one in the office is older than 42, including co-founders John Hodges, David Fenkel, and Daniel Katz. Whoa! Because theyd made a curated, awesome, crafted film. raised the Oscar at them. I was thrilledwhen the news broke that A24 had acquired the domestic rights, and then gutted to learn that it was part of the DirecTV pact. January, February, we didnt know we had The Lobster. Place Beyond the Pines, wed worked with the producers before. Korine: I dont think I was there, but I heard people were walking out. An Industry Arts Company. Aizenberg: I was already, like, putting together the distribution plans for Frances Ha. With Hodges leaving, the company behind the Oscar-winning best pictureMoonlight made it clear that no additional changes in management will be made. The fact that we were able to sign any movies out of that office is absurd. Fenkel: And they were like, You cant do that! Since the small blast of trade articles that greeted the companys inception, theyve remained unusually quiet. Annapurna Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection, Moonlights Mahershala Ali Picks His Own Oscar Winners. Ravi Nandan (co-head of TV, A24): Paramount Vantage, which had released, like, There Will Be Blood and a bunch of other movies, was [folded into] Paramount. Hollywood is run by accountants at this point. Put it on screens. Its infamously irreverent official Twitter account, run by an employee named Zoe Beyer, is as likely to tweet about the Spice Girls or trash-talk Tom Cruise as it is to tweet about one of the companys own movies. Fenkel: We test-screened [Spring Breakers] in downtown Manhattan. Their hair and makeup people, actually, are the people that had an issue with this. A24 Films is a US theatrical distribution and production company founded by Daniel Katz, John Hodges and David Fenkel. Alex Garland (director, Ex Machina): They make things work that according to standard procedures really shouldnt work. Harvey Weinstein (via email): A24 is a great company. There is no Tinder for Room! And, you know, partly as a filmmaker, youre like, My God! I open the curtains when Im in L.A., and everywhere I see films on billboards. [21][22] Episodes are based around a discussion between two members of the film industry. James Ponsoldt (director, The Spectacular Now, The End of the Tour): Ive heard people refer to Miramax. Scott didnt say anything. Theyre just on it. And there are studio subdivisions, like Fox Searchlight, that have consistently guided films like 12 Years a Slave and Birdman to Academy Awards and box office success over the past twenty years. Please, just let those two!. Because even the companys failures are interesting. God bless em. If theaters are to remain something more than a repository for superhero movies, everybody might have to be. Theres music labels I can think of as well. Ask for forgiveness. I think it just showed that we cared about these movies so much. Im dying. Fenkel: I was at the Union Square theater, and they couldnt have had enough theaters. Jenkins: We shot for five weeks, and they came down during the first week. The End of the Tour freed Jason Segel from the succubus of network sitcoms by allowing him to inhabit the image of an iconic American writer. If I had to guess, Id wager that Hodges was simply ready to move on after reaching the top of the mountain winning Best Picture for Moonlight. Notable guests on the show have included Bo Burnham, Paul Schrader, Sofia Coppola, Alia Shawkat and Martin Scorsese. Beyer: And respect them and treat them the way they would by any other company. I think my sisters still only seen one A24 movie: Spring Breakers. The next day it was like, Anythings possible.. Jenkins: I just would never allow myself to believe that something I made could win Best Picture. Essie Davis is insanely good as a single mother on the brink of a mental breakdown as she attempts to care for her troubled young son. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, thenView saved stories. 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. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories. Get our latest storiesin the feed of your favorite networks. Its exciting. Katz: We have a better relationship with him now. When your business model is predicated on treating each movie like an event, how do you get bigger without changing who you are? All the actors had taken the risk. Fenkel: In LA, every meeting is about the hot air. But more independent existed then. Colin Farrell (actor, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer): They have such a great eye for these small little films and rich and unique stories that may have not found it to the big screen if it wasnt for them. Everybody wants to be A24. As Korine told Rolling Stone: I want to do the most radical work, but put it out in the most commercial way. A24 just took him up on it. The Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. And I think theyre creating a kind of renaissance in filmmaking. It was a perfectly good jet! Katz: Theres an A24 audience, and sometimes a movie connects with the A24 audience. Thats completely nuts. John Hodges is leaving A24, the Oscar-winning indie studio that he co-founded. And it was like. Daniel Katz and David Fenkel will continue to oversee the NYC-based indie. It Follows takes the horror trope of getting punished for having sex to a new level. Likewise, A24 loves Sundance acquisition Mississippi Grind, a tremendously appealing riff on Robert Altmans California Split that co-stars Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn as compulsive gamblers on a road trip to nowhere. A24 took Ex Machina to the 2015 South by Southwest festival and built a Tinder chatbot with the face of Alicia