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Square Peg co-founders Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen want to help aspiring filmmakers. With IndieWire as its exclusive media partner, Square Peg Social will bring together 30 select creators — 20 writers/directors and 10 producers — to SoHo House Austin for four days of networking and mentorship.

All projects and skill levels will be considered, with submissions (now open here) encouraged from all interested. (IndieWire readers can get a 25% discount on the submission fee with the code Indiewirego.)

Square Peg Social will include private dinners, special programming, and intimate gatherings desgned to foster conversation and collaboration for those looking to expand their careers in the world of film.

“Whether you’re a graduate student with a bold first short, a writer-director redefining genre, or a producer looking for advice and opportunities — if your voice is distinct and your work unapologetically your own — we want to hear from you,” Knudsen said in a statement.

In addition to the chosen applicants,...

Are you an indie filmmaker who craves insight and guidance, but…

• Can find film festivals exhausting?

• Panels, distancing?

• Lectures, too far removed?

• And finally, must make movies for a living or will find themselves utterly and irrevocably screwed?

Well, then. Have I got a deal for you.

Lars Knudsen and Ari Aster, the producer and director behind “Hereditary,” “Midsommar,” and the upcoming “Eddington,” are accepting applications for Square Peg Social and the deadline is July 29. The four-day event in Austin, Texas will provide 20 writer-directors and 10 producers with programming, private dinners, and other intimate gatherings all designed to help you make your movie.

IndieWire is the exclusive media partner for the event, which will run October 23-26. Full application details are here and you can use code Indiewirego for a 25% discount on the application fee.

Speaking on Zoom from Chicago, where he and Square Peg partner Aster are producing Henry Dunham...

Emma Stone says she’s glad she got to rehearse with Joaquin Phoenix before making “Eddington.”

But she’s not always keen on rehearsal.

“We rehearsed. We went through everything,” Stone told me Thursday at the “Eddington” premiere at the DGA in West Hollywood. “Rehearsal is a little bit of mixed bag for me sometimes. Sometimes I really really enjoy it and sometimes I’m like, ‘Oh God we’re just doing it and it’s going to ruin everything,’ but this was one of the good ones.”

Ari Aster’s “Eddington” stars Phoenix as the sheriff of a small New Mexico town during the Covid pandemic who surprises everyone when he announces – including his wife, played by Stone – that he’s going to run for mayor against the incumbent (Pedro Pascal).

Rounding out the cast are Luke Grimes, Austin Butler, Deidre O’Connell, Michael Ward, Clifton Collins Jr., Amélie Hoeferle,...

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone are collaborating again, this time on Bugonia, an eerie, dark-comedy remake of the 2003 South Korean sci-fi film Save the Green Planet!, written and directed by Jang Joon-Hwan.

The film’s synopsis from Will Tracy’s screenplay is as follows: “Two conspiracy obsessed young men (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company (Emma Stone), convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.”

In addition to Stone, Plemons and Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone round out the cast.

The trailer is equal parts unsettling, outlandish and zany. Although its veneer is sheer absurdity, the film’s essence seems to be a dark commentary on economic disparity. While it’s unclear is Stone’s character is actually an alien, she appears like an unbothered Queen Bee, unfazed by the struggling working class.

The English-language version of the Korean...

The dream team pairing of Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos continues. The director of The Favourite, Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness has returned with Bugonia, which will hit theaters a little earlier than expected, as Focus Features has announced a new release date for the film. The movie, which was previously slated for a November 7th release, will now premiere for a special limited engagement on October 24th before opening wide on October 31st. Focus Features has now released the trailer.

Bugonia stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone. Lanthimos directed the film from a screenplay by Will Tracy. It follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Planet Earth. The film is produced by Element Pictures’ Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe; Yorgos Lanthimos via Pith; Emma Stone via Fruit Tree...

Focus Features has unveiled the teaser trailer for the sci-fi comedy Bugonia, which is set to open in limited theaters on October 24 and expand wide on October 31. Yorgos Lanthimos directed the film.

The week-long cinematic event, starting on October 24, will feature screenings of the film, which was shot in VistaVision, at select locations in New York and Los Angeles.

Lanthimos is an internationally renowned, five-time Academy Award-nominated director, producer, and screenwriter known for such films as My Best Friend (2001), Dogtooth (2009), The Lobster (2015), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023), and Kinds of Kindness (2024).

In Bugonia, two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. The movie is an English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan.

