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The rebellious indie film studio A24 is brilliant at selling small, provocative films. Now it wants to sell blockbusters, too. Plus:

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Illustration by Ben Wiseman

David Remnick

Editor, The New Yorker

A casual moviegoer might show up for the actors. And a cinephile wants to talk about the director. But now many movie fans know that the studio also counts.

For this week’s special double issue, Alex Barasch reports on the rise and the indie dominance of A24 , which since its founding, in 2012, has

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