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Ari Aster was approached to direct Morbius, the filmmaker reluctantly revealed in a recent interview Semafor.

Following the success of Hereditary and Midsommar, Aster met with Sony about turning the Marvel Comics character into a film — but it was decidedly not Morbin time, as Aster instead went on to make Beau Is Afraid.

Released in 2022, Morbius ended up being written by Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless (“Lost in Space”) and directed by Daniel Espinosa (Life) with Jared Leto in the titular role.

Aster’s new film, Eddington, is in theaters today from A24.

Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal star in the contemporary western alongside Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone.

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review,...

Ari Aster is expanding the fictional town of Eddington into Queens, NY. The auteur is partnering with the Museum of the Moving Image to host the new film series “Eddington City Limits,” highlighting the features that inspired his acclaimed Covid-set Western.

Aster will be in attendance for two out of the five films that will screen; the program ranges from Robert Altman’s iconic “Nashville” to Lars von Trier’s beloved “Dogville.” The series is co-programmed by Aster and MoMI Senior Curator of Film Michael Koresky, and will take place from August 15 to 31. “Eddington” opens in theaters today, July 18.

As the description for the film series states, “Eddington City Limits” will include “movies that both directly inspired or echo the escalating madness of ‘Eddington,’ depicting powder-keg communities ready to spill over into violence or enclosed worlds so given to conspiracy and obsession that there’s no longer any sense of coherent reality.

The Eddington mayoral race went straight to the heads of Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal).

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Written and directed by Ari Aster, the contemporary western set against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemich hits theaters tomorrow, July 18.

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Phoenix and Pascal star alongside Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “Eddington makes you sit with the discomforting tour down memory lane, just dialed up to violent, satirical excess. That it feels like it’s punching down in its pitch-black observations only further frustrates.

Writer-Director Ari Aster‘s latest nightmare vision turns the mirror outward and gets confrontational with a western paranoid thriller set in a period most are ready to leave in the past: the early days of lockdown in 2020. Eddington aims to push buttons as it satirizes everything from the absurdity of the pandemic’s early days to the echo chambers and politics tearing communities apart. It’s at once familiar and unpredictable, and increasingly violent. It’s also unpleasant to watch, by design.

Eddington instantly transports us back to May 2020, a time when toilet paper was being hoarded and mask mandates were already causing friction, despite the fictional small-town setting in New Mexico.

Micheal Ward, Joaquin Phoenix, and Luke Grimes. Photo credit: Richard Foreman

At the forefront of the town’s increasingly volatile descent into full-blown chaos and violence is asthmatic wife guy Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix), a not particularly...

Not for nothing does Eddington arrive with the tagline “Hindsight is 2020.” Ari Aster’s film looks back at the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic not with the clear vision afforded by retrospection, but from the bottom of the rift that America is still stuck in. It’s a fissure that, as Aster sees it, cracked wide open the moment that polarized politics, social and educational failings, and social media brain rot came up against a make-or-break crisis.

In early 2020, the fictional New Mexico town of Eddington is mandating social distance and masking rules, and much to the chagrin of its asthmatic sheriff, Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix), who thinks the concerns plaguing major metropolitan areas have no business intruding into the affairs of his one-horse burg. But Eddington isn’t as isolated from the problems of modernity as Joe believes. For one, a tech giant named solidgoldmagikarp, with the support...

A24 has teamed up with acclaimed fine art photographer Gregory Crewdson to release a limited edition Eddington print.

Priced at $250, the digital pigment print measures 17×22 with an 11.5×20.5 image. It’s limited to 1,000, each signed by the artist. A numbered certificate of authenticity is included.

This marks the first time Crewdson has made an original work for a film. Writer-director Ari Aster personally posed the idea, which Crewdson accepted due to his admiration for Aster’s work and a shared aesthetic sensibility.

Features Joaquin Phoenix in his role as Joe Cross, A24 produced the picture with Crewdson, his own director of photography and lighting team, alongside the film’s production and art department.

“I’m a big fan of Ari’s and I love his films,” Crewdson told Variety. “I feel very connected to them in terms of their aesthetic and their sensibility. My pictures are very concerned with the psychological underpinnings of everyday life,...

Noah Sacco, production and acquisitions executive at A24, delivered a few opening remarks ahead of the screening of Eddington, the latest film from writer-director Ari Aster. The event took place Thursday at the Directors Guild of America’s Theater One on Sunset Boulevard.