The film stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias,...

Yorgos Lanthimos is back with a buzzy new film — literally. The Oscar nominee directs “Bugonia,” a bee-centric reimagining of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 sci-fi satire “Save the Green Planet!” Of course, in true Lanthimos fashion, he is reuniting with muse and collaborator Emma Stone, who plays a high-powered pharmaceutical CEO kidnapped by two eco extremists, played by “Kinds of Kindness” star Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis. Lanthimos’ “Killing of a Sacred Deer” alum Alicia Silverstone co-stars, along with Stavros Halkias.

Per the official synopsis, “Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.” Will Tracy wrote the film, which was announced in February 2024 and is expected to make a Venice Film Festival debut.

Stone won the Best Actress Oscar in 2004 for Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.” She produces “Bugonia” through her Fruit Tree banner. Lanthimos, Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen...

Focus Features has released the first teaser for Bugonia, the sci-fi comedy reteaming director Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone on the heels of their Oscar winner Poor Things.

An English-language remake of South Korean filmmaker Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet!, the film follows two conspiracy obsessed young men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

Will Tracy penned the script. The film also stars Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone, and was produced by Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Lanthimos, Stone, Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen, Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko.

Bugonia is slated for a special limited release October 24 ahead of a wide expansion October 31. Lanthimos and Stone’s last collaboration, the singular genre-bender Poor Things, based on the novel by Alasdair Gray, won four Oscars, two Golden Globes, and was named...

Focus Features has released the first teaser for Bugonia, the latest film from Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos, and it places star Emma Stone at the center of an alien conspiracy.

Bugonia will receive a special limited engagement on October 24, ahead of a wide expansion theatrically on October 31, 2025. Bugonia was initially slated for November 7 release.

The weeklong cinematic event will feature screenings of the film, which was shot in VistaVision, at select locations in New York and Los Angeles.

The film follows “two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Planet Earth.”

Bugonia is an English-language remake of 2003’s Korean genre-bender Save the Green Planet!, an off-beat, black comedy-sci-fi feature written and directed by Jang Joon-Hwan. The teaser below introduces Stone as the powerful CEO targeted by a pair who suspect her of being an alien.

Jesse Plemons,...

Emma Stone and filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos are back together again in the first teaser trailer for “Bugonia,” the latest dark comedy from the director behind “The Favourite” and “Poor Things.”

Written by Will Tracy, the film stars Jesse Plemons as an unstable individual and conspiracy theorist who, along with his friend, kidnaps a high-powered CEO (Stone), believing that she’s actually an alien. The story is based on the 2003 South Korean film “Save the Green Planet!”

The film, which will be released by Focus Features on Oct. 24 in limited theaters before going wide on Oct. 31, also stars Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone.

This is also not Lanthimos’ first rodeo with Plemons, who starred in his 2024 movie “Kinds of Kindness” alongside Stone. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker has been on a tear recently: “Bugonia” marks his third movie in three years.

“Bugonia” is produced by Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos,...

A24 has revealed the final trailer for the Eddington movie, the upcoming Western black comedy written and directed by Ari Aster. The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on May 16.

Opening in theaters on July 18, the Eddington movie has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) for strong violence, some grisly images, language, and graphic nudity.

From writer-director Ari Aster comes a modern Western and paranoid thriller set in the American Southwest during the tumultuous summer of 2020. Isolated and sheltered in place, in a global pandemic, a nation under pressure found itself sifting reality through the haze of social media and lost its collective mind.

Eddington stars Joaquin Phoenix as small-town sheriff Joe Cross, who runs for mayor when progressive incumbent Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) attempts to modernize their dusty hamlet by attracting a new artificial-intelligence data center.

Aster’s...

Warner Bros. Discovery has announced the movies, TV shows, and live sports that will be available on the Max (soon to be called HBO Max) streaming service in July. The Max July 2025 lineup includes the feature films Sinners, A24’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Opus, and Death of a Unicorn, and Utopia’s I Love You Forever.

The schedule includes the HBO Original documentaries Billy Joel: And So It Goes and Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print, as well as the HBO Original series Rage. You can also catch Shark Week beginning on July 20.

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Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. The cast includes Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku,...

Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding is branching out from video games into films, with two distinct projects in development. In a recent interview, Kojima shared details about a live-action movie and an animated feature, both expanding the unique world he created.

The live-action Death Stranding film is being crafted with A24, known for bold and creative projects. Michael Sarnoski, the director behind Pig, is set to helm the movie, with producers Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen on board.

