About this deal
Katz: People say, “Oh, Barry, why didn’t you bring us Moonlight?”As if that was the most obvious Best Picture! People are like, “Oh, I would have green-lit that!” I’m like, “Come on!”
Katz: Tuesday morning, I remember, we had a little whiskey for him. We’d be like, “Heavey, just make sure he’s alive and you can get him to communicate.” Moonlight’ is nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor, but loses Best Picture to ‘La La Land’—wait, what? Really? Garland: Under the Skin is exactly the kind of movie that you would not see distributed by a major studio. It’d be very unlikely for that to happen.
Sasha Lane (actress, ‘American Honey’): They were like, “You guys are who you are and we’re not going to change that.” No one had to be perfected for anything. No one cared about our language or our clothes.
Pattinson: They’re definitely the place to be now. I mean, I have no idea what they’re doing, really. They’re just on it. They have a very good understanding of the Zeitgeist. You get a movie with them and it represents something. Everybody was talking a few years ago how cinema had died. And I think A24 and companies like that are—you know, people want to go to the cinema. People want to see movies. And I think they’re creating a kind of renaissance in filmmaking. They’re making people want to go to the cinema again to see this kind of stuff, rather than staying at home. People had thought that entire part of the industry had just died. And you can really see over the past few years, it really, really hasn’t at all. And I think it is down to companies like A24. Beyer: And respect them and treat them the way they would by any other company. But then also do things that other companies aren’t doing. Aizenberg: There was a week in January where we dropped the trailer of Spring Breakers. It was our first Sundance all together. We closed the deal on The Bling Ring on the way to Sundance.A bong, also known as a water pipe, is an efficient method for consuming legal dry herbs, tobacco or other herbs that can be smoked. Typically delivering an intense high, water bongs work their magic like no other filtration device and is considered a classic when you pull one out at a smoke sesh. Using a specific water filtration process involving a water chamber, downstem, and sometimes percolators, each part of a bong works cohesively to filter each hit to deliver a strong high almost instantly. John Hodges (co-founder and co-head of TV, A24): It was one of those conversations where it was always like, “How would we do it differently?” And it was usually fueled by beer and things scribbled down on napkins and a lot of bravado.