In his introduction, Sacco reflected on Aster’s history of bold choices, offering a glimpse of what audiences can expect from Eddington. His comments served as both a tribute to Aster’s unique vision and a subtle warning: prepare for something daring and unexpected.

“Whether it’s decapitating the protagonist [Hereditary in 2020] halfway through a movie or deeply upsetting pagan sex rituals [Midsommar in 2019] or giant penis monsters [Beau Is Afraid in 2023], it’s just always exciting and inspiring to watch someone challenge themselves as much as [Ari] does,” enthused Sacco, as he communicated his full confidence in the filmmaker’s vision and talent.

Eddington is a black comedy-drama feature starring Joaquin Phoenix,...

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,...

Emma Stone is red carpet ready for the premiere of her new movie Eddington!

The two-time Oscar-winning actress walked the carpet at the Eddington premiere on Thursday night (June 26) at the DGA Theater Complex in Los Angeles.

Emma was joined by co-stars Joaquin Phoenix, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Clifton Collins Jr, William Belleau, and Cameron Mann, as well as writer and director Ari Aster.

Here is the synopsis: In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix) and mayor (Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Watch the trailer for the new movie, which will hit theaters on July 18. The cast premiered the movie at the Cannes Film Festival last month!

Fyi: Emma is wearing Louis Vuitton.

Browse through the gallery for 45+ photos from the Eddington premiere…...

The final new trailer for the star-studded Ari Aster film Eddington has arrived!

Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, and more star.

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.

Keep reading to watch…

The film will be hitting theaters on July 18, 2025. And the cast actually already debuted the film at the star-studded Cannes Film Festival last month. We have all the photos from the red carpet event, which you can see here.

Watch the newest trailer for the movie, embedded above! And be sure to catch Eddington when it hits theaters in July.

También figuran en el reparto Emma Stone y Austin Butler. © A24

A24 ha desvelado el tráiler final de la película Eddington, el cuarto largometraje de Ari Aster tras Hereditary, Midsommar y Beau tiene miedo.

Eddington se sitúa en mayo de 2020, cuando un enfrentamiento entre el sheriff de un pequeño pueblo (Phoenix) y el alcalde (Pascal) provoca un estallido social que divide a los vecinos en bandos opuestos en Eddington, Nuevo México.

La película está protagonizada por Joaquin Phoenix, y Pedro Pascal junto a Luke Grimes (Yellowstone), Deirdre O’Connell (¡Olvídate de mí!), Micheal Ward (El imperio de la luz), Amélie Hoeferle (La piscina), Clifton Collins Jr. (Star Trek), William Belleau (Los asesinos de la luna), Austin Butler (Dune: Parte dos) y Emma Stone (Pobres criaturas).

El filme tuvo su estreno mundial en el Festival de Cannes, con reacciones muy divisivas. Allí, Ari Aster dijo: «Escribí esta película en un estado de...

"We are in a fight against evil." A24 has revealed one final official trailer for Ari Aster's Eddington, set to crash into theaters this July. Ready to watch them fight? This premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival to mixed reviews - some love it, some hate it, most were right in the middle on it. The film features Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, Clifton Collins Jr., Amélie Hoeferle, William Belleau, plus Austin Butler & Emma Stone. The only short synopsis: In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in the small town of Eddington, Nm. This is sort of a pandemic movie but it's mainly about how the Covid-19 pandemic broke the minds of many Americans, showing the downfall of many people in this one tiny town. Led by the Sheriff who...

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...

The final trailer for Eddington previews a fight against evil.

The fourth film from writer-director Ari Aster is a contemporary western set against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Is the world ready? Find out when the film blasts into theaters on July 18 via A24.

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

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix) and mayor (Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Eddington premiered at at Cannes last month and will be the opening film at Fantasia next month.

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"Every character is living in a different reality. And they all distrust each other completely." A24 debuted a making of featurette promo for Ari Aster's Eddington, set to crash into theaters this July. This recently premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival to mixed reviews - some love it, some hate it, most were right in the middle. Written & directed by Aster, with Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, plus Austin Butler & Emma Stone. The only short synopsis: In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in the small town of Eddington, Nm. This is sort of a pandemic movie but it's also more about how the Covid-19 pandemic broke the minds of many Americans, showing the downfall of many people in this one tiny town.

Writer-director Ari Aster previews Eddington alongside Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, and more cast members in the first-look featurette below.