Kojima Productions first announced the film in December 2022, partnering with Hammerstone Studios and executive producer Allan Ungar. A24 joined as co-producer in December 2023, and Sarnoski was confirmed as director in April 2025. The film is targeting a 2027 release.

Related: A ‘Death Stranding’ Anime Is Reportedly in the Works, Kojima Says

Kojima is involved but taking a hands-off approach. “I think I will help produce it – I need to kind of guide the project...

The Death Stranding universe is expanding fast, and Hideo Kojima is letting others take the lead, at least when it comes to the upcoming movie.

In a recent interview, Kojima talked about the live-action Death Stranding film, which is being developed with A24. The project is set to be directed by Pig filmmaker Michael Sarnoski, with producers Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen also involved.

Though Kojima is helping guide the project, he says he won’t be stepping in too much during the creative process.

“I think I will help produce it – I need to kind of guide the project – but I can’t direct it myself, schedule-wise,” Kojima said. “I made Death Stranding as a game, so in order to turn it into a movie, it’ll be something totally different. But it’s my baby, so I would like to overlook the project.”

Related: Hideo Kojima Praises Netflix...

A24 has set Max premiere dates for its recent films On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Opus, and Death of a Unicorn.

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl will hit streaming on Friday, July 4, making its linear debut on HBO on Monday, July 7 at 8:00 p.m. Et. Opus streams Friday, July 11 and debuts on linear on Saturday, July 12 at 8:00 p.m. Et. Death of a Unicorn, meanwhile, makes its way to Max on Friday, July 25 and hits HBO on Saturday, July 26 at 8:00 p.m. Et.

Written and directed by Rungano Nyoni, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl takes us to an empty road in the middle of the night, where Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family. Opening in the Un Certain Regard section of last year’s Cannes Film Festival,...

A24 has unveiled the first full-length trailer for Eddington, its latest film from Hereditary helmer Ari Aster, which is slated to hit theaters July 18 after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.

Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, the genre-bender is set during the Covid-19 pandemic, watching as a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix) and mayor (Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, N.M.

For Aster, Eddington marked a reunion with Phoenix on the heels of his last film, the dark A24 comedy Beau Is Afraid. He directed from his own script, with Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone rounding out the cast.

Eddington drew a nearly seven-minute standing ovation in its launch at Cannes, where Deadline’s Damon Wise praised Aster for being “willing to go there” with his satire of modern-day America and all its challenges...

A24 has revealed the new trailer for Eddington, the upcoming Western black comedy film written and directed by Ari Aster. The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on May 16.

Not yet rated by the Motion Picture Association (MPA), Eddington will be released in theaters on July 18.

The film is officially described as follows: “In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.”

The cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., and William Belleau, with Austin Butler and Emma Stone.

Production for the film began in March 2024, with Aster writing, directing, and producing alongside Lars Knudsen under their Square Peg production company. A24 is financing and producing the movie.

Two-time Academy Award nominee...

Square Peg co-founders Lars Knudsen and Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) have been having a busy Cannes Film Festival. They world premiered the star-studded Aster-directed Eddington, their latest A24 movie on which the duo also functioned as producers, in competition on Friday. And on Monday, they were the stars of the first-ever “The Shifter(s) Series” session, presented by Winston Baker and The Shift during the Cannes festival and market.

Beyond unveiling the inaugural Square Peg Social, “a gathering for more seasoned filmmakers and industry professionals to help and nurture a new generation of filmmakers with unvarnished advice and mentorship in an informal and intimate setting,” set to take place in Austin, Texas in October, the dynamic duo also discussed their Cannes experience and the momentum of their production outfit.

“I’ve always dreamed of being here, and I’m very aware of all the films that have come here before,...

Square Peg co-founders Lars Knudsen and Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar), who just world premiered the star-studded Aster-directed Eddington at the Cannes Film Festival, have unveiled the inaugural Square Peg Social, “a gathering for more seasoned filmmakers and industry professionals to help and nurture a new generation of filmmakers with unvarnished advice and mentorship in an informal and intimate setting.”

They shared news of event, which will take place in Austin, Texas Oct. 23-26, during the first-ever “The Shifter(s) Series” session, presented by Winston Baker and The Shift during the Cannes film festival and market in Cannes on Monday.

