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A24's Empire of Auteurs

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75 points prismatic | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 03:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.245s | source
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davidivadavid ◴[31 Aug 25 02:29 UTC] No.45079812[source]▶
A24 is at the same stage of the hype curve Netflix was with House of Cards. They're going to commoditize their own aesthetic, expand until quality is mediocre at best, rinse and repeat.
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1. Fricken ◴[31 Aug 25 03:59 UTC] No.45080263[source]▶
That happens when c-suite starts calling shots at the expense of the creatives. It's something Netflix has been doing from the beginning, and something A24 has been trying to avoid since the beginning. Of course A24 going to be biased to what they believe they can sell, but so long as their brand is original, auteur driven works then they should be OK.

A24 is kind of looking like United Artists, a studio that produced many critically acclaimed films in the 1970s. What was UA's downfall? A move into bigger budget films. One bigger budget film, specifically: Heaven's Gate (1980), directed my Michael Cimino. The production went so over budget it bankrupted the studio and that marked the end of that era of auteur driven cinema.

Let's hope A24 doesn't make the same mistake, because as it is about half the new films I saw in theatres and enjoyed over the last decade came from A24, or from a director who has worked with A24.