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A24 just tapped into the indie spirit of the 90s and 70s and made a production company around it. That's why many of their movies have these retro feeling.
the prosecution of Miramax execs and Disney's fumbling of their indie houses left the doors wide open for someone to take the reigns back up and I'm glad someone finally did.
That valuation scares me. Once big investors start demanding a return on their capital, decisions start being made that aren’t the kind that got them here in the first place
A24 is an excellent production company, i dont think their bad films are hidden or forgotten. I think that their good films are so strong and so impactful that when we get a bad film its accepted as part of doing business, and we still can't wait to see what they do next.
I hope their growth and scale are producing MORE mid budget films. That whole part of the market used to be huge. Keep the costs on each film low enough and failure won’t take it all down. Great vid, thanks
It helps that the Miramax collapse proceeded A24, leaving a vacuum for art pictures. That kid made a really good point, a company that small can easily hide their failures so A24 is only associated with their best stuff…if we were to worship every studios best films in the same way, we’d all be fans! Good video. Interesting stuff
Honestly, it just seems like A24 became today's version of Weinstein Company and Fox Searchlight, which used to be the big players in this Oscar film space.
the high valuation comes from the trust the company built with its filmmakers and crews. A24 is the equivalent of a youtuber making daily videos for years, then when they go viral they have a backlog of content for fans to binge
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I think A24 should keep making indie movies because most major studios are afraid to make movies with real topics and situations people are going through intheir individual lives. I am a would-be filmmaker/screenwriter and a Gen-Xer from New Jersey and I am trying to start a film production company here and most of the screenplays I have written take place in New Jersey. And some of them tackle really serious issues and I think A24 would be a good go-to for these screenplays.
A24 is a one in a million company. Perfect vision and even more perfect execution, plus even though their movies are somewhat niche or artsy they have mainstream appeal because of the god tier casting they have in every movie.
I’m gonna correlate my take with the hip-hop music industry, specifically with Rawkus Records. They were a label that pushed the independent, “underground” sound of 90s/2000s boom-bap hip-hop. A lot like A24, Rawkus brought the realest, wholesome form of hip-hop to the mainstream, and did well for awhile bringing to light Eminem, Common, and Mos Def who have all also tapped into the Hollywood circuit. But their downfall came when trying to adjust to the rest of the other industry labels. I know this firsthand being an artist almost being signed to the label. It’s beautiful to see A24’s progression and I can only hope they don’t submit to the pitfalls of the mainstream Hollywood industry. Diversity of all trajectories is very much needed in all industries. Humans ain’t sheep. So there’s always room to please us eccentric folks.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, this is super interesting! Definitely seems like there are parallels, and yeah I think it could be rocky if A24 tries to push into more mainstream films and loses what made them so special for the sake of scale and growth.
I think theres also something to be said for the talent that A24 draws to their projects and the casting agencies they work with like JV8. Great video, well worth the sub!
Well done with this video Gabriel. You went further than Vox did - and you’ve earned another subscriber. Good luck to you at UTA. Looking forward to more.
wait im 20 mins in and wanted to read some comments because i was so invested, and realised you have 941 subs? i was expecting at LEAST 50k this is great stuff man. Keep up this content and keep your passion for it, you can see your passion in the end result of the video, dont lose it!
Thank you so much!! Really appreciate it, will def be making more of this style content in the future, after a few vlog style videos while I move to LA!
A24 is a cool company, but I worry lately as they are making bigger budget films without wider appeal. Beau is Afraid was a major disaster, much less appealing than Everything Everywhere ever was. I also find it interesting that the perception of Civil War was that it was a hit, something a friend actually repeated to me just today. With a $50M budget, it's take of just over $100M in box office, at best, made it break even. Of course it made more money on video, streaming deals, etc... but for a $50M bet they will make maybe $20M-$40M in profit... that's not great. To bigger studios that would be their worst numbers, not their best. I personally worry that their investors pushing them toward these bigger budget bets to try to get rich will ruin the company, just like the legacy companies have. A24 made a name by making smart bets on mid-budget movies other studios left behind to chase supposedly safer IP. We don't want A24 to be like these bigger companies... we want the smaller films that make a little bit of a money at a time, and the occasional breakout hit... because that's what is most missing from cinemas today.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Yeah that’s fair Civil War actually wasn’t that big of a hit, I think it did well on its first weekend though so that’s the perception people had of it. And yeah I think it’ll be a difficult road to go down for A24 if they try to grow into something larger, but at the same time if they fail, I’m sure someone else will occupy that space, maybe even a company like NEON
I think it’s great that they do take bigger bets with filmmakerz. I don’t think they’ll only do that (most studios need to take big bet swings because they’re so in debt) but if you have one original $100mil A24 film every once and awhile w an awesome, established filmmaker(z) you could get massive resultz.