The brainchild of Amy Knudsen, Square Peg Social will “create a space where filmmakers can come together without the walls and barriers that too often exist within the film industry,” the creatives said.

Knudsen and Aster will invite 30 of their closest and most trusted collaborators to create a one-to-one ratio...

Always makes me laugh when stars go to parties and then sequester themselves in roped-off VIP enclaves policed by grim-faced bouncers and eagle-eyed personal publicists. There was this odd sight of Element Pictures’ Ed Guiney leaning in from the outside to converse with Emma Stone seated inside the private zone at the afterparty for the Cannes Film Festival competition film Eddington directed by Ari Aster.

Guiney could’ve been invited in or Stone could’ve stepped out. I respect and admire actors of all ranks, and I understand their significance in our culture. And I get that they fear other people — I mean mere mortals. They might have an unapproved snap of themselves taken by someone. Me, for instance. Or they might have to have a conversation about which they weren’t given talking points ahead of time.

Anthony Hopkins always says — or he used to, anyway — that thespians can...

Ari Aster’s fourth film, Eddington is on the horizon.

The Western thriller and black comedy film follows Aster’s Beau Is Afraid (2023) starring Joaquin Phoenix, who has reteamed with the director on his latest project. Aster was also behind films like the Florence Pugh-starring Midsommar (2019) and Hereditary (2018) and C’est La Vie (2016).

For everything we know about Eddington, read on below:

When does Eddington come out?

The film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2025 to a nearly seven-minute standing ovation.

Deadline’s Damon Wise praised director Ari Aster for being “willing to go there” in terms of satirizing modern America and “for depicting a slice of history that we have yet to see properly shown on film, even though it happened only five years ago.”

Related: ‘Eddington’ Review: Ari Aster’s Explosive, Satirical Neo-Western Takes A Big Swing At Maga Culture – Cannes Film Festival

When does Eddington come to theaters?...

Making his Cannes Film Festival Competition debut, Ari Aster unveiled Eddington this evening, with the psychological western lassoing a nearly seven-minute ovation that included scattered clapping during the credits.

Star Joaquin Phoenix was tearing up as the applause continued.

“I don’t know what you think,” a beaming Aster joked to the crowd, drawing laughs. “Thank you for being here. I feel very privileged to be here. It’s a dream come true. Thank you so much for having me. And, I don’t know — sorry? I don’t know.”

He added: “This was a great experience. I love all these people around me.”

Related: Pedro Pascal Says That With ‘Eddington’ Ari Aster Wrote A Movie That’s “All Our Worst Fears” In Post-Covid Political Era

Ari Aster’s #Eddington starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, and Michael Ward receives a 7-minute ovation in #Cannes2025 pic.twitter.

Ari Aster made his Cannes Film Festival debut Friday with the world premiere of his latest psychological nightmare — this time a Western set in Covid times — on Friday. “Eddington” reunites the “Hereditary,” “Midsommar” and “Beau Is Afraid” filmmaker with the latter film’s Joaquin Phoenix. Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal and Austin Butler also star.

Aster has become known as a master of the psychological horror genre following his breakout film “Hereditary,” an intense look at the consequences of inherited family trauma, in 2018. In “Eddington,” Phoenix plays local sheriff Joe Cross in a small town in New Mexico during the 2020 Covid pandemic. Cross comes to a head with Pedro Pascal’s Ted Garcia, the town’s mayor who leads the community into a world of chaos with his questionable decision-making. The film explores the power of fake news, the fragility of community and how conspiracy theories can lead to a rabbit...

After a seven-way bidding war, A24 has landed the crime drama Trigger Point. The upcoming series will be directed and executive produced by Jeremy Saulnier, who wowed audiences last year with his 2024 action thriller Rebel Ridge.

According to Deadline, plot details are being kept under wraps for Trigger Point, although sources state that the project will be a crime drama series. The spec script was written by Harrison Query, whose credits include the upcoming Paramount+ miniseries Unspeakable: The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey and the action comedy Heads of State starring John Cena and Idris Elba. Trigger Point reportedly cost A24 around $500,000, making this one of this year's biggest TV spec sales so far. The current plan is to attach talent before taking the project out to platforms, with Deadline noting that several "big-name actors" have already expressed interest in starring.

Saulnier most recently wrote, directed, and produced Rebel Ridge, which...

Exclusive: Shōgun Emmy winner Anna Sawai and Drive My Car star Hidetoshi Nishijima are set to join the cast of the A24 crime pic Enemies, starring Austin Butler and Jeremy Allen White. Henry Dunham is writing and directing.