Vikander to help promote the film. Scarlett Johansson gives the most daring performance of her career in Jonathan Glazers surreal, experimental film. A24, which was founded in 2012, said that no additional changes in management will be made. I asked him what he wants his company to be. In 2016, films distributed by A24 won Academy Awards for Best Actress (Brie Larson in Room), Best Documentary Feature (Amy), and Best Visual Effects (Ex Machina). You know, theyre big-time. A24 is an American independent entertainment company that specializes in film and television production, as well as film distribution. I felt like there was a huge opportunity to create something where the talented people could be talented. (Make a left out of the elevators, and then a right at the cafeteria workers.). Beyer: It was all about this tension between, like, trying to legitimize ourselves as a real company that can handle working with, like, big. Beyer: There were like a few ads that we made. In recent years, the recession and the concurrent rise of VOD streaming services have already torpedoed the midbudget movie. In the last 18 months alone,along with Room and The End of the Tour,it has pioneered the abortion comedy with Obvious Child, scored a commercial hit with the seductive thriller Ex Machina, released one of the most daring science fiction films this side of 2001 in Under the Skin, and driven the most lucrative documentary in years with Asif Kapadias Amy Winehouse portrait, Amy. I think he was in Hawaii on his honeymoon or something while it was all going down, so I felt terrible. The exceptionand basically the only part of A24 that has any public profile at allis the companys social media presence. Logo by GrandArmy Photos via A24. I felt bad that David had to be put through that. But what happens when the titles involved in this deal get bettera lot better? Film-distribution companies tend to be important but invisible: They buy finished films, cut trailers, make posters, and put movies into movie theatersor, more often these days, dump them onto VOD, never to be heard from again. Said Korine: They saw that marketing was a creative act that could be entertaining in and of itself. And that was our communication for booking theaters. With Hodges leaving, the. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter, As one of the founding members of the New York-based company, Hodges played a key role in putting A24 on the map, culminating with last year's best picture winner, 'Moonlight.'. The first: Barry Jenkins Moonlight, which chronicles a gay mans coming of age across three stages of his life in war on drugsera Miami. Jenkins: I dont know if [Moonlight] was a glittering jewel of a project. Lets do Kevin Smith horror! Theyre making people want to go to the cinema again to see this kind of stuff, rather than staying at home. Photos courtesy A24, by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images, and Janette Pellegrini/WireImage/Getty Images. This elegant, yet sadistic horror film from Austria resembles Michael Hanekes Funny Games, yet the home invader was under the victims noses all along. Gif excerpt from the film Ex Machina via A24 Films. It took us ten minutes to get a block. Hodges teamed with Daniel Katz and David Fenkel to launch the company, which is based in New York City. Aizenberg: That first private plane didnt make it to Austin. A24 thinks hard about the landscape of distribution, and they think hard about the models, and the models are changing. I Was Like, Fuck Yeah!Barry Jenkins. (Joy, Annapurnas only 2015 title, arrives in theaters on Christmas Day.). Jenkins: They were like, Look. At the time of my visit, however, A24 still looked more like a startup than a movie studio, and you could find the countrys fastest-growing film companys actual HQ only by following the flimsy paper signs that had been taped up along the 17th-floor hallway outside its headquarters. Memphis, Tennessee, United States. John Hodges is leaving A24, the Oscar-winning indie studio that he co-founded. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE|SUBSCRIBE|CONTACT. But I do remember finally looking over, because I didnt know where they were sitting, and I spotted Dan Katz and Dave Fenkel, and, man, the smile on their faces! Heavey: People were, like, crying. [23], On March 26, 2018, co-founder John Hodges announced that he was exiting the company. And we broke records. Its a film about guilt that forever haunts you and the fear of being watched. That kind of audience. I think that was Nicolette, actually: Consider This Shit.. Producer: Safety Not Guaranteed. Jenkins: What theyre doing is so fluid and free-form that two years from now, it could be quite different than it was two years ago. I dont think it was related to her professional career. When an A24 acquisitions exec pitched the story to me, excitedly laying out the plot in broad but heartbreaking strokes, he asked if it sounded like an A24 film. 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. TV production powerhouse Jax Media is expanding into film and tapped John Hodges, one of the founding partners of A24, as its new head of film. We sit in. Franco: I hope they dont get too big that they forget what got them started. By subscribing, I agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. They wanted, like, the Disney, massive one. It made me crack up. Buying and burying not-great movies isnt necessarily a problem if it grows the business without harming the brand. Hodges, along with Katz and Fenkel, largely shunned the spotlight, giving few interviews even as A24 made a name for itself by releasing edgier, filmmaker-driven fare from directors such as Lenny Abrahamson, Alex Garland, and the Safdie Brothers.