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On a weekend crowded with Marvel nostalgia and big studio launches, A24’s Primetime delivered a quieter kind of win. Starring Robert Pattinson as television host Chris Hansen, the drama opened to an estimated $19.2 million from roughly 2,863 North American theaters — a fourth-place finish that still counts as a breakout for a $15 million …
Kane Parsons’ liminal nightmare finally leaves the theater for the living room. The Backrooms, the A24 feature that turned endless fluorescent hallways into box-office dread, began streaming on HBO Max on September 25. Chiwetel Ejiofor maps an infinite yellow maze while Renate Reinsve stares into the kind of void that made the original internet creepypasta …
Saturday night on the Lido did not stay polite. Lance Oppenheim’s A24 drama Primetime premiered in Venice’s Sala Grande and walked out with a nearly eight-minute standing ovation — the kind of festival noise that turns a screening into industry lore before the credits fade. Robert Pattinson leads as Chris Hansen, the television host whose …