Cameras roll this summer in Chicago on the reported $25M production, in which a relentless detective and an infamous contract killer collide in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen of Square Peg are producing alongside A24. Alejandro De Leon also will produce. Josh Bachove executive produces.

Sawai took the town by storm last year following her star turn in Shōgun, winning a history-making Emmy, a SAG Award and a Golden Globe for her performance as Lady Mariko in the FX drama series.

Sawai is currently in production on (Saint) Peter, a coming-of-age dramedy executive produced by Peter Farrelly, and recently wrapped production on the second season...

Jeremy Allen White, the two-time Emmy-winning star of The Bearis teaming up with Oscar-nominee Austin Butler (Elvis)for A24’s newest film, a crime saga from writer-director Henry Dunham. Per Deadline,Enemies is set to begin filming this summer in Chicago, which should be familiar territory for White, as he starred in The Bear and Shameless, both of which are set in Chicago.

The project has a reported budget of about $25 million.Enemies will tell the story of a detective and a contract killer playing a deadly game of cat and mouse. Along with A24, the film is being produced by Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen of Square Peg and Alejandro De Leon. The executive producer is Josh Bachove.

Writer-director Dunham also wrote The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (2018), which was about a former cop-turned militia man who investigates a shooting at a police funeral. Aster wrote and directed Eddington, which...

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Jeremy Allen White and Austin Butler to star in A24 crime thriller Enemies

This is a Heat — sorry, hot — project. Two-time Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) and Academy Award nominee Austin Butler (Elvis) have signed on to star in Enemies, an A24 crime thriller from writer and director Henry Dunham (The Standoff at Sparrow Creek). The film follows a "relentless detective" and an "infamous contract killer" in a "deadly game of cat and mouse" and will start shooting in Chicago this summer. Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen (Midsommar) are producing.

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Deadline is reporting that Jeremy Allen White and Austin Butler will be going head-to-head in an upcoming crime drama from A24. White, who is a two-time Emmy-winner for his series The Bear, is set to star in Enemies opposite Academy Award-nominee Austin Butler. Enemies is the new film from Henry Dunham, who previously directed another crime thriller with 2018’s The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, which follows a former cop-turned-militia man who investigates a shooting at a police funeral.

Per Deadline, Enemies is about a relentless detective and an infamous contract killer who collide in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Dunham directs from a script that he also wrote, and was able to secure a $25 million budget for the film. The production is scheduled to commence sometime this summer on location in Chicago. The movie will be an A24 production with Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen of Square Peg producing alongside Alejandro De Leon.

A24 has greenlit Enemies, a crime drama pairing Austin Butler and Jeremy Allen White under Henry Dunham’s direction. The screenplay, also by Dunham, follows a relentless detective in pursuit of an infamous contract killer. Producers Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen will oversee the project for Square Peg alongside A24, with Alejandro De Leon producing and Josh Bachove executive producing. Cameras roll this summer in Chicago on a reported $25 million budget.

White reunites with A24 after successes on The Bear and Shameless. Later this year, he appears in the Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere for 20th Century Studios. His performance in The Iron Claw demonstrated his skill at embodying complex figures. White is represented by WME, Entertainment 360 and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.

Butler, fresh from roles in Dune Part 2 and The Bikeriders, is also featured this week at Cannes in Aster’s Eddington.

Austin Butler and Jeremy Allen White will face off in A24 crime film “Enemies” from writer-director Henry Dunham.

The casting was confirmed on Wednesday after rumors had been swirling for a while. The film’s plotline reads: “A relentless detective and an infamous contract killer collide in a deadly game of cat and mouse.” Production is set to begin in Chicago this summer.

Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen of Square Peg will produce alongside A24 and Alejandro De Leon. Josh Bachove is on board as an executive producer.

Oscar nominee Butler recently collaborated with Aster on his latest directorial effort, “Eddington,” also for A24. Butler and Aster will be on hand at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday to premiere the movie, which has been described as a contemporary Western and co-stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone. Butler also stars in “Caught Stealing,” Darren Aronofsky’s next film,...

A24 has confirmed that Austin Butler and Jeremy Allen White are to star in crime story Enemies, from writer-director Henry Dunham.

The film centres on a relentless detective and an infamous contract killer who collide in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Production is due to start this summer in Chicago. A24 is handling international sales.

Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen of Square Peg will produce with A24 and Alejandro De Leon. Josh Bachove will serve as executive producer.

Butler was most recently seen in awards contender Dune: Part Two and starred in Elvis and The Bikeriders. He is...

Academy-award nominated Austin Butler and Emmy-winning Jeremy Allen White are set to star in Henry Dunham’s new crime saga “Enemies” at A24, the company announced on Wednesday.

The upcoming film is written and directed by Dunham and will be his sophomore effort following his directorial debut “The Standoff at Sparrow Creek,” which was released in 2018.

The official logline for the film is as follows: A relentless detective and an infamous contract killer collide in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

The film kicks off production in Chicago this Summer.

Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen of Square Peg will produce alongside A24. Alejandro De Leon will also produce. Josh Bachove will executive produce.

Ahead of the film’s debut at the Cannes Film Festival this week, A24 and Apple will also be unveiling “Highest 2 Lowest.” The new Spike Lee joint stars Denzel Washington as a music mogul with...

Two of the biggest young actors in Hollywood are facing off for a gritty crime drama that is now being set up at A24. A24 has set “Enemies,” a new film that will star Austin Butler and Jeremy Allen White and will be produced by Ari Aster.

This is the second feature for Henry Dunham, the director of the 2018 thriller “The Standoff at Sparrow Creek.” He wrote and will direct the feature about a relentless detective and an infamous contract killer who collide in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Aster and Lars Knudsen are producing for their Square Peg banner alongside A24. Alejandro De Leon will also produce. Josh Bachove will executive produce.

“Enemies” will also return White to the home of “The Bear” and “Shameless,” as it’s set to kick off production in Chicago later this summer.

After the return of Season 4 of “The Bear” later this summer,...

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia will hit theaters a little earlier than expected, as Focus Features has announced a new release date for the film. The film, which was previously slated for a November 7th release, will now premiere for a special limited engagement on October 24th before opening wide on October 31st.

Bugonia stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone. Lanthimos directed the film from a screenplay by Will Tracy. It follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Planet Earth. The film is produced by Element Pictures’ Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe; Yorgos Lanthimos via Pith; Emma Stone via Fruit Tree; Square Peg’s Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen; and Cj Enm’s Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko.

A short teaser trailer for Bugonia was screened at CinemaCon last month.

Focus Features announced today that Bugonia, the latest film from Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos, has been bumped from its November release date in favor of Halloween.

Bugonia will receive a special limited engagement on October 24, ahead of a wide expansion theatrically on October 31, 2025. Bugonia was initially slated for November 7 release.

The weeklong cinematic event will feature screenings of the film, which was shot in VistaVision, at select locations in New York and Los Angeles.

The film follows “two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Planet Earth.”

While that may sound more conspiracy thriller, Bugonia is an English-language remake of 2003’s Korean genre-bender Save the Green Planet!, an off-beat, black comedy-sci-fi mashup written and directed by Jang Joon-Hwan. It’s full of shocking moments and unexpected twists, but it’s also a darkly funny movie that suits Lanthimos’ style well.

Focus Features will open Yorgos Lanthimos latest movie, Bugonia, on Oct. 24 in a limited engagement ahead of its wide break on Oct. 31.

We told you last year that Focus Features took global rights off the table on Lanthimos’ latest, a remake of the South Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet. Bugonia sees two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Planet Earth.

Bugonia stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone. Lanthimos directs from a screenplay by Will Tracy whose recent credits include The Menu and Succession. Lanthimos is an internationally renowned, five-time Academy Award-nominated director, producer, and screenwriter known for such visionary films as Poor Things, The Favourite, and The Lobster.

The weeklong cinematic event will feature screenings of the film, which was shot in VistaVision, at select locations in New York and Los Angeles.

Focus Features has scheduled an October 24 limited release followed by wide expansion on October 31 for Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.

The awards corridor date suggests a world premiere slot at a fall festival is in the film’s future. Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone round out the key cast on Lanthimos’s follow-up to last year’s Kinds Of Kindness, which also starred Stone and Plemons.

Bugonia follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap the CEO of a major company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Planet Earth. Lanthimos directs from a screenplay by Will Tracy,...