“The western is a very interesting genre to me. It’s very much about the heroic myth of America, but it’s also contending with the ugly truth of America,” says Aster. “Every character is living in a different reality, and they all distrust each other completely.”

A contemporary western set against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, the film opens in theaters on July 18 via A24.

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix) and mayor (Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone round out the cast.

Eddington premiered at at Cannes last month and will be the opening film at Fantasia next month.

Meet the good people of Eddington with a new one-sheet and six character posters for the contemporary western set against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The fourth film from writer-director Ari Aster blasts into theaters on July 18 via A24.

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

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix) and mayor (Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

A24 produces alongside Square Peg Films and 828 Productions. Darius Khondji serves as director of photography.

Eddington premiered at at Cannes last month and will be the opening film at Fantasia next month.

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The trailer for the star-studded new Ari Aster film Eddington is here!

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.

You may be wondering about the setting on May of 2020. Well, it appears the movie Is set during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Keep reading to find out more…

Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, and more star.

The film will be hitting theaters on July 18, 2025. And the cast actually already debuted the film at the star-studded Cannes Film Festival last month. We have all the photos from the red carpet event, which you can see here.

Watch the debut trailer for the movie, embedded above!.

Ari Aster and Joaquin Phoenix are reuniting for Aster’s fourth feature film, Eddington. This time, Phoenix plays a small-town sheriff as Aster crafts a tale about the degradation of America in the face of turmoil.

The film’s synopsis reads, “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.”

Watch the official trailer below:

Phoenix stars in Eddington with Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., and William Belleau. Austin Butler and Emma Stone also appear in the film.

Aster and Phoenix previously collaborated on Aster’s third film, Beau is Afraid, where Phoenix played the titular Beau. There, Aster and Phoenix tapped into their neuroses to craft a bizarre odyssey for the most anxious man on the planet. Now, with Eddington, it...

También figuran en el reparto Emma Stone y Austin Butler. © A24

A24 ha desvelado el nuevo tráiler y póster de la película Eddington, el cuarto largometraje de Ari Aster tras Hereditary, Midsommar y Beau tiene miedo.

Eddington se sitúa en mayo de 2020, cuando un enfrentamiento entre el sheriff de un pequeño pueblo (Phoenix) y el alcalde (Pascal) provoca un estallido social que divide a los vecinos en bandos opuestos en Eddington, Nuevo México.

La película está protagonizada por Joaquin Phoenix, y Pedro Pascal junto a Luke Grimes (Yellowstone), Deirdre O’Connell (¡Olvídate de mí!), Micheal Ward (El imperio de la luz), Amélie Hoeferle (La piscina), Clifton Collins Jr. (Star Trek), William Belleau (Los asesinos de la luna), Austin Butler (Dune: Parte dos) y Emma Stone (Pobres criaturas).

El filme tuvo su estreno mundial en el Festival de Cannes, con reacciones muy divisivas. Allí, Ari Aster dijo: «Escribí esta película en un...

"You want things simple and neat. We were in a fight against evil." A24 has revealed the full official trailer for Ari Aster's latest movie titled Eddington, arriving in theaters this July. This recently premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival to mixed reviews - some love it, some hate it, most were right in the middle on it. Written & directed by Aster, with Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, along with Austin Butler & Emma Stone. The only short synopsis so far: In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in the small town of Eddington, Nm. This is sort of a pandemic movie but it's also more about how the pandemic broke the minds of many Americans, showing the downfall of many people in this one tiny town.

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...

Free your heart by watching the trailer for Eddington, the fourth film from writer-director Ari Aster.

A contemporary western set against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, the film blasts into theaters on July 18 via A24.

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

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix) and mayor (Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Eddington premiered at at Cannes last month and will be the opening film at Fantasia next month.

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There's a small-town showdown brewing in A24 and Ari Aster's upcoming darkly comedic contemporary Western, Eddington. Following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last month, a new trailer has just been released, teasing the upcoming battle for the soul of the titular locale between Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal. Phoenix, in a reunion with Aster after their surreal adventure, Beau Is Afraid, in 2023, plays the town's sheriff, Joe Cross, while Pascal embodies Mayor Ted Garcia, both of whom fall on vastly different sides of a fractured society. What follows is an ugly power struggle that pits neighbor against neighbor in a microcosm of the upheaval around the country during the 2020 pandemic.

The new trailer digs a bit deeper into the conflict between the two men and all the contributing factors in Eddington, New Mexico's descent into political and cultural upheaval. As seen in the first footage, social media...

