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On July 18th, the film studio A-24 released director Ari Aster's Eddington.

Marketed as a sort of black comedy western,

Eddington is about a small community in New Mexico during May 2020.

So a COVID-19 movie, basically.

Well, here's a quote from you, arm yourselves. I don't mean literal arms.

But it was a big COVID movie with a stacked cast that included Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, and Austin Butler. The reported budget was $25 million,

which, granted, isn't Marvel money, but it was a huge step up from a studio that typically

released low-budget indie films, like, for example, Astor's previous films, Hereditary and Midsamar,

both of which were made for $10 million or less.

I mean, if you look back to the beginnings of A24, most of their films were way, way,

more in scale.

You know, they were picking up things that other distributors and studios had dropped,

so it is a significant scaling up relative to

that kind of earlier era of A-24, and is representative, I think, of where they're headed

as a studio. That's Alex Barish, a culture editor at The New Yorker, and he writes about the

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