The A24 project Death of a Unicorn (it originally had an E at the end its title), which stars Paul Rudd (Ant-Man franchise) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) and was executive produced by Hereditary/Midsommar/Beau Is Afraid director Ari Aster, reached theatres at the end of March. JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray wasn’t too impressed with the movie, giving it a 5/10 review that can be read at This Link – but if you’ve been looking forward to watching Death of a Unicorn at home, you’ll be glad to hear that the movie has already been given a digital release. You can check it out on Amazon’s Prime Video Here, where it’s available to rent for the price of $19.99 or purchase for $24.99.

A dark comedy, Death of a Unicorn marks the feature debut of writer/director Alex Scharfman, who co-founded the production company Secret Engine and has...

A24 has released the official trailer for Eddington, the upcoming Western black comedy film written and directed by Ari Aster. The movie will have its World Premiere at the main competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

Not yet rated by the Motion Picture Association (MPA), Eddington will be released in theaters on July 18, 2025.

The film is officially described as follows: “In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.”

The cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., and William Belleau, with Austin Butler and Emma Stone.

Production for the film began in March 2024, with Aster writing, directing, and producing alongside Lars Knudsen under their Square Peg production company. A24 is financing and producing the movie.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Darius Khondji...

The first trailer for Eddington, a new movie by Ari Aster, is finally here. The film will premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival this May.

Eddington is a Western thriller mixed with black comedy. It stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Clifton Collins Jr., and Amélie Hoeferle.

In the trailer, a man’s voice speaks at the start: “Of course, they keep looking at that lab in China. If you look at that lab in Wuhan. When that was established, it was 1956, of course, that was the year Tom Hanks was born, the first celebrity with the virus.”

Phoenix plays a sheriff in a small New Mexico town named Eddington. He starts to go against the town’s mayor, played by Pedro Pascal, during a time when a pandemic is spreading.

In one scene, Phoenix’s character scrolls through social media.

Tensions rise in a small town in the teaser trailer for A24 movie Eddington from writer-director Ari Aster.

Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler star in the contemporary Western feature that premieres next month at the Cannes Film Festival. In addition to releasing the trailer, A24 announced Monday that the movie is set to hit theaters nationwide July 18.

Eddington centers on conflict between the mayor (Phoenix) and sheriff (Pascal) of the small town of Eddington, New Mexico. Rounding out the cast are Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, Cameron Mann, Matt Gomez Hidaka and Amélie Hoeferle.

“If you value your life, you should think twice because the people at Eddington like guns,” Phoenix says sternly in the disorienting trailer.

At a later point, Butler says, “Your pain is not a coincidence. You are not a coincidence. We are not a coincidence.”

Aster...

The first teaser trailer for Ari Aster’s next thriller film Eddington has arrived.

The Western thriller and black comedy film will have its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in May. It stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Clifton Collins Jr. and Amélie Hoeferle.

“Of course, they keep looking at that lab in China. If you look at that lab in Wuhan,” a man’s voice narrates at the beginning of the clip. “When that was established, it was 1956, of course, that was the year Tom Hanks was born, the first celebrity with the virus.”

Phoenix stars as a small-town sheriff in the titular small New Mexico town, where he challenges his mayor (Pascal) in a pandemic-set situation, as evidenced in the trailer.

Phoenix’s character can be seen scrolling through social media clips of himself talking about how...

Mexican costume designer Anna Terrazas says the uniqueness of Albuquerque, New Mexico helped her understand the “essence” of Ari Aster’s upcoming Eddington.

Speaking to Screen after her masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra lab, Terrazas said, “I sent Ari a huge amount of research, and a lot of things did work; but the essence wasn’t truly there. So I had to arrive to Albuquerque [where the film shot] and go out to the streets and towns, just to see what was happening – that place is unique.”

“If people describe it to you, it’s not the same,” said Terrazas. “You...

Exclusive: Even as he is deep in postproduction on his next film Death of Robin Hood at A24, Michael Sarnoski and the studio are already eyeballing their next project together. Sources tell Deadline that Sarnoski will write and direct the live-action adaptation of Hideo Kojima’s genre-defying video game Death Stranding, with A24 and Kojima Productions producing. Lars Knudsen and Ari Aster’s Square Peg will also join as producer.

The film will delve into the game’s mysteries surrounding the “Death Stranding” — a catastrophic series of events that blurred the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead, bringing forth nightmarish creatures into a fragmented world on the brink of collapse.

Death Stranding captured the imaginations of millions of gamers, played by more 19 million worldwide. Originally launched in November 2019 for PlayStation 4, it boasts an all-star cast including Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, Guillermo del Toro and Margaret Qualley.

