The rumors were there the entire postseason run. Now that the Knicks are the NBA champions, Ben Stiller can confirm it — he is, in fact, making a documentary about the team. The Hollywood actor, producer and director ended all the speculation during an appearance on on Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart’s “Roommates Show” on … Read more
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. One month after debuting in theaters, “The Smashing Machine” is now available to stream at home. The new sports biopic from A24 stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as MMA fighter … Read more
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. After just over one month in theaters, “Materialists” is now available to stream at home. “Materialists” is director/screenwriter Celine Song’s follow-up to her Oscar nominated debut feature “Past Lives.” The … Read more
Last week, for roughly 30 minutes, something unusual flicked across the tickers at the New York Stock Exchange. It wasn’t the rally of a newly public company or a market in turmoil. It was the rising and falling value of single men in the city. Or at least it was the purported value of single … Read more
NEW YORK — Kimberly Belflower knew “John Proctor is the Villain” needed its final cathartic scene to work — and, for that, it needed Lorde’s “Green Light.” “I literally told my agent, ‘I would rather the play just not get done if it can’t use that song,’” the playwright laughed. She wrote Lorde a letter, explaining what … Read more
Hugh Grant’s new film, “Heretic,” has an unexpected announcement about artificial intelligence in the final credits. Variety reported there is a message that says, “No generative AI was used in the making of this film.” The film’s directors, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, made their feelings about the technology clear in comments with the outlet. “We have … Read more
The 24th Hour: Is This the End?James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown and Company) The latest “Women’s Murder Club” installment finds San Francisco police sergeant Lindsay Boxer and Co. investigating the death of a prominent billionaire couple. Out now “24th Hour: Is This the End?” is written by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Alternate … Read more
NEW YORK — “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s ominous American dystopia, remained the top film in theaters in its second week of release, according to studio estimates Sunday. The A24 election-year gamble, the indie studio’s biggest budgeted film yet, took in $11.1 million in ticket sales at 3,929 theaters over the weekend. The $50 million film, … Read more
When the Irish animated film “The Secret of Kells” received a surprise Oscar nomination in 2010, GKids, the boutique distribution company that mounted a stealthy but mighty grass roots campaign on its behalf, had been around for only a little over a year. Back then, the company’s entire operation consisted of two full-time employees and … Read more
A biopic on Elon Musk is in the works at New York-based studio A24 with “Black Swan”-filmmaker Darren Aronofsky as the director, according to a source familiar with the matter. A24 secured the rights to Walter Isaacson’s biography on the world’s richest person, according to the source, who added the Musk biopic will be produced by Aronofsky’s production company, … Read more
“Dicks: The Musical” has an extremely useful title. Your gut reaction to those three short words will help you decide whether you can stomach this loony A24 movie, which had its world premiere Thursday at the Toronto International Film Festival — or if it’ll make you retch. Trust your instincts, because the film itself, directed … Read more
Plenty of movies and TV shows have presented a funhouse mirror take on the high school experience, from the controversial “Heathers” and “Mean Girls” to Amy Sedaris’ subversive series “Strangers with Candy.” The new A24 comedy “Bottoms,” like a teen outcast staring longingly at the popular table, desperately wants to join that messed-up catalog of … Read more