A24 has dropped the trailer for “Eddington,” Ari Aster’s modern western that divided the Cannes Film Festival after its Croisette premiere. The film will hit theaters nationwide July 18 — and it very well may “hit” with heated debate.

The film takes place in 2020 — yes, that 2020 — in the most visceral way, with the anti-mask local sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) of the fictional Eddington, New Mexico, facing off against the town’s Covid-guideline-advocate mayor, played by Pedro Pascal (the second of his three summer releases). The heavy-hitter cast also includes Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., and William Belleau, all of whom represent various perspectives on the pandemic spectrum.

IndieWire reported last month on the film’s polarizing audience response, with people truly either loving or hating the film, and few in between. The cast and crew addressed the controversial Covid epic’s hot-button...

Reteaming with Joaquin Phoenix after the divisive, impressively anxiety-inducing Beau Is Afraid, Ari Aster is back with his fourth feature. His western Eddington, which world-premiered in competition at Cannes, stars Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Austin Butler, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, Cameron Mann, Matt Gomez Hidaka, and Amélie Hoeferle. Ahead of a July 18 release, A24 has now dropped the full trailer.

Here’s the brief synopsis: “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.”

Rory O’Connor said in his Cannes review, “Eddington is nothing if not ambitious, a period piece for an era that is still just four iPhones ago, and one that prods issues most wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot poll. Richard Nixon was only two years resigned when All the President’s Men was released,...

Covid conspiracy theories abound in the first full trailer for Ari Aster’s latest film, “Eddington.” Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, the Western goes back to the politically charged summer of 2020, following a mayoral race between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix) and the incumbent electee (Pascal).

The new footage pulls viewers back five years, with sequences of six-foot-enforced social distancing, protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd and online conspiracy theorists. There’s also more heightened genre elements, including explosions, gun fights and a mysterious corporate private plane hovering over the desert.

The cast also includes Austin Butler, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr. and William Belleau. “Eddington” is Aster’s fourth feature film, following “Hereditary” in 2018, “Midsommar” in 2019 and “Beau Is Afraid” in 2023.

The trailer comes a few weeks after the premiere of “Eddington at Cannes Film Festival in the gathering’s official competition section.

What happens when a small town is pushed to its breaking point? Visionary director Ari Aster’s latest movie, Eddington, will answer that question. The upcoming project is said to explore that very question, and given the star-studded cast and amazing premise, it’s already turning heads.

Known for his brilliant work in Hereditary and Midsommar, Aster is now returning with an entirely new concept: a contemporary Western that will blend deep emotions, societal tension, and obviously powerful storytelling. Eddington also recently premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, and while the glamour at the event was an all-time high, the movie also gained a lot of praise.

Featuring the likes of Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix, to name a few, the movie is already promising a thought-provoking drama. However, the movie isn’t just about the chaos – it’s also about the people caught in it. So, what’s...

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...

Did we all go completely nuts during those unsettlingly strange first months of Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, when cities became ghost towns and people thrust into isolation started gambling with their mental health by living online and buying whatever the social media echo chamber coughed up? That’s the assessment in Ari Aster’s Eddington, which views that collective national trauma through the microcosm of a fictitious New Mexico small town. Essentially a modern Western marbled with a vein of dark comedy, the movie is neither suspenseful nor funny enough to work as either. Mostly, it’s a distancing slog.

After the diabolically well-crafted classic horror of Hereditary and Midsommar, gifted writer-director Aster took a turn into more personal territory with the uneven Oedipal odyssey Beau Is Afraid, a tumble down a rabbit hole of neuroses full of striking nightmarish imagery and poignant confessional moments of crippled masculinity. Ultimately, though, the...

Competirá por la Palma de Oro en el Festival de Cannes 2025. © A24

A24 ha desvelado el primer tráiler y póster de la película Eddington, el cuarto largometraje de Ari Aster tras Hereditary, Midsommar y Beau tiene miedo.

Eddington se sitúa en mayo de 2020, cuando un enfrentamiento entre el sheriff de un pequeño pueblo (Phoenix) y el alcalde (Pascal) provoca un estallido social que divide a los vecinos en bandos opuestos en Eddington, Nuevo México.

La película está protagonizada por Joaquin Phoenix, y Pedro Pascal junto a Luke Grimes (Yellowstone), Deirdre O’Connell (¡Olvídate de mí!), Micheal Ward (El imperio de la luz), Amélie Hoeferle (La piscina), Clifton Collins Jr. (Star Trek), William Belleau (Los asesinos de la luna), Austin Butler (Dune: Parte dos) y Emma Stone (Pobres criaturas).