Cinematographer Darius Khondji has confirmed that Ari Aster’s upcoming film Eddington is scheduled to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Khondji made the comment during an appearance at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event over the weekend, where he spoke about his recent and upcoming work.

The French-Iranian cinematographer, a two-time Oscar nominee, said he will be returning to New York to complete color work on Eddington with longtime collaborator Yvan Lucas. “I’m going back to New York to do the color for Eddington that’s going to Cannes, I hear,” Khondji told Deadline. “Ari showed me the film. I heard it was going to Cannes two weeks ago.”

The film, financed and produced by A24, stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, and Emma Stone. Described as a dark comedy Western thriller, Eddington follows a small-town sheriff in New Mexico navigating a power struggle with a corrupt mayor during a pandemic.

Cinematographer Darius Khondji has confirmed that Ari Aster’s dark comedy Eddington, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone, has been selected for the Cannes Film Festival.

Speaking to Deadline at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event this weekend, Khondji, who is cinematographer on the title, said the feature was in the final stages of post-production.

“I’m going back to New York to do the color for Eddington that’s going to Cannes, I hear,” said two-time Oscar nominee Khondji. “Ari showed me the film. I heard it was going to Cannes two weeks ago.”

“It’s a great film, a very interesting film. It’s very raw, very, very strong, one of the strongest films that I’ve worked on that I really think is going to be fantastic.”

Billed as a black comedy Western thriller, Phoenix stars as an ambitious small-town New Mexico sheriff who goes up against his mayor,...

Focus Features rolled out new footage from some of its highly anticipated upcoming films during its portion of Universal’s CinemaCon presentation Wednesday, including a quick teaser for Yorgos Lanthimos’ next movie Bugonia. The film is a reteam for Lanthimos and his Kinds of Kindness stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons and hits domestic theaters November 7.

The story follows two conspiracy-obsessed men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Planet Earth. In the footage shown today were ample musings on and shots of honey bees, as well as Stone’s CEO literally having her hair buzzed off.

This was fitting after Focus president Peter Kujawski reminded the CinemaCon audience that he last year called specialty films “the honey bees of the movie business who are pollinating the future.” Today, he added movie theaters to that equation. He also said, “We...

Focus Features used part of its CinemaCon presentation to debut the first look at Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film, Bugonia.

Bugonia stars frequent (and Oscar winning) collaborator Emma Stone opposite Jesse Plemons with whom she starred in Lanthimos’s last film Kinds of Kindness. The script from Will Tracy follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone found out the cast.

In what turned out to be a very brief teaser, the footage opened with scenes from a garden showing colorful flowers and buzzing bees flying to and fro. An ominous voiceover can be heard detailing the “magnificent” process of pollination. “The workers gather pollen for the queen,” he says. “A third of our food is pollinated this way, but the bees are dying.” The voiceover continues...

Death of a Unicorn’s Alex Scharfman knows he’s fortunate to be able to say that his feature directorial debut is an A24 film that’s led by Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega. But the writer-director has more than paid his dues the last 15-plus years, mainly as a producer, all while refining the craft of screenwriting. Along the way, Rudd, through their shared manager, took notice of a Scharfman-penned script called The Cats of Baxley, which Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Point Grey had possession of at the time. From there, Rudd indirectly encouraged Scharfman to write something with him in mind, and that something eventually took on the form of Death of a Unicorn.

The creature feature centers around father-daughter, Elliot (Rudd) and Ridley Kintner (Jenna Ortega), as they journey to the mountainside lodge of Elliot’s Sackler-esque employer, the Leopolds. While en route to the intimate company retreat,...

Robert Pattinson has revealed that his co-star Zendaya had to calm him down after he found himself "going crazy for three days" ahead of filming a scene for Kristoffer Borgli's upcoming A24 movie The Drama, which follows a couple whose relationship takes an unexpected turn before their wedding day. Pattinson admitted to getting cold feet ahead of filming as he got hung up on the dialogue when he was reading through the script, believing there was a deeper interpretation that he was neglecting, which cast some doubt on the scene for him.

Pattinson certainly seems to be in tune with his emotions, having recently shared that he is now "too sensitive" to watch a certain type of movie, but in an interview with the French magazine Premiere via IndieWire, the versatile actor explained how he started spiralling ahead of shooting a scene for The Drama, prompting him to reach out to Zendaya,...