Kristen Stewart’s 2024 Thriller Proves How Massive The Year Will Be For A24

The upcoming action crime thriller Love Lies Bleeding stars Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian, and is a great indicator of exactly how successful 2024 will be for the A24 entertainment company. A24 has been behind some of the most critically acclaimed films of the 2020s, including Oscar Best Picture Winner Everything, Everywhere All At Once, The Whale, Talk To Me, and The Iron Claw. Box office returns on A24 films are typically excellent, and the production studio has become synonymous with quality movies. They are poised to have a particularly successful 2024 given the slate of films they have in the works.

Love Lies Bleeding is just one of the high-profile films A24 will produce in 2024. They will release Civil War in April, which will feature Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Nick Offerman in an action-packed story about what would happen if the modern United States became divided into warring factions of states. The slasher film MaXXXine, which will change the horror formula for the X franchise and features a star-studded cast including Mia Goth, Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Debicki is also set to debut some time in 2024. There are a number of other films currently on the docket for A24, which should help continue the production company’s upward trend.

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Love Lies Bleeding Is Further Proof That 2024 Will Be A Huge Year For A24

The studio has a number of high-profile releases on the calendar for 2024.

Directed by Rose Glass, Love Lies Bleeding will feature Kristen Stewart in its lead role, and include the legendary Ed Harris in an intimidating villainous role. The Love Lies Bleeding trailer also showcased key roles for Dave Franco, Anna Baryshnikov, Jena Malone and Katy O’Brian. The hype around the movie is growing thanks to its upcoming inclusion in the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, and assuming reviews from its debut are positive, it should be another box office victory for A24 when it releases on March 8th.

Unlike many of the films that A24 produced in the 2010s, Love Lies Bleeding looks like a legitimate, high-profile big-budget hit in the making. The pedigree of the actors included in the movie is consistent with the aforementioned Civil War and MaXXXine, and is a key element to A24’s projected success in 2024. The studio has risen to juggernaut status, and is now mixing high-quality independent films along with high-profile potential blockbusters. A24 movies are attracting top stars and talented directors, and 2024 could be the most profitable year the production company has ever had.

2024 Will Continue A Great A24 Trend

The studio’s prestige has risen, but the quality of the films has remained consistent.

One of the most impressive elements of A24’s meteoric rise to the top of American cinema is that the quality of its films has not dropped, despite its focus shifting away from low-budget indies into blockbusters. To be clear, A24 is still churning out quality low-budget films. For example, the studio produced one of the highest-rated horror films of the last three years, Talk to Me, for just $4.5 million. Civil War, on the other hand, will have A24’s highest budget ever at $75 million. Given that Civil War was written and directed by an Academy Award nominee in Alex Garland, expectations for its quality are justifiably high.

A24 is fresh off a higher budget critical smash with The Iron Claw, so the precedent for quality bigger-budget films has already been established. The budget for Love Lies Bleeding certainly won’t rise to the levels of Civil War, but the caliber of its cast also places it pretty far from indie status as well. The crime thriller’s quality seems like a pretty safe bet, and it should be an early indicator of exactly how successful A24 will be in 2024 and beyond.