Aster habló de este proyecto hace años en una sesión Ama (Ask Me Anything) en Reddit, donde dijo: «Hubo un momento en el...

Ahead of Ari Aster’s new film Eddington premiering at the 2025 edition of Cannes, A24 has released a puzzling teaser trailer showing a world in chaos in the early days of 2020. Starring Joaquin Phoenix in a massive cowboy hat and a seemingly charismatic Pedro Pascal, Aster has described his latest film as “a film noir ensemble western dark comedy.” It seems like Aster is moving further away from more traditional horror territory and into something much more grounded in the horrors of our current cultural moment.

The official synopsis reads, “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.”

May of 2020 was a troubling time for the world, where we all were trapped and isolated, trying to make sense of a new reality we quickly had to adapt to. With...

A24’s launched the first teaser for Eddington ahead of its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The trailer doesn’t give away much but does confirm writer/director Ari Aster’s (Beau is Afraid) latest feature is sure to stir up feelings/controversy. One commenter on YouTube wrote, “I expect nothing but calm and rational discussions about this movie going forward.” (Too bad sarcasm doesn’t have a designated font.)

The contemporary Western stars a bevy of big names, including Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone. Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, and Micheal Ward also star.

“In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix) and mayor (Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico,” reads A24’s synopsis.

Eddington opens in theaters on July 18, 2025.

Poster for ‘Eddington’ (Photo Credit: A24)

The...

The trailer for the star-studded new Ari Aster film Eddington has just debuted online!

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.

You may be wondering about the setting on May of 2020. Well, it appears the movie Is set during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, and more star.

Keep reading to find out more…

The footage from the trailer looks like it’s solely modeled after social media clips, with Emma’s character saying, she’s “speaking now to deny [her] husband’s announcement yesterday, which was false” and Joaquin’s saying, “the people of Eddington like guns.”

The film will be hitting theaters on July 18, 2025.

Watch the debut teaser for the movie.

The first trailer for Eddington offers a chaotic first look at Ari Aster's upcoming A24 Western feature ahead of its premiere next month. The movie centers on the conflict between small-town sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and local mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico, but the first footage reveals that pressures from external factors will only intensify their personal and political standoff, including real-world issues such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

The tagline that accompanied the trailer on social media read "Hindsight is 2020," referencing the tumultuous year that saw the onset of the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease and the widespread demonstrations protesting racial injustice and police brutality. "Of course, they keep looking at that lab in China. If you look at that lab in Wuhan," a voice narrates over the clips at the beginning of the trailer.

"I'm ready to continue leading our town and fighting the pandemic." A24 has unveiled the first look teaser trailer for Eddington, the latest Ari Aster movie - his fourth feature after Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau is Afraid in the years before. This next one is premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the prestigious Main Competition, before it arrives in US theaters starting this July in the summer. Written & directed by Aster, this film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, along with Austin Butler & Emma Stone. The only short synopsis so far: In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in the small town of Eddington, Nm. Oh shit - finally a Covid-19 pandemic movie that's not really about the pandemic but about how insane people became during the pandemic.

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.

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An official trailer has been released for A24's Eddington. The film is the latest movie from acclaimed director Ari Aster.

Eddington is slated to hit movie theaters on July 18, 2025. The film features several familiar faces, including Pedro Pascal, who just returned to the small screen with the Season 2 premiere of The Last of Us. He's joined by other big stars like Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix (Joker), with the two actors, along with their other co-stars, appearing in the new trailer. Check out the trailer below.

Alongside Pascal and Phoenix, Eddington also stars Luke Grimes (Yellowstone), Deirdre O’Connell (The Penguin), Micheal Ward (The Beautiful Game), Amélie Hoeferle (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Clifton Collins Jr. (Westworld), William Belleau (Killers of the Flower Moon), Austin Butler (Elvis), and Emma Stone (The Amazing Spider-Man).

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Ari Aster’s fourth film, Eddington, is set in May of 2020 and depicts a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) that, per distributor A24, “sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.” You wouldn’t know from its official logline that the film has any connection to the Covid-19 pandemic. Not so for the film’s first teaser, which depicts Phoenix’s character doomscrolling, as many of us did, during what appears to be lockdown.

Aster’s film, which will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month, also stars Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, Cameron Mann, Matt Gomez Hidaka, and Amélie Hoeferle.