I wish Netflix would start making smaller independent films with the realism feel instead of wasting millions of dollars for expensive actors to make copy and paste movies specially the marky mark and Kevin heart type movies and every romantic comedy they make In every country. They all seem like copy and paste. There has to be so many scripts from amateur script writers out their that have original ideas but these companies do not read those scripts they read scripts from well known script writers who’ve ran out of ideas 20 years ago. But whatever I guess
Love this so much 🔥🔥 I’m a movie producer and cinematographer from Michigan with a film coming to the big screen myself. It’s so amazing seeing independent films succeed
@@succafree3212 pretty difficult to be honest, especially nowadays that the career path is less clear, might do a video on it soon if people are interested
Wow, great video man! Saw some videos about A24 before, but I think that's the one I enjoyed the most. It was the most informative and fun to watch. You can really see the amount of research you did and you went really in depth there! Would love to see more videos about other studios like Neon or maybe the rise and fall of companies like Miramax, New Line Cinema and Dimension Films, for example. Keep up the good work! 🔥🔥
Great insight! I felt Ex-Machina was the movie that blew me away from them. Also, this is a great reference of highlighting some amazing directors and movies I have over looked but now want to check out that I didnt know were A24 films. Thanks!
Wow Gabriel! Stumbled onto this video by accident and absolutely love the way you structured this video and the narrative behind A24. As a fellow filmmaker myself, who is also obsessed with A24, this video was easy to click on, but I am definitely following your page now and looking forward to future content!
they have distributed some trash but a number of great films as well, i've noticed that films that were whack were generally promoted muuuuch less prior to release than ones that blew peoples' minds. smart smart marketing
One of my first jobs in the industry was working on SpringBreakers. And I can confirm. A24 allowed him to do whatever he pleased. And even if they didnt. He would do what he wanted. Point is, it was a hell of a first experience on set. Ha.
I love the editing and music choices. Definitely earned a sub from this vid alone. On the topic of what part I'd like to see you cover, I'd love to hear about the business side of Hollywood unions. I've learned some history for union rights and the affect on some actors careers, but never how the formation/strengthening of unions changed business or contracts.
Thank you so much and thanks for the suggestion! I’ll definitely add that to my list of ideas, one of my first videos was about the writers and actors strike and there’s definitely a ton of interesting history there
The truth is, most producers/studios have been following a 100-year-old business model. A24 approached acquisitions and promotions in a way that should have been the norm 20 years ago. They should rightly be applauded for being the first major success to break from the model, but I'm almost not impressed.
Yeah true, it’s really hard though for these large multibillion dollar corporations to be nimble but I think they’re finally going in the right direction after a very chaotic past 4 years
@@GabrielCarusetta also, a lot of the giants saw streamers as an existential threat. A24 treated Netflix as an opportunity, and could put money into films knowing they could get a streaming deal - whearas the giants were still licking their wounds with the death of DVD and hesitant to fund risky films that wouldn't have a wide release or DVD to win back the budget. That big studio pride and arrogance served A24 well in its early days.
The private equity playbook is to borrow the most money it can and extract all value from the companies it buys out so it lets the companies go into debt and bankrupt. These ridiculous high valuations in the billions is set so the private equity firm can borrow money against it and never made to pay back. So if a VC or private equity gets it’s grubby hands on it, you can pretty much say goodbye to passion for filmmaking and it’s always going to be the least risky ventures…
Yeah we’ll see if the increase in funding comes with less creative control, but IMO I don’t think they’ll want to mess too much with a formula that’s been working for them. You never know when it comes to PE and VC tho
They're successful because Indie filmmaking is the now. Horror in particular is relatively cheap and quite often the profit supersedes the budget. They started small, only buying great scripts and believing in the indie filmmakers, and it paid off. So then they took that recipe and made it themselves. Great video.
