Leonine & A24 Close All Rights Deal For Ari Aster’s ‘Beau Is Afraid’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Leonine Studios and A24 have closed an all rights-deal for Ari Aster’s upcoming movie Beau Is Afraid for Germany and Austria.
The deal marks the second collaboration between the two companies after their deal for Oscar hopeful Everything Everywhere All At Once, which has drawn 250,000 admissions in Germany and Austria to date.
Beau Is Afraid will bow in the U.S. on April 21st and is now set for German release on May 11th. The film is Hereditary and Midsommar director Aster’s third feature for A24 and stars Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Denis Ménochet, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey and Pattie LuPone.
In the surrealist movie, a paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother. Phoenix will portray the man at different stages in his life.
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