Eddington opens on July 18.

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Ahead of its world premiere in competition at Cannes next month, the teaser trailer for Eddington can be seen below.

The fourth film from writer-director Ari Aster is a contemporary western set against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix) and mayor (Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

A24 will release Eddington in theaters later this year.

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A24 has released the first teaser trailer for “Midsommar” filmmaker Ari Aster’s next film, and it’s predictably mystifying. Set in May 2020, “Eddington” is described as something of a Western that revolves around a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) that sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

The teaser finds Phoenix’s character scrolling through coverage of said standoff on his phone, featuring video of characters played by Emma Stone and Austin Butler in snippets on Instagram.

Written and directed by Aster, the ensemble cast for “Eddington” also includes Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr. and William Belleau.

Aster is coming off his ambitious 2023 comedy “Beau Is Afraid,” also starring Phoenix and also hailing from A24.

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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.”

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The first teaser for Ari Aster’s latest film just dropped and it’s sure to get people talking, as its characters are introduced discussing Covid conspiracy theories during a cinematic doomscroll.

“Eddington,” a modern Western set to open in competition at Cannes, is Aster’s latest film after the box office disappointment of 2023’s “Beau Is Afraid.”

Per A24’s brief description of “Eddington”: “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.”

Joining Phoenix and Pascal in the cast are Austin Butler, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr. and William Belleau.

The film is Aster’s fourth feature, following “Hereditary,” “Midsommar” and “Afraid,” the last of which Phoenix also starred in. All of the films are A24 productions.

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Tensions are high between officials and townspeople in Eddington, New Mexico on June 2, 2020 in the teaser trailer for the black comedy western, Eddington. The Ari Aster-written and directed film, which will make its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival next month, arrives in theaters on July 18.

In the teaser clip, a person scrolls through their social media feed on a cell phone as a series of talking heads give snippets of their viewpoints, which appear to be focused on the pandemic and conspiracy theories. In Eddington, the weather is...

Reteaming with Joaquin Phoenix after the divisive, impressively anxiety-inducing Beau Is Afraid, Ari Aster is back with his fourth feature. His western Eddington, set for a world premiere in competition at Cannes Film Festival, has now been set for a July 18 wide release and A24 has dropped the first teaser for the film also starring Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Austin Butler, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, Cameron Mann, Matt Gomez Hidaka, and Amélie Hoeferle.

Here’s the brief synopsis: “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.” As one can see in the teaser, Aster is tackling the early pandemic days head-on as we see Phoenix’s character doomscrolling.

See the teaser and poster below.

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Ari Aster’s “Eddington” is already creating buzz, weeks before its Cannes premiere. Aster reunites with his “Beau Is Afraid” star Joaquin Phoenix for the secretive dark comedy. Per scarce plot details, Phoenix plays a small-town New Mexico sheriff with higher aspirations, who gets into a conflict with the town mayor (Pedro Pascal). The film’s first teaser, below, situates us clearly in 2020 as Phoenix’s character doom-scrolls through images of 2020 involving Covid and Black Lives Matter protests.

Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, Cameron Mann, Matt Gomez Hidaka, and Amélie Hoeferle also star in Aster’s fourth feature. The film’s official logline reads: “In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix) and mayor (Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.”

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Exclusive: Ari Aster’s new A24 film Eddington has rounded out its cast with four additions: William Belleau (Killers of the Flower Moon), Cameron Mann (Mare of Easttown), Matt Gomez Hidaka (Silo), and Amélie Hoeferle (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes).

The actors join a stacked ensemble led by Joaquin Phoenix, who reteams with Aster and A24 following their collaboration on surreal epic Beau Is Afraid, as previously reported. Additional cast includes Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Austin Butler, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, and Clifton Collins Jr.

While the film’s plot is being guarded, it’s been discussed as a Western. Aster is directing from his own script and producing alongside Lars Knudsen under their Square Peg banner. Production on the film kicked off earlier this month.

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Deadline reviewed all 10 of the nominees, beginning with Past Lives, when it captured all the Sundance buzz in January; followed by Killers of the Flower Moon, eventual Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest in May at Cannes; tracking the Barbenheimer duo of Barbie and Oppenheimer dominating the summer box office; and seeing Poor Things, Maestro, The Holdovers and American Fiction during the fall festival whoosh of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.

Click on the titles to read the Deadline critics’ full reviews of the films that will be vying for the marquee statuette in March.

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