The double-edged sword of needing funding to acquire and distribute weird-ass but full of potential films whila also needing to appease the investors that lent you said money and perpetually afraid of risks. Not and easy line to walk, I'm curious to see what the future holds not only for them but other indie production companies that are following in their steps. I genuinely hope they get to continue to pick and bet on their unique movies, because they've been (with very few exceptions) the saving grace of american cinema for the past few years
To me A24 represents a light of hope in an otherwise dark and dreary world. When everything seems to be going to shit, the rich get richer, prices on every day good gets higher, housing costs are only going up, but then there’s A24, a studio that’s making budget friendly movies a thing again. Not every film has to cost over $100 million, that’s such a ridiculous number that no layman could even fathom. To me its a sign of the disconnect from reality that the upper class has from the common man, they don’t care if we enjoy or understand the movies that the major studios release, they just care that they make money.
Tbh I had never thought about their bad movies and how good they are at hiding them until this vid. Like I genuinely thought they only made great movies bc they’ve done such a good job at hiding the ones that are not.
When Sony loses money on a film they lose like 200M when A24 loses they lose like 10M which definitely makes investors a little more comfortable about their long term growth
They're embodying that old saying, make it so niche it becomes broad. By highlighting these smaller artistic voices rather than trying to appeal to everyone the way the bigger studios do they've found a wide audience
a24 did what studios in the 70s did for Spielberg, Scorsese, DePalma, FF Coppola and George Lucas: they realized that new talent is required to keep the company and the cinema alive.
Great video but I wanted to point out that A24 did not produce Hereditary. Hereditary was an independent film that went to Sundance and A24 acquired it. Even though they produce a lot of movies now, they still buy films at the top festivals. They did the same thing recently with Talk to Me.
I just find all their stuff significantly more meaningful and thought provoking than the average conglomerate (marvel movie) Superficial depth is fine on a macro scale but people crave that depth whether they realize it or not.
ok but why do a24 movies only stay in theaters for one to two weeks while other movies like for example deadpool or anything disney will be in movie theaters for 4 to 6 weeks? Also some A24 movies aren’t even shown in all theaters
That’s a great question, and it depends on the movie. For a lot of their movies, they do very specialized releases. They won’t show it in all states, and they’ll focus on a few select cities like New York, LA, etc. They do this to save money, since if they reserve a theater to show their movie in say a smaller town in Texas, but no one shows up, they’ll lose money. Some A24 movies don’t land with audiences. These will be shorter theatrical windows. The movies that do land will stay in theaters sometimes for months. (Everything Everywhere was shown in just 10 theaters at first, then based on the results had a wide release and stayed in theaters for months, moving onto IMAX screens after gaining popularity) A24 makes money based on the percentage of a theater that’s filled, and their ratio for filling seats is one of the highest in the industry, but as a result they won’t show a movie where they think people aren’t gonna see it. Hope that answers your question!
So, I love this video. Thanks for putting this out there. But as an indie filmmaker who with my family has put blood, sweat and tears into making films with NO resources, it sort of sucks that when in the video it says A24 sort of gave a "blank check" to filmmakers and said "go for it" - basically who were these filmmakers? It's so frustrating not having any funding to do what my vision has in mind. Just saying. :)
Thanks for watching! Yeah in many cases they will be filmmakers who are connected to the right people. I think we’ll see indie film start to change and adapt for this online world we now live in, but in the 2010s and early 2020s it’s definitely a game of who you know
@@GabrielCarusetta Unfortunately, it still is a game of who you know. Even crappy films are making $ and on platforms because they have "friends" who get them on there. Not just myself, but I know a handful of very talented filmmakers that if they had resources could be the next moneymaker. Hollywood has for the most part always been who you know, but at least there was a ton of real talent. Now it's merely name and influencer status stuff lol. Anyways, I only wish I could have show my current film projects Sleepers and Mia's Bridge to A24 during their uptake of bringing up newly developing directors & filmmakers. But regardless, great job on the video and docu-info. Very informative and helpful. Thanks!
