News was released just yesterday that indie distributor A24 secured a $50 million line of credit, which it will use “to build out its film distribution business and finance initiatives in complementary industry verticals, it said.” This is a studio responsible for films such as Under the Skin, Enemy, The Rover, Locke and more from this year alone. And while there may have been some misses in their lineup, they are a studio showing they aren’t afraid of a little risk. While A24 isn’t distributing Dan Gilroy‘s Nightcrawler, they are one of the few younger studios along with Nightcrawler distributor Open Road willing to release features that might otherwise be forgotten.
Already this year Open Road has brought us Chef and will later deliver Jon Stewart‘s Rosewater and while they are more likely to also bring us something like A Haunted House 2 than A24, they also distributed Steven Soderbergh‘s Side Effects and for that they have a free pass for at least two years from me.
As for Nightcrawler, we have a new TV spot and poster for the seedy little drama that hits theaters on October 31. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a freelance videographer that takes to listening to the police radio and preying upon crime scenes, capturing footage he then sells to news studios, this is one dark little feature, which I caught in Toronto and in my review wrote:
Nightcrawler is fascinating in that it says as much about local television news organizations and their scare tactics reporting as it does the current economic environment, forcing people in Lou’s position to think outside the box as employment opportunities dry up. It’s darkly satirical, frequently funny in a morally disturbed kind of way and edited with precision by Gilroy’s brother, John Gilroy, bringing serious thrills in the film’s third act.
Check out the new trailer below as well as the new poster.