How A24 took over Hollywood: by distributing incredible, challenging, and often times total gambles on films Hollywood would never touch. Films that aren’t safe. They put the art first, not the money. A movie made with a labor of love, will reflect that in the product. There’s a lot of artists doing art in Hollywood, but they’re outnumbered a hundred to one to creators working for a paycheck only.
It’s how the UA-cam algorithm works, I only put so much effort into this video because I knew people wanted to watch it based on the performance of other videos with the same topic
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Hello, well done video! Thanks for this deep inside into A24. Greetings from Sicily, Italy.
Please activate at least automatically generated subtitles in English.
@@Tubeflux Sure! I'll go into the settings right now. In my next video I'll try and create a better transcript!
A24 just tapped into the indie spirit of the 90s and 70s and made a production company around it. That's why many of their movies have these retro feeling.
Yeah true they got really retro vibes
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the prosecution of Miramax execs and Disney's fumbling of their indie houses left the doors wide open for someone to take the reigns back up and I'm glad someone finally did.
That valuation scares me. Once big investors start demanding a return on their capital, decisions start being made that aren’t the kind that got them here in the first place
Yeah I could definitely see that happening, we’ll see what ends up being the course they take
Definitely worried they might be on a similar trajectory as Vice
A24 is an excellent production company, i dont think their bad films are hidden or forgotten. I think that their good films are so strong and so impactful that when we get a bad film its accepted as part of doing business, and we still can't wait to see what they do next.
Yeah that’s fair, it seems to be working out for them either way!
I hope their growth and scale are producing MORE mid budget films.
That whole part of the market used to be huge. Keep the costs on each film low enough and failure won’t take it all down.
Great vid, thanks
Thanks! Yeah I think it could be a really cool direction for them to go in
It helps that the Miramax collapse proceeded A24, leaving a vacuum for art pictures.
That kid made a really good point, a company that small can easily hide their failures so A24 is only associated with their best stuff…if we were to worship every studios best films in the same way, we’d all be fans!
Good video. Interesting stuff
Thanks!! And yeah that's a great point, I'll need to look more into the history of Miramax!
Exactly!!!
The absents of Miramax was my first thought
Honestly, it just seems like A24 became today's version of Weinstein Company and Fox Searchlight, which used to be the big players in this Oscar film space.
Yeah I think as the larger studios moved away from smaller films towards these 100 million plus blockbusters A24 was really able to fill that void
Weinstein was the opposite of letting a director work handsoff
the high valuation comes from the trust the company built with its filmmakers and crews. A24 is the equivalent of a youtuber making daily videos for years, then when they go viral they have a backlog of content for fans to binge
A24 does what other production companies are afraid to do... take a chance on creating original content.
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I think A24 should keep making indie movies because most major studios are afraid to make movies with real topics and situations people are going through intheir individual lives. I am a would-be filmmaker/screenwriter and a Gen-Xer from New Jersey and I am trying to start a film production company here and most of the screenplays I have written take place in New Jersey. And some of them tackle really serious issues and I think A24 would be a good go-to for these screenplays.
Yeah I agree I think they should continue to make movies at that smaller price point
Its the only studios site i go to to see what movies are coming out soon. And that says everything imo
I’ll never forget the first time I saw Ex machina .
Yeah that's a great one, was one of the first A24 movies I saw!
A24 is a one in a million company. Perfect vision and even more perfect execution, plus even though their movies are somewhat niche or artsy they have mainstream appeal because of the god tier casting they have in every movie.
I’m gonna correlate my take with the hip-hop music industry, specifically with Rawkus Records. They were a label that pushed the independent, “underground” sound of 90s/2000s boom-bap hip-hop. A lot like A24, Rawkus brought the realest, wholesome form of hip-hop to the mainstream, and did well for awhile bringing to light Eminem, Common, and Mos Def who have all also tapped into the Hollywood circuit. But their downfall came when trying to adjust to the rest of the other industry labels. I know this firsthand being an artist almost being signed to the label.
It’s beautiful to see A24’s progression and I can only hope they don’t submit to the pitfalls of the mainstream Hollywood industry. Diversity of all trajectories is very much needed in all industries. Humans ain’t sheep. So there’s always room to please us eccentric folks.
I like your wording and can tell you put a lot of thought into this!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, this is super interesting! Definitely seems like there are parallels, and yeah I think it could be rocky if A24 tries to push into more mainstream films and loses what made them so special for the sake of scale and growth.
What a fantastic, informative, and thought-provoking video. Great work man, seriously.
Love love love the research you put into this. Very well-organized and unique that other videos haven’t talked about. I’m subbed now.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
I think theres also something to be said for the talent that A24 draws to their projects and the casting agencies they work with like JV8. Great video, well worth the sub!
Ooh I’ll have to look into JV8, casting studios are definitely often overlooked for sure, thanks!
Well done with this video Gabriel. You went further than Vox did - and you’ve earned another subscriber. Good luck to you at UTA. Looking forward to more.
Thank you so much, appreciate it!
wait im 20 mins in and wanted to read some comments because i was so invested, and realised you have 941 subs? i was expecting at LEAST 50k this is great stuff man. Keep up this content and keep your passion for it, you can see your passion in the end result of the video, dont lose it!
Thank you so much!! Really appreciate it, will def be making more of this style content in the future, after a few vlog style videos while I move to LA!
Love the miro Infographic. Very helpful to visualise how it all fits together. Def more of that 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Glad you liked it! Definitely planning to do more visual breakdowns like that in the future
A24 is a cool company, but I worry lately as they are making bigger budget films without wider appeal. Beau is Afraid was a major disaster, much less appealing than Everything Everywhere ever was. I also find it interesting that the perception of Civil War was that it was a hit, something a friend actually repeated to me just today. With a $50M budget, it's take of just over $100M in box office, at best, made it break even. Of course it made more money on video, streaming deals, etc... but for a $50M bet they will make maybe $20M-$40M in profit... that's not great. To bigger studios that would be their worst numbers, not their best. I personally worry that their investors pushing them toward these bigger budget bets to try to get rich will ruin the company, just like the legacy companies have. A24 made a name by making smart bets on mid-budget movies other studios left behind to chase supposedly safer IP. We don't want A24 to be like these bigger companies... we want the smaller films that make a little bit of a money at a time, and the occasional breakout hit... because that's what is most missing from cinemas today.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Yeah that’s fair Civil War actually wasn’t that big of a hit, I think it did well on its first weekend though so that’s the perception people had of it. And yeah I think it’ll be a difficult road to go down for A24 if they try to grow into something larger, but at the same time if they fail, I’m sure someone else will occupy that space, maybe even a company like NEON
I think it’s great that they do take bigger bets with filmmakerz. I don’t think they’ll only do that (most studios need to take big bet swings because they’re so in debt) but if you have one original $100mil A24 film every once and awhile w an awesome, established filmmaker(z) you could get massive resultz.
I agree. They kinda feel overrated to me
I wish Netflix would start making smaller independent films with the realism feel instead of wasting millions of dollars for expensive actors to make copy and paste movies specially the marky mark and Kevin heart type movies and every romantic comedy they make In every country. They all seem like copy and paste. There has to be so many scripts from amateur script writers out their that have original ideas but these companies do not read those scripts they read scripts from well known script writers who’ve ran out of ideas 20 years ago. But whatever I guess
@@crowdedveins9210 completely agree, not just Netflix but all streaming services in general
A24 has released some of my favorite movies in the last couple years they are goated
Super glad to have discovered you!
Extremely articulate with no bluff!
Never change this format, you got a lifelong admirer of ur work today!!
Thank you so much!! Definitely will be making more, right after I post a vlog about moving to LA this week :)
@@GabrielCarusetta have a great time!
Just started the video and instantly subscribed. Already can tell the amount of depth and research that went into this! Wishing you luck!!
Girl.
Thank you so much, appreciate it!
I was first introduced to a24 by way of uncut gems and since then I make sure I see everything they produce. Great company
Yeah Uncut Gems is great, probably the most adrenaline inducing film I had watched in a while
great video!! I love seeing the behind the scenes of A24 films
Love this so much 🔥🔥 I’m a movie producer and cinematographer from Michigan with a film coming to the big screen myself. It’s so amazing seeing independent films succeed
That’s awesome!
How difficult is it to become a movie producer?
@@succafree3212 pretty difficult to be honest, especially nowadays that the career path is less clear, might do a video on it soon if people are interested
@@GabrielCarusetta I look forward to checking it out, keep up the great work ❤️
I really think that you did a good job of putting your video together! It let's us know what is really happening in the film industry!
Thank you so much!
My film production company is following the steps of A24 we really love their business model and style of film
Keep making rap, this is not your forte
@@dreambotter6389let the man try lol
Wow, great video man!
Saw some videos about A24 before, but I think that's the one I enjoyed the most. It was the most informative and fun to watch. You can really see the amount of research you did and you went really in depth there!
Would love to see more videos about other studios like Neon or maybe the rise and fall of companies like Miramax, New Line Cinema and Dimension Films, for example.
Keep up the good work! 🔥🔥
Definitely want to cover NEON, and ooh a New Line video would be really fun to work on!
@@GabrielCarusetta Can't wait to see those videos from you in the future 😁😁
Yh definitely Miramax and Dimension
Great insight! I felt Ex-Machina was the movie that blew me away from them. Also, this is a great reference of highlighting some amazing directors and movies I have over looked but now want to check out that I didnt know were A24 films. Thanks!
Wow Gabriel! Stumbled onto this video by accident and absolutely love the way you structured this video and the narrative behind A24. As a fellow filmmaker myself, who is also obsessed with A24, this video was easy to click on, but I am definitely following your page now and looking forward to future content!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! More to come soon :)
This is wonderful y’all. Thank you for the knowledge
A24 and Ari Aster are a match made in heaven 💯💖✨ just by looking at it, you know you are watching an A24 movie!!!
This is a brilliant breakdown video!
Glad you liked it!
Very nice video, I loved the breakdown and agree with evey bit of it.
Nice VIDEO and Informative!!! 😎👍
Thanks man!
they have distributed some trash but a number of great films as well, i've noticed that films that were whack were generally promoted muuuuch less prior to release than ones that blew peoples' minds. smart smart marketing
Yup it’s an underrated strategy, but it’s harder to pull off when you’re a big studio making 80 million dollar films. Sometimes it pays to be nimble
One of my first jobs in the industry was working on SpringBreakers. And I can confirm. A24 allowed him to do whatever he pleased. And even if they didnt. He would do what he wanted. Point is, it was a hell of a first experience on set. Ha.
This video is very inspiring for me in so many ways
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I love the editing and music choices. Definitely earned a sub from this vid alone. On the topic of what part I'd like to see you cover, I'd love to hear about the business side of Hollywood unions. I've learned some history for union rights and the affect on some actors careers, but never how the formation/strengthening of unions changed business or contracts.
Thank you so much and thanks for the suggestion! I’ll definitely add that to my list of ideas, one of my first videos was about the writers and actors strike and there’s definitely a ton of interesting history there
A24 neva miss 🔥
this video is a gem
Thanks!
The truth is, most producers/studios have been following a 100-year-old business model.
A24 approached acquisitions and promotions in a way that should have been the norm 20 years ago.
They should rightly be applauded for being the first major success to break from the model, but I'm almost not impressed.
Yeah true, it’s really hard though for these large multibillion dollar corporations to be nimble but I think they’re finally going in the right direction after a very chaotic past 4 years
@@GabrielCarusetta also, a lot of the giants saw streamers as an existential threat. A24 treated Netflix as an opportunity, and could put money into films knowing they could get a streaming deal - whearas the giants were still licking their wounds with the death of DVD and hesitant to fund risky films that wouldn't have a wide release or DVD to win back the budget. That big studio pride and arrogance served A24 well in its early days.
The private equity playbook is to borrow the most money it can and extract all value from the companies it buys out so it lets the companies go into debt and bankrupt. These ridiculous high valuations in the billions is set so the private equity firm can borrow money against it and never made to pay back. So if a VC or private equity gets it’s grubby hands on it, you can pretty much say goodbye to passion for filmmaking and it’s always going to be the least risky ventures…
Yeah we’ll see if the increase in funding comes with less creative control, but IMO I don’t think they’ll want to mess too much with a formula that’s been working for them. You never know when it comes to PE and VC tho
They're successful because Indie filmmaking is the now. Horror in particular is relatively cheap and quite often the profit supersedes the budget. They started small, only buying great scripts and believing in the indie filmmakers, and it paid off. So then they took that recipe and made it themselves. Great video.
wow didn't realize so many modern movies that I liked were actually A24
The double-edged sword of needing funding to acquire and distribute weird-ass but full of potential films whila also needing to appease the investors that lent you said money and perpetually afraid of risks. Not and easy line to walk, I'm curious to see what the future holds not only for them but other indie production companies that are following in their steps. I genuinely hope they get to continue to pick and bet on their unique movies, because they've been (with very few exceptions) the saving grace of american cinema for the past few years
To me A24 represents a light of hope in an otherwise dark and dreary world. When everything seems to be going to shit, the rich get richer, prices on every day good gets higher, housing costs are only going up, but then there’s A24, a studio that’s making budget friendly movies a thing again. Not every film has to cost over $100 million, that’s such a ridiculous number that no layman could even fathom. To me its a sign of the disconnect from reality that the upper class has from the common man, they don’t care if we enjoy or understand the movies that the major studios release, they just care that they make money.
Amazing video
Tbh I had never thought about their bad movies and how good they are at hiding them until this vid. Like I genuinely thought they only made great movies bc they’ve done such a good job at hiding the ones that are not.
amazing video. my goal is to one day work for a24 in some way, shape, or form.
As a soon to be graduating film major, i’d love more any advice on how to break into the film industry and get internships etc. thank you! 💌
Thanks for letting me know! I made a video like that earlier, but definitely want to share more career advice!
When Sony loses money on a film they lose like 200M when A24 loses they lose like 10M which definitely makes investors a little more comfortable about their long term growth
My favourite distribution company ever when it comes to movies!!!!
a hilarious video, thanks for the laugh.
I love a24 films
Anything that is unique, in film, seems to be made by A24.
The thumnail is good
I didn’t think everything…was that great I didn’t even wanna finish it
And I definitely don’t think Jamie Lee should’ve won the Oscar for it
I got into A24 a few years ago but some movies I seen years before then didn’t even know it was from A24
A24 is what we thought blumhouse was going to be
Cool video awesome information.
Thanks!
@@GabrielCarusetta just subbed
Appreciate it!
They're embodying that old saying, make it so niche it becomes broad. By highlighting these smaller artistic voices rather than trying to appeal to everyone the way the bigger studios do they've found a wide audience
My name is Gabriel and for the past 3 years I haven't had a proper haircut
a24 did what studios in the 70s did for Spielberg, Scorsese, DePalma, FF Coppola and George Lucas: they realized that new talent is required to keep the company and the cinema alive.
Great video but I wanted to point out that A24 did not produce Hereditary. Hereditary was an independent film that went to Sundance and A24 acquired it. Even though they produce a lot of movies now, they still buy films at the top festivals. They did the same thing recently with Talk to Me.
I just find all their stuff significantly more meaningful and thought provoking than the average conglomerate (marvel movie)
Superficial depth is fine on a macro scale but people crave that depth whether they realize it or not.
Hi Gabriel, who its the guy you interview?
Bro said Bow is Afraid
It’s also very easy to say, “A24”
Cool video pretty interesting. Music is a bit much and distracting though
Thanks for the feedback! I’ll try and fine tune it a bit more next time
ok but why do a24 movies only stay in theaters for one to two weeks while other movies like for example deadpool or anything disney will be in movie theaters for 4 to 6 weeks? Also some A24 movies aren’t even shown in all theaters
That’s a great question, and it depends on the movie.
For a lot of their movies, they do very specialized releases. They won’t show it in all states, and they’ll focus on a few select cities like New York, LA, etc.
They do this to save money, since if they reserve a theater to show their movie in say a smaller town in Texas, but no one shows up, they’ll lose money.
Some A24 movies don’t land with audiences. These will be shorter theatrical windows.
The movies that do land will stay in theaters sometimes for months. (Everything Everywhere was shown in just 10 theaters at first, then based on the results had a wide release and stayed in theaters for months, moving onto IMAX screens after gaining popularity)
A24 makes money based on the percentage of a theater that’s filled, and their ratio for filling seats is one of the highest in the industry, but as a result they won’t show a movie where they think people aren’t gonna see it. Hope that answers your question!
My first experience of A24 is Enemy
I actually need to go back and finish watching it! Loved the vibe but got interrupted by something lol
Coz A24 movies are logical, easily identifiable, grounded, very well made
So, I love this video. Thanks for putting this out there. But as an indie filmmaker who with my family has put blood, sweat and tears into making films with NO resources, it sort of sucks that when in the video it says A24 sort of gave a "blank check" to filmmakers and said "go for it" - basically who were these filmmakers? It's so frustrating not having any funding to do what my vision has in mind. Just saying. :)
Thanks for watching! Yeah in many cases they will be filmmakers who are connected to the right people. I think we’ll see indie film start to change and adapt for this online world we now live in, but in the 2010s and early 2020s it’s definitely a game of who you know
@@GabrielCarusetta Unfortunately, it still is a game of who you know. Even crappy films are making $ and on platforms because they have "friends" who get them on there. Not just myself, but I know a handful of very talented filmmakers that if they had resources could be the next moneymaker. Hollywood has for the most part always been who you know, but at least there was a ton of real talent. Now it's merely name and influencer status stuff lol. Anyways, I only wish I could have show my current film projects Sleepers and Mia's Bridge to A24 during their uptake of bringing up newly developing directors & filmmakers. But regardless, great job on the video and docu-info. Very informative and helpful. Thanks!
Definitely Midsommar, Which is my personal A24 movie of all time
Great choice! I loved it when I watched it in theaters, was a huge inspiration for the last short film I made
ex machina is so incredible for $15 mil. Like yeah it's not a big picture but that thing could have been bloated to 50 easily
How A24 took over Hollywood: by distributing incredible, challenging, and often times total gambles on films Hollywood would never touch. Films that aren’t safe. They put the art first, not the money. A movie made with a labor of love, will reflect that in the product. There’s a lot of artists doing art in Hollywood, but they’re outnumbered a hundred to one to creators working for a paycheck only.
interesting choice you made to move to Los Angeles
It's still the place to be for film and media, for now!
@@GabrielCarusetta Working at UTA? I dunno man. None of that work is dreamy.
A24 is what you get in an industry starving for creativity, essentially they are the new TouchStone and Marimax
Enjoy UTA. I used to be repped by Jeremy Barber over there. Good people.
Woah that's awesome! Thank you so much! I'm looking extremely forward to it
Mazal Tov 🎉
the script of this video really sounds like it was written by AI
Civil War was a pretty bad movie surprised it was A24
Haven’t actually seen it, what was disappointing about it I’m curious?
It really had no plot just Random events
Very atypical A24
@@pableaux76 oh interesting, yeah I was excited by the trailer but didn’t end up seeing it after reading reviews
Civil War is good. It has a more fragmented structure, sort of like a Fellini film, but it fits the road trip formula
Occult gonna cult
Lol 😂 something funny about a grown man showing his knees
why is everyone making this same video?
It’s how the UA-cam algorithm works, I only put so much effort into this video because I knew people wanted to watch it based on the performance of other videos with the same topic
They took over because they made quality stuff. They didn't feed into the political stupidity.
totally ripped off mark bone’s video. same title and thumbnail. boo 😒
That’s just how the UA-cam game is played! Titles and thumbnails are super important
Bow is afraid 😂
Yeah I forgot how it was pronounced lol
@@GabrielCarusetta Makes me think a boat is afraid lol
@@GabrielCarusetta or BowWow 😂
Moonlight was SEVERELY overrated
you said you love film. Why do you set your ambient audio level so high that you can't hear the dialog.
And lately their movies have been declining
i like the video. but you couldn't at least look up how to pronounce beau??
I literally do not like any of the movies A24 has made. They all feel pretentious.
Now A24 Movies are gradually getting uglier ang uglier storlines. Not like before “hereditary, lady bird etc…”
So… bold lol. Canned interview
Hands down the most overrated